Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1845-11-13

From the Baltimore American Republican.
THE MERCHANT:
OR, THE DELIGHTFUL DREAM OF LOVE

E.
A tale truth, IN aCich only the names are fictitious
Julia Summerville was the daughter of a
very respectable father, who died when she
was young and left her to the care of one
of the best of mothers, who spared no
= pains in instilling into the mind of Julia
those noble principles of honor and virtue,
which are at once the diadems of female
beauty and she neglected not to mould
her manners, as well as her mind, so as to
give her that gentleness, that aimiability,
that witching, winning, captivating nomcha-
lance, which render some ladies the idols
and angels of polished society, and which
qualities are not always found in the most
aristocratic circles, but as often adorn the
humble as the naughty.
Julia Summerville was truly the idol of
her fond mothers heart, and of all those
who were bound to her by kindred ties, or
who had bowed to the magic of her beau
ty. As Isobserved before, she had a Win
ming suavity of manner-a perfect witchery
in the glance of her exquisite eye, which
once observed could never be forgotten.
Her beauty was not of that kind which
captivates at glance the heart of the be-
holder, like splendid painting, and on
which the eye after a while becomes tired
Of gazing; but it was of that indescribable
order, and had in it what the French call
Je ne seals guoi-a something we cannot
tell what, which does not enter the soul in
a moment, or win the heart at first sight,
but which gradually grows in our affections
until it winds around the heart, by imper-
ceptible degrees, the chain of lasting love.
The features of Julia were not cast in the
exact mould of Grecian regularity, the lines
of which blend into one unvarying picture,
which is too often like painting, soulless !;
but hers were like the beautiful pictures of
the Kaleidoscope, ever varying through the
operations of the mind, for expression was
the charm of her beauty, and that express
sion was no less than the light of an ami
able and cultivated mind. So mach did
expression change the cast of her counte-
nance, that her beauty was ever new, and
the eye of the beholder never grew tired in
gazing.
A young merchant in the neighborhood
in which Julia resided, had often observed
her as she passed, and was pleased with
the sweet modesty of her demeanor, as we'll
as the soft, soul-lit expression of her face.
and the beautiful symmetry Of her person.
Insensibly he became more and more fasci-
mated with that lovely being, who crossed
his path like an angel of earth, and ere he
was aware of it, his heart was feasting on
the delicious luxury of love. The little
god had stolen in while he was dreaming
of the charms of her who was becoming
the idol as we'll as the angel of his souls
idolatry. Henry Freeland (for such was
the name of the young merchant) was a
stranger both to the ecstasies and agonies
of love. He had never until now seen fe-
male loneliness that could for a moment
charm his heart, and hence, though cap
tive to Julia's charms, he imagined himself
free, thus proving that love is an involun-
tary passion, and may gain admittance to
the heart ere we are aware of its presence
Henry Freeland had nothing to disturb
the equanimity of his mind He was easy
in his circumstances, and of happy dispo-
stion; constituted by Nature to look on
the bright side of life, and to take every
thing fair and easy; but " a change came
Per the spirit of his dream" He could
OF imagine what magic influence posses
= ID his mind and ruled his heart. He was
longer the gay, light-hearted man he
h been. He found himself wandering in
s4ude, and frequently repressed the sigh
thwas rising in his bosom, he knew not
wi, When he sat in his counting house,
ande lovely form of Julia caught his eye
frophe window, the genius of calculation
fled, I'm his mind, and in adding the SIM
pleskms, he made mistakes innumerable