State rights and democratic union. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1839-18??, 1839-11-13
NO. II.

Norton. She had grown paler and
slighter, and had a more subdned
look than when | last saw her. But
with this change her beauty has
heightened seven-foId. Memory
emb, fishes most women. Inmeet-
ing them after absence, we are dis
appointed to find that our magma
tions have supplied that in which
they fell short ofour beau-ideal and
we are compelled reluctantly to re-
store them in their lower pedestal.
Lo! the same level of the beau-ideal
the imagination in absence de-
sends as well as rises-and 1t is
by this theory alone | can account
for having done injustice to Mrs.
Norton beauty in my remembrance
of her. She is above even the beau
ideal of fancy. No engraving has
ever done justice to this lady, be-
cause the mere light and shade Of
the burin cannot give the purity of
that opaque white, magnOlia-leaf
complexion, which in contrast with
her raven-bIack hair, forms one
striking popularity of her face.
Hers is a contenance too which,
with all the perfection Of the feature,
is more radient in intellect and ex-
preston, even, than in feature and
complexion.-'lhe only fault ever
hear', found with her beauty was
one that is necessary to the power
full character of the expression
that her mouth was o large be
classic. 1t is not too large howev-
err to be absolutely beautiful, and
having tried In vain to remember
once or twice what constituted, it's
peculiar character, | took advantage
other singing one of her own songs
to watch its movement. The upper
lip, which, in most pretty mouths, re-
sembIes the bow of Cupid relaxed,
in hers is liketh' arch at it's fullest
tension. When the under lip, in
repose, follows this deep curve, it
gives naturally to its expression the
look of pride and scornfulness which
! has made her so many enemies.
; Suiting with her rather imperial
motion and the massy character of
f her Roman face, and perhaps, too,
somewhat with her native character
it forms that kind of beauty which
as often awakens hatred in one sex
as alteration in the other, and Mrs.
Norton has paid for it the bitter
penalty
Lady Morgan's house is a cabinet
of curious portraits-mostly pre-
scented t. her by the originals
her great contemporaries in Eu-
rope and England. She has one
exquisite miniature of Byron, pre-
scented to her by Lady Caroline
Lamb (the wife you will remember,
of the present Premier) on her
t death:be She drew it from be-
meath her pillow in her last hour.
It represents Byron more of an A
donis than his other pictures, but
the expression is fnll of thought, too.
A capital bust of her Ladyship by
David is one of Of the gems OF the
drawing-room.
Bulwer and Rogers were of the
party forcible contrasts enough in
appearance. The talIAmbassador
blocking his FILL and Mrs. Norton's
departure at two, broke up the cir
Gle for London.
MOURNING FOR THE DEAD. - saw pale
mourner stand bending over the tomb, and
his tears fell fast and often. As he raised
his humid eyes to heaven, he cried; my
brOtherJ -ohl my brOtherl' A sage passed
that way, and said-'For whom ;lost thou
mOurnr -'One,' replied he, whom did
not sufficiently love while living, but whose
inestimable worth l now feel 'What
wouldst thou do, if he were restored 10 theel'
The mourner replied, that he would not Of.
4 fend him BY and unkind word, but would
take every occasion to show bis friendship,
| if he could but come back to his fond en-
brace. Then waste not thy time in useless
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