The Arkansas banner., 1847-07-05


 with ths puhlic; be hed been called Ayoush ef pro1Aisen when lad, bat his manhood had not ksFa pace with the prrmiaa. He had mnde no friends aad some enemies n his ssste of political eGefxesceace, wken he had dealt found accusations and epiihess thns scarcely sssa eleetioneeficg sxcilemeni will exesse. So nOw wlzs te do ha knew nos. He Pzsscd and looked around. discosnssed. He complained londly, of course, of she treatment that he had mlss witt--far inias- tiee, as we have seen. lad pursued AF1hur from boy, aud TOW he was growing bitter "a keen sense of ili-HsaRe is sometimes a great cemlora-- and his mntheT sGssned to his oet-poarings swah the deepest sympathy: {: For Ar1hur's ambition and c0nreii had been Of her cultivation SAe had piAnted Isle seed. end nov the tree &pes-akAaowsd lsss.l She was deeply chagrinsd by he faiiuse in ell he had pnder,aken, Or raiher, we should say, eommeneed, fOr, Ike aim, she did nos comprehend thas shers is 10 rssl-ruad lo fame. Bat still she did not give up. Maari- mony, woman's great Feseusce, was leit him. She had always wanted him to marry, and now an heiress seemed tke Eadiest means ef needing his broken fortnes, Harrington himself saw no other; and ss he entered so- ciesv again with other view. besides smuse- ment-
 A new SC, Of beaux and bellies were ne- cupying the places of ihoss who had been prominent when he first cane forward, those who had been the gsyess of the dancers then, were no x wives and moshsrs, and mos, of them withdrawn f,om suchsssemhlies. The men looked 10 him lske boys anGl the ssboys'' returned the compliment, ard called him an aoid fellow ? The beautiss were most Of them penniIess; and t so happened lhai the few girls of fortune n soeesy jSst al lhasl time, were any thing bus hauiies; and Har- ringson wanted to suii his taste as we'll as his necessities, and he hasel to Go any thing he did not like. and he tkies,ed an ugly woman. He had slways been very dainty of his feelings, and he eoald now neither work nor marry, if ii was nos i1 exact ac- cordsice win his taste Ind, altogether, society did not seem 10 him the same as tt once had been. Somehow tt had lost iss zess and freshness He did not know where the change wss. bui he fe't there was al change usai robbed il of all is charm.
 The secret was, tl.ai he was no longer a person of consequence. and excited no sen- ssIion among the young belies he saw around him. His 6is; glow of yoash aad beauty was gone and he hsdaequired no reputation 10 stand him in its stead ia youghful eyes He had no fortune ether, and sssammas and daughter don't court and fatier es-derrml ieRnc homms, who is no match. Nor was be ralIed agreeable He was hf1tsr. and cynical, and egolisiicai !: and girls don't want 10 talk To one who'tal always of themselves, par iicularly whea there IS noshing Tn their al- Ientions to Aaiier their vani;y. Women expect either 10 be amused, oi 10 have their feelings interested, or their pride grali6ed.---l Now Arthur Harrington did none of these things. and consequently he thought society } .sbore,n and society was beginning 10 re- turn ihe compliment
 There was bat one person who a, all in- lerested him, nos that he though, of her for she had no foTssEe, and would not do but siill he admired her. Sybii Effnghagn he could not look al or listen to. wlthou, partly forgetting himself. She was in truth a bright, spirited, beautiful creature, high toned, wilh look of sensibili,y and disin- somethmg to tnneb lhe maginaiion-aitogelher being that made him sigh as he thought of his allersd for- .anes; and though he meant nothing. he could noi help visiting ., her fathers morr than he thought quite pruienL-l To his surprise he occasionally mel Ash- hurst there, and what surprised him more was the consideration wish when he was received when he did come. But Ashhurst was now a marked man distinguished for his aee. and women always yielded a ready homage to talent and delight in honoring those whom the world h0nors. And, more over, Ashhurst was a man 10 please. though could not comprehend Il; and. indeed, few neH understand the female taste in that respect What is called .-lady's man. is nos, as mea suppose, the most agreeable 10 women. f'hose are ESs ;his szss:s who excite enthusiastic and romantic attaeh- menis A volnanrs imagination must he reused before her heart is deeply touched; and il is oniy a man of suPenor mind asd character that does that
 And Ashhurst's was an earnest sigorons spirit, and the beautiful Sybit fsii her sosl awakened in his presence, and she listened io his words of power and truth as she listened to no other psn. Ba, if Harrington was surprised and vexed to see tha Iepasa- tion and sscendenev Ashhurss was gaining, kis feelings were ss nothing to hls mothers on the subject It was really amusing to see the ssnaeisy with which she elung iO early impression, land Mrs Haringioa was q vomaa vho had great fzith in her own '-impress,oas.n) She had pronouaced him, then ..heavy boy, land alsogrthss thought him . very coarse piece of clay, eosnpAFed to her son of delicate porcelain; and how he had stood the are and hsa. and come out so much truer tempered through the rough usage Of the world, was matter she did not or patiently seqslesce ia.
 Bu, 10 urn to Arthur. He found II would nos do to spend his tune dangling after Sybl Ef5ngasm; and, perhaps, the goodness with