Mobile register and journal. [volume] (Mobile, Ala.) 1841-1849, 1845-11-13
MRS. CAuDLE's CURTAIN LECTURES.

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Mrs CaudIe. suspset,ag thai Mr.. Coudie has made
] his iuil. is "ony aarious a mje" 10 kaow pro.
| Visi0as.
| There, always SAID you'd II strong mind when
you liked it, Caude; and what you've Just been doing
| proves it. Some people won't make II will, because
they think they must die directly afterwards. Now,
| you're above that love, nrn't you. Nonsense; you
know very well what mean. know your wiiI's
made, for Scratehery told me so. What2 You dom t
believe III Well Pm sure? That's pretty Thing
| for man say 10 his wife, know he's TOO much
| IA man of business 10 talk but suppose there
ii way of telling things without speaking them. And
when put The question 10 him, lawyer as he is be
hadn't the face To deny il.
''To be sure, il can be of consequence 10 me
whether your will is made or not. | shall not be
| alive Mr.. Caude 10 want anything; shall be pro-
vided for a long time before your Wills Of any
| No, Mr.. Caudle; shant survive you; and-though
| ii woman's wrong TO let her affection for man lie
known, for then she's always taken the advantage of,
though know its foolish and weak 10 say so, still
don't want TO survive you How should /? No. no,
don't say that Pm not good for hundred shan't
see you out, and another husband too? What gross
| idea Caudle! TO imagine I'D ever think of marry
ing again. No-nevcr. What? That's what
| all say2 Not at all; quite the To me the
very idea Of such Thing is horrible, and always
Yes, l know very WE'LL that some do marry
again. but what they're made of Pm sure can't tell
Ugh!
"There men know, who leave their property
in such way that their widows 10 hold it must keep
widows. Now, II there il anything IN the world that
is mean and small in The world il is that. Don't
you think SO too, Candle? Why don't you speak,
love? That's like you! never want little quiet
rational talk. but you want 10 60 TO sleep. But you
never were like any other man! What? How do
know? There now-lhal's so like your aggravating
way. never open my lips upon subject, but you
| try TO put me of! I'VE no doubt when Miss Pretty
man speaks, you can answer her properly enough.
There you are, again! Upon my life il is odd but
never can in the most innocent way mention that
PERSONS name that-Why can't let her alone? Pm
sure-wilh all my heart, Who wants TO talk about
herl don't only that YOU will always say some
thing to bring up her name
"What was saying, Caudle2 Oh, about the way
some men lind their widows. To my mind, there is
nothing SO little. When man fofbids his wife to
marry again without losing what he leaves-its what
call seIiishness. after death. Mean degree!
It's like taking his wife into the grave with him.
Ehl You never want to do that? No, Pm sure OF
that. love: your not the man to tie wom"n up in
that mean manner. man who'd do that would have
his widow burnt with him, il he could-just those
monsters, that call themselves men, do in The Indies
"However MS no matter TO ME how you've made
your will but il may be TO your second wife, What
/ shall never give you chance? Hal you don't know
my constitution after all, Caudle Pm not at all The
woman was. | say nothing about 'em, but very
| often you don't know my feelings. And as we're on
The subject dearest, have only favor 10 ask
When you marry again-now IT. your saying
that. After the comforts you've known Of marriage
what are you signing ut, dearf-atler the comforts
you mast marry again-now don't orswear yourself
in that that violent way, taking oath that you know
you must break-you couldn't help it, Pm Of il
| and know you better than you know yourself
Well, all ask is, love, because it's only for your
| sake, and il would make difference TO me then
how should i1--but all | ask 10, don't marry Miss
Prelt-'There there! I've done; | won't say an
other word about il but vii ask. il don't. After the
way you've been thought Of, and after the comforts
you've been used TO, Caude, she wouldn't be the
wife for you. or Sc, could Their have inter-
est ia the matler-you might marry the Queen OF
England, for what il would be TO me then-l'am
| " anxious about you. Mind, Caude. Pam not say
ing any thing against her; not at all but there's
iiightness in ner manner dare say, poor thing,
she means harm, and il may he, as the saying -.
only her manner after aIl--slill, there is fighi-
ness about her that, after what you've been used 10,
would make yon very wretcled. No. for if may
boast Of anything. CLudle it has been my proprieiy
oil manner all my life know that wives who re not
still, il is very little to be vrtuous, people don't
seem And virtue, Caudle-no, Pm moi going TO
preach about my virtue, for l never do. Mo- and
don't go about with my virtue, like child with a
drum making all sorts OF noises with il. But know
your principles. l shall never forget what once
heard you say 10 Preliyman: and IFS that
you'd taken much WINE you didn't know what you
were saying at the time for wine brings out mems
wckedness, Just as fire brings out spots OF greese.
What did you say? Why you said this: 'Vhtue is
a beautiful thing in women, when they don't make
much noise about il; but there's women,
who think virtue was given 'em, claws given
cats-yes, cats was the word-'io do nothing but
scratch WITH That's what you said. You don't
recollecl S, liable of it? No, that's III when you're
in that dreadful state, you recoect nothing: but its
good thing do.
''Bu we won't talk Of that, love-that's all over:
dare say you meant nothing. But I'm glad you
agree with me- that the man who'd tie uD his widow,
not to marry again, is mean man. II makes me
happy that you've that confidence in me TO say that.
You never said il? That's aoihins TO do with it,
you've just as good as said il. No: when man
leaves all his pro perry to his wife, without binding
her hands from marrying again, he shows what
dependence he has upon her love. He proves 10 all
the world whrt wife, she's been to him; and how,
after his death, he knows she III greve for him And
then, of course, second marriage never enters her
head But when she only keeps his money so long
as she keeps widow, why she's aggravated to take
another husband. Fam sure Of it, many poor
man has been driven into wedlock agas, only be-
cause she was spited into it by her husbands will
IT'S only natural 10 suppose it, II thought Caudle,
you could do such Thing, though il would break
my heart 10 do it,-yet though You were dead and
gone, I'D show you I'D spT, and marry again
directly. Not Eut what it's ridiculous my talking
in such a way, as shall go long before you; still,
mark m, words, and doht provoke me with any ill
Of that sort, or I'D do it-as Tam a living woman
in this bed. I'D do IT,"
81 did moi contradict" says Caude, "bul suffer-
ed her TO sleeplin such assurance. "-[Punch.