The Yazoo Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1842-09-30

ON this lower earth Her form was slight
vet fall, and faultless to the eye Of the most
astidious! Her face was, however, not 50
beautiful as it was sensible and intelligent!
Her extraordinary beauty lay in the grace
and expression of her figure. Her ungIoved
hand, as she took Virginia lie Roy's, was
small, tapering, and white as the lilly, and
seeminly as pure and soft in texture. Her
waist was enchantment! but her fool
Spirit and shade Of Henry Lee! where vert
thouP 1t was divine-liteEally diUinc!--
How can such just perfection be described?
They were 50 small that you could compass
them across the instep; harmonious in all
their fascinating proportions and undulating
outline, with beWitching movement as she
tripped along, like two sweet birds lighting
and alighting along the pavement! Their
expression was actually joyous, TO speak after
Harry's theory. They were encased in a
pair of the prettiest French laced boots Of a
delicate fawn color, that seemed to be part
and parcel of the graceful feet they covered.
'Where have you been for an age, Ellenp
asked Caroline, glancing at her feet, with an
envious feeling in her heart.
'To Troy, for three months past. How
delighted am to get back to the city. 1t
is so dull out of New York. Dear delight
ful Broadway! how happy | am to be init
once more. Are you engaged yet to any
body, Caro?'
| Engaged, Ellen, why NOS
suppose your faVOrite song, then is
} "Why don't the men propose, mamma,
Why don't the men PropoSe?"
; 'What rattle BRAIN! l shan't think of
marrying till am twenty .e.
'And YOU are over nineteen now! Imean
: to marry as soon as find good, clever,
Y nice, handsome, light hearted, good natu-
a red fellow, who will let me do Just as
s want to, and never scold me! There comes
s two handsome young fellows! l don't like
d the tall one-he looks too grave and NOR
d bid! The shorter one looks like q merry
IS gentleman 'after dining Oul!' Why, how.
t. you blush, CarOline-and how the tall hand
IS some one stares at you! Did you ever see
n. him beforeR And, good Heavens, how the
D. other is watching my feet as he approaches.
}! / wonder if my boot is untied3 Yes, de-
3 clare it is, and the silk cord trailing in the
Of dust
5 heroes had come up nearly abreast Of them.
u Lionel had recognised at distance, one Of
ot them as his unknown beauty, and Harry had
n, discovered the other to have the most svm-
N metrical feet his Imagination had ever con-
re ceived of. Both gentlemen, therefore, in
g sensibly lcssened their pace when thew an
IS preached them, one with his admirinp ewes
the while resting on the embarrassed vet
e pleased Caroline's blushing face, the other
er with his rapturous gaze fixed on the feet
as that had fascinated it. They forgot TO give
tn way to the young ladies, who fairly turned
ut aside for them, when they recovered their
It! self possession and looked back. Caroline,
OF also, at the same instant, glanced back, and
IS Ellen, stopping, placed her foot on the inner
d, curb-step of the walk that runs beneath the
on windows, to fasten her boot. Harry was
It just mellow enough to act from impulse, and
nd fastening towards her, asked with smile
to and polite bow, that from him was irresst
let IDLE, and which it was impossible to take
so offence at,
= willy allow me, miss, to fasten tina
a truant cord in the enVious position 10 whicl
II seems so insensible" and Harry grace
Ter fully bent on one knee.
ac- Ellen looked at him, at the FIRST instant
IN gravely; but seeing how very modest an,
'he civil his address was, and his words so com
Ler' pllmentary withal, she replaced the foo
n which she had Withdrawn from the stone /
rth. make her retreat from him, and said laugh
and ingly,
few You may tie it if you please, sir-it
ing very awkward to have Onels boot or shoe NJ
nd laced in theOtreet'
item Very replied Harry entwining the sill
ent, en- cord around the beWitching ankle, b
senses, however, so beWildered by the sigl
ung and touch of SO exquisite a foot, that I
wo- worked very bunglinly.
leen you must not press my foot, sir she sal
her with laugh and frown at the same time Z
her her face. There, sir, am extremely obi
her ged to YOU she said aEchly, as Harry rol
her to his feet. you can tie boots very vel
and, rejoining Caroline lie Roy, she trip,
on her way without looking back.
Irony, there, SAID Harry, looking at
rlish her, but what foot! Linton, | am in |
it. Did you see that divine Eooti Fren
number ones.'
tConfound your number ones. Did ,
call see that heavenly facep
let, ] 'Confound your face. Did you obser
the her symmetrical hand9 hands and feet /
side always of the same suit
]. A Did YOU notice her tall and graceful /
than ure? face and figure always 60 together
aviet .Wbat a laurhl9