Constantine republican. [volume] (Constantine, Mich.) 1836-1838, 1836-08-24
From the Western Monthly Magazine.
ISABELLA AND HER SISTER KATE,

ISABELLA AND HER SISTER KATE,
AND THEIR COUSIN!
Mistakes and Misunderstanding are not
such bad things after all, at least not always
so ; circumstances alter cases.
remember case quite in point. Every
body in the country admired Isabella Ed
munds, and in truth, she was an admirable
creature, Just made for admiration and SON.
neteering, and falling in love with; and ac-
cordingly all the country of - was in
love with her. The columns of every Ar
gus, and Herald, and Sentinel, and Gazette,
and Spectator, and all manner of newspa-
pers, abounded with the effusions, supplica-
tory and declaratory, of her worshippers !;
in short, Miss Isabella was the object of all
the spare 'ideality' in all the region round
about. Now, | shall not inform my re-
spected readers how she looked; you may
just think of Venus, q Pysche, q Madonna,
fairy, an angel, and so forth, and you will
have a very definite idea on the point. |
must run on with my story. am not about
to choose this angel for my heroine, because
she is too handsome, and too much like other
heroines, for my purpose. But Miss Isa-
bella had sister, and think shall take
her, Little Kate for she was always spo-
ken Of in the diminutive, was some years
younger than her sister, and somewhat
shorter in stature. She had no pretensions
to beauty--none at all; yet there was a
certain something, a certain-in short, sir,
she looked very much like Mrs. A. or Miss
G.. whom you admire so much, though you
always declare she is not handsome.
| ltrequires very peculiar talent to be over
looked with good grace, and in this talent
Miss Kate excelled. She was as placid and
as happy by the side of her brilliant sister,
as any little contented star, that for ages has
twinkled on, unnoticed and almost eclipsed,
by the side of the peerless moon. Indeed,
the only art of science in which Kate ever
made any great proficiency, was the art and
science of being happy, and in this she so
remarkably excelled, that one could scarce
ly be in her presence half an hour without
feeling unaccountably comfortable themsel-
YES.
She had world of sprightliness, deal
Of simplicity and affection, with dash OF
good natured shrewdness, that, after all
kept you more in awe than you would ever
suppose you could be kept by such merry,
good-natured, little nobody. Not one Of
lsabella's adorers ever looked at her with
such devout admiration as did the laughter.
loving Kate. No one was more ready tc
run, wait and tend--to be up stairs, anc
every where in ten minutes, when Isabelle
was dressing for conquest: in short, she was
as the dedications of books sometimes Sc
forth, her ladyship's most obedient, most de
voted servant.
| But if am going to tell you my story,
must not keep you all night looking at pic
lures so now to my tale, which shall com
mence in manner and form the following
Itcame to pass that a certain college vale
dictorian and fhr-off cousin of the tw,
sisters, came to pass few months of hi
free-agency at their fathers and, as aforc
, said, he had carried off the first collep,
honor, besides the hearts Of all the ladies i
the front gallery at the last commencement
So interesting so poetic such fine eyes
and all that, was the reputation he left witt
the gentle sex. But, alas, poor Edward
what did all this advantage him ! SO long a