The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-08-04

Lat week, and made tAak 70 tnofousaisre too.<
There Is only one avenue TO the strand ieIt oPI
,,asv and shall have to stop up that Tonight
Ia : pslr of gloves. The roads are closing 50
f,.t In every direction that IN about month
time. unless my aunt sends me remittance
shall have to go three or four miles out oil Town
70 get overthe way" LIZ,
dThere Is no fear of her failing, III inc ei'u'
said Trent. NJ C,,;roll.r
-eCVyhv. I hone not" returned MIR. Swlvelier'
<sh,t tls ayerao-e number of letters 1t takes to
soften her is and this time we have got as lar
a. e;obt without any effect at all. III write
,,t1,e,. +o.,,orroSy morning. | mean to blot II
: s,oon deal and shake some water over IL out
:, 93Is penuer stor, to make 1t look penltent.-
a. =. = i,Icb a state of mind that hardly know
- .rite'-blot--'if you could me at this
,.,;,nte shedding tears for my past misconduct
nsarer eastor--Imy hand trembles when think
blot again-if that don't produce the efiectit's
all over" "a g.
Nv this time Mr.. Swiveller had finished his
entry and he now replaced his pencil IN Its little
sheath and closed the book, in perfectly grave
and serious frame Of mind. His friend discovered
that it was time for HIM to iuinl some otheI en-
paee,nent, and Richard Swiveller was according
vfeft alone in company with the rosy wine and
his own meditations touching Miss Sophy
!. ssIt 5 rather sudden" said Dick, shaking his
head with a look Of infinite wisdom, and running
on (as he was accustomed to do) with scraps OIL
verse as If they were only prose IN hurry;
ssvVhen the heaTtof man is depressed with iearS'
sl,e mist is dispelled when Miss Wackles aP-
sears; she's. a very nice girl. She's like the
red red rose that 'snewly sprungin June-there,s
mn DENYING that--she's also like melody that's
syeetly PLAYED in tune. 1t S really very suu0eh
Not that there IS any need, on account oil rreds
little sister to turn cool directly, but its better
not to go too far If i begin to cecil at all
fgaas hat
chance Of an action for BREACH that Is one reason
There Is the chance Of Sophy's getting another
husband. that's another. There IS the chance OF
mo, there's no chance of that, but it Is as we'll
be on,the safe side" f q"
This undeveloped consideration was the posi-
bilitys which Richard Swivelier sought to con-
.ceal even from himself, of his not being proof
against the charms of Miss Wackles, and inSome
llnguartled moment, by linking his fortunes to
hers for ever, of putting itout of his own power
to further the notable scheme to which he had
so readily become party. For all these reasons,
he, decided to pick quarrel with Miss Wack-
les without delay, and casting about for pretext,
determined in favor of greundless jealousy
Having made up his mind on this important point
he circulated the glass Qrem his right hand to his
left, and back again) pretty freely, to enable him
to act his part with the greater discretion, and
then, after making some slight improvements IN
his toilet bent his steps towards the spot hallOw
ed BY the fair object of his meditations
This spot was at Chelsea, for there Miss So
phia Waclles resided with her widowed mother
and two sisters, in conjunction with whom she
maintained a very small day-school for Young
ladies of proportionate dimensions a circum-
stance which was made known to the neighbor
hood BY an oval board over the front frst-foor
window, wherein appeared in circuma mbient
Hourishes the words tsLadies' Seminary and
which was further published and proclaimed at
IL. L I.-Ir
and ten in the morning, by struggling and sol
itary Young lady of tender years standing on the
scraper on the tips of her toes and making fu-
tile attempts to reach the knocker with SPELL
ing-book. The several duties of instruction in
this establishment were thus discharged En-
glish grammer composition, geography, and the
use Of the dumb-bells by Miss Melissa yyackles:
writing arithmetic, dancing, music, and general
fascination, by Miss Sophy Wackles; corporal
punishment fasting and other fortunes and terriers,
by Mrs. Wackles. Miss Melissa Wackles was the
eldest daughter, Miss Sophy the next, and Miss
Jane the Youngest Miss Melissa might have seen
fve.and-thirty summers or Whereabouts, and verg-
ed on the autumnal; Miss SoPhy was fresh,
good-humored, buxom girl of twenty; and Miss
Jane numbered scarcely sixteen years. Mrs
Wackles was an excellent, but rather venomous
old lady OF three-score.
To this Ladies, Seminary, then, richard Swi-
weller HE'D, with designs obnoxious to the peace
of the fair Sophia, who, arrayed in virgin white,
embellished by no rnament but one blushing
rose, received him on his arrival in the midst of
very elegant, not tosay brilliant, preparations
such as the embellis hment of the room with the
little flower pots hicb always stood on the win
dow-sill outside, save in windy weather, when
they blew into the area, the choice attire of the
day-scholars, who were allowed to grace the fes
tival, the unwon ed curls Of Miss Jane Wackles,
who had kept hetr head during the whole OF the
preceding day screwed up light in yellow play
olii' aRo ,ne s,9 so senlty ana stately learn
ing ~ he on iaey ana her eluest oaughtet'
Mnicn sIruck MI. oWlVeller as oelrs uncommon'
out -, maze no iefther impression upon HIM
r Ing run ls-aha as tnere is no accounting
essn 'aste 80 s'Iahse as TINS may De
fecorded' w!tnout Deing looked upon as VIII
~: anu niahc1ouS Invehtion-the truth Is, mat
neiei Niis, W ackieS nor her eiaest daughter,
nag az any .lin9 greatly favored the Pretenslons
81 d: Iuf' o"ivenef' oeing accustomed to make