Literary cadet and Rhode-Island statesman. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1827-1829, 1827-04-25


was occasionally sudden laughing light
in his hazel eye, and very arch and mo-
mentary smile, now seen and now gone,
to which, becoming as most people
thought them, she had particular aver
sion. In short, she paid the young far
mer, for so he insisted on being called,
the compliment drumming away as soon
as he came in sight, for three calendar
months. At the end Of that time appear
ances mendcd. First she began to loiter
at the door; then she listened; then she
smiled; then she laughed outright; then
she ven:ured to look; then she began to
talk in her turn; and before another
month had passed, would praltle to Ed
ward Grey as freely and fearlessly as to
her own father.
On his side it was clear that the young
farmer, with all his elegance and re-
finement, his education and intelligence,
liked nothing better than this simple vii
lage lass. He passed over the little hu-
mours proper to her as beauty and a
spoiled child, with the kindness Of an in
dulgent brother; was amused with her
artlessness, and delighted with her gale
ty. Gradually he began to find his own
fre-side too lonely, and the parties of
the neighbourhood too boisterous; tho
little rarlour Of the miller formed just the
happy medium, quietness without soli-
tude, and society without dissipation, and
thithcr he rcsorted accordingly. His
spaniel Ranger taking possession of the
middle Of the hearth-rug, just as COM
fortably as if in his masters own de-
mesnes, and Katy's large tabby cat, a
dog hater by profession, not merely sub
hitting to the usurpation, but even ceas-
ing TO erect her bristles on his approach.
So the world waned for three months
more. One or two little miffs had in
deed occurred between the parties
Once, for instance, at fair held in the
next town on the first of May, Katy
having taken fright at the lions and I'll
gers painted outside show, had never
.heless been half led, half forced into the
booth, to look ot the real living mon
sters, by her ungallant beau. This was
a sad offence. But, unIuckily, our vii
lage damsel had been so much enter
tanned by some monkeys and parrots on
her first entrance, that she quite forgot
to be frightened, ard afterwards when
confronted with the royal brutes, had
taken so great fancy to beautiful
panther as to wishto have him for pet;
so that this quarrel passed away almost
as soon as it began. The second was
about the colour of riband An cleo
ton riband. Katy had been much caught
by the graceful person and gracious man
ner of country candidate, who called
to request her fathers vote, had taken
upon herself to canvass their opposite
neighbour, nd was exceedingly aston
ished to find her request refused, on no
better plea than difference from her
favourite in political opinion, and pre-
vious promise to her opponent. The
little beauty, astonished at her want of
influence, and rendered Jealous by op-
position, began to look grave, and par
ties would certainly have run high at
Rutherford, had not her candidate put a
stop to the dispute by declining to come
to The poll, so that the quarrel was per-
force pretermitted. At last real and
serious anxiety overloaded Katy's in
nocent happiness; and as it often hap
pens in this world Of contradictions, the
grievance took the form Of a grateful
wish.
Of all her relations her cousin Sophy
had long been her favourite. She was
an intelligent, unaffected young woman,
few years older than herself; the
daughter Of London tradesman, excel
lently brought up, with great deal of
information and taste, and total alb
sence of airs and fnery. In person she
might almost be called plain, but there
was such natural gentility about her,
her manners were so pleasing, and her
conversation so attractive, that few peo-
pie, after passing an evening in her So
ciety, remembered her want of beauty.
She was exceedingly fond of the coun-
try and Of her pretty cousin, who, on her
part looked up to her with much Of the
respectful fondness Of younger sister,
and had thought to herself an hundred
times when most pleased with their new
neighbour, how l wish my cousin Sophy
could see Edward Grey! And now that
her cousin Sophy could see Edward
Grey, poor Katy would have given all
that she had possessed in the world, if
they had never met. They were evi-
IDENTIFY delighted with each other, and
proclaimed openly their good opinion
Sophy praised Mr.. Grey's vivacity; Ed
ward professed himself enchanted with
Miss Maynard's voice. Each was as
tonished to find in the other cultivation
unusual in that rank of life. They talk