Delaware gazette and American watchman. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1837, 1832-11-06

postulated with Albina and her mother on the
folly and absurdity Of sacrificing their comfort,
their time, their money, and indeed their sef-fes-
pect to the patry distinction Of being caprcously
noticed by few vain silly hearess people, inferior
10 themselves In every thing but in wealth and in
a slight tncture Of soi-disant fashion; and who,
after ALL only took them on or threw them off as 1t
suited their own convenience.
aWhat you say is very true, Bromley" replied
Mrs. Marsden. " begin TO view these things IN
their proper light, and as Albina remarks, we.
ought TO profit by this last lesson. To tell the ex-
act truth, / have heard since came to town that
Mis-. Washington Potts i, after all, by no mears
in the first circle, and il i whispered that she and
| her husband are both Of very low origin"
g No matter for her cfcle or her origin" said
Cheston, g in our county the only acknowledged
distinction should be that which is denoted by
superiority Of mind and banners.
Next day LieutenantI Cheston escorted Mrs.
! Marsden and Albina back to their own home and
a week afterwards he was sent unexpectedly on a
cruize in the West Indies.
\ He returned in the spring, and found Mrs.
4 Marsten more rational than he had ever known
Iher, and Albina highly Improved by ludiclous
course q reading &C. b. "d magh ,S 0u III, IL
!; gentee, highly taleAfe aad very amiable family
from the eastward wife had recently bought Q
house in the village, and in whose society she Of
, len wondered al the nfatuatioB which had led he
to fancy such woman as Mrs Washington Potts
, with whom, of course, she never had any farthe
) communication.
. A recent and very large bequest 10 Bromley
Chcston from distant relation, made il no longe
/, necessary that the young lieutenant should wal
D for promotion before he married Albina and nc
! coidingly their union TOOK place Immediately OF
his return. s
(, Before the Montagues left Philadelphia TO pro
secue their journey TO the south, there arrived al
t acquaintance of theirs from England, who injudi
cously " told the secrets Of his prison-house," am
+ made known in whispers " not loud but deep,
that Mr. Dudley Montague, Of Normancourt Park
0 Hants, (alias Mr.. Jehn Viking of lambs Condui
street, Clerkenwell) had long been well known il
i London as a reporter for newspaper: that he ha
recently married widow, the ci-devant governes
!, Of Somers Town Boarding-school, who had draw
}. her ideas Of fashionable life from the columns
g the Morning Post, and who famshed her pupils s.
much to her own. profit that she had been able I
Z, retire on sort OF fortune. With the assistance
# this fund, she and her daughter (thc young lad
r was in reality the offspring of her mothers frs
@ marriage) had accompanied Mr.. Wilkins across th
IS Atlantic all three assuming the lordly name c
4. Montague, as one well calculated 10 strike the re
It publicans with proper The Truth was, that fc
e suitable consideration proered by tory publish
u or the soi-disant Mr.. Montague had undertaken
is add another octave TO the numerous volumes 9
gross misrepresentation and real ignorance tina
b profess TO contain an impartial account of th
II United States Of America.