The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-03-26
MRS. OAUDLES CURTAIN IEGTuRE8-
continued from our last issue.
THE THLRTYSECOND LECTURE.

MNo' OAUDLE DBCoURsEs or MAGDs-oP- ALL-WORK
AND MAIDS IN GENERAL-MR. CAUDLE's GIN
FAMOUS BEHAVIOR" TEN YRARs AGO.
"There now, it isn't my intention 20 say
wofd tonight, Mr.. Caudle. No; / want to 90
10 sleep, If can; for after what I've gone
through to-day and with the headache I've
got--and if haven't left my smelling salts on
the mantel-piece, on the right-hand corner
gust as you go into the room-nobody could
miss it-I say, nobody could miss it-in a
lttle green bottle, and-well, there you lie
hike stone, and l might perish and you
,wouldn't move. Oh, my poor head But it
may open and shut, and what do you care
'Yes, that's like your feeling-just. ! want
my salts, and you tell me there's nothing like
being still for the headache. Indeed But
I'M not going to be still; so don't you think IL.
That's just how woman's put upon. But
i know your aggravation-I know your art.
You think to keep me quiet about that mink
3k1tty-your favOrite, sirl Upon my life, Pm
not to discharge my own servant without-but
she shall go. If had to do all the work my
Self, she shouldn't stop under my roof. / can
fsee how she looks down upon me. | can see
a great deal, Mr.. Caudle, that | never choose
4 to open my lips about-but / can't shut my
eyes. Perhaps it would have been better for
s my peace of mind if | always could. Don't
say that. I'm not a foolish woman, and /
know very well what I'm saying. | suppose
eyou think | forget that Rebecca? | know it's
ten years ago that she lived with us-but
what's that to do with it ? Things ar'n't the
.less true for being DID, | suppose. No; and
6your conduct, Mr.. Caudle, at that time-if it
was hundred years ago-I should never for
&get. What 2 1 shall ai0ayS be the same Siiiy
E0omGn? / hope l SHALL trust l shall always
have my eyes about me in my own house.
Nov, don't think of going to sleep, Caudle;
Because as you've brought this up about that
'|Rahoooo ebo h,o NIL I IL,
wonder that you can name her Eh! You
dadnt name her? That nothing at all to do
with it; for l know just as well what you
think, as if you did. l suppose you'll say
that you didn't drink glass of wine to her
NeCer? So you said at the time, but Pve
Thought of it for ten long years, and the more
1--WE thought, the surer | am of it. And at
|fhat very time-if you please to recOllect-at
that very time little Jack was baby. |
Shouldn't have so much cared but for that
put he was hardly running alone when you
nodded and drank glass of wine to that Crea-
ture No; I'm not mad, and Pm not dreaming.
saw how you did it-and the hypocrisy made
t worse and worse. l saw you when the
creature was just behind my chair, you took
np glass of wine, and saying to me, Mar
.garet,' and then lifting up your eyes at the
bold mink, and saying, My DEAR as if you
wanted me to believe that you spoke only to
fne, when could see you laugh at her behind
ne. And at that time little Jack wasn't on
4is feet What do you say? HeaUen .torgiUe
NE? Ha! Mr.. Caudle, it's you that ought to
Psk for that: Pm safe enough, am; it's you
who should ask to be forgiven.
4 "No, wouldn't slander a saint-and didn't
take away the girls character for nothing. l
know she brought an action for what l said;
Rhnd / know you had to pay damages for what
you call my tongue-I well remember all that.
And serve you right; if you hadn't laughed at
Hher, it wouldn't have happened. But if you
will make free with such people, of course
you're sure to suffer for it. 'Twould have
served you right if the lawyers bill had been
iouble. Damages, indeed Not that any
body'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
line of life, with all your children growing up
about you to What am Talking Of? l know
Eery well; and so would you, if you had any
conscience, which you haven't. When l say
= shall discharge Kitty, you say she's very
hood servant and | shan't get better. But
know why you think her good; you think
ler pretty and that's enough for you; as if
Eirls who worked for their bread have any
business to be pretty-which she isn't Pretty
Bervants indeed going about with their fall
al faces, as if even the flies would spoil 'em.
But know what a bad man you are-nOw, it's
10 use your denying IL; lOr uluu ONeTn6dI
you talking to Mr.. Prettyman, and didn't you
= lay that you couldn't bear to have ugly ser
Fants about you? l ask you-didn't you say
4 hat Perhaps yOu did,? You don't blush to
confess it If your principles, Mr.. Caudle,
r'n't enough to make woman's blood run
,old
ooh yes you've talked that stuff again and
gain; and once | might have believed it; but
"A know little more of you now. You like to
ee pretty servants, Just as you like to see
pretty statues, and pretty pictures, and pretty
overs, and anything in Nature that's pretty,
ust as you say, for the eye to feed upon.
8 es; l know your eyes-very well. know
Vhat they were ten years ago; for shall ever
orget that glass wine when little Jack was
arms / don't care if it was a thousand
Hears ago, it's as fresh as yesterday, and
never will cease to talk of it? When you
znow me, how can you ask it
"And now you insist upon keeping Kitty,
When there's no having bit of crockery for
her? That girl would break the Bank of Eng
and-I know she would-if she was to put
er hand upon it. But what's a whole set Of
blue China to her beautiful blue eyes |
Know that's what you mean, though you don't
bay it.
''Oh, you needn't lie groaning there, for
Eou don't think shall ever forget Rebecca.
Ees-it's very we'll for you to swear at Re-
,ecca now-but you didn't swear at her then,
lr. Caudle, know. Margaret, my dear )!
Well. how you can have the face to look at
me- You don't look at me? The more shame
Or you.
81 can only say, that either Kitty leaves the
house OF / do. Which is it to be, Mr.. Caudle
En- You don't care? Both? But you're not
= Eoing to get rid of me in that manner, can
[ell you. But for that trOllope-now, you