The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1841-01-21
A FOLLY CURED.

II AnNSs A. M. ?. AMMAN.
"What care /, maidens, though his pame
BE all uRmeet for song or story n--Nep Son z.
"Ned brother Ned! just listen here!-, Mar
Esq, to Miss Helen Scott;''-Jonas JeTl ans
ha! ha! hal who would have dreamed I'll at a
girl OF Helen SCOTS taste, could mary a. man
with name like that! Jonas Jenkins! Mrs.
Jonas Jenkins!-How ii soUnds!''
| We'll, Clara, what's in name:''
"Shocking!-if there's any thing do detes
as much vulgar name, it is a hackneyed quo
| tation!"
''Hnmph.-I was going to add, howev er, that
your friend, Helen, has made what her circle
would call an excellent match. kno w Jen-
kins well. He is man of fine person. fins a.
bllltles, and yet more fine fortune''
Sand what of all that, with such nalne1 !
would not marry an Apollo, endowed it'll For
tunes purse, if he bore name like that!''
/ s'Ahem!''
You need not look SO quizzical?'
$50 what?''
You knew my notion about Names, long a
go, Edward
81 thought that had cured you of lem lon,;
ago, Clara
"No, indeed! I don't intend TO be cured SO
long as have reason on my side. Such names
as Johnson, jackson, Thompson, to say Moth
which can be so readily traced to the If sources.
are my aversion; they are so very panpenu 20
ttPdrvenut what a word for an American
girl! suppose, then, that such as belmont,
and Mortimer, and Montague, and Fitz this,
and St that, would suit your fancy better.''
Nonsense! am not so silly as to GO to
trashy old novels for names. would as soon
think of selecting Belinda and Dorintha and
Melissa fer Christian names. like those that
bear something consequential in them,-some-
thing respectable, something, something"
".4ristocratic,-that's the word you are asha-
med to lei out;-something ike Howard or
Sidney, or Herbert, weuld do ! ha! hal hal''
''Exactlyn' and Clara Calvert ran out of the
room to escape her blother's raillery.
tsWe must rid her of ths foible,' remarked
Edward, gravely, to bis elder sister, Gertrude,
who was now at home for the first time after
leaving it as bride, and who sat smiling at
the colloquy.
81 had intended, Clara said Edward. SO
invite my friend, William Benson, to visit me
this summer, but am now induced to change
my mind" ~
'You mean the young man whe took half
the honors from you at college. and who deliv-
cred that Grafton SO full of every thing sublime
and beautiful, and original, which admired SO
much when / reads'
site very same, but have csncluded that
his common place hame might prevent you from
receiving him as he deserves. Your etymolo-
gical skill might make the disagreeable discov-
cry through it, that one of his ancestors was
the son of a man named Benz n
Clara looked little confused:--"You
know wouldn't mind that in your friend
though"
Notwithstanding, shall not submit him
to your cendescension;' returned Edward, as
he left Her.
The next evening Clara and her sister were
sitting together in the parlor,- sse @4
SIN dusk,ere stars were lit or candles brought,
the latter looking musingly upon the twilight,
and the former thoughlesly twanging her guitar
"Ill play that old drawl, Days Of Absence
for you Ger said she: 81 know you are thin K.
ing about Henry, ant your"
As she spoke, Edward ushered gentleman
into the room, introducing-@my sisters. Mrs. |
Hunuy and Miss Calvert,s my friend Mr.. De-
mijohn.'
Clara sat for momeut as II thunderstruck
and then gave nudge of unmissakable import |
to Gertrude, who with her usual Iady-like coui-
posture had commenced addressing the strarge,r.
ssI wonder what he can look like,n thought she 81
sshis voice at all events, does not sound Is if it
came out Of deDijohp.p 1t was very neIo-I
dious, and his reply To her sister particularly /
graceful, yet still she feared to speak, lest !
word might bring her Unsurpassed laugh al /
together out whit. s ef |
At length the lamps were lighted and Clara
eagerly surveyed the visiters He was what her
young lady friend wouio have proscsnssd "deci-l