American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1845-03-14

and being more than half crazy between love for
her and hate for him, it will scarcely be wonder
ed at, that before leaving, | suggested to her
that If we couldn't be happy with his consent,
we had perfect right to proceed without it
eve could take ride, some evening" said !;
ego to the depot-take the mail train of cars
and in two hours be man and wife"
"When would you call for mel" she asked.
Tomorrow night" replied, almost wild
with delight-"eight O'clock"
"Well," said she after a pause, 81 will be
here"
The next evening, at haf-past seven, the vii
lage stable-keeper drove a carriage to my door,
as he had agreed to, at half an hour before
Just as was stepping into the carriage, little
boy handed me note. turned into the house
L moment to read it. The contents run after
this sort:
"My Dear Mr. S.: Il have consulted
with my father about running away with you to-
night, and he thinks the air is so damp should
certainly take cold He suggests that it would
answer all reasonable purposes for you to run
away alone. But hope you will not do this
till you have accomplished the intention you
expressed on your arrival in our village, which
was, believe, before you left it, to make con-
quest Of the heart Of the prettiest girl within
teI miles.
Yours as truly as ever,
ELLEN b.
Immediately recolected having foolislly
expressed this foolish intention a day or two be-
fore my arrival in the village to an old friend
who accompanied me there on business with
some other merchants | recollectcd, too, that
the request was made while we were on walk
through the village, that lady was close be-
hind us all the time, and my friend who saw her
face, thought she must be an angel. She turn
ed out to be one!
NV horse was sent back to the stable, and
the next morning was leaving the beautiful
village and the beautiful Ellen, and my tif-
teenth cousin and his happy family, as fast as
steam would carry me-"
'.THE UPPER TEN THOUSAND"
''My dear" said Mrs. Parvenue to her hus-
band on retiring to their room the other night,
chow long have you been engaged in the i'm
portation of Guano?"
"About year, my love-"
IL wonder, my dear, that you should engage
openly in such vulgar occupation, and more
especially without letting me know anything
about it!''
"Why my dear, doesit affect you?'
81 should have pursued a very different line
Of conduct, and not commenced pruning my
acquaintance Just now. | supposed you were
engaged only in the importation of tea, coffee,
and silks by the cargo"
81 have been for few years past engaged
in the importation of these articles; but the
Guano trade is SO profitable, that | thought
would dip into it in quiet kind of way; but |
had no idea that it was generally known"
"Well, my dear, | am sorry you ever en-
gagged in it. l've done all | could to elevate
the family to a good standing in the fashiona-
BILE world; I've sacrificed almost every thing,
and submitted to many inconvenience, morti-
Gcations and rebuifs; and bore up under all with
much apparent nonchalance; I've succeeded in
attracting the attention of sundry fashionable
old bachelors they appear fascinated with my
assumed naiuetc, though their adulaton is
rather nauseous; yet as you think it helps US
along I've contrived to swallow it."
''Well, my love, what is the matter now?
any new rebuff! thought your party of "a few
friends went off very well the other night, and
was quite a recherche affair"
That's the trouble-that confounded party
is the cause of all my present uneasness The
comparatively few persons left out are not salts
fled that the hundreds invited, many of whom
they have asccrtaned had never spoken to
p'iSiS, S'iouiu w 10 q lew iiiCiiuSJ
especially as among those left out, are several
who imagine that they have contributed to our
present elevation, and that their shoulders have
been made use of toplace us in our now al
most fashionable position. And there's that
spiteful Mrs. Ferret, who procured my invita-
ton to the Bachelors Ball, few years since,
is so provoked at not being invited, that she
is not only circulating round that your father
was a silversmith ION rather small scale) and
that if was not actually chambermad, be-
fore marriage, was an humble companion to
Mr.. Mallet-that even you had not loll'd in
the lap of luxury in your earlier days, and that
both of US together could not trace the deriva-
ton Of cur lineage to its original source! Bot
all that is nothing to that little monkey of a
daughter others telling our Maria, at school,
this morning, that her fatherwas only manure
dcaler."-.E Y. Herald