The Literary echo, and Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1851-1854, 1851-12-11
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From the New York Organ.
The Bachelors Criticisms.
BY MARIA ]. B. BROWNE.

The most agreeable intelligence 1 have
had for many day-are you ready fer a
visitor, Catharine ? said Mr. Richmond as
he entered the parlor where his young wife
was sitting, with an open letter in his
hand. The letter was very closely and
elegantly written, and as he held it to her,
she replied, while sweet open smile re-
Gected the pleasure and qualification she
saw in her husbands ace
1T looks as prim and precise as an old
maid do tell me the glad tidings, Chester,
and not doom me to wade through all
these stately lines-they are as set as a
regiment Of soldiers on parade, Or
How can you SANDER my beautiful
letter so,' interrupted MIR. Richmond to
punish you have half mind to take it
away from you, and make you think it is
from a lady-only am discouraged by my
ill success with you, heretofore by such
stratagems. But trifing aside, my dear
old school boy friend, Newhall, proposes
to come and pay us a visit in few days,
and as he is out of heath from too close
application to business, and needs country
air aid recreation and with your concur
renee, Kate, l shall urge him to spend the
summer months with U.S.
Indeed y sail Mrs Richmond Mr.
Ncwhall The distinguished Cornelius
Newhall, Esq, professor of everyth ng that
is learned and wonderful in Uni
versity Well, I hope he mentions some
where in his long letter. and she spread
it out playfully on the sofa beside her,
that he has two-fold purpose in his
visit-the first, to beg my pardon, and
conciliate my favor, for an-an-I
hardly know what to call it-received
some two years ago Isn't this the gentle
man who advised his friend Richmond, in
a very dignifed and complimentary man
ner, not to marry so foolish belle as
Miss Catharine Gilmore = and the young
wife laughed merrily, and looked up
rogueishly in her husbands face.
The very man, Katy, though he has
resigned hi, professorship, and has an office
in the city. shall be proud to show him
what model wife { so gid Iy and foolish q
belle as Catharine Gilmore can make
But he is really one of the best men, my
dear--a little fastidious, perhaps, in his
estimate of women-hc cannot well help
being fastidious, with such fine drawn per-
ceptions as he possesses, and such finished
refinement of mind and manners
ooh, yes, yesn replied Mrs. Richmond,
in her gay humor, l presume he is a
finished bachelor 1 was going to say an
incorrigible 'betty' He will pass no very
aattering encomium or your refinement Of
taste and soul, in marrying SO common
place poor little every day creature as 1
am | never could follow any body into
the sublime-my wings are too waxen
altogether for any sunward expeditions
Take me out of the shallow waters of COM
mon sense, into the ideal, and l always
am obliged to tie on my life preserver
Your friend, / fancy is so etherial-so be-
yond all my plain notions
No, no, dearest you mistake Mr.
Newhall. Read this letter, and that will
surely correct all such impressions. But
say, shall 1 bi him welcome to our house
and our hospitalties =
BY all means, Mr.. Richmond, replied
his wife. Il shall be proud to make my
no pleasant abiding place for one who
shares so largely in my dear husbands
regards. The responsibility of his enter
tainment must rest on you. By the way,
III delay my party a few days for him,
and call in what help can from our simple
villagers to make his visit passably agreea-
ble-and I'll remind the girls to observe
all their Ps and Qs' to the letter, if they
have any designs on the heart of such a
very difficult man-one who was so dis
gusted with me, when was like them,
giddy and foolish '' 49,, :,
lyon will forgive him that opinion when