Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-05-30
ALEXANDRIA GAZE TIE
MISCELLANEOUS SELECTIONS
NOT AT HOME.


called.
This sort of absence is no doubt consistent
with the purest friendship, aad with the most un-
Anchiug regard to truth: for it is next to lmpos-
sibje that fashionable lady should at all times
he at home. even to hex friends; and as to sacred
truth in these little affairs, why, surely every Ia
DIV must be her own best judge whether she Is at
home or not. -
We'll. as we were saving Mrs. Tallman call
ed 70 see her excellent friend. Mrs Long. The
hell was answered by an lrisA servant.
sis Mrs. Long at home!'
"No, ma:am she is not a. home.
Are you certain OF ii!"
"Indade, ma'am Pm very positive"
"I wish particularly to Sc Der this morning"
uI'm under the necessity Of informing ye,
ma'am'-(with bow and scrape)- -" that she's
not to be sane"
81 wouldn't wish to diSput5 your word: but if
| mistake not. | saw her face drough the window
as came up"
"Besgin YER pardon, ma'am that couldn't have
been Mrs Longs face no how At all-tor she Jlst
touId me with her Gun mouth that she was not al
hOme."
81 should be 10th to dispute your word and
YOUR misres,'s too; but really. under the present
circumstances-'
"Why, sure, as sou say, ma am, clroumstanc.
es alters cases; aud therefore, ny your lave, III
list step IN and AK Mrs. Long . she's conVanlent
to be al home at all this morning. to particular
frind of her Gun, thar won't behave word she
says"
Mss. Tallman, resolving, Ga tins occasion, not
TO be denied admittance to h,r very dear friend,
pushed forward after The sesrJTS, and presently
found herself is t"e arms "t "}7 Long, VINO was
overjoyed TO see.her ~
INV dear Mrs. Tallman!" she exclaimed,
[" where have you kept yourself this long time!
II is almost an age since | sawyou. You have
been quite unneighoOrly OF late Why havnt
YOU called beiOreI"
II have called, repeatedly. Mrs. Long, but
YOU were not at home, Indeed, your servant
told me the same thing this morning. but
"Seryants are such plague!" exclaimed Mrs.
Long, with great indignation" they never do
as YOU want to have them. And then they make
so many mistakes-especially these irish ctodhoP-
pers-and there's no getting any other servants
nowadays. That b"ohy OF mne--l've great
mind to dismiss him as ever had to eat-out,
dear Mrs. Talman, do take of your bonnet, and
STAY a while. I'm so glad to see you! How Is
Mr.. rallman and the little chlldren:"
..They're all very well, except little Tommy
he's got the whoopng coush-but he's getting
better now" -,
Poor little thing! how sorry am to hear it!
-Apprdposs, Mrs. Tallman, have you heard
about the coIar.and- mob-us being IN the city,
No. indeed have not-but understand IT'S
on its way across the Atlantc-and that Capt.
Yardarm bespoke a vessel, that heard OF another
vessel that was believed to have it on board"
"Is it possible"
| That's what Eve heard"
..WelI. shouldn't wonder if it come here in
a very short time. However, thank heaven
there's one comfort-they say 1t never attacks
| nobody but the lower classes; and our rank IN
life VIM know Mrs Tallman, will secure US
Bu, appropoSS again-talkins Oh these things
have YOU heard the news from Congress-
81 understand the United States Bank is
broke in two in the middle; and that the Union
is on its last legs ,
..Tbem are old stories, Mrs. Tal!man. But
| il anpears by the last accounts, that three MEM
hers of Congress have been shot down, four STAB
he'd. and five beaten with bludgeons-all for
words spoken in the bait. We'll, for my part;
Pam clad to hear it, What would the world
come to. if every body was say what every
body thought OF what was going OH IN the world"
.sTrue, Mrs. Long. the truth is not to be spo-
ken at all times. But really I'm glad my hus-
hand wasn't chosen, when he was put up the last
time: for. like as not, he might have been among
them that was killed, and wounded, and mis-
sing. But that was very strange thing that
come to light in one of our streets yesterday,
wasn't it," u, =,
..What was that, Mrs Tal!man!'
"Why havn'S you heard, how thirteen little
chiIdren-the oldest not above seven years old
were scraped up by the scavengers in clean
inc the streets where they 'dheen buried upwards
of month";"
"Is it possible! Why YOU shock me, Mrs.
TaIlman, Fifteen little children. Were they
black or white?"
"They were black enough. when they came
nut. do think their mothers were very much
to blame for letting their children run a; large
don't you, Mrs. Longs"