The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware advertiser., 1826-11-30
TIE LADIES, rRTEND.
RESPECT TOR FEMALES.

The following is one of the most elegant
sketches which we recollect ever to have
seen. 1t is rich in figure, chaste and deli
cate in style, and highly refined in sentiment.
IL dislike the man, who deliberately tri-
fies with the affections of woman. would
rather shake hands with ii ahighwayman than
with gentleman who has sacrificed to his
own vanity the lifelong happiness OF an un-
experienced girl. fear this sort OF conduct
has never yet been sufficiently reprobated,
and femalestoo often bctray the right of their
sex by accepting with pride, the homage OF
a man who has become notorious tor the
conquest and dcsertion of their sistcrs-as if
lis mercy and love could be depended upon,
who has once been cruel to an aifectionatc
woman, The world laughs, and stores OF
lying proverbs and stupid jests on the brief.
ness of woman's love is administered: but
you will find If your heart be not hardened
~ scliishness, that this will be in vain. Per-
hans YOU had no intention OF being serious,
Won only ilirted, tried to be agreeable and to
please for the moment; you had no concep-
ton that your behavior could be misconstru-
ed, and YOU shudder at the bare thought of
! earning the icy damnation of a seducer. 1t
may be so, for there is descent to the hell
of seduction though that descent is perni-
ciouSiy easy, and
".lcmo rehente, yfun tur7iss:mus;"
but whatif while you were meaning nothing,
your triaing created anguish, your sport be-
came death to the poor object of 1t! When
BY exclusive attentions you have excited a
regard; by the developement of talent or by
the display and devotion of personal graces
YOU have fascinated the mind and the heart
when by the melting and the sinking eye;
the faultering voice, the fervid tone, the re-
tanned hand, you have awakened the passion
YOU cannot lay--when you have wiltuly
done this in the colo blood of vanity and it
suits your convenience or your sated cox
combry to fnisIi ,Iv ~oene by altered mien,
distant courtesy, or an expression OF sur
prise at the expected effects of your civility
will you be able to quiet your conscience
with Jest viii you ssecp on an adage OF
fools and lie Of your own! What if the
poor being, whose hope you have changed
Into despar--whose garden you have blast
ed with mildew and rust--whose heaven you
have darkened forevermore--shal Suffer in
silence, striving to bear her sorrow, praying
for cheerfulncss, pardoning without forget.
ting you, till the worm has eaten through to
the life, and the body is emaclated which
you have led il the dance. the voice broken
on which you have hung, the face wan which
you have battered, and the eyes frightfully
bright with funeral lustre which used tc
laugh radiancy and hope and love when they
gazed upon you. What il a proudcr tenn
per, more ardent imagination, and a stron-
ger constitution, should lead to spite and i'm.
patience and rccklessness of good and I'LL
hasty and loveless marriage should be the
rack of her soul, or the provocative of hel
SIM Is there mandragora could drug you tt
sleep while this was on your memory, ol
does there really live a man who could til
umph in such bitter woe,
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