The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1846-08-13
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since. appeared he following singular n
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a lady i desirous Of obtaining Cor
short time, the sum Of one thousand do
lars. Any gentleman who would be will
ing 10 advance this sum. without security
VIII oblige The advertiser by addressing |.
L. NJ. through the post Office. Cirrum
stances Of snexiraordinary and reculiarna
iure have compelled the advertiser 10 re
sort 10 this STEP"
The advertisement created no lifiie sen
saIiOn among the Inoneyed bachelors will
generous iemperaments. Many a confirm
ed cGlebs began 10 think Of bright eve
and malrimony. That the advertiser wa
young and pretty, there could be no doubt
thought they all. For what plain LADY
would ask such = preposterous favor of i
man as one thousand dollars without seeu
rity! Pretty ladies--and handsome wi
dows, for insiance-mightdo H. but no one
else. *
No one was more profoundly moved by
this advertisement than Neal Neville, esq.
though not exactly in the same way and
from the same motives. This gentleman
was bachelor Of forty; well preserved,
and without grey hair; for every morn
ing he carefully extracted such untimely
intruders from his dark brown locks and
silky whiskers, with a pair Of tweezers.
lie was man Of cheerful temper and his
face therefore had few wrinkles. He might
have been taken for no more Than two-and-
thirty. His person was well made and
compact. something tall, and inclined, the
least in the world, to corpulency. lie was
handsome--ihal Is, the ladies called him
so-wilh a clear. ford complexion, fine
teeth, and an agreeable smile and voice.
lie was lawyerby profession, but having
inherited from an aunt good fortune, gave
himself little trouble about briefs and fees,
being conslimlionally lover of ease and
great patron Of Incidence, lounges and
cigars. His "sign," nevertheless, kept
its place among the host Of signs Of the liv-
ing and dead that crowd the facade OF the
black granite law building In Court street.
Neal Neville, though endowed with
every quality Of mind and person TO win
the female heart, had, unaccoun,ably TO his
friends ri. l.s and " numerous iairaspixpaig ofsI
full lustre past the halfway stone Of his
lhree-score-and-ten years. lie was, never
theless, what is called lady's man." tie
had leisure, and this he devoted 10 the sex.
At an opera he was seen ushering into the
boxes the brightest beauties Of the town.
If there was concert. Neal Neville was
present with smiling belle on either arm.
In Washington street he never walked
alone, and al every third step he raised his
hat to some beautiful girl or dashing VII
dow. Yet he had never proposed. No
body ever heard Of his ever being in love,
and the ladies' at length despaired! But
so long as neither Of them caught the but
Ieray, there was no envy or cold looks, and
his presence always brought smiles 10 the
lips of those who no longer thought Of him
except as friend and gallant for the street,
concert or drive. r. E.
Thus the happy, handsome, rich, young
bid bachelor fully realized the desire con-
aimed in the well-known song
I'd be a butterfly born in bower,
Living where roses and Violets meet
Rowing forever from flower 10 flower,
And kissing all buds that are pretty and sweet. "
The apartments occupied by our butter
(iy of forty years experience, were at the
fremont. tits not, therefore, neediul to
say that he was lodged very luxuriously,
and that his rooms were in every respect
we'll appointed. Mirrors and sofas, a vel
vet divan, and voluptuous easy chairs on
were but part of the means as
;embled to make him comfortable and at
nome. But the bachelor was by no means !
and he never felt at home.
There was something wanting, and his
told him il was wife. He
would lay late of mornings, read newspa-
pe,s an hour over his coffee, linger long at
MS dinner, and plunge into every variety of
IN the afternoon and evening,
70 keep from feeling the loneliness of his
chambers. He never liked to be
in them unless he had friend, and when
hat friend got up TO go from him, he felt
he need of wife, and therefore sought
and was only happy in ladies' society.
Why, then, possessing all marrying advan-
ages, did he mot take to himself daugh-
Ter of Eve, and end his misery! That is
l question great many beautiful girls and
handsome young widows of his acquain-
ance put to themselves, but which they
we're not able TO answer. Fortunately it
IS in our power to reply TO it. a.- III
Up to Mr.. Neville's thirty-fourth year,
he had got along without much solicitude
about marrying. He felt himself still
young, and that there was time enough;
nevertheless, he kept his eyes about him
md was on the look out for some one
with whom he might unite his destiny.
But being fastidious, and requiring high
order Of perfection, he was not easily sa-