The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-12-31

an uproar her relations made about the
matter. Easy to see his Intentions" said
one; =" a handsome fortune hunter, who
wants to make the best of his person !"-
"handsome is, that handsome Does" says
another Sc he was turned out of the army
and murdered his colonel p" never marry
a beauty" said a third -" ne can admire
/ none but himself p" will have so many
mistresses," said fourth -" make you
perpetualy jealous" said fifth )" spend
your fortune" said a sixth =" and break
your heart" said a seventh. Miss Helen
Convolvulus was prudent and wary. She
saw great deal OF justice in what was
said, and was sufficiently contented with
liberty and six thousand a year, not to be
highly impatient for a husband but our
heroine had no arersinn- 10 loys=s-sz s=sPc-
eiaIiy to so handsome lover as Mr.. FeTdin-
ami Fitzroy. Accordingly, she neither ac-
cepted nor discarded him but kept him on
hope. and suffered him to get into debt with
his tailor and his coach-maker, on the
strength of becoming Mr.. Fitzroy Convol-
vulus. Time went on, and excuses and de-
| lays were easily found however, our hero
was sanguine, and SC were his parents. A
( breakfast Mt Chiswick and a putrid fever
carried off the latter, within one week of
each other; but not till they had blessed
Mr.. Ferdinand Fitzroy, and reioiced that
they had left him so well provided for.
Now then our hero depended solely upon
the Grabbed old uncle and Miss Helen Con-
volvulus the former, though haronet and
a satirist, was banker and man of bust
ness he looked very distastefully at the
Hyperion curls and white teeth of Mr.. Fer
1 dinand Fitzroy. elf make you my heir, u
4 An mill fi,o
bank" +" Certainly, sir ~ said the nephew
!" TIumph y grunted the uncle; ga pretty
+! fellow for a banker :" Debtors grew press
/ ing to Mr.. Ferdinand Fitzroy, and Mr. Fer
idinand Fitzroy grew pressing TO Miss Helen
4 Convolvulus. sit is dangerous thing
said she, timidly, "to marry man so adj
mired,-will you always be faithful ~ "By
I heaven - cried the lover. "Heighom sigh
ed Miss Helen Convolvulus, and Lord Rufus
Pumilion entering, the conversation was
changed. But the day of the marriage was
fixed; and Mr.. Ferdinand Fitzroy bought
new curricle. BY Apollo, how handsome
he looked in it A month before the we'd
ding day the uncle died. Miss Helen Con-
| volvulus was quite tender in her condolences
-" Cheer up, my Ferdinand" said she !;
" for your sake / have discarded Lord Ru-
fus Pumilion - "Adorable condescension !"
cried our hero s. but Lord Rufus Pumilion
is only four fe~t two, and has hair like a
= peony." All men are not so handsome as
Mr.. Ferdinand Fitzroy!" was the reply.
4 Away goes our hero to be present at the
opening of his uncle's will. 81 Leave" said
the testator, (who have before said was a
/ bit of satirist,) "my share of the bank,
and the whole Of my fortune, legaeios ex-
cepted. to-(here Mr.. Ferdinand Fitzroy
wiped his beautiful eyes with a cambria
handkerchief, exquisitely brode my natur-
al son John Spriggs, an industrious, pains
taking youth, who will do credit to the bank.
I did once intend to have made my nephew,
Ferdinand, my heir but SO curling a head
can have no talent for accounts. | want my
successor TO he a man of business, not of
beauty and Mr.. Ferdinand. Fitzroy ls
great deal too handsome for banker; his
good looks will no doubt win him any heir
ess in town. Meanwhile, | leave him, to
buy a dressing-case, thousand pounds"
A thousand devilsw said Mr.. Ferdinand
| Fitzroy, banging out of the room. He flew
| to his mistress, she was not at home
Lies" says the Italian proyerb, have
short legs" but truths, if they are 2npleas-
ant, have terrible long onesl The next
day Mr.. Ferdinand Fitzroy received most
obliging note of dismissal. g wish you
every happiness" said Helen Convolvulus, in
conclusion but my friends are right !;
you are too handsome for husband p
] And the week after, Miss Helen Convolvu-
! lus became Lady Rufus Pumilien. " Alas
sir p said the bailiff, as day or two after
the dissolntie1 OF parliament he was jog
| cling along with Mr.. Ferdinand Fitzroy, in
hackney coach bound to the Kings Bench
a
handsome gentleman to prison!"