Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1841-05-04

ALICE HERBERT, TIE BANKERS
DAUGHTER.

DAUGHTER.
There was once great banker ia Lon
dyn,who owned a very fine house in Portland
Place, and very dirty old house in the
CIV; aud if the latter looked the image OF
business and riches, the former looked the
ei:,urc Of luxury and display. He himself
was a mild man, whose oslcnIation was Of
quiet, but not the less Of an active kind.
His movements were always calm and tran
eli., and his clothes plain; but the former
we're stately, the latter were in the best
fashion. llolditch was bis coachmaker in
those days; Udc's first cousin WAS his cook;
his servants walked up stairs to announce
II visitor to the tame Of the Dead March III
Saul, uni opened both valves Of the fold
me doors at once with q grace that only
could be acquired By long practice. Eve
~ thing seem to move in his house BY rule,
and nothing was seen to go wrong. All
the lackcys wore powder, and the women
servants had their caps prescribed 10 them.
His wife WAS the daughter Of a country
gentleman OF very cd rac", a woman Of
rood manners, anda warm heart. Though
there were two cau.Hgos always at her
apccial command, She sometimes walked
on her own .ect, even in I.ondon,aud would
not suffer an account Of her parties to find
It's way into the Morning Post. The banker
AMI his vile. had but one child, daughter,
and very pretty and sweet girl she was
as ever my eyes saw. She was not very
tall, though beautifully formed, and exqui
StcIy graceful. She was the least affected
Qcrqan that ever was seen; for. accuatom-
ed from h.r oat..cs! days to perfect case
ia every respect, denied nothing that was
yirtuous and hight, taught by her moth
rr to estimate high qualities, TOO much
habituatcd 10 wealth 10 regard it as an OBJ
cct,-and too frequently brought in con
Mct with rank II estimate II above lis value,
she had nothing to coyct and nothing to
assume. Her face was sweet and thought
full though the thoughts were evidently
cheerful ones, and her voice was fuil of
melody and gcnteness. Her name was
Alice Herbert, and she was the most adj
lnircd al all admirers. Pcopl, looked for
her at the opera and the park. declared
Ter beautiful, adorable, divine; she became
he wonder, the rage, the fashion and
every body added, when they spoke about
her, that she would have half million at
Inc least. Now Mr. Herbert himself was
not al all anxious that his daughter should
marry any of the mon that first presented
themselves, because none OF them were
above the rank Of u blron: nor was Mrs.
Herbert anxious either, because she did not
wish to part wiki her daughter; nor was
Alice herself do not know we'll why,-
rerhaps she thought that part OF the men
who surrounded her were tops, and as ma
nv more were iber1incS, and the rest were
fools. and Alice did not feel more inclined
il 10 choose out of those three classes !han
her father did out Of the three inferior
grades OF our nobility. There was, Indeed,
d Young man in the Guards, d>tautly con-
0ected with her mothers family, who was
.ci:her Top, lbertinc. nor tooI-a gentle
nan, an accomplished man, and a man OF
I .ood feeling, who was often AT Mr.. Her
h ertS house, but father, mOthcr,and daugh-
4 n all thought him out OF the question; the
.a,hcr, because he was not duke: the
4 Mother, because he was soldier; The daugh-
1 e. because he had never given her the
4 s rhtest reason u believe that he either
u LmlrcQ or lONCU NCI. AS ne Hdu some
go thousand year, he might have been
/ s good match for a clergyman's daughter,
| III could not pretend 10 Miss Herbert
'AIicc certainly liked him better than any
man she had ever seen, and once she found
is eyes fixed upon her from the other side
If a ball room with an expression that
made her forget what her partner was say
1 og 10 her The color came up in her
heck. too. and that seemed to give Henry
/ Ashton courage 10 come up and ask her to
/ dance. She danced with him on the fol-
= owing night too, and Mr.. Herbert, who
-enarked the fact, judged that it would DO
U; right to give Henry Ashton a hint
Two days after, as Alicc's father was just
shout TO 50 out, the young guardsman
.mS"Il was uShered into his library, and
'' banker prepared 10 give his hint, and
eve i plainly too. He was saved the ;rou-
.." however; for Ashton's first speech
81 have come 70 h.t YOU farewell,