The Planters' banner. [volume] (Franklin, Attakapas Co., Lou.) 1849-1872, 1851-05-24
From the New York SUM-
THE TWIN SISTERS.
. TRUE S T o E Y

Among those who attended the first
of the kings Ievees, during the London
season of IS, was an unmarried gen.
tIernan of large fortune, named Streat-
iield. While his carriage was proceed
ing slowly down st. James's street, he
naturally sought such amusement and
occupation as he could find in looking
on the brilliant scene around him. As
the day was unusually fine, crowds of
spectators thronged the street and the
balconies of the houses on either side of
It. all gazing at the different equipages
with as eager Il curiosity and interest
as if the fine vehicles and fine people
inside them were the rarest objects OF
contemplation in the whole metropolis.
Proceeding al slower and slower pace.
Mr.. Strea;ield's carriage had just ar
rived at the middle Of that very longest
of streets, when longer stoppage than
usual occurred. He looked .carelessly
Up at The nearest balcony; and there,
among some eight or ten ladies, stran-
gers to him. he saw one face that rivet-
ed his attention Immediately.
He had never before beheld anything
50 beautiful, anything which struck him
with such strange, Mingled, and sudden
sensations as this lace. He gazed and
razed OH it, hardly knowing where he
was or what he was doing, until the
| line Of vehicles began again to move
on. Then. after first ascertaining the
number of The house, he flung himself
back in the carriage, and tried TO ex-
anime his own feelings, TO reason him
self into self-posSession but it was all
in vain. He was seized with that ami
able form of social monomania, called
love at first sight,
He entered the palace, greeted his
friends, and performed all the necessary
court ceremonies. feeling all the while
like man in trance. He spoke me-
chanically, and moved mechanically
the lovely face in the balcony occupied
his thoughts, TO the exclusion of every
thing else. On his return home he had
engagements for the afternoon and the
evening-he forgot and broke them all,
and walked back to St. James's street as
soon as he had changed his dress.
The balcony was empty; the sight
seers, who had filled it but few hours
before, had departed-but obstacles Of
all sorts now tended only to stimulate
Mr.. Streatfield; he was determined to
ascertain the parentage of the young
/ lady; determined to look on the lovely
face again-the thermometer of his
heart had already risen to fever heat
/ Without loss of time, the shopkeeper
to whom the house belonged, was bribed
to loquacity by purchase. All that he
could tell, in answer 10 inquiries, was
that he had let his lodgings to an elderly
i gentleman and his wife, from the coun'
try, who had invited some friends into
! their balcony to see the carriages go tc
the levee. Nothing daunted, our hero
questioned and questioned again. What
was the old gentleman's name? Dims
dale. Could he see Mr.. Dimsdale's ser
want? The obsequious shopkeeper hac
no doubt that he could: Mr.. Dimsdale':
servant should be sent for Immediately
In few minutes the servant, the all
important link in the chain OF Love-:
evidence, made his appearance. He
was pompous. porily man, who listen
ed with solemn attention, with sterf
judicial calnness 10 Mr.. Streatfield'!
rapid and somewhat confused inquiries
which were accompanied by a minute
description of the young lady, and BY
several explanatory statements, all very
fictitious, and all very plausible. Stupit
as the servant was, and suspicious as al
stupid people are, he had nevertheless
sense enough to perceive that he wa
addressed by gentleman, and graft
tude enough to feel considerably molli
fed By the handsome doucear which
was quietly slipped into his hand. Bu
alter much pondering and doubling, h'
i arrived at the conclusion that the fai
object of Mr.. Streatfeld's inquiries wa
/ Miss Langley, who had joined tn,
,. party in the balcony that morning, witt
her sister; and who were the daughter
| of Mr.. Langley, Of Langley Hall, il