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- ■ - ....... X .
FOR THE HERALD.
TO MISS S****.
With trembling hand my pen I take,
To write some lines to thec;
And tho’ tmskill’d, some rhymes I’ll make,
That you may think of me!
When to a distant land I <fo, I
V here none are found like thee,
It will be sweet for me to know,
That you sti'l think of im !
One thought—if that could come from you I
(Mme—l’d value more.
Than all the world b side could do
With all ol’lndia’s store.
< >h yes! 'tis sweeter fir to me,
To dream thy smiles are given,
Than all the earth besides would be,
Or all th" joys of Heaven. 1!.
FOR THE HI I'.AtD.
TO THE PRIN TER.
< >h yes you cunning saucy box,
Yo’ve found me out alreday,
Pray pardon my romantic jok< S,
Dont crave the pay so speedy.
• I'is true 1 promised you a fcws,
Rut sure ’was only jesting,
f’-'it since you in g so h ir 1, here ’ti?,
Twill stop your furtlu r pestmg.
I ROM THE V. S. TELEGRAPH.
Thogh far away from her 1 lox
Could I but see the smile,
I pon her charming lips to move,
’Twould all my grief b guile.
I h r heavenly eye xxith softness beams,
Her heart w ith kindness glows,
< > her perfections nre but themes,
Which heal t <e lover’s woes.
Abs .H- ’tis said, cures deepest lov -,
With some perhaps ’tis true,
But those ’.x h<> can the maxim prove,
Do more than I can do.
No change >f fortune tune or place.
While I on earth remain,
('an that nflection e’er erase. i
\\ hich in my heart doth reign. |
Hasten ! ye slowly creeping days,
W Inch sepurat s us far,
I long on her fond form to gale,
And view a flower so fair.
W. A. S.
Mit:—
THE PAIR SEX.
X\ hen Eve brought ic<?* to all man\i.;J,
Old Adam call •] her teo-man;
But when sha irao’d with love so kind,
He then pronounced h< r irvo-tnan.
Bat now with folly, and xxith p ide.
*1 heir husbands keenly trimming,
i he ladies arc so toll of icAiwis,
Ihe prop! call th in irAi a-ni n.
A certain bulging house w as ter , mil , j, in _
vested by vermin. A gentleman who slept
there one night, told the landlady so in the I
morning, when she said, “L a , sir> ; ve haCnl ‘ a
single bug in the house." »N’ O , ma’am," - u d I
he, “they are all married and have laron fam> I
lies too.’’
Fortune is painted blind, that she may not I
Hush to behold the fools who belong to her. '
Some men get on m ftp- world on the same ’
ptinciple that a sweep passes unintcruntedh
through a crowd.
The best upon th- dice is to throw
them aw ar.
IB _£» IS3I3HD Wtßtß £3, jf m >.oi.t. .ir. a w. e. JO.VES, st3)l
FROM THE SENTINEL.
No. XI.
Georgia Scenes, Incidents, Character s, f.-e.
“The Charming Creature,” as a Wife.
(concluded.)
A round of bridal parties succeeded the mar
riage of George Baldwin and Miss Smith; every
j one of which served only to heighten George’s
alarmsand to depress his spirits. He could
not discover that marriage had abated in the
smallest degree, his xviie’s love of general ad
miration and flattery. The delight which she
j felt at the attentions of the young gentlemen,
was visible to more eyes than his; as was plain
ly evinced by the throngs which attended her
wheresoever she moved. Occasionally their
assiduities assumed a freedom which was well
( calculated to alarm, and to inflame one whose
notions of married life were much less refined
than those which George had ever < nt- it lined ;
but there was an apology for them, «w hich he
knew he would be forced to adn.it as valid,
flimscyas it was, in truth ; namely, “they were
only those special attentions which were due to
the queen of a bridal party.” Another cosider
ation forced him to look in silence upon those
liberties. His wife had taken no off nee at
them ; she cither did not repell them at all, or
she repelled them in such a good humored wav,
that she encouraged, rather than prevented the
repetition of them. For him therefore to have
interposed, xvould have been considered an act
of supererogation.
I o the great deljglit of George, the parties
ended; and the young couple went out on a visit
to Lagrange, the residenceof George’s parents,
jOn their way thither, Evelina was secluded, of
j course, from the gaze of every 7 person but her
husband, and her attachment now became as
much too ardent, as it had before been too cold.
If, at their stages, he left her for a moment, she
was piqued at his coldness, or distressed at his
i neglect. It he engaged in n conversation with
j an acquaintance or a stranger, he was sure to
be interrupted by his wife’s waiting-maid, f lora,
with “ Miss ’\ ima say, please go da. sir ’’’and
when lie went, lie always found her in tears, or
I in a pet, at having been neglected so lonir by
j him, “when he knew she had no friend or com—
' panion to entertain her, but himself.”
j G urge had been acquainted with the ladies
of the houses at which they stopt; they all
| esteemed iiiiu, and xvere all anxious to be made
acquainted with his wife ; but sh< could not be
I dtawn from tier room, from th time sheentcred
■ a house until she rose to hax it All her meals
were taken ir. her loom,an Geoigc wasrebuk
ed b. her because he would not b How her
example. Il was m vain tn if In reasoned with
her up >n the impropriet, ot<-fh.iigmglus deport
menl to his old ai quaunaiF'es immediately at
ter ms marriage, d ( ted to .er, that the
change woulu be adii.mteu to pride that he
should loose a number of humble, but valuable
I acquaintances, which, to a professional gentle
i man, is no small loss. But “sac < ould not un
i deist.md that ag< ml man is at liberty to iic
-1 gleet ms wife, tor‘humble,but \aluableat quain
l lances.’ ”
H hen they reached Lagrang , they received
as »xarm a welcome Hom George’s patents, a>
parents laboring under their apprehensions
could gixr; but Mary and lanh.i, having no
thmg to mar their pleasun', (tor they had not
been permitted to know the quali cations which
Grorgt’s last left rs had annexed to his first)
received her with all the delight which the best
hearts and understandi gs could f< < I, at w el
coming to tin' family, in the character of i sis
ter, the beautiful, amiable, accomplished, nitel
lig nt, wealthy Miss Smith. In anti< ipation of
her coming, the girls had finished up ih< u histo
ry, philosophy, geography, astronomy and bota
ny, for her special entertamm nt —or rather,
that they might appear a little at home when
then new sister should invite them to a ramble
. over the fields ot setenee. Ihe I ibor answer
cd not its p rposc, however; i.velma would
i neither invite nor be invited to any such tam
' bk-s.
I The news of George’s arnval at L mrang
’ vtith lus wife, brought many us his iusti< m -
{ quauituiK'Cs to xi.'it him. io main ot them.
Georg was as a>oer a broth r—for he bad
been acquainted with them from bis earliest
years ami he had a t.iousind limes visit u t ir
habitations, with the fieed >m with which he
entered ins laltn r’s; they rm t him, then for-,
with unrestrained tamiliantv, an * tn at-d Ins
wife as a pait oi hunsdt. G org- had . ndca
vored to prepare her for the plam, b tint, hut ho
nest lamthanti. s, ofhH caily fro nds. H-- had
assured her thuthoivexcr judct-iev imuhi s cm,
they were perfectly inuo. .m, c iv, th x were
tokens ot guileless tro nd.-hip, for inc‘rtatiit.il
dispositi not plam, uni tter -d firm-rs, was to
keep aloof from - the quality," a- thev tailed
the people ot the t wn ami that >x as much as
ihey overcame this disposition, l»x - so um-: i .ml
they mean to be understood as evincing favor :
but Ev Ima profited but little by bis lemons.
Ihe first visitor wa» >ll Mr. Dawson, who
I had dandled George onia- knee a thousand
times, and who, next t> ms lathi r, was th sin-
I ci rest male friend that George had hvinu
| ""ell, Georgy," said the old man, “and
i you ve got nunied ?’
j uncle Samniy; and here’s rr.y wife—
what do you think of her ."
' she s a imghtx prefix treat, r ; but
yuudbetiertookmy V, .. Sh ’d ’
-.. . .
’ creater.
D i’lL < > 7 !V V LUMPKIN 183$
“ E don’t know sir,” said Evelina, a little
fiery, “hoxv you can tell what sort of a wife a
person will mike, whom you never saw. And
I presume .Mr. Baldwin is old enough to choose
for himself.”
“Ah, xvell note I Anmti he’d better ’ave took
my Nance,” said the old man, ith a dry smile.
“ Georgv, my son, i’m afraid you’ve got your
self into had business; but I wish you much
happiness, my boy. Come, neighbor Baldwin,
let’s go take a look at your firm.”
“Oh no,” said old Mr. Baldwin, “we will not
go till I make my daughter better acquainted
with you. She is unused to our countrv man
ners, and therefore does not understand them.
Evelina, m\ dear, "r. Dawson is on*-our best
and kin- est neighbors, and you and he must not
break upon your first acquaintance He was
only joking Georg-' in what he said, and had
no i< ea that you would take it seriously.”
“V\ t'll, sir,” said I velii.a, “if Mr. Dawson
will say that he did not int>nd to wound my
feelings, I'm willing to forgive him.”
“Ob, God love ymir pretty little soul of you,”
said th" old man, “I dal’nt even know vou had
air feelings; I ut as to the forgiving part, why,
that’s neither here nor there” IL rc Evelina
rose indignantly, and left the room.
“Mell Geor- x, rnv son.’’ continued the old
man, “I’m s> rry your wife’s so touchy; but
you must net firget ol< daddy Dawson ( ome
mv boy, to otr house, like you used to, when
you and Sammy and Xancx used to sit roun’d
the bowl ot butterm.lk under the bii/ oak that
covered Mammy Daxvson’s dairv. I alxvays
think of pooi Sammy whop I see you.” (brush
ing a tear from his eye with the back of his
hand.) “1 m obliged to love you, l on young
J dog; and I want t > love your wife too, if she’d
. let me; but be that as it may 7 , Sammy’s play
mate won’t forget daddy Dawson, will he
Geo r ge?”
George could only sav “Never!” with a fil
ling eye; and the old' men s» t mH for the fields.
M st of the neigh >ors who cim io greet
Georg<‘upon his return to Lagrange, shared
Mr I -axv.son’s fate. One wanted to span Eve
lina’s waist, for he deelaied “she was th-' littlest
cie.iter round the waist he ever seed;” another
would “buss her, because she was George’s
wife, and because it was the fn-t chance he
ev ci ti.id m all his hi to buss ‘the quality 7 ’;” a
j fliird proposed a swap of wives with George;
I and all made some remark too b'unt for Eveli
na's refined ear. I lavtntr no ta< t for turning
] off these things pl.iytidlv , and as httl< disposition
to do so, she r> -' I! -d t rn with a town dijjmtv
j w hich soon rehev <i iier of these intrusions; and
in less thana we< k, stopt the visits of George’s
first and warmest friends fi, Ins father’s house.
Her habits, views and te< linns, agreeing in
nothing with the faiml in whi h -he was plac< d
I velina was unhappv herself, .nd made all
I around her unhapp'.. Her irre uifcir hours of
i< tiling and iii-itig, b< i mfatoiin<’s- in att< mling
lici m als, her continued Complaints of indispo
sition, deranged al! the regulations of the family
and •>• gat such confusion in th honsehol I, that
even the eid r .Mrs Baldwin occasionally lost
li> r < qua imity; sothat when I velinaaimoum-ed
a week before the appointed ti m- that she n i<t I
i< t’lni home, the mt< Ihgence teas receivt J with
piea.suie, ialh< i than pain.
I pop then letnrn home, George and hi- ladv
tound a < ommodious dwelling ha id.somelv Im- j
iii-hed lor their reception. Mr Smith preset te<
him this m In u of the check of winch he ha<
spoken brfme t e marriage ol ins daugiitei 1
md though the gift did not r-'dee ii ihe pro i . I
by $14,000, George was perfectly satisfi-
Mis. Smith ado-d to Hie d-naiimi her own,
xookan < innage diiv< r. ]|. t .,, th, mai< i
lia<l l>e< uconsi ei(-,j , velnta's from tier ititan< v. ’
' N tiling could h.tve been mor agn < able ti
George t an the n.-.vs that gr et< <1 him on hi
i arrival, that l<> was at hlu rtv t<> name the u :■>
w en he should < on-u.-ci l.\< Ima to his own
house; fin In lust ho •of iiap nm-ss bung upon
tIS last har.ee Os life. ft,. ; d!<»w<d imn.-e
| but two daysai'. r Ins return, o lay m |.p sto.
ot pr-visions; unit on the third, at foui in the
alteinooy, he leu Ins wife t > their miial home.
“lotus ii'jin " it, my |.-ar Evelini,” -aiil
(•corge, as tiie s< at, d tliemselv, - in h- ir own
abitation, t. this moment have i <n k ( j mi
" ird tor many months with the liv |p t int» rest.
I hav • ofi< nli ured to nys« if th . appy hours
liiat we shotihl - op'y ti ith ■ common root,
and I hope the liour ha arrived whe n v.< will
unit*- our en t, avers to reafiz • mv fond anti- is \
I aliens, l.i t us then, upon the commence- !
mcm o! a new life, mtcr< hange pur pie g '
that we wnl ,a< h exe.t < > r.-- iv,to prom t< u.,-1
happiness oi the other. In minx respects, it
must be acknowledged t mt o r views and dis
positions are dish rent, but th y v.dl soon be as-'
-nnil.it- ii by ntify of mt ■. m.ounih o£l
toll, ami a frank an i aft tmnate mt> r< him c ’
of .-pinions, if we mH but - .p- nt to submit t.>
s.»m, little sa ntices n> • i beginning t > attai.i
th.- o >ject. Now t, I ... , < andidiv and f. r-
I. s.-ly, my i.velma, v..iat would v<>u have me ! .
and vxii.it would you have me do, to ansvtcr
yc.:r I ng -t wish- s from vmir husbanm”
“I wotd. have you.” s . (l d Evelina, “think
inorv ot m than .ft th. w-.i’n he-ide— I would
have you tho ir.-t law ver i i the State—l wmild
have you ovricome \our di-l.k- to -uch umo
c, m amus .n- nts a- tea-parties and balls—and
I would have you tak no t-» the Springs, or to
New\orkor I’hilidelphia, ivory summer.—
N nr what would you hav, me d><.’’’
“1 w mid av. vou rise v.hen 1 do—regulate
■ that tl
so. > thetr dun- sin tae proper w . and -.t tm
_ tl
hands, and devote your spare time to reading
valuable works, painting, music or any other
improving eim loyinent or innocent r.- creation
Be tnus, and ‘I will think more of you than
all the world beside;’ ‘I will be the first lawyer
in the State,’and after a few years, you shall
Visit the North or the Springs every summer,
if you desire it.”
“Lord, if I do all these things you mention,
I 'hall have no time for reading, music or nain
ting.”
“Yes you will. My mother”—
“Oh, fortae Lorq's sak , Mt Baldwin, hush
talking a out your mother. I’m sick and tired
of hearing you talk oft.y mother this, and mv
moth r tnat--and when I went to vour house,
I did’nt see that -he got along a bit b< Her than
my mother—except in her cooking: and that
was only because your mother cooked the meats ;
and your sisters m ide the pastry. I don’t se. I
the use of having servants if one must do every
thing herself.”
“My sist rs make the pastry, to be sure; b> -
cause inotii- r uesites that they shmil it ar how
to do these-thi ;gs, tliat tney may better sup r
intend the doing of them w en they get man ied;
and because she tninks such thi gs should not
pass through t e hands of s rvanls when u can
be avoided; but my mother n< v r cot ks.”
“Sh ■ does, for 1 saw her lift.ng oifa put my
self.”
“She does not”—
Here the entry of the cook stopt acontrover
sy that was becoming tattler warm foi tiie )i s.
evening al home.
i . “I want tiie keys Miss ’V’lina, to get out
supp r,” aid the cook.
“There they ar. ,hh I* ( lat v,” said Eve'.- .
“try and have every t. ing verv nice.”
“ Aly dear 1 would not send her to the on*
visions unattendt d: < very t ing depend, u a.
your commencing ii.ht’’—
“Hush!” said Ev- imn, with some agitation,;
“I would nt have hei h-ar you f r the worlm
Soi ’d b very angry il sin tiioiig twi suspei ted I
her horn -ty Ma al \a s gavt hei up the ki vs I
and she s.y s she never d-1< ted hrtn a theft
m all her life.”
cry well,” said G< urge, “we’ll see.”
Alter long wailing the first supp r made ><s
appearance. It < onsistc-. I smoked tea, hall
b ,ked buiscint, butter, ai <i she < v< »i.-io r ‘.
“Why” said kvel.m.i, as she sipp. d .i.*r lost
cup of tcu, oti.L t< a se< ms to i. e to I i-smok d.
Here, i f ra, throw it out .in mak- so-. . mote.
Oh me! t .<■ bis -uit ari’t do e. Au it x lary’s
made quite an urdbrtimat b -mmiig But I
diuu’t want ny supp r; do v< u.”
“1 can do wit .out it, - ’ sat . G. org', col ly,
“ifyou can.”
“Well, |. t’s m t cat any, and t. d will i ( Hie
v ry way t<> mortify aunt ’ l.r . . . .. ui making
her mad. <>- . it . |’ t . t.mgh at her fur
ilc aimg u ul oi our supper; and she wont -
do so any more. Ihe older atur has very
tender fei brigs.”
“I’ll starve f< r a w < k to sme ( Hi i’s feel
ings,” said Gciii. . , “n vou will only qml amd
tit:. her. How ; a you exp< < I hei to r< al y. u
or your or r- i ith r« sp< <t, win n y u in .it
! her as yout •up nor!”
11, really, I in’t see any gn at harm in
ire if).." aged . euple with re.-pt cl, even it their
-km- are fila> k.”
j “I wis you ha. thought <-f that when vou
jwt n-talking to 1.1 Mr. Lawson. I should
I ink he was < nlitl d to as much n spei t as
mli rnal I ick w ne !’’
I Ins w >s the h irshest • xpr- --i- n that had
I■VI r csc.lp ■ Gl O|ge’.» lips. I.VI Ima < ould
mi tst ’nd it. She I ft tie ronii, threw her.-i It
I -ii a he , and I urst into ti ai -.
> In the coui.se of tiie nit lit the matt< r was
a-ijust d.
11. ■ n xt murnin (2 <-r,_ rose witlrtlii -tin,
<1 i• i ■ tl. >! Io prey,hi up >n fits wi 1 to do the
sai:;- : I :il “sin coil l;r>! < v, at was the Its
o t up so s> on im f t s> t i: >ut oing
r.o : am to . i tn< • all tint < r in p< iti n tics
li <> alter, open t 11 si O- , -lie tub hill) |
fl.it y . ■ net trv. <u d ion nt t<> use at that ■
Ifoiir,”
At h ill astir(• fit, sht m de in r app< aranr < ,
ami fin al .’-t came in It < <»n i-ted ’>t n nnly
coffee, I ir b<-il d » ggs, ml hard bmnt i isruit. |
“W v, wl.it ha-got into aunt liiv,”saidl
Ev* Ima, “t at she c ok- -o ul'v!’’
“ i ti; , v - luortiiii d lor; tiiiiiii, my dear,
by i al. ig no .-upper;’’ said G<or<.e ‘ a»d
t have iiv < m her to the oppo. iti extreme. Let
' ii now throw the b eakfast upon her hands,
xei pt the c- ff e, and perhaps she’ll be uwrh-
\ Jicd back to a m- dium.”
, “That’s v-riv witty, indeed,” said Evilini
- on nm t •ve I aint it from ti e ami il an
! aci . .mi.-l'i-.i Mi s Nam v I*aws it.”
ins was an affusion v. hi- L ’■< orge could net
withstand; and I ■ redd n I up to . atl- I.
“l xlm said Ip , “vou arc c< itainly the
stian. -t iieing tiiat I•v< i met with; you an
m -r respectful t > m pre t an wliiti s, ; i.d to
ex rv Im -y ; !se than vour Ln-'r-md.”
“Bt a is-,” i tmm d she-, “negroes treat me
with mote re-p- 7 1 ft. n some white.-; ami every
body else wifi, more respect than n v l.usband.”
Gi o g was r ! i tant t • commence tighti ti
ll.g th; reins i.t disr iphne with Ins . erv .nts for
th first ie>v an k- of hi- mastership: and,
tl. ref ire, tie bore in.-i!en> e, but in ang'-r, their
in|. ne--, imir m- li-ncc and thin disgusting
fimtiruifies with his w ife. He often visited
the kitchen, unobs rvud, of nights, and almost
■ ■ ’ ' its '
are t< ■ j .ly u—-i ! v ci::.<ir- n, tuag <1
i.i _•;<-« s. T 1., t'.r-t _ -wraliy proven’. Li the up cwntrv,
I' 1 hdoTti-
always found it thronged with gay company,
reveilmg in all the dainties of his closet, smoke
house, sideboard and pantry. He communica
ted ms discoveiies to his wife, but she found
no liifticulty m accounting satisfactorily for all
that he had seen. “Clary’s husband’had ak
s supplied her with every thing she wanted,
biota Lad a hundred ways of getting money;
and Billy (the carriage driver) was aPways re
ceiving litt.e presents from her and others.”
At the end of. three weeks aunt Clary an
nounced th t the flour was out.
“Now,” said Geoigc, “1 hope you are satis*
tied that it is upon your flour, and not upon
her husband’s that aunt Clary gives her enter
tainments.”
“Mhy, law me said Evelina; “I think it has
lasted wonderfully. You recollect ma and pa
I have been here most every day ”
“Ila they boarded with us,” said George,
“we could not have-consumed a barrel of flour
in three weeks.”
In qui< k succ< ssioncame the news that the
tea, coffee, and sugar were out; all of which
Ev< lina thought, “had lasted wonderfully.”
It would be useless to recount the daily dif
ferences of George and his wife. In nothing
could they agree; and the consequence was,
that at the end of six weeks they had come to
downright quarrelling; through all which Eveli
na .-ought and received, the sympathy of Miss
Flora and aunt Clary.
• bout this time the Superior Court commen
ced its session in the city; and a hundred like
favors received from the judge and the bar, im
posed upon George the absolute necessity of
giving a dinner to his brethren. He used every
irecaution to pass it off well. He gave his wife
our days notice; he provided every thing him
self, of the best that the town would afford; ho
became all courtesy and affection to his wife,
and all respect and cheerfulness to aunt Clary
, in the interim; be promised all the servants a
andsome present each, if they would acquit
liii niselvcs well upon this occasion, and char-
I jed them all, over and over, to remember, that
Hi time between two, and half past three, was
all that the bar could allow to his entertainment;
and consequently, dinner must be upon the ta
ble precisely at two.
f he day came and the company assembled.
Evelina, attired like a queen, received them in
the drawing room; and all were delighted with
her. All we: e cheerful, talkative and happy,
iwo o’clock came, and no dinner—A quarter
afti i—a id no dinner. The conversation began
t< Hag a little. Half past two rolled round—
ami no dinner—Conversation sunk to tempe
rate, «nd George rose to intemperate. Three
quart-' rs past two came—but no dinner—Con
xeisation sunk to freezing and George rose to
■> v< r heat. At this interesting moment, while
■ <■ x. a- sauntering every w ay, George sauntered
I 1 - ; *i I i wife, xvha was deeply engaged in a con
versation , i h his brother Paine, a grave, intel
ligent xoung man, and he detected her in the
act ot repealing, verbatim c! literatim, the pret
ty s< ntencc s which first subdued his heart.
“ Good Lord !” muttered Geoigc to himself;
“.!< iikinson, in the A icar cf Wakefield, xvith Lis
one sentence of learning, revived !”
He rushed out of the room, in order to in
quire hat delayed dinner: and on leaving the
mmng room was met at the door by Flora, with
two pale blue, dry, boiled fowls; boiled almost
to ismeinberment, upon a dish large enough to
contain a goodly sized shout, their legs stick
ing straight out with a most undignified straddle
and bowing xxith a bewitching grace and elasti.
ity to G( <>rg , with every step that Flora made.
Behind her fellowed Billy, with a prodigious
roast turk x, upon a dish that was almost con-
< cal <1 by its contents, his legs extended like
Hi 7 ' f'»v. I , Hie ba< I; and sides burnt to a crisp,
and the bn ast raxx. Ihe old gentleman was
ham somcly adorned with a large black twine
m < kl i< c, and through a spacious window, that
by cl ancc or design the cook had left open, the
light poured into his vacant cavity gloriously.
j « ( orge Mood petrified at the sight; nor did
l.e wak from his stupor of amazement until he
| was f< ai.-ed y a burnt round of Loef and a raw
l< g ol mutb n, making by him for the same port
tn xxin< ii I'm fowls and turkey had been mored.
H< lu.-hed into the kitchen in a fury. “You
infernal Leif, i! ’ said he to aunt Clary; “what
km of( oki::g is this you’re setting before my
in. any!”
“Eh- ib! <aine <-f God, Mas. George;
how an; body gwinc cuok ting good when you
hurry ’em so '!’’
(bi rg< looked for something to throw at her
; 1 ut fortuii .t- ly found nothing.
He letiiuK-d to t!,< house and found Lis wife
< nt< rtaming the company v.ith a never endin'*
* uata, on the piano.
Dinner was at length announced, and an axv
i;.l > "lit it xvas when lull spread. George
ma ! e as good apologies as he could; but his
xx iti x.a- not inthe least disconcerted—lndeed,
-he sec ed to assume an air of seh complni
-ance, at the profusion and richness which,
crowned her beard.
The gentlemen ate but little, owing, as flic
said to their having all eaten a very hearty
bie.'ihl ’.-t that morning. George followed Li
gne-ts to the court bouse, craved a continuance
of Lis cases for the evening, on thegound of in
dispo-ition; and it was granted, with an unac
countable display of syi.'ipatby He returned
eml arked in a quarrel with his wifo
v.hi< h lasted until Evelina’s exhausted nature
sunk t sleep under it, at three the next mor
ning.
George’s whole character now became
!'t 'y revohj?!ODi<cd. Lnivcrsal g’oom
S 3.