New-York daily tribune., 1842-11-11

lucination, B could endure no more He fusg
off his cloak and hat, and Jumped in 1T the Win
dow The divine Emily C nad that moment
arisen from tying her shoe. With red to her
partner, and smile 10 herself B encirced
Ter r-und waist and away he few Ike Ariel, hght
on the toc but his face Pailid and viii. and MS
emaciated legs playing like sticks in his unhlled
ttowsers, Twice he made The circuit OF the room,
exciting apparently less surPriz2 than pleasure by
his sudden appearance, then, with WAGERING nail,
and his hand laid trcraulously 20 his forehead. he
flew out at the hali.door at tangent, aud rushing
through servants and spectators, dashed across the
pcrtico, and disappeared in the darkness! a fort
nights bra;r-fcvcr deprived him o; the opporuHl-
ty Of repeating this remarkable flourish and his
subsequent sanity was established through scme
critical hazard
There was some inquiry at supper about % old
Be- but the ladywho waized with him, knew
as little Of his coming and going as the managers,
and by ore belle, who had been at some trouble,
in other days, to quenct his ardor, it was So
lemny believed to bc his perseverng apparition
The next lay there drive and dinner al
Barhydts s. and back il time for ball and supper
and the day after there was most hilarious and
memorable fishing party 70 Saratoga Lake and all
back again in high force for the ball and supper
and so, like long gala day like short summer
carnival, all frolic, sped the week away. Boni-
face, by tIe thitd day, had rallied his recolectious,
aud with macy q svraPe and compliment, he re-
newed his acquaintance with the bellies and beaux
OF brighter period of beauty and gallantry. And
if there was any mystery remaining in the old func-
,ionary's mind as To the identity and miracle OF
their presence aai reunion it was onthe one point
of ladies' unfaded lovenesS-for. saving half
inch aggregation in the waist, which was rather
an Improvement than otherwise, and a little more
fuilness in the bust, which was most embellish-
ing difference, the ten years that had gone over
them had made no mark on the lady portion OF his
guests and to the gentiemen-but tha, is neither
here nor there. They were men of mark, young
OF old and their and tear, Is, as Flute ssys.
thing OF nought.
after the departure of the late-come jewellers Of
Congress Hall that there had been constant and
secret vistations bv the bellies OF the latter sojourn,
to the numerous infantine dodgers OF the former
Such troop of babies and boys. and all so lovely,
had seldom gladdencd even the eyes of angels out
Of the cherubic choir. (let alone the Saratoga Pa
Yilicn and though in their white dresses and
rose buds the bellies, afore spoken OF, looked like
beautiful elder sisters to these motheress Young
lings, yet when they came in, mothers confessed,
on the morning of the departure, openly to super
intend the preparations for travel they had Sd put
of the untroubled maiden look from their counlen-
ances, and put on the ndescribable growing
od-uess OF married life in their dress that, 10 the
eye of al observer, they might we'll have passed
for the mettors of the girls they had themselves
seemed to be. The day before. only
Who devised, planned and brought about, this
practical comment the aeedgeSsnesS Of the
american haste 10 be cid, we not a, liberty to
mention The reader will have surrnised however,
that i, was some one who had observed the more
enduring qualify of beauty in other lands, and On
returning TO his own. looked in vain for those who,
by every law of nature should be still embellish-
ing the society of which he had left them the bud
ding flower and ornament 10 get them together
again, only with their contemporaries in one OF their
familiar haunts of pleasure---to suggest tho excu-
sion OF every but youhfuness in dress, amuse
,uent and occupation-to bring to meet them, their
old admirers married like themselves, but enter
ing the field once more for their smiles against
their renyenescent husbands-to array them as
bellies again, and whether il was any falling off
il beauty, OF power Of pleasing which lad driven
them from their prominent places in social life
This was the obvious best way of doing his imme-
dae circle of friends the service his feelings exact
ed of him. the only way, indeed, of convincing
these bright creatures that they had far anticipated
he fading hour of bloom and youthfuuess. PEN
Se@-y