Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1840-10-23

sister to advantage"
s.Poor Arabclla, | exclaimed, with such a
Cindcrclla-like lot, no wonder she wishes me
married. However, mama, if you desire me
to change my morning employment, 4 am
quite willing to do so.
My mother, paciGod by this speech, led
me to the drawing room, placed me at the
grand piano, and set before me a very diff
cult Italian bravura.
"You remember this ali, said she :"
tive were all enchanted at hearing Grisi
sing it,"
ayes, replied I, but | am very doubtful
whether the cnciantmcnt will continue when
it is transferred to a singer like me-"
Accordingly I sung it over and over, but
my voice was not very strong, and my science
not very profound, my mother was not very
well satisfied with the effect, and desired me
to practice the sofa, and several running en-
%crciscs forthc voice, telling me that l had no
reason to consider this any degradation, for
the professional singers themselves, were in
the frequent habit of doing the same. 1t
was little comfort however to a girl pining
for case, airand freedom, to be told that she
was occupied in the same drudecry as if she
had been a professional singer. After an
numerically long patience, my portfolio OF
drawings was produced, and all the inferior
ones banished from it; my mother then &C
companied me to my dressing room, and
Laurcttc, my French maid, was summoned
to the pending consultation. My mother, i
am sorry to say, had always cvinccd a great
prediction for overdrcssing me, and on the
present occasion she was ~resolutc in main-
tanning that 7 should appear in pink silk and
blonde, with roses in my hair.
"And you must not wear your hair III
bands Eva, she continued, it makes you look
just like num-
My mother spoke this as if a nun was the
most pitiablc and degraded of all human be-
ings.
81 will alter it Tomorrow, said 4, but
curls cannot be procured at Il moments no.
tice."
Laurc,te, however, seemed %resolutc tc
prove that they could, for she flew to the
curling irons, which she was accustomed &c
weld, will, as little conjunction as a ia
) miliar of the inquisition administers the dis
ciplinc Of the tlumbscrcw, and began to cx
crcise her skill in the production of tier atte
tier of round massive curls. Just imagine
my sensation, seated on a sultry July day
at the open window, with curling-irons clos
. to my face, branches Of cgantine JASMINE
t around the window, a smooth spacious law
; beyond it, birds swcctly singing, and the soutI
! breeze softly blowing.
I We were all assembled in good time t
4 receive our visitor, my father telling m
that | looked very well, and that "hc hope
y that | was properly aware what an ellgibl
u match was coming to the house,"
Captain Ormond arrived in good time
. and proved to be a handsome young mar
with easy agreeable manners; but as L pre-
i determined not to like him, | prepared my
self to expect that the week of his stay woul
o pass very unpleasantly. AT dinner, afte
!, he had answered a hundred most affection
ate inquiries after the health of his fathe1
my mother asked him if he had met with
o family of the name of Gcrmainc, Distant
d related to us, who had been staying a shol
time in Kilkenny the preceding simmer.
lie replied in the Affirmative, and addee
looking at me, 81 fancy that can descr
something ola family likeness between Mi
Warwick and Miss Gcrmaine."
,r "You laiter Eva" said my mother "Mi
8 Germaine is reckoned very handsome; 81
TT is particularly cclcbratcdforth the beauty Of hi
lc eyelashcs."
l. | cast down my eyes at the beginning
l. this observation of my mothers, hurt at I'll
of mock humility of 1t, for Miss Gcrmainc W
to not halfso well looking as myself. | shou
til not have done so, however, had | been ava
of the way in which she meant to conclut
d. her speech; for when | raised my eyes,
c. met t~llosc~of Captain Ormond fixed on II
tx with a halfarci,, half ~contcmptuOus expires
ion, which evidently showed that he suspc
j. ted nc of having affected to be very TIM
nd for the purpose OF displaying eyelashcs viii
ca certainly might have rivalled in length tho
he of Miss Germaine or any other lady.
Captain Ormond, who seemed to intcrt
e. himself much on the tenantry of Sir lie
ISIS encc Ormend's estate, now asked scveI
pit. questions Of my father concerning schoo
Of and the condition of the poor in his vicini
Ii Mr. Warwick was fortunately able, cons
tcntly with truth, to give very satisiactc
a answers, but he rather wandered into the
on gions of imagination in the share which
ascribcd to me of all the good done in
X neighborhood.
Of "Eva dcvotcs herself to the poor" he S
10 "and is a perfect enthusiast in her love
schools. LIDO not wish to her "A feeling
i amiablc, but must tell her, even before y
al Captain Ormond, that she is cxtrem
are blalneable in often e%Xerting herself, agai
an. the advice OF those older and wiser than h
kc, self, to degree that is prejudicial to
health"
! did not venture TO rebut this acqusit
hat although | could have done so with peri
ease; for the fact was, that had often
preached myself for pay ing 50 little attent
my to the schools and poor, and resolved to
better in future.
but Captain Ormond, evidently tired of
n ] praises, now turned to Arabella, who
mn hitherto sat in all the appropriate quiet'
on and reserve Of a younger sister, and be
no. IA conversation with her, by asking all
questions usually addressed to young
tai bicS--
ear "Arc you musicale