Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1843-08-19
From the New Mirror.
FROM SARATOGA.
TO IHE JULIA OF SOME YEARS AGO.
AVggSt 2, 1913.

AUgSSt :, 1913.
] HAVE not written TO you IN, your
boys life umc-that fac LAD shade
taller than Yourself, whom | sometimes
meet at my talot's aud bootmaker's |
am not very sure, that after the first
month bitter meath OF your marriage,
! have thought of YOU for the duration
'oi \ reverie fit TO DC SD called. loved
Nou-lOst you-SwUre your ruin and
forgot you-which is loves claim when
lllted And never expected 10 think OF
.5Uu again.
Besides IN as.onishmcnt al hearing
from me at all, you will BE- surprised AT
resolving letter from INC at Saratoua.
Here where the Stars are that you swore
by-here, where the springs aud colon
AIDES, the wood walks and drives, the so.
las and swings, are all coated over with
your ocllclous perIurlcs, your protested
iproleslatons, your incalculable bank
ruPicy oi signs, tears, caresses, promi
Sos ! oh Juli0-maiS, EdtieHs tJi, ma
plume!
assure you | had moi The slightest
'ldea oil ever coming here again in the
world-Rot the slightest! had vow
IN heaven against it, indeed While
hated you-belore forgot on. that is
10 say would not have come for your
husbands mllion-[your price, Julia y
4 had laid Saratoga away with great
seal, to be re opened in the next star |
shall inhabit, and used as a liuht house
oil warning. There was one bannister
~ Congress Hall, acknowledgements
which we parted nightly-ihe NEXT OBJ.
Ject my hand touched after losing the
warm pressure Of yours-the place |
leaned over with n heart under nv
waistcoat which would have scaled o
'lympuS to be nearer to You, vet was kent
back by that mahogany and Your ssno"
and will believe devils may become
dolls and ghosts play around US like the
smoke OF cigar, since over that bannis.
ter ! have thrown my leg and sat think
ing OF the past without frenzy or emo
ton And none have q better right
than we TO laugh now at loves passion
ate eternities For we were lovers. In
'iia-l, as | know, and you as | believe
and IN that entry, when we parted 10
dream, wrl'e, contrive for the bliss(ul
morrow-anything but sleep and forget
in that entry and over that bannister
SsaEe said words Of tenderness and devo
ton, from as deep soundings Of two
hearts as ever plumet OF this world uld
by possibility fathom. You did love me
monster of untruth and forgetlulness
as you have since been bought for-vou
did Lore me- And that you can ride in
your husbands carriage and grow lat,
and that ! can come here and make
mock Of 1t, are two comments on love
worthy OF the common place book Of !
Mephistophies. Fie on US!
come to Saratoga as | would look al
a coat that had worn twenty years be |
fore-with sort Of vacant curiosity |
10 see the she'll in which had once fiG- |
urod. A friend said, ''join me at Sara
togam and it sounded like "come and
see where Julia was adorabIe.n | came
in raiI-car, under hot sun; and wan
ted my dinner; and wished myself where
Julia, indeed sat at in her Jameuil-
wished 1t, for The good wine in the eel. !
lar and the French cook in the kitchen |
And did net dawn to Congress Hall ."
the old palais d'amour-but in the mod |
erd ard comfortable parlour Of the Uni.
ted States" sat down by pretty woman
of these days, and chatted about the wa.
ter lily IN her bosom and The boy she
had up stairs-coldly and every day-sh-
.lY, / had been there six hours, and YOU
had not entered my thoughts. Please TO
believe that, Julia.
But IN the evening there was q ball at
Congress Hall. And though the old
house is questionable now, and the lie,
oi'loVe are elsewhere told and listened
to, there was movement among the /
bellies IN IT'S favour, and { appended nv !
self to lady's arm and went boldly. |
say boldly, for it required an effort
The twilight had fallen, and with it had
come memory or two Of the Spr inps i'm
our time. had seated myself against a
pillar OF the coionade Of the az States. -
and looked down toward Congress Hall
--aDd you were under the old vine clad
.poruco, as | should have seen YOU from
the same spot, and with the same eve of
fancy, sundry years ago, SO it was not
quite like passiOnless antiquary that I
set foot again on that old time colonaSe.
and, TO say truth, as the band struck uo
waltz, | might have had ia my lip a
-momentary culver. and some dimness in
my world weary eye. But it passed "a
way.
The ball was CONNIE ca and found
sweet woman las where are they not
given, candles aud musicD and aired
my homage as an old stager may. | dan.
ced without thInging OF you uncomforta.
bly,, though the ten years washing Of
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