Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1844-08-16
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by Mns. 4. n. AMMAN.

ed you TO be at my hOuSe-warming, dear
Frank, you and your gentle wifel LIhesmar=l
bic palace, as, in your honest simplicity, you
are honest enough TO believe my structure
of brick, paint and stucco; the marble pal /
ace is finished from cornerstone to roof |
tree, and have received the congratula- |
tons of scores who really hope have bet
tered my condition, and of still larger
number who rejoice in the prospect of a
new place for dining out, on my being dom
iciliateo in home ] never was less at
home il my liie-I, solitary man, occupy
ing there long suits of large apartments
how is i that Byron expresses the sensation ?
Asort of chill comes o'erme when alone,
SEEING what's made for many with but one'
In my boarding house really could have
little domestic enjoyment. My two rooms
and allihey contained were within the range
of my ye, and became familiar with them
accordingly. When seated myself in my
arm-cmir, pulled forward the andirons 10
their proper line, drew up an ottoman Tor
my fee and table for my elbow, felt as
if wTe gathering my family around me,
and TO- every object had separate regard
Here will take me lustrum TO become
acquainted with the multiludinous things the
cabinet makers and upholsterers have hung
up and spread down and ranged around, all,
as understand, for my raiifcation. Aud
yet il must be done. ltwould be shabby to
creep into a corner, aud the house must be
kept from moulding therefore i must in
habit it all over--I myself. Then, there is
no little sanctum in which might end
moments relief, as in all truly home-like es-
adjustments mo retreat, such as gentlemen
Of your class are enriched with, in which
you may enjoy the busyidleness of shipping
threads and patches, gathered from the car
pet, the interesting distress of not knowing
where 10 lean, tina, you will not make creas-
es in some dainty fabric of female garniture,
or the agreeable agony of skinnng your an
kles on the rockers Of cradle. si,it't
Let me stop for moment to fancy you
laughing in your sleeve at the idea that | am
too sheepish to come to the point at once,
and piuming Yourself on the sagacious dis
covery of what all this tends to, without fur
ther explanation Of mine. Well, / have
done-for | assure YOU can say IT out as
coolly as a professed fiirt says, I'm very
sorry &c. &c, TO the hundredth ineligible
proposal now, Frank, find the want of a
wife there l have decided, at length to
soar above the chrysalis of the old bachelor.
old, forsooih how happens II that am
stigmatized as an old bachelor, while you,
with matronly wife and half dozen stur-
dy children, ARE still designated as youngish
married man, though you are full year my
senior do look old that deny, yet il is
vain I assert that my unfaded locks are Of
spontaneous growth, and that my teeth are
not patent metallic. Is it my manners To-
ward men fiatter myself they are of very
common order, and toward women--yet
when think of il that must be the front o.
my offending. The first woman into whose
society was thrown after began TO con.
slider myself a man, inspired me with an
! awe which has ever since attached itself L
5 the whole sex, impartng TO my address to
I ward them stiffness and timidity SO un
common nowadays, that the fair creature.
=, regard them as remnants of some era toe
far gone for their cognIzance. 7rt, a1o,.o
you remember her to whom allude p
yet how could any one forget the rarely
e beautiful, the noble gifted, the high hearted
the altogether peerless Eugenia Sinclair l.
: have thought much of her since my new
z want has awakened, and feel that my viviC
recollections of her have given me aspira
tions too high ever TO be realized The
4 world holds 40 second Eugena Sinclair
0 and if it did, what am |, that should thnl
: of winning her You have sometime
e called her my first love, but there you ar,
y wrong. | escaped the folly of loving her
: in your meaning of the word, for such i
= would have been. / was but a boy wheI
:, we first met, half-educated, though preco
e cous boy of seventeen, and she at least 6v
or six years older, thoughtful, natures
a woman Had she suspected any such dan
= ger from that Intercourse which to me we
e so enhancing and so elevating, it would new
er have been accorded. stsc as
You, who from slighter acquaintance
&C remember her chiefly for her beauty of per
is son and her grace in society, can little con
i ceve the treasures Of her mind and heart
:. the variety of knowledge, the quickness an,
force of illustration, the flow Of ideas, tn
power of expression, the purity of sent
, ment, and the depth of feeling which mad
her conversation unmeasured poetry If
I. early learned to esteem virtue and to a6ho
is vice, to prefer intellectual to sensual pleas
m ures, TO avoid the evils of the skepticisr
= which so frequently besets the young an
Q self.confdent student, and to seek perceF
i ton of the grandeur and glory and suficier
,e cy of our inspired system of religion, l ow
as it all to her influence. cannot exactl
10 describe my feelings toward her. The
were a union of the confidence one feels j
, gifted mother, the affection for a Lowell
e. sister, the admiration for a beautiful statur
~ or an exquisite ideal creation, and the REL
n erence toward an angel. If there was an
+ thing which seemed to originate for warn
a. er regard, it was the jealousy with which