The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1849-04-19
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TIE COUNT AND THE COUSIN.
A ST(sAs Y.

sWho is that beautiful girl to whom you
bowed SO famIliarly! sald Charles VIM
stanley to Horace GrenyIlle, as they pro-
ceeded down the steps OF the city hotel.
.rhAt was Adelaide Wdlsingnam, your
cousin and mine, Charles, said Horace;
really you mist have left yodr memory
among the beauties of Paris, II you cannot
recognise your nearest OF KIM
sYou fofget, Horace, that when last
saw AdelaIde, she WIS lively little hoy
den, scarce ten years old;-.he lapse OF
seven years makes wondrous difference
in lally, whlte yer it may do with gen
tleman.'
.Nay,if you begin to discuss Times
changes, Charles, must confess you can
not Congratulate yourself upon having es-
capped touch OF his finger. Who, in that
bronzed complexion and hirsLte visage,
could discover any traces OF the smoon-
checked boy whom | last saw on the deck
of French packe .-shlp some seven years
agoi But tell me, why did you not write
tnat you were coming nom3"
because did not know my own mind,
Horace; really was not quite Certain
about 1t until / mad been week at sea.
The odd pronunciation of my German
valet having caused my name 10 be placed
on the list OF passengers as Mr.. Stanley,
it occurred to me that the mistake would
enable me TO return ulcOgRitO, and L
thought would humor the Joke, if but to
see now many of my old friends would
recognise me. | arrived last evening, and
should now be a perfect stranger IN my
nluse city, had not accidentally met you
tlls morning; and even you, Horace, did
not al first know me-
sknow YOU, Charles! who the deuce
could even See you behind that Imm ense
g;owth OF brush-wood upon your LIP and
Cheek! Do you really mean 10 wear
tlose enormous whiskers and moustlches"
Certainly not longer than suits my
present purpose, Horace. When was IN
Germany, learned TO wear moustaches
fJf the same reason that learned 10 smoke
the observation-disclosures e ,efy body else
did it. In Paris | reduced them Iitde,
bat did not entirely baaish them, because
there also found them in fashion. A
lively ltIe French lady, a passenger in
oar ship, wagereI PAIR of Paris gloves
that would not wear them a week IN
America; accepted the bet, and for one
week you viii see me 'bearded like the
parde.''
may, if you like them,' said Horace,
laughing, you need not seek an excuse
tor wearing them; they are quite the fash
lon, and ladies' now estimate a max, net as
they once did, by his altitude, but by the
length OF his whiskers.'
Il have no desire TO win ladies' favor by
wearing an unshaven face answered
Carries; but pray, Horace, tell me some
thing more about our pretty cousin
'She is as lovely in character, Charles,
as she is in person, but she has one great
fIult: like the most of our fashionable
bellies, she has mania for everything for
eign. Her manners, her dress, her SER
wants, all come from abroad, and she has
declared to me repeatedly her resolution
n,yer to marry an American
What is it my fair countrywomen so
much admire in their foreign logers!' asked
Charles.
'Oh, they say there is polish and ele-
gance of manner belonging 10 foreigners,
winch Americans never possess. Two
Oh Aaelalde's intimate friends have recent
~ married sons of some antedeuvian Ger
IN IN iainiiy' and our lovely cousin is am
6iIous OF forming an equally splendid al
llance.'
III she were to marry western farmer
said Charles, with smile, she would
rign over principally quite as large, and
perhlp more flourishing, than usually
b,longs to these emigrant nobles.'
Adelaide is noble hearted GIRL re-
Piled Horace, .and wish she could be
eiFed of her folly
If she is really sensible girl, Horace,