New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-02-21
SUPPLEMENT TO THE DAILY CRESCENT


"The young lady!' said, almost unwittingly
"Hunph the mans fool-hasn't got the
sense gave him credit for, see And pray,
sir, directly addressing mel why not the young
ladyl Does not the learned Godolphin say,
And while the man shall be stout and comely,
and well up in years, to the end that his mynae
be freed from vain conceits, the maiden shall be
younge and fayre, and likewise Of comedy coun-
tenance and grace" Answer me that sir
| said that had no doubt that he was right,
| and expressed the strongest faith in the wisdom
| of the learned 6odolphin, and thus appeased
| the wrath of the old gentleman, just as a knock
at the door, followed by light step on the stairs,
| announced that q female was coming, and in
| few minutes very pretty girl of not certainly
| more than twenty-onc years Of age, entered
the room with the house keeper. She had
brought a silk waistcoat for the old gentleman,
which had been sent her to be embroidered.
Mrs Standish, in the simplicity Of her own
heart, and her confidence the frigidity of her
masters had been at great pains to procure the
| services Of this young woman, she was skilled
| in the art even then fast going out of fashion,
bat which the old gentleman still most pertina-
ciously adhered TO as regarded his own costume.
| The young woman's workmanship had 50
| pleased him. that he sent for her to thank her
| in person when he paid her, and her beauty and
artessness had then made such impression
| on his heart, that he had found it necessary to
| make an carrier NlSlI IMAM ushul I1c next morn
| ing TO the book stall, to Danish the new
tons which had sprung up within his breast.
| Here he had fallen in with the works of some
author Of the sixteenth century, named Godol-
| phin, treating in a strange style on matrimony,
and despite the cough he had caught, it was the
| desire Of finding the third volume of this old
work which had brought him abroad, and had
led TO my first speaking to him on the impro-
prety of thus exposing himself TO the damp air
1t appeared also that the prcliminaries had been
arranged that the girls mother, a respectable
widow, had been spoken to, and that the young
woman herself had been so dazzled with the
prospect Of a sudden leap from poverty and Ia
Dor to wealth, for ] cannot conceive that love
could have had anything TO do with the affair
on her part, that she too had consented the
housekeeper had pulled and blown, and pish'd
and faugh'd, until she was tired but in vain :;
the old man was inexorable in his determine
lions, and at the time | was let into the secret,
all was settled the old gentleman wanting only
just for thu sake of giving him confidence, a
friend Of his own sex to see him through the
ceremony, and for that reason he had fixed
upon me.
] will make my story short. At length the
day arrived the wedding was to be strictly pri-
vate, and it was so managed that none, even Of
the neighbors, were aware of it being about to
take place, On the happy day, the bridegroom
appeared in sky blue coat instead of the snuff
colOfeu one he usually Wofei the snuH-colOfeu
brooches were also exchanged for black silk
plush, and silk stockings replaced the worsted
ones pair Of diamond buckles sparkled in his
! shoes, and at his knees, while new three-cor-
4 ner cooked hat crowned his attire, and the anti
I quarian book stood transmogrifed into a
beau Of the reign of Queen Anne, or the first
!, George, or some time Whereabouts the bride
e was modestly attred in fawn-colored silk, ane
o was accompanied by her mother only as brides
maid, while stood best man to the groom. i
: was, altogether, droll welding but notwith
$ standing the disparity of age and disposition
: and of condition. l have every reason to believ
n it was happy one. Mr.. w., old as he wa
Just in his prime, as he called himsef-be
y came the father Of two children, boy and
r girl full of eccentricity to the last, at the ag
d Of seventy, he took it into his head to purchas
an estate in Virginia, and to dispose Of his Ney
u York property. To this estate he removed, an
t died there at the age of eighty three. Iii
widow survived him about five years, dyin
e when about forty five years of age. The chill
l. dren grew up and married, and they and thei
Il descendants are yet living-and some of then
perhaps, may recognize their worthy but ecceI
4" tric progenitor, in the above sketch