Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1847-08-04

widow than a young girl. Girls have such
golden dreams, and invest the man of their own
choice with imaginary perfection. And know
that | am not perfect.
! This difficulty being removed, see no other,
added Lucy, laughing heartily. Alfred felt
rather strange; he thought some Jest was to
be played off, but he could not guess how, or
for what purpose. He resolved, however, to
have all his wits about him, and at any rate to
come off with the honors of war. No, contn-
ued Lucy, see no obstacle. think am not
very ugly, and know am not too old ; and
suppose if my fortune was double what you
name, that would not be an objection.
Alfred breathed more freely; he saw way
of escape, and he FASTENED to say, Indeed Mad
anne, that would be greater obstacle than you
may suppose
Indeed
Yes have talents by which / can gain an
income of nine or ten thousand francs yearly.
l estimate myself at that sum, and no more; &
as am of opinion that there should be equali-
ty on all points between uniting parties to en-
sure their mutual happiness, have resolved
will owe nothing to my wife, nor shall she be
indebted to me.
And you would refuse lady from this mo-
tive
would. ] am not of an ungrateful DISPOSE
tion, but cannot endure the feeling of obliga-
ton.
Then, Sir, there is no more to be said.
Forget this interview, Madame, and Alfred
rising, begged permission to retire. The la
dies assented he bowe and left the room in
doubt whether he were in dream, or had been
engaged in seen, planned by Felix Janier
Truly this young man is singular being,
said Lucy to her friend, when the door closed
on Alfred, it is very well that magnifed my
riches, or he might have taken me at my word.
! told you, said Madame Souville, that we
might find we had done a foolish thing.
But who could imagine we should meet with
such an adversary observed the widow, really
do rot dislike him.
That same evening, Alfred. Felix, and their
friends, assembled at the appointed place. Fee
lix enacted the Amphytrion with Father an i'll
grace, and Alfred, by few adroit questions,
satisfied himself that none of the Farty had been
pri' to the adventure of the morning, he tho't
it very odd, as he reflected on it, after his re-
turn from dinner. The following day he went
TO the concert Valentino, and there By chance,
met the two ladies. He bowed to them. A
day or two after Duprez played William Tell,
and in the lobby of the opera-house, Alfred by
chance, again met Madame Souville and Lucy.
They exchanged few words. The following
day was inviting for a walk, and they met in the
Tuilleries of course, by chance. This time
they entered into conversation, something like
old acquaintance.
Two months after this, Felix Janier, arriving
from an excursion into Normandy, found on his
table a letter from Alfred, announcing his APP
preaching marriage, and requesting his friend
to be present at the ceremony.
Hereafter let it not be said, that an advertise
ment is frui,less experiment, and that the
money expended for its insertion is like waite
thrown into the sea.-Godey's World Of Fash.
SPEECH is an imperfect delineation. The
losliest verses are those which we cannot write
The words of every language are Incomplete
and every day the heart of man finds in The
shades of his sentiments, and imagination, or
in the impression of visible nature, ideas that
his lips cannot express. The heart and imagi-
nation, are, in fact, like musician, forced to
play on an octave of notes, the infinite vaaiety
of which the whole scale is susceptible. 1t is
better to be silent; silence is the finest poetry
at certain moments of existence the spirit
hears 1.-THE Creator understands it-that is
Lamartine.
An honest, Industrious peasant in Picardv,
being observed to purchase five loaves weekly,
was asked what occasi IN he could possibly find
for so much bread.
One, replied the honest fellow, take myself
one throw away, one return, and the other
two lend.
How do you make that ont said his neigh
Dor. Why, returned the farmer, the one which
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which | throw away, is for my mother-in-law
the loaf return is for my father and the two
which | lend, are those with which keep my
two children, in hopes that they will one day re-
turn them TO me.
The honest fellows" reasoning appears t.
us, materially deficient. If his fathers loaf was
the return of former benefits to himself, cer,ain-
" not less debt was that which he considered
thrown away, because given to his smother
n-law, to whose lab or and care he was indebt-
I'd for wife.
STATE INTEREsr-.Last week the treasurer of
he county of Dauphin, paid to the State treas
lrer $4,000 the quota of State tax required
rom That county. No fears are entertained at
Harrisburs, of the ability of the treasurer to