, 1841-06-26
CLARA FLETCHER;
OF. VEST AND LIST love.

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What a beautiful creature Clara Fletcher
lisp exclaimed Mr.. TreSsayie.
'Beau,iluIr replied the lady by whom he
stood, tossing her head disdaiutu.ly, why la
and she raised her glass to her eye. i think
she's positively plain looking
beautiful indeed! echoed Ter mamma. a
lat. vulgar looking woman. Ike Haunting col
ors Of whose dress BETRAYED her character
at once, .whv, now. | 10 say. AIr. TresSal ye.
its astonisling-it show 4 gentleman OF
such tone as YOU, should think that pert Miss
Fletcher any thing but comnon-like. WHY.
10 look at her hair now. I'd be bound she
lone il up herself; and then her dress. why
that stuff said she with 4 conlemptuous curl
of her lip. couldn't have cost Z dollar a yard.
Do YOU think il could. Araminta. nv dtdr!
Mr.. T:essayic WIS decidedly tie most
fashionable man al Suatoca. With ] fine
person. 4 handsome coUatenarce. the most
courtly manners, and more than all. suppos-
ed to he possessed of 4 fortune Is extensive
Is his establishment. was looked up 10 By al
Is the match Of the season. The B.iyil,cs.
therefore. with whom he was now convcls-
inr, were not Il little n]attercI by the a,ten-
lions which lie paid them. True, thew were
the weallhiest family at tie Springs; bat then
Mr.. Belyille had made his ~princeIy fortune
rs 4 distiiIer. Originally the keeper of a
grcen-grocer'S shop. lie had risen aiterward
to on obscure tqvcrn-keePer, and from
thence, bv slow Cradalions. hc had become 4
wine-merchanf, 4 disiilier, Il uSurer. and i
millionaire. L.9tteriy, his lady discarded the
shop. End. a~flec,in- to desPlse tradcSmen'<
wives, had set up for woman of fashion:
an! nothing gave her. in her eyes, more in
portance than The attentions obviously paid
by Mr.. TresSayla tD her only Child. Aranin-
Ia Melvia Be!viiIe. a long. scraggy young Ia
dy of about two and twenty. but who affect
ed the manner Of sweet sixteen The de-
vo;ion Of TicsSayle Ia such Il being was IN
deed surprising TO al who did not know how
involved was his fortune.
WHIT reply might have been made by
Tressaylc to this remlrk we know not, for
his answer was cut short bv the importance
Of m less.a parsonage than Mr.. BcIvIlle.
'!Iow are you, Trcssqylc? fine girls, en-
said this Gentleman, ]slappinE the youn@ man
somewhat familiar on the shoulder; 'icucri
handsome gal, that, inst come in. and Eas
fell heircsS TO 4 cool three hundred thousand.
BY Jove, she's 4 lucky thing II get the hunk
of money Old Smarter made la lhe East In
dia trade
'C!ara Fletcher hciress 10 Mr.. Smarter!
you surprise me- said Tressay,e,'I thought
iIe had sworn TO cut of her mother. who was
his sister, you know, and all her flnily with
a shilling, merely for marrying Mr.. Fletcher
who, though poor, was in every respect 4
gentleman,
'Ay, so he did-so he did, but lie died at
last, dye sec?-wilhout a willard so Clara
Fletcher, the only daughter Of his only sis
ter. cuts into his fortune fat
Its singular | never heard of this BEFORE
said Tresslyle. half mu,ingly.
'.'iamma, la! If ! don't think Mr.. Tres
sayie has seen Miss Fletcher before wLisp-
cred the daughter behind her fan; and then
raising her voice and sinpering and bIrshing
rs TreSsayle looked down on hearing her.
she continued--"dear me, you hav'nt been
listening al, the while, have you? But do
tell. Tressayle, who IL that young MAJ with
herr
Il believe it is Mr.. Rouley.'
Cad! is he tic %iellcr,' broke in Mr.. Bel
VILE, that published the poems 50 many
peorlc arc cracking NJ; Why, he isn't much