Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1847-03-25

hill aud dale, tor the qualification OF her
customers. VIII you buyl Here are
roses and lilies but they are for the gen.
tie and good"
Am | not good! asked Harry.
( Law no you're man. Here is heart
ease for forlorn lover; will you buy
And here are some pretty tulips do you
love tulips r.
Your tulips, of all the world pretty
Kathleen"
Law, cried the girl, blushing and SIM
pering, they may suit you for you are as
bright as the BUTTERFLY
Am like butterfly 7 exclaimed Har.
ry Perceval.
Why no, not quite SO pretty was the
reply
Eli my dear GIRL said Harry, i should
like TO be acquainted with you
Should you, indeed Well that's very
kind, for nobody thinks Of any pretty girl
now but Mercy O'More. was once a
beauty, SIR
And are you not still--s,ill-still most
beautiful"
'Ah, that's hattery 7 said the girl Bot
the young men all thought the same once.
Before MiA Mercy came into the neigh
borhood, was the lovelest, happiest, and
gayest Of girls every body envied me, for
| was universally beloved. ! rad then
twenty lovers and half-real ones, too.
Twenty and half cried Harry.
Yes. The half one was Coruac o.
Casey, very good natured Bat of man,
rather tender here, sir, touching her fore
head.) Nature in creating him had made
slight mistake; and transferred the soft
place from the heart 10 the head. He
never told his love, but only used 10
squeeze my hand when he bought a po-
sey, and sighed shockingly-'Oh dear?
And did that merciless Mercy rob you
of all these z
All, she did. There is not lover can
be kept from her.
{" Ii is very STANCE" said Harry Perez
val. 81 that for her caprieious smiles they
should have forsaken The pretty Kathleen.
Isn't it, sir? There must have beer
some witchery in it, for they all Of
them on their Bonded knees, swore
they loved me dearly. All, these were
happy times, when the days labor being
ended, selected from my many suiiors,
10 accompany me in midnight rambe,
among the bills and valleys, glades and
glens, by wood and lake each seemed a
paradise, and | the presiding spirit And
when the sun was sinking behind the dis
tant hills, its lost glories were accompan-
led by the music CT my beloved
'Ah,' cried Harry, guitar
No, jewsharp. He played SO sweet.
, ly that my spirit wept, as the divine mel
ody fell upon my young heat and when
the great round moon arose, our hearts
were entranced with bliss"
/ see it! cried the enraptured youth.
picture the romantic scene-earth, hea-
ven, and water moonlight, parcdies, and
jewsharp! oh Delightfully."-
Yes. very; except when shower Of
rain visited us and then my lover would
run away
Runaway Now can there be a man
on earth so viei Run away from such
a simple innocent girl as Kathleen Kath-
leen that man was villain
WAS he, indeed 7
Kathleen your charms, your innocence,
your delightful simplicity, entitile you 10
suitor of superior rank Mercy o More
has not one half of your attractions. She
is precious ugly
am not precious ugly am l Z? asked
E the flower girl,
You-yOu, cried Harry. Nol-you
are all perfection you are-you are.
! | l.. I r. I -
: Do you feel i'll ?
mp Yes--no not i'll, my dear; but
| have the heart burn sadyp
Shall fetch little chalk and water' ?
'Oh, no ; the only medicine that can
effect my cure lies deep in those lovely
eyes let me gaze on them until my own
dull orbs shall draw it forth
%. sir cried Kathleen, blushing
deeply.
Let me gaze and gaze again, exclaim-
ed Harry. IT'S thus that would forli-
fly myself against the wichcralt of Mercy
O'More.'
Would you indeed;' replied Kath-
leen, with such an arch expression that
Harry half suspected that she was some
thing more than she seemed but her sub
sequent replies removed his suspicious,
and he inwardly congratulated himself
upon having discovered one Of the purest
most ariless, unsophislieated girls in the
world. He was already hall in love with
her, and before they parted, he had made
Kathleen promise 10 meet him again -
Presently afterwards, Barney arrived with
his intelligence that all his masters move
ables were packed and ready for depar-
tvre.
'unpack them again said Harry Per-
ceval; and Barney, wondering at his mas
ter's fckleness, retired to obey the new
orders. A fortnight passed, and Perceval
| had grown more reserved in his behavlor
to Mercy O'More and he stole out every
evening, after dinner 10 meet the pretty
Kathleen with whom he was so much
enamored that he al length resolved TO
marry her.
am going to get married, said he
TO Sir Maurice O'More.
Is ii possible 7 said the baronet.
( knew should surprise you. You
will be more surprised when name Mrs.
| uarry parcaval eiocf | am resolved IN