Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1845-05-28
MRS. cAuDLE's CURTAIN LECTURES.

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Ma. CAupLE HAS vENTURED TO ISsIscATr THAT MRs. c.
BETTER Net RUN ABROAD so MUCH. Mas. CAUDLE
FLARES UP'
MIR. CsudIe, i, would try the patience of a saint. Go
abroad too much you might well say That. II | staid out
with the S~kylarks, or other precious fellows, I'LL midnight,
spending more than | earned. But il is just so. always
with a poor woman. She must be o slave, and found fault
with besides. When i am dead, Mr.. Caudle, and | shnnI
I've long-when | am dead, you unfeeIing man, then You
will have this 10 reflect upon. Don't tell me you'd be sorry
10 have me die ! don't believe IL. You would be glad,
you know you would. Then you could marry some hIrt
Of a girl, who would not bear with your errors, as have.
Don't tell me I'm a good gil, and you love me. You act
as though you do. Once you did. When | YVES your dear
Margaret, your honey, your sweet love Now you tumble
into bed ut any time OF night, and IL 1 Just venture = say
that | don't like ~, you go TO sleep before | hnish the sen
fence, You do. Caud!e you're u wretch and ii ever |
catch you marrying any OF these faunty 'hings about tow n
20 be mother Ia my children, III haunt the house TIL she
le3vrsit. What! you don't mean To marry q second time.
Don't .'eii me that you unfeeling man. II Is Just rs much
as to ssy ] lead you such a lite that You dare not. Don.
say TO me you wont marry pgain. Have you no regard Tor
your family Tor my tender children, that will be mother
less and almost intherless-for I'm sure its :eldom the
sweet things will see you. Caudle, IT you don't marry
again when I'm dead-if you don't provide q mother for
my dailirgs, Ill haunt you Till you die will as | IN a pru.
dent Christian.
What! do you say you'll marry again, before I die, It u
will please me! You " cked man. / shouldn't wonder
If you were IN fall out Of bed. ! am afraid TO sleep with
you, for fear we shall be swallowed up. What are you
DOING. Mr. Caudiel getting out OF Oed! Don't tell me rs
TO relieve my fea-s. It's no such thing. It's TO go and
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into oed again, or WON'T live with you another day. III
60 home 10 mothers. and pms ~ solitude; and die a viciiHi
to your treatment. Oacc u was not 80. hou Dsed 10 cay,
my dear Mrs. Caud!e. | fear you shut yourself up too much
OF home, you will bring on a decline and early death, and
then what will your devoted Caudle do. He will pine and
die too. Go abroad, my dear, you would say, and let THE
hestbful bTeezes kiss that lovely cheek. Now, because !
ysHiuTo out only four or five days in a week, you call me q
gadder about Precious good care you take never to 60
with me.
What are you tossing about in that way for, Mr. Csudle1
] don't wonder you are Ia pain. II your conscience isn't
mads u nlabsster ii must burn you. Don't tell me you
want to 60 10 sleep! Don't | want 10 sleep tool But |
can't s'eep-such treatment makes me wish I was an Ara.
bian savage on the deserts Of America, wandering about
in the tropical climates Of the north, rather than be the wife
Rf so unfcelirg a man!
Ana so you won't may again 10 please me! You shall
marry sgsin! Ny Shi5ren shall have a mother as long
as they live-and she shall bs a good mother to them
None y! your foolish chits who think they know mo5c than
their patens. III tell you who you shall mary. A prudent
respectable aged woman, lIs' will have a bright eye To
yUuriOjleres,-ard not be so weak and fofgiying and kind
NJ have been, You shall marry. Mr.. Caudlc, and these
msy be my last words-You shall marty the W i
dow
Here ssys Csudle's manuscript my wife dropped of and
] was spared the pain Of hearing the name Of some anti
quated lady ne my selected second wife. Never was ! more
unfeignedy thankfsi for any sleep than | was for this]