Litchfield enquirer., 1834-01-30

conquest aud the second season she had actually fought, vanquished, and laid pros- trate at her feet, a rich Babob with a face l as yellow as his guineas, tive captains, an Irish lord, and a host of other lesser prizes. Still her exploits had not extended 10 the subjugatiOn of asduke, or even a barOn- that is baron with an English peerage.- Lord O'CrackliDg, needy Scotch noble man, was very assiduous in offering, his large red hand and his poverty to the | d- vine Georgiana; ;: but Georgiana was not quite so ready in accepting the said red di- 1 gital appendage. @- Al the end of the third season, Georgia na was pronounced the most accomplished f1irt in town. She was complete master of the miRatia of the art. She knew all the half-and-half words, andthe silent looks by which men are insensibly drawn. She knew also how and when to hang ,on her partners arm-how and when to return squeeze of the hand-t0 chat in spot at a distance from her brother and cI.aperon- to go down under pretenee of taking re- | treatments when no one else of the party went-~or to stay in the room when no one else of her party stayed ;. and she was the most skilful droppcr of gloves, fans and handkerchiefs, ever known.
 In fact, she was most accomplished tiirt. But it must not be supposed that she attained this extraordinary proficiency all on sudden. No-great as were her ca- pabAHies for learning the art, still there was progr ession required in it's complete acquisition. Certainly, the fiirt of the third season was very different from the flirt of the first. Probably, on her first set out. she would have deMurred at certain trifes, which gave her now not moments thought. The divine. Georgiana' was now twen- ty years of age; and her prudent mamma and lady Cantsrhill' considered it high time to hold a serious consultation on the great object that absorbed their whole miuds.
 'Georgiana,' said tho honorable Mrs. Merivale, three years have now elapsed i'll mere amusement-it is time to come to business. It grieves me to see that tall gawky Miss SweIburn, your junior by.two good years, on the point of making so ex- cellent a match, and-'
 Really, mamma. it is no fault of mine.--I l have done all in my power but cannot force the men to offer. am sure have given them encouragement enough, if they were in the least inciined.'
 IT, Well; vel, i5,s no use to quarrel, inter- Georgiana has been too miscellaneous too promiscuous in her flirtaiions. But we must remedy the evil the ensuing season.
 The lessons of the dowagers were not thrown away on their intelligent pupil.- She dropped one by one of all her former admirers, and limited her Irritation to the most eligible in the ballroom.
 Pray, Lady Olds,ring, who is that fair, stumpy, .rolly-polly sort of a man, dancing with Georgiana he appears so very much struck
 sOh that is Sir Robert Goosehali, baronet of ten thousand a year, and great expectations from an asthmatic old uncle in Bombay
 From this moment, lady Canterhill gave it as her decided opinion that Georgiana should stick with all possible periinaci.y 10 l the rolly- polly baronet. The honorable Mrs. Merivale consented to desend from her attitudes concerning the dukes and bar ons, and appeared satisfied with Goose halls ten thousand and his asthmatic Bom- bay nucIe. A, most deep conspiracy was now entered upon against the bachelorship of the baronet. Georgiana would not al- low him to breathe; she soon perceived that Sir Robert was no genius-nay, she even conceded that he answered marvel ] lously to the first half of his Dame. But then it is not necessary that man witI, ten thousand year, independently of great expectations, should bc encountered with any s0perfluous sense or iearning-Sir Robert would do very well for husband. The nincompoop baronet was highly flat tered to see the preference which the di- vine Georgiana' accorded him over host of admirers; and he very kindly took it for granted that his personal merits captivated the fair one. Time few. Ceorgiana pru- dently discarded one or two favorite firia- tionmougers and devoted her whole and exclusive attention to the hooking of tte odd fish with the ten ,housand.' Every
 one declared it was match. Sir Robert
 scarcely, quilted the side ofAis Georgiana: !:
 at the opera, the ballroom, the dinner ta-
 ble, he was constantly seen dancing aiten- dance. a ez I Well, but when does he mean to pro- pose 2 quoth the mother.
 He seems ,bashful- man, said Lady
 Canterhili ;' Georgiana, you ought to have
 helped him litlle.'