Virginia statesman. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1828-1829, 1828-05-07

MADAME HELvEuUs.
Mortified at the resolution pronounced
| by YOU so positively yesterday evening that
YOU would remain single the rest of your
| life as a compliment due to the memory Of
your husband, / retired to my chamber.
/ Throwing myself upon my bed, dreamt
I that ] was dead and transported to the
I EIysian Fields was asked whether /
wished to see any person in particular, to
which I replied that wished to see the
IpbIl0s0phers.-There are two who live here
| athandu this garden, they are good neigh
I bours and very friendly the one towards
I the other.-Who are they!-Socrates and
| Helveuus. esteem them both highly, but
| let me see Helveuus first, because / UNI
Idersland a little French, but not a word of
/ G-eek.-I was conducted TO him, he re-
ceiyed me with much courtesy, having
known me he said, by character some time.
I lie asked me a thousand questions relative
TO- the war TO the present state Of religion,
'ofhberty. and ofthe government in France.
'You DO not enquire then" said 1, after
your dear friend Madame Helvetius, yet
she loves YOU exceedingly; l was m her
company not more than am hour ago.
"Ah," said he, ''you make me rccur to my
past happiness which ought to be forgotten
. In order to be happy here. For many
years I could think of nothing but her,
. though I am at length somewhat consoled.
| I have taken another wife the most like her
] coald find; she is not indeed altogether
so handsome, but she has a great fund Of
wit and good sense, her whole study IS to
please me. She is at this moment gone to
fetch the best nectar and ambrosia to re-
gale me this evening; stay here awhile and
YOU viii see er."-'I perceive" said |,
"that your former friend IS more faithful
TO y0u, than Won are to her; she has had
several very good offers but has refused
| them an. Twill confess to You that love
/ her extremely. but she Is cruel TO me, and
rejects me percmptorily for your sake. -
81 pity YOU sincerely" said he, "tor she is
am excellent woman, and has a very good
understanding. But do not the Able de
La Roche and the Able M-vlsit herl"-
Certainly they do not one of your friends
has dropped her acquaintance. '-''If you
had gained the Able NJ with a bride of
good coffee and cream perhaps YOU would
/ have succeeded, for he Is as deep a reason
er as Saint Thomas; he arranges and
methodises his arguments in such a man
'ncr that they are irresistible. Or, ifby a
. fine edition of some old classic YOU had
ganed the Able de la Roche to speak
against YOU, that would have been still
better. as l always observed that when he
T recommended any thing my wife had a
great inclination to do directly the contra
|ry."-As he finished these words the new
Madame Helvetius entered, and rccog-
nzed her Immediately as my former Amer
ican friend Mrs. Franklin. would have
reclaimed her but she answered me coldly;
II was a good wife to you for fory-nine
years and four months, nearly half cen
fury; let that content YOU. have formed
a new connection here which will last to
. eternity" -Dispeased with this refusal of
my Eurydice / Immediately resolved to
quit the ugrateful Shades, aud return
hi,her into this fair world again to behold
7 the sun and YOU. Here then am, Madam.
/ bet us revenge ourselves.
Memories HiSt0ri9ucs sc.