Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-02-22
ALEXAND RIA GAZETTE
+ From the London Court Journal
FASHIONABLE TACTICS.
ONES COUNTRY NEIoHBoR:

FASHION ABLE iACllCS.
ONES COUNTRY NEIoHBoRs.
Gladstone Hall. The Hon. Mrs. Gladstone and
her three daughters at work table. Enter
Gen. G. from his ride.
Gen. G-HeIen, my dear, 60 and see whe,h
err there are any letter for inc on my library
table.
Helen G-Yes, Papa.
Gen. G-Mrs. Gladstone, have invited the
Brooks Park party to shout and dine here 20 NOR
row. Be sure to warn He len, before they arr.
We, that Young Ach!sey comes with them.
Mrs. G-ihen why ask them At all? You
might have postponed it till next week. Isuppose
he is not going to pass the autumn with tn ose
people?
Gen G-Next week Sir Richard Brook him
self is off to shoot on his Yorkshire estates, and
thought Maria would be better satisfied the par.
tv should take place before his departure-Eh!
Maria?
Maria G-Indeed, Pa, Sir Richards moYe.
meats are no concern of mine.
Gen G-I know it, my dear; and no fault Of
| yours either However, have given ypu and
Helen a last chance. I find that, in spite of
Lady Brooke's manru,res, Achsley is at pre-
| sent under no positive engagement to her daugh.
ter; and SIR Richard told me explicitly this
| mornins as we were riding home together from
Luistone, that he is looking our fora wife; which,
to the father of unmarried girls is saying
great deal.
Ms G-Maria, -sophy. my desrs; the af
tprnoon Is very fine, 90 and take a turn IN the
shrub berv.
soph G-Thank you, Mamma, have dread
/ ful cold
Maria-And my ANGLE is still very week after
my .prain.
| Gen G-Nonsense, nonsense, Mrs Gladstone;
let them STAY and hear what have to say. You
don't fancy you can keep two overgrown girls,
/ Of Two or three and twenty, III the dark on such
points?
Mrs G-H How often must remind you, Gene
! raj, that Sophia is only one and twenty?
S5?hy G--Last birthday, Mamma.
! Gen G--I have kept Lankley Wood and
Brckheath Farm (my two best preserves) for
the Brook pars party. They will he over to
breakfast. Take care that none of the girls make
their appearance No sportsman can ever bear
the sight Of a woman I'LL dinner time Give
them plenty OF cold fowl, piseonpe, and cbocO-
| late, but no Young ladies'
Mrs CD can only tell you, for certainty,
that Lady Brooke and Marian preside at the tea
table every morning throughout the shooing and
hunting stascn-foilow the gentlemen to the sta
bic yard and kennel-pat the hprses-pet the
dogs-see the refreshments packed, and pretend
TO enter. heart and soul. into the whole affair.
Gen G-Then rely on II that. with all their
hearts and souls, ;he men wish them at the de.
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Mrs Csc you nav fancy; but there are GER
tain little attentions which they swear at the first
week. endure the ,ecnnd, and begin TO look for,
Az indispensable, on the third. Whatever you
may have heard. General, Marian will catch
Young Achsley a, lasl; and shah always think
that Lady Brooke has behaved very shabby,
unneighbory way about it. told her mSself,
before Eater, that he was all but engaged to
Helen.
Scphv-Yes, Mamma! But you gave her at
the same time such Furnishing description Of
his estates in Cheshire, aud his chance OF sue
cpeding 10 the Grainstone peera:e, that any one
might have predicted what would happen.
Maria-Lady Brooke is such an ariiul wo
mar. What right has ,he 10 qnarter herself as
: she does al Brnak. Park? Her living there
amounts TO forbiidlng the bands OF any marriage
her sun might bp inclined to form
Spphy-And she has such canning way OF
what she calls making the house " pleasant ia
Young penpie;' which consists OF getting up cha
trades where Marian PLAYS the first pats. and
concerts; where, after our laundering sonaias
Marian is brought forward 10 sing one of her beau
tiful English ballads.
Mrs Cd have my own opinion Of women
v no make their daughters sing English ballads
1t cannot be as an exercise Of their skill, or &c
display their proficiency. But we all know tina
no sort Of music. tells half so well with young
men. This was the secret OF Miss Stephens po
pulari,y, and Mrs. Waylett's; and Lady Brooke
has been mean enough to turn it to account The
most provoking part Of 1t is. that HeIen's voice
is too loud for ballads-Sophy's too low; whilst
poor Maria has none at all!
Gen G-And my little ffiend Marian the pipe
Of blackbirt!
Mrs G-Yes; you are always willing enough
to disparase your own poor girls! sh ouid no,
have been very much surprised. had you ask ed
Miss Brooke and her mother TO dinner Tomorrow
to meet the Young men!
Gen G-Surprisedl Why Of course Idid!-
How could do otherwise! Invite sSay the
whole party staving IN her house, and ,eavs her
i there to dine alOnee HAhAw.