The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1849-04-06
8 elected Gale
From The Philadelphia Saturday Courier.
MRS. BAILEY.
or THE LAST REMOVAL.


OR THE LAST REMOVAL.
Amongst my many acquaintances,
there is one for whom | have very par.
tcular respect, because he is not only an
excellent fellow, but also very great
oddity. He has passed his entire life in
going from one part of London TO another;
and not content, as most bachelors would
be, with moving themselves, their ward.
robe, and their dressing case, my friend
John Bennett always takes with him the
furniture for two very large rooms. He
has everything complete frsm a sofa TO a
bell'rope-and, consequently he has ex-
pended fortune in repeated migraiions.
But what does John Bennett care for
all thisl He has had his adventures
his insight into the most various char
acters. and he has at last-.-but must
tell his history regularly, as far at least as
relates to his last accident, which. it is to
be hoped. has settled him for life.
1t is some time since my friend took
unfinished lodgings on the left.haud
side of Cover street, as you go from
Montague street to Holborn. All. at
least all of those houses that have seen,
are fine, wide, lofty. spacious. and very
old fashioned. The time for which he
had taken the apartments was approach
ing its termination, and he was under
"notice 10 quit" OF course Mr.. Bennett
set out on a new voyage Of discovery for
unfurnished lolgings; but he did so with
an il-luck that was very unusual to him
or his search did not give him that
pleasure that it was want to do in former
years.-His good genius seemed to have
abandoned him. He saw unpleasant land
ladies' he found doors that creaked upon
hinges, and he perceived chimneys that
smoked. Was this fatality, or was it that
he had become more sensitive to the lit.
tie ''ills of lifel" He certainly ceased te
see the smiles that used to greet hin
when he was much younger man. Why
was thisl 1t was too easily explained; fo
John Bennett had been on The look on
for unturnshed lodgings for at least TWEEN
ty-fve years-and twenty-five years a
go, he was far prettier fellow than he i
now.
WELL" said John Bennett, one eve
ming, sitting very tired and very lonesome
as he looked into the drawing g-room fire
in search of some unfinished castle
"Well, certainly would remain three
months longer in these apartments if
had not already served the landlord witt
notice, and if the rooms were not to-
large for me, and if the landlord had no
threatened to increase the rent.
1t unfortunately happened that tn
rooms were already engaged by anothe
party. and there was no use in thinking q
, the matter.
you need, sill" said the owner of tn
house to Mr. Bennett, not incommod
= yourself at all as to the time of moving
: for the lady whois about to succeed yo
in the lodgings will not be here before tn
end of the month. She will bring he
, furniture here on the 10Th, and they ca
| be placed in The two rooms that you d
r not make any use Of"
! This was an arrangement that wa
, very convenient for Mr.. Bennett, he be
b ing, as yet, without other rooms to mov
into.
f 81 may search long time before | ca
0 find rosms at all comparable to these.
n is pleasant quarter of the town-s
= close, too, TO the British Museum, onI
: that | don't care for readiug-and the
the street is so quiet, the air so good, an
: within stones throw of the Birming ha
n Railway, only always go to Southamptc
It or Blighton-and the landlord is so vel
$ oblging, and there is no landlady-ar
v in short | never felt such sorrow for lea
!. ing any place as this. Really, ifthese a
e arlments were vacant, would make
c sacrifice to have them. That, howeve
: would be very great folly, for they a
n larger than becomes either my means
;, my furniture. They are not at all suite
n TO bachelor whereas if were married
g Having uttered this language, NJ
IS Bennett began to smile: for he had
e ways considered marriage as one of 1
], greatest obstacles to constant remova
d and on this ground he had come to t
/. resolution of ever remaining single. NJ
g that resolution which he had acted upon
ID such long, long time, did not now appe
to him to be so very good one as he HI
in thought it, He began to reflect sGriot
e. ly on the matter, and having viewed it
y both ways, he came to this wise concI
r. sion:- ..-.
ms well, if should ever marry, mt
.. certainly return and take up my lojgin
re here" ....s .
nd The landlord was consulted as to t
rh practcabiity of return. and his rel
was, that "it was impossible to say,
i'd the lady had taken the lodgings for TIN
fly years certain"