The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1848-03-11
their arms.-How ardently did George, a

minds disc, that some day those fair round
arms nigh. cling around him. That, you
admit, vas all in the course of nature. Yes
taras quite natural. shouldn't wonder if
after that, he dreamed dreams and saw
visions of angels i'll night caps! Lovers are
very dreamy, visionary creatures often. =
Now for me, like your philosophic lover,
your absent man, who is anywhere and eve>
rywhere but present.; who. Qike sir Isaac
Newton,l while holding i'll his, the soft deli.
cate hand Of his sweetheart, can 20 off in a
! dozy fit OF ahsrac,ion on some ahslruse point
of metaphysics, and in moment of PARDON
able lalluc ination, can honestly mistake her
liule finger for small sick, and use il to
punch down the burning tobacco in the bowl
of his pipe! Of course this is sure TO put his
pipe ont. with most young ladies, who hav'nt
the gift of philosophy, generally speaking,
but what of that! Try again.--Then there
is your matter of fact .over:-who does not
speculate in chineras: but who, ever accus-
toned to look al things through the business
lens settles everything il a business-like
fashion, and upon SOLID basis,--g basis OF
dollars and cents-tle metallic basis. He is
not your fgurature man. OH no. Nothing
will figure in his estimation except the fig
ures with which he estimates the porth of
anything or anybody, through the arithmeli-
cal progression of addition and compound
multiplication. With him, merit is metal
worth, wilhou, it araat, --woful want. He
understands no more abstract princip than
principle and nterest,-no more complex
proposition than that half clever fortune
doubled becomes the integral of his hopes
the &uns'alm bonum ofhs mundane aspirations.
Yes, the most Brilliant figure OF all, in his
eye, is that which tells in the ledger, on the
credit side of the account Of Profits Loss.
Gle asks no angels wings, no seraph's fire"
that is, he asks or seeks no change but
pence, weighs nothing in the scale Of
thought, but pounds and pennyweights.
Butnow to return from this aggressive eX-
cursion.-George after avaling himself Of
the polite, but grateful and urgent entreates
Of Madame Gardect to spend al least month
al her house before he should continue his
travels, and under promise of duplicating
i! on his return from Italy, set out again to
iuIouO h'H Joh'.lSJ 1Nuii" sunny
cIimes.-,Shall say, that when he was i'll
the act of leaving that hospitab!e mansion,
FATE stood at the door, wihking at DESPAIR,
while the latter spread her dark mantle IL
bout his shouderss TRurH forbiIs Can I
then, withoutcommit,ing myself too far, say,
HopE babe him live! Yes surely:-it was
health and life he was in search of.
A no, IF -
through that llowery reg ion. Yet flower
was wanting 10 him there, whose luslre e.
clipsed all others, Whose perfume robbed
FLORA of her richest treasure.-'It is aston
ishing what tickle fellows those men are,'
say the women,-and so say l. Once Italy
was eyerythihg,-France, nothin g, nor
nowhere. Now, with him, France rose as
superior 10 Italy, as blanksverse TO prose-
or, a fat 'Canrass-back,' TO a poor Fisherman
--or, q plump Bald pate,' to lank 'Sprig-
taH.'-As Ben Mead would say, 'we'll let it
90 al that, though tastes WtN differ.
Wei, as there was now no place just like
France, Lor nothing of much accoun except
in France, il we would find our young gen>
ileman's locus IN quo again, we must ofcourse
look there. La belle France possessed at
fractions 10 where else equalled- contained
a treasure worth the world beside, for fleet
period, he revelled in the bliss of reciproca-
ted love.r-But alas, after indulging in a
month of such sweet intercourse as George
had never before known IN all his life,
which he compared TO looking in at VIM
dow Of heaven, tearing himself from such
Joyous scenes and endearlng delights, once
more his course was upon the broad Atlantic,
now homeward bound once more had
he TO try.
"Iiie On tho ocean wave.
A home on the rolling deep"
An engagement with his charming Celeste
which was TO run just ore year from its date,
received the full sanction of Madame Gar
delel:-and this fact come like minisering
angel, 10 soothe the parties in the trying mo-
ment of separation. In as much as he gen~
erously promised Madame e. to reside at
Trieste during the remainder of her days,
that she aud Celeste should not be parted, it
was absolutely necessary for him TO return
10 America, to make his arrangements to
comply with this stipulation. This would
necessarily require some months, but as the
lovers could now enjoy tho privilege of cor
responding by letter, without trenching on
the rules otpropriety, OF shocking the most
fasidious taste, the tedious nonintercourse
of their former separation was not now OBJ
ligatory, and they had il in their pow er from
time TO time, to commune with each other
though distant, and thus to relieve and lights
en- the ordeal Of absence Very inadequately
do we appreciate the countless blessings of
. lucation. and the invention of letters. How
did his longing soul yearn 10 annihlate tho
three thousand miles of distance between
them, How anxiously did he look forward