Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-04-09

W. last, and fancy far from least he wished
her to have some nice little sum at her own dis
posal. All this we have seen set down in pri
vate records with which the old gentleman ha,
left us Indeed, my mother has told me that
she believes he once worked up these requisi
tons into an advertisement. and inserted then
in the Public Advertiser. If so, it brought him
no wife, although through the medium of an
other advertisement, he became acquainted with
that estimable lady to whom in the second de-
gree ] owe my existence. Advertising for wives
and even for husbands, was not unusual a cen
tury ago, as every one who has had occasion to
search newspapers of that date well knows A
very odd and pleasant collection might be form
ed from their columns
Like many other young gentlemen of the pc-
Rod who came up from the provinces to spend
a little time and money in London, my grand
father the rector thought it not improbable
that, in so plentfully stocked society, he might
perchance run across wife. The wish was en-
tered in his diary the night before he started.
Now the custom is reversed. Our city clerk.
with the air and talk OF capitalist, and the cos
tune of beau, rushcs into the country at Eas-
ter, WhtSuntide, or Christmas; finds his wav
INTO the simple susceptible heart of country
maiden, woos her, adds visit to visit, and con-
doSccnds to wed her for She believes il con-
dcscenson, until the slow process of marriage
troubles reveal to her the painful sight and
sense OF her own superiority. Gentlemen were
boider in my glandiathcr's DAYS than they are
in mine; and ladies also If either saw per-
son of opposite sex at Church, at the theatre.
ltanclagh, or elsewhere, they very often made
signal of admiration or invitation too plain to
be doubted. This is indeed one Of the things
winch aided Young men Of property and title in
their "frightiu affairs Of gallantry," and is the
pivot and turning-pont in all the memoirs.
comedies, novels and magazine stories of that
time.
One evening. in the summer Of l7jS. my
grandfather bctook himself To NauNhn He
had seen very many young drmoiselles during
his stay in town; but he had as vet received no
wound which the spear of Telephus alone could
heal lie had been also to Nauxhlll two or
three evenings previously, and had glanced and
ogled with all the earnestness and pertinacity of
an engaged man; but this fatcful evening put a
CLOSE to all these wandcrings and uncertainties.
While he was looking backward, and forwards
with his customary inquisitiycncss, Young la
dy entered hetween two gentlemen. who sud
denly drew his rowing eyes to herself, and un-
Willingly kept them fixed there during the
whole performance. Before he looked for il
my poor grandfather was overcome
As soon as the songs were over. he followed
and through the long lcafy culonadcs. with their
myriads of little lamps. He stopped when She
stopped. When the company were rushing to
see the water-workS he kept close 20 her; and
every time She looked at him-and she did so
frequently, by choice or by chance-hc assumed
Il most serious, speaking and melancholy coun-
tenance.
1t was great sorrow to him when he saw the
young lady take her departure, and marked her
into her coach. However. he resolved to as
sure himself Of her dwelling place, and benan
to picture himself asking the consent of faith
er or guardian, or opposing a rival wealthicr
and more favored than himself He iumpcd
into coach, and bado tho drivor f,llo, ,h., 30
which the Young lady had seated herself Bat
he was not TO succeed 50 easily The nigh, w1>
ioggy when they started it gradually grew den
ser and before they had reached Westminster.
grandtathcr's coachman turned round and call
ed out that he had quite lost sight of the chaisc.
SO he was ordered by my hurt and disconsolate
relative 10 drive to the cotlce-housc a; which he
was STAYING.
This was by no means the first Young lady
whose bright eyes had stricken my grandfather
IN public places Other young ladies' he forgot
aiter good supper, or at the sight of a fresh
face or at the thought how impossible it would
be to know them, or bv consideration of the
difference there is between looking beauty and
being good. But he could not forget the mai
den Of NauXhall. lie lost his appetite not on
ly for town decaces, but also for town amuSe-
ments. At last, after three DAYS of suffering
during which. It must be confessed, he neither
wished nor tried to heal himself he sought con-
ISOLATION, and kept hope from starving, BY insert
ing the following in the Public A!yertscr:-
~ young lady who was at Nauxha last
tuesday night, in company with two elderly