Delaware gazette and American watchman. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1837, 1832-11-06
VIEW SERIES: VOL. .TYEE. NO. 1920

Exclaimed Miss Montague.
Really" replied Mrs. Potts, 'I could do no
less than ask her The poor thing did her very
best to be civil to all last summer"
Sob Y said Mrs Montague, " in the country
ono is willing sometimes to take up with such
company as we should be very sorry to acknow-
Hedge in town.. You assured ME that your party
Tomorrow night would be extremely recherchee.
And it is SO early in the season, you know that
litis necessary to be more particular now than at
the close Of the campaign, when every one is tired
1 ofparaes and unwilling 10 get new evening dres-
es lest they should be out Of fashion before they
4 are wanted again. Excuse me, 4 speak only from
lwhat have iicurd OF American oustoms.'s
. am always particular about my parties" said
| Mrs. Potts.
GA word in your ear" continued Mrs. Monta-
4 que. is it not impolitc, or rather are you not
afraid to bring forward so beautiful girl this
Miss Martin on tho very night Of your own daugh-
ters debut"
Mrs. Potts looked alarmed for moment, and
then recovering herself said" have no fear of
Miss Harriet Angelina Potts being thrown in the
shade by little country gil like this. Alblna
Marsden is pretty enough to be sure-at least,
rather pretty--but then there is certain style
a certain air which she of couse--n short, GER
tain style"
/" As to what you call a certain style," said Mrs.
| Montague, 81 do not know exactly what YOU
mean. Ifit signifies the air and manner of lady,
this Miss Martin has as much of it as any other
American girl. To me they are all nearly alike.
| cannot distinguish those minute shades of diff
fcence that you all make such point of. In my
unpractised eyes the daughters of your mechanics
and shopkeepers look as well and behave well as
the daughters of your lawyers and doctors, for
find your nobility is chiefly made up of these two
professions, with the addition Of few merchants;
and you call every one merchant that does not
sell his commodities by the single yard or the sim
gle quart" .F
i" Mamma" whispered Miss Montague" if that
girl is to be here don't wish to come. can't en-
dure her."
"Take my advice" continued MIS-. Montague
to Mrs. Potts, I" and put off this Miss Martin. If
she was not so strikingly handsome, she might pass
unnoticed in the crowd But her beauty will at
tract general observation, and you will be obliged
to tell exactly who she is where you picked her
up and to give or to hear account of her family
and all her connexions and from the specimen
l,s-lsss,s IN the old aunt, doubtif they VIII
bear very minute scrutiny. So if she is invited,
endeayour to unnvite her,"
" / am sure would willingly do that" replied
Mrs. Potts, but can really think of no excuse"
"Oh send her note Tomorrow" answered Mis-.
Montague, carelessly, and rising to depart, any
thing or nothing, so that you only signify to her
that she is not to come"
All day Mrs. Potts was revolving in her mind
the most feasible means ofprevcning Albina from
IdpptdtiHS 1t PditJ oHu hSi SoheSiShSN ShsosS
he when she saw the unsuspecting girl so indie
fatigable in assisting with the preparations. Be-
fore Albina went home, Mis-. Potts had come to
the conclusion to follow Mrs. Montague's advice,
but she shrunk from the task of telling her so in
person. She determined TO send her, next morn
ing, concise note, politely requesting her not to
i come and she intended afterwards to call on her
and apologize, on the plea of her party being by no
means general, but still SO large that every inch OF
the loom was an object of importance also that
the selection consisted entirely of persons well
known TO each other and accustomed to meet in
company, and that there was every reason to teal
that her gentle and modest friend Albina would
have been unable to enjoy herself among so many
strangers, &c. &c. These excuses, she knew
were very aimsy, but she trusted to Albinas
good nature, and thought she could smooth of al
- BY inviting both her and her mother to soclabi
tea.
Next morning, Mrs. Potts who was on no oc
cason very ready with her pen, considering tina
she protested 10 be au fat every thing, employ
. ed near an hour in manufacturing the follow not
to Albina.
"Mrs. Washington Potts compliments to Mis-
Marsden, and she regrets being under the neces
I sity of dispensing with Mss-M.s company TO loi
the social circle at her mansionhouse this evening
Mrs. w. p. will explain hereafter hoping Mr.
and Miss M. are both well. Mr.. w. P. request
his respects TO both ladies', well as Miss Pott
inn and their fayourite little Lafayette desires his be-
she love-"
'gs This billet arrived while Albina had gone to he
tbe mantua-maker TO have her dress fitted on fl
any the last time. Her mother opened the note an
-ess read it, liberty which parent should take wit
nts the correspondence ola grown-up daughter. Mr.
70 Marsden was shocked at its contents, and at lo
She to guess the motive of so strange an interdctor
one At first her only emotion was resentment again
Mrs Potts. Then she thought of the disappoin
odi. ment and modification of poor AlbIna, whom sh
on pictured 10 hersen passing ,o "ao,a Nv, Il
sult recoIleced the elegant dress in which AlblI
he would have looked so beautifully, and which wOu
and now be useless.
om, "oh" soliloquized MIS-. Marsden, "what
that pity this unaccountabe note was not dropped an
on iost in tile street. But them of course some on
the would have found and read it, and that woul
have been worse than all. How could Mrs. Pot
,tts he uulty of such abomnabe rudeness, as TO de-
mile ire noo, Abna not 10 come, after she had bee