Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1850-03-14
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From the Ds4r Newspaper.
THE BACHELORS LAST VAL
ENTINE:
Or, the One-Eorned Dilemma -
BY MISS MARY J. Il. BROWNE.
CHAPTER

"There was one lady at your party last
night. to whom you did mot introduce me,
Mr. Hornkeilh," SAID fine, tail, manly
looking gentleman, seating himself familiar
" ia his friend counting room, aud taking
up the morning paper a lady who car
RED face and figure tit 10 be model for
the chisel Of a sculptor. As cool in temper
ameni ~ am, haze been seeing visions
and dreaming dreaias' Of her ever since,
sleeping and viking"
An, indeed you surprise me, FIiz Henry
-you who hare tete-a-teied with peerless
es and courily dan IS, paving such cnmpli-
ment> perhaps to country maldeul Bat
how could be 50 laundering is to neaiec;
either You or he lady So unpardonably >
Pray excuse me, and describe your inano-
rata-really, / took you to be arrow-prooir'
replied SIR. Jcrnkeith, gayly clapping his
friend Oil his shoulder.
" Arrow-prooii you abuse me-" returned
Mr. fi;z Henry; never was man more
susceptible To genuine lovelinsss IN woman
than ! /; the spurious and cou.terieit attrac-
iluns. sucn as are Ia fashion at he present
day, osn have less power with me. But
that nan aliilate- with the brute creation,
who Is nSensible TO the influence of his
mothers sex, especially if he had such a
mother as NINE THIS inamorala, as you
pleased to call her, was remarkably beau
ulul 1ruuellc-one If those rich, niai.tlng
compeAInns YOU might iincy al eqlll nix
ture ot Spanish aud Crca>>lln. Her eyes
were yer, large and black, her features fac
ly ~ ..A.uci Giecian, mlta Il slu.ulArly ri,
and iAielrci4a cass. ana aer whoe hlufe
appeared To me IN l8aiiless proportion. |
caano: describe an article OF her dress. nor
tell whether she wore black or white, but |
saw nothing else the whole evening, nor haa
the vision once departed from me To this
moment. IIornketh, believe am Ia lovel
PRAY how does man fell IN that preIlca-
mentl You know
1t depends upon the location of the
maadv,' laughed Mir Hornkeith; some
times II strikes to the head, aud becomes a
dizziness that won't let Il man 90 about his
bizziness this diagnosis, think the
scientific dou't call 1t dangerous. But when
it strikes 10 the heart, they tell me It is apt
to terminate like bydrophobIa, in convul-
sions. | see YOU are III "a bad case, Fitz
Henry-but really, this won't do. l have
fixed upon AN helress for you-a veriiable
fairy-the IoyelIest little creature, always
excepting my Elizabeth, that the favors oil
fortune ever alIghted upon. Lively, brilliant,
beautiful, and hundred Thousand Do
YOU hear She was sick last evening, or
she would have been the 'Cynosure' Of our
party, and would have siornied your citadel,
| am almost certain. Now don't run crazy
bava
Dora FennImore.'
| have seen Dora Fennimore already,
replied Mr.. Fiiz Henry, aud let me assure
YOU, could not marry her If she owned all
California; she is not alter my taste. Why,
look at me, Hornkeilh, here 1 am, SIX feet,
good measure, without Jay boots, and Dora
she is certainly not half as high That
would be literally The long aud the short OF
the matter exemplIfcd. No, mo- don't
like dwarhsh women. The Llliipntlans had
better match themselves IN LiilIput. Be
sides, she may possibly be sweet sixteen,
as The Young bioods, with their heads full ot
nonsense, fresh aud green, have it. And l
- tell 1t not la Galh'-I an twice that,
fairly rouEd the corner, and bachelor =
Blu, must he allowed 10 call you back 10
the previous question.
An, yes, tnls brunette. | think she
must be Mrs Parkinson sister, Miss Hen
shaw. She has been spending the winter
in town, and my wife Is one OF her most de-
voted admirers. Il smart. sensible, queenly-
looking lady she is 10 be sure; but not, as
you Iust remarked, after my taste They
say she is 4 confirmed schooima' am, besides
beng bias blue aud scribbling sonnets
and essays for the papers. The editors are
all running after her, though am not liter