Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-04-15
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MRS. GAUDLEsS CURTAIN LEG.
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Mrs. Candle Dise0ures On Maids of all
WOFk1hi BeneraI-mr 4CaadIesS ssIn-
3A6mOu6 BehaEiOr,,,Een Years ago.

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Mrs. Candle Diseoures en- Maids of all
WOFk1h 1EeneFal-N1r.C .CaadIesS ssIn-
B4amOuS RshaEiOEs,s Fen y ears Ago.
:etSThere, now. it isn't my Intention to say
word tonight, Mr.. Caudle. No; want
togo 20 sleePif fdcan; for after what pRe
gone tht0pgh to-day and with the head
shelliHgr salts on thermantlepieee, on the
right hand corner just as you go into the
room5nobody could miss III say nobody
could miss it-i1 little green bottle, and
S2wellS thefes you 1iealiker a stone, and
might perish and you wouldn't move. Oh,
my poor head! But it may open and shut
and what do-you care 2srsi1nss tfi5l--SI{iKI
Yes, that's like: your feelipgjust. II
want my salts, and You tell me there's
nothing like being still for the headactie.r
Indeed? But am not going to be still; SO
don't yoH think it. p Tlia5's just the way a
Womans pnt. upon. But, 1 sknowryo 2g-
keep me quiet about that mink Kitty.--your
favoffte, sir4 Upon my life, / am not to
discharge my own. servant without-7but
she shadlrgo. IF I,ahad to do all the work
myself she should not stop under my roof.
can see how she looks down upon me. 4
can seeRgTeat deal. Mr.. Caudle, that never
ebooSeato open my lips about--but 4 can't
shut my eyes. Perhaps itwoald have been
better for my peace of mind if / always
could. Don't say that. l am not a foolish
woman, and i know very well what / am
saying. / suppose you think / forgot thai
she lived with what's that to- do
with ital,s Things Tarnt the less true for
being old Il suppose. No J and your con-
duct, Mr. Oaudle, at that itin1e---if it5was a
hundred years age-f Should never forget.
What? I shall always be the same silly
woman? l hope shall--I trust / shall
always; have my eyes about me in my own
house. Now, don't think Of going to sleep,
Caudle, because, as you have brought this
about that 5Rebecca, you shall hear me out!
Well, / do wonder that you can name heri
Eh! You didn't name her? That's moth
ing at all to do with it ! for know just as
we'll whatyou think, as IF you did. j sup
pose eyen'H say that you didn't drink a glass
OF wine to]Ier2 Never ?sSo you said at the
time, hut I've thought of it for len long
years, and the more I've thought, the surer
clam ofeits And at the very time--if you
Jack was a baby. Il shouldn't so much
have cared but. for that; !; but he was hardly
srnHning alone when You nodded and drank
glass of wine to that creature. No; I'm
not mad, and I'm not dreaming. I saw how
you did it-and the ehy pocrisy made it worse
and VERSE; il saw you when the screature
was just behind my chair, you took up a
aglassi of wine, and saying to me; - sMarga-
sTet,n and then lifting your eyes to that bold
mink, and saying, e = dear, as if you
wanted me to believe that yOugonly spoke
to me-, when 5e0uld see you laugh at qher
behind me. And at that time little Jack
wasn't ON bis feetrd What do you say?
syou.thas ought toask that; Pm safe enough,
i ams his Boa who should ask to be for
sf5r:No,I wouldn't SANDER a saint-and /
didn't take away the 1girI's character, for
nothing. i know she brought an action
fl, II Ennyv to
epay damages for " hat you called my
tongue--I well remember all that. And
serve you right; if you hadn't laughed at
sbers ibwoaldnit have happened. But if you
'wiH make fee with such people, of course
Ron're sure te suter for Ii 4Xon4d q, have
been double. Damages, indeed! Not that
anybody's tongue could have damaged
her
"And now, Mr.. Caudle, you're the same
man you~were ten years ago. What! You
hope so? The more shame for you. AT
your time OF life, with all your children
talktn6 d6oat ? I know very we'll, and so
would you if you had any conscience,
which you haven't. When say / shall dis
charge Kitty, you say she's avery good
servant, and l can't get better. But L
htflI5retty, and that's enough for you; as.if
1frls1wf16 work TOR their bread have any
business to be pretty-which she isn't.
Pretty servants, indeedi going about with
the fallaI faces, as if even the flies would
spoil Iem. But IhrrowFwhat q bad man
YOU are+now, it's DO use your denying ~;
for didn't overhear you talking to Mr..
Prettyman, and didn't you say that you
conldn'tsbeaF to have ugly, servahts about
YOU? [ ask yo1Adidn't you say that ?
Perhaos you did. You don't blush to confess
it p Ihydur princi ples,A Mr.. Vautlle arm t
enof1pf TO make woman s blood run cofd !!
"Oh yes! you've talked that stuff again
and asain: aud once might have believed
if. hui IkIlow little more4ef yonznoW.-
You like to see pretty servants, just as you
like to see pretty, statues, and pretty pic
tures. and pretty flowers, and anything In
nature that's pretty, just, as you say, for
the eve to feed upon. Yes; know your
exes.xPry well Il know ,whae. they were
ten ars q eos Tor In heFer shaA forget that
glass of wine when little Jack was In arms.
I,den,t care if, it wasra thoHsaRd years age,
6tis as fresh as yesterday, and II never VIII
cease to talk of iti When you know me,
how can you ask It'll
aAnd now you insist upon keeping Kit
tv.wken- tEereisn having Bit OF feyoct-
~ ~ her? That girl would break the
Hank 6f England I Know she would : If
Che was to put her hand upon it. But
Suin wbat,s q whole SET OF blue china to her
beautiful blue eyes,? I know that's what