Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1824-10-28

4 - one evening as they were SIT
ting alone in her fathers house, what
makes you so melancholy Ore might
almost suppose YOU were in love I"
''And what do YOU know of loveW he
replied, with one OF his most insinuatlng
smiles.
"Ob, nothing" with slight stammer.
"except thai IL could almost believe
you are caught by some of our fair city
Gamsels-and are now SO sad"
Il should suppose that love was too
sweet passion to occasion sadness, IN
less indeed of that delightful kiud-that
richn--
"Yes-a melancholy whose misery
delights"
"Oh, then YOU do know something a
bout the wicked little god'"
She blusbcd.
& have read of him"
"a nd with interest, madam-that is.
with Interest enough TO feel for his VIC
tim?"
81 could not but mourn over any ones
Sorrows
But what hope that s--what-how
could you'll mean how 10 ufd you
sooihe the sorrows OF such one;"
II would try to instill hope into his
poor bosom,'' and she playfully touched
his heart with her white hand.
81 would bid him number every look
and word every blush and sigh-every
smile and frown.-and, after having bal
laneed the account, read his fate in the
sum toial.o
But dare count every smile as an
evidence of affection"
''Wby. as to that, as Shakespeare says,
Get your own discretion be your Judge
not If it be one of those cold, fitting.
unmeaning smiles, like the moon shi-
ming upon i:e; but the sweet, winning
smile, which plays upon the lip while
the eve is east full on yours-which lin
gers even when the looks are turned
away--wbich comes with blush, and
departs in sigh"
''And all these wonderful meanings
are to be comprehended in no more
time than single glance, Presto =
change-and be gone like the light
ming"
winch doth cease 10 be ere we can say it
lghtens.'
@Why YOU are profcientin this de-
lightful science-and-an and think
lesson "a practical lesson, would not be
thrown away on mc.'
There, that's a good boy now, and
j assure youit is reduced TO mathemati
cal certainty
GAS how, my dear girl," said Henry
drinking in deep draughts of love at
every gaze-aud SO plainly did his
cheek and eye blazon forth his growing
passion that the merry girl, full of lrolic
at her conquest, and having really be-
come attached to him even since their
first meeting, went on with more than
usual viyacity.
"Why, for instance, we viii take
some of your female acquaintance"
yourself, lovely girl, yourseIl"-and
as the crimson deepened on her beauti-
full cheek
'Just for supposition, you know"
"Weli, you are so anxious to learn,
that | will not cause to laugh at your ca
gerness; if, then, in such a case | were
to smile, and again to frown - should |
here bite my lip when you spoke to any
but me, and then sigh when you ceased
to speak should be pensiye till you
addressed me, and be merry afterwards,
you may write it down, one smile minus
one frown, equal to nothing-then one
bite of the lip, plus one sigh, equal TO
Il think of him sometimes'-but great
deal of melancholy 10 my absence, plus
a great deal of happiness in my pre-
sence, equal to seek and We shall iind'
and that is the telegraph of love -
that HOSTS bushes instead of iiags-and
fire signs instead of cannon-that fights
with glanees and not swords-and kills
hearts rather than heads.o
''Caroline : have done so--you are
my delight-you are my adoration-i
have counted up your smiles and your
signs, and the sum bids me hope''--
The door opened, and Patrick ora
nagan marched into the room With as
much sang fr0id as if he had not broken
the sweetest spell that ever weaved its
destinations around two mortals--as
If lie had not dissolved the loyeIiest Vi
sion that ever cleaned before tie e, G
Of enamored youth. His quick eye had
long feared the warmth Of Henry 5
heart, and he began t. be alarmed at
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