Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1843-08-12

wafer | ycntr9e "a dllT5T from shorn. The va
CT IS an 'saiternaftye, it Is trIe-but think PEI
pie do moi so mash ateF as dew lroe II S!ratog-
The fac; Is cl,ar noUgt--that IL the Springs ~
change our opinions Of almost every be3y--hn
Ghough it seems bold s1pnos,t5n lie>t glance
| AN inclined to believe It 3 because we :
mach more Of thcn3! Knowing People in III
city and knowing them at The Springs ia .er
much in the s.mo line CT 9rlof tasting win
aud drinking a boltle. Wa, hat il week
c!,y acqaiutaace? \ m15a.a -; call iHrice week
n diurnal bow il Broadway, and perhaps q0ad
! re or two in the party season WHIT chanc
! in that to ruff. q temper try a wcaknoss2 A
the Springs. now, dear lady, you wear man a
! day like a shoe Down II the platform with bin
to driak the crt5o fore bfa ast--str0!.s th
! Doflico with him till ten-lfiTes with him t
Barkydt's till dinner-lounccs il the drawing
room ~ith him till tea-dancine and promeuadin
With him I'LL ni5niaht-yery Hide short altogeth
or of absolute matrlmony Aad' lake matrmony
! 1t IS i very severe trial. Yoar "bast fellow" i
sure 10 be found out, and 50 IS yo1r plausible fol
low, your CO o'ist, and your "sHoan."
Mr.. b very Bollalluro hid cultivated the mall
attractions with marked suecCss. II times, h
probably thought himself plain man, aud al
| artist who should only paint shat could be mea
sured with rule, would have made plain por
trait Of Mr.. Belal1rc. Blt--lbo atmosphere o
the man! There is physoguosny IN movement
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mood and poslure-Ihere is expression in the fac
Of which the featuros rs much a portrait as
bagpipe is a copy Of n Scotch song. Beauty, M
dear artist, cannot always 10 translated by can
vnss and oils. You must PaiDt "Iho magneti
fluid" TO get portrait of some men. Sir iho
mas Lawrence seldom painted anything eise---a
you may see by his picture Of La1v B'ess ngion
which is like her without having copied single
feature of her face. Yet artist would be very
much surprised If you shond offer to sit TO hin
for your magnetic etmosP here-taough il express
scs (does II not0 exactly what you want wheT
You order a picture! Ynu wish t2 bo painted ii
you appear Ia those who love y0u--a picture NJ
together unrecognizsd by those who love you not
Mr. Bslialure, then, vas N Theoretically hand
some positively plain. lie dressed with an ag
beyond detection. He spent his money IS If h
could dip it 4, Will out Of Pactolus. He was in
tim te with nobody, ana 81 nobody kacw his his
tory; but he wrote himself on the register O
All ts Goroos Ue
the pursuit of Miss Mabel Wynnc
Bat Mr BaI.luro bad a formidable rival. FIR
3 the was rs much IN earnest as he, though hi
played his game with tnuch-ant-go freedom
If he prepared to lose II. And Mr. Blythe
had very much surprised th s. people al Saratoga
who did not know that between a very plain MAJ
and a very elegant man thero ia ofhut the adding
Of The roso-Ioaf 10 tho brnmag jtr. lie wa!
pcIhaps Il HtiIo enycr than in Nov York, certain
ly hide more dressed, certainly lltlle more
prominent in general c0uversatIan--hu: withna
any difference that you co@.i swear 70 Mr.. Blythe
tho plain aud reliable busiuoss man, whom every
body esteemed without particularly admitting
had become Mr.. B IS the the model Of elegance ans
ease, tao gcutlc;n n and couVersatjruist par er
cellenre. And nobody could tell ho" tho statue
could have lain long uususpcc.Cd IN tho mar
bio.
The race ror Miss Wynaa's hand and fortune
IL
hundred ruon at the springs ready 10 take ndyan
taga of any falling baci: the part Of tho tive
On the lead, ba, wlth Blythe and BsIIalure Miss
Wynno herself seemed fully occupied. The lat
lex had n "(reud at couEt"-the belief kept Sc
cret in tho fair Mabol's heart. that he was Tho
romantic lover of whose life and fortune sho haC
been the inspiration. She eminently 70
mantle girl, with all her strong sense; and thu
devotion which had proved itself so deep and con
trolling, was in reality the dominant spell upor
her heart. Sho Eel, that she must love that man
shatever his outside might be, and she cons'rue'
the impen etrable silence with which Beila'ure
received her occasionablo hints 10 his identity
into magnanimous determination TO win he
without any advantage from the romance OF hi
position.
Ye, she sometimes wished it had been Nj
Blythe. Tho opinion Of her father had gren
weigh, with her, but, more than lint, she Eel
instnciivey that no the safer man 10 be en-
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been dou5.-lf her fathor had not assured he
that "Mr. Blythe como Of a most respectable fam
| ily"--if tho secret had wavercd between ,hen
-sho would have given up Bellaluro without
sigh Blythe every .hing she admired Oh
wished for in husband-bu, the man who Ia
made himself for her, by n devotion unpaFallele
even in her reading Of fiction, held captive he
dazzied Imagination, If not her grateful hear
She made constant efforts 10 think only of Bella
| lure bn. the efforts were preceded omiaousl
with n sigh.
| And now BeiIalure's star seemed in The ascer
i daut-for urgen, business called Mr.. Wynne ,
the city, and on the succeeding day Mr.. Blyth
/ follow cd him, though with an assurance Of spec
! DIV return Mabel was lief, under the care of a
indulgen, chaperon who took pleasure in pro
noting the happiness of the supposed lovers, an
driving. longing, Waiting and PromenadIne
Bellalnre pushed his suit with ardoF unremii,et
| He was skful master Of the art OF wooing, an