Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1848-04-21

some customary arrangements affecting his
own comforts, the door was closed upon
him and Captain Jennings.
Jennings" said the baronet.
"Well, sir"
you're deylish good fellow, Jennings
"A deyilish pleasant fellow" said the bar
onet, land I've no doubt will get on in the
world--wilh prudence, that is, with pra-
dence."
Jennings bowed his Acknowledgements,
and looked little surprised.
"And as il strikes me, Jennings. my boy"
continued the baronet, in the same Jolly
tone, "about the most imprudent thing you
could possibly do, at the outset, would be
10 marry; and marriage being out Of the
question, should not-you understand,
like to have Miss Chadleigh, my daughter,
talked Of in connection with such an absurd
ity."
"Really. Sir Arthur" interrupted Jen-
nings, changing colour slightly. and affect
ing cool hauttur, which he was FAR from
feeiing-"I don't precisely know to wha,
circumstances you are pleased TO allude."
Come, come, my dear fellow" said Sir
Arthur, in the same tone Of rough good hu-
NOR, which in all his dealings, alike with
friend, or foe, whether with the dicebox or
the pistol, he had ever maintained, i've are
both of US men Of the world, chi ! an old,
and you a young one but both Of us I'M
quesiionably men Of the world. and perfect
ly wide awake. You knox Just as well as I
and as well as you, what is usually termed
paying attention 10 n young iady-let us
have no shamning on either side, we both
Of us know this; and don't approve Of
Miss Chadleigh's receiving any such dis
tinclion from you, my dear Jennings; and
now hope ! have made myself perfectly
Ineligible"
Jennings bowed slliiiy, and the baronet
continued
"A set Of meddling old women have
begun TO talk, you see, and took this, the
earliest opportunity, Of putting you on your
guard for, OF course, it would not answer
your cards, either, to have such nonsense
put about, and so without anything abrupt
or remarkable, your acquaintance must be-
come cooler, and-and- more distant and
in short, when you do happen to meet in
society. the less you are thrown together
the better; in a word, my dear Jennings
your GOODNESS must eiiectually give the lie
10 this ridiculous piece OF gossip
As Sir Arthur concluded, he was SLOWLY
rising from his seat, aud having, just al It's
termination, established his ponderous nnC
equity person in an erect position, he took
Jennings hands in both his, and shaking
them very cordially, said, in precisely The
J tone which might have conveyed a hospta
bio and pressing invitation
and by the way. my dear Jennings,
think i, would be very advisable, don't you
, by way OF beginning, to put an immediate
1 stop 20 these little visits, these foolish it'll
morning calls, which make people talk
) and serve no other purpose, as matter
, stand, except as a very unnecessary tax up
J on your time so. for the flture"-here h
i renewed the shaking, with incTeasin
warmth, "when toe do meet, let it be abroad
: my dear Jennings, and not here you vi
I dersland me, not on any account here; i
| society, OF course. shall always be delight
e ed to meet you we shall there, OF course, b
d the best possible friends; and now. m
= dear Jennings, think we perfectly unde
n stand one another, and I'll not waste an
: more Of your time, for, Of course, you has
e many amusing ways OF employing it, Goo
y morning, Jennings, my boy-farewell."
. The perlec, radiation Of cordially an
y good humor with which this very peremp,or
J., dismissal was conveyed, was so incongruou
is y disconcerling, that Jennings felt total
d unable 10 resent the procedure as he fe
Is disposed to do-for, truth to say. he wi
!. more neltled than he cared TO confess, eve
Of to himself Returning the old gentleman
f. salutation, therefore, sliflly and cold
lie enough, he withdrew, and had walked nea
Of ly halfway along the side OF ST. Stephen
ID green lin the immediate neighborhood
q which Sir Arthur resided) before he begi
u, 10 recover from the angry confusion Of I'll
re affrontng congo. Stacking his pace, ho'
ever, he began TO reyolve the occurrence
his mind, and, with the resignation Of n
cessily, began TO discover many things to
Il grateful for among the consequences of Il
u explanation, brusque and unexpected as
10 undoubtedly was,
D, swell, well, !" he muttered, sit is perha
ne much better as il is. She is.a deylish Fl
sc girl, TO he sure, and do believe, had W
nigh turned my head but, egad, "
co acting like a tool-a-fool, TO follow I
IL about, and get myself entanged at all
~ heaven knows what an internal piece
u, mischief it might have ended in, if | h
10 been left 10 my own foolish fancies-Pn
ID, deuced deal happier man, as matters sta
10 a safer one, at all events
81 :" Jennings was singularly handsome you
~ man, as we have said-very vain aud W
' selfish he knew no control except that
M volyed in n punctilious subservence to
at code of fashionable society in which
as lived and, without any one grain of pc
On tive maevolence in his disposition, he |
m about him much Of the raw material out
est which circumstances and opportunity mi
nd eventually labricale ilain; an incons
he crate impetuosily, too often mistaken
I'M generosity and impulsye candonr; an
vas acting aud ambitious vanity, which, C
re, seeking for new homage, inspired c
,au s,apt desire 10 please and, with the des
md stimulated the constant practice, too, oil
en-. the little arts of pleasing and which, HI
ever desplcable passion in itself, was
lu- in its effects, the prime cause OF his pc
and larty-these, combined with constitute
aud al selfshness which instinctvely COVER
h Lad