Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1852-05-06
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MARRYING BEAUTY.

WoIui OditddS made TO his mistress eyebrows
said the fairest of young widows, as she held
up about half quire of pale pink note-paper
to the Vexed eyes of her humble companion /;
really the young man makes himself very
TIdiculous.'
Very ridiculous, indeedi' = said Miss Hind
ley, who felt great horror of Meadows, con-
sIderlng, with justice, that if her patroness
were TO select an humble servant, she would
soon cease TO stand in need of an humble
companion. 4 really wonder, dear Mrs.
Temple, that person of your fine mind can
encourage the young man to his folly the
love OF one so weak and silly is very little
worth having
Nay, Miss Hindey,' said the beauty, 'his
love Is at least disinterested don't know
that the second time he came to my house you
told him that the whole of my income was,
by the will of my late husband, to pass from
me, If ! married again? And don't | know
that you make this communication to all sim
gle men between twenty and sixty : express
ing your regret in a very soft tone of voice.
at poor misguided Mr.. Temple being infiu-
enced by his relations to make will SO un-
just to his wife, while you are thinking all
the time in your own mind, that NJ. Temple
and all his relations were perfectly right. and
that Mrs. Temple has all the inclination to
make herself ridiculous were she not deprived
of the power of doing it,
Miss Hindley colored violently, the accusa-
ton was perfectly just; but she only clasped
her hands together and said, dear Mrs Tenn
pie, you do not know half my affection for
you. am aware that money is qui c ar un-
necessary adjunct to one so facinating as YOU
are; but must confess / should like to see
you loved for YOURSELF
And is II not proof that / am loved for
myself, asked Mrs. Temple, rather sharply.
-t,r.V, - \ j
Ious to marry me, although he knows that a
second marriage will deprive NE of every
shilling that | possess
No. said Miss Hindley, who was not de-
fcient in shrewdness, Il do not think it proves
any such thing. Mr.. Meadows loves YOU on
Iy for your beauty now your beauty is at pres
ent a part of yourself, but it will not be per-
manently so; 1t will fade and decline when
your conversation and accomplishments re-
main IN full perfection. Your admirer does
not estimate these, he only thinks of your
outward appearance
How can you possibly tell that, Miss
Hindley,' asked the fair widow
Because replied Miss Hindey, sMr.
Meadows, when he spoke to you, or of you,
extols only your personal charms; if you
mention book, if you sing song, does he
not always contriye to bring in same absurd
compliment to your loveliness 2
Mrs. Temple did not consider compliments
TO her loveliness quite so absurd as they were
considered by Miss Hindley but as she had
much more sense than is usually allotted to
the share Of beauty, she was ready to admit,
what indeed she had long and secretly admit
ted to herself, that the fine speeches of Mead
ows were rather outdone, that he appeared to
regard her rather as fair Circassian' than
as an intellectual English woman; and that it
would be extremely agreeable if he would
sometimes converse with her as a rational
being, instead of carrying on his courtship by
perpetual succession of sonnets, sighs and
compliments.
His cousin, Mr.. Corbett, is a far more in
telhgent companion she said he admires
Alfred. .Tenny as do; then how scientific
a second he sings; and what excellent re-
marks he made on the cottage in the wood
that sketched from nature, giving it all due
commentator, yet pointing out fault in the
shading | like people who commend and
find fault In their proper Places
Then you cannot like people, said Miss
HIndley, who talk about your beauty, for
that is subject which | am sure cannot give
rise to fault-fnding.'
AdeIa Temple smiled, and glanced at her
self in an opposite looking glass; she was
certainly brilliant beauty; but beauty Of a
peculiar description her figure was pretty,
but not fine; her complexion, hair and teeth
would merely have entitled her to the appelaa
tion of a nice looking person, heNryes conf
stltuted her beauty-such eyes We're surely
never seen! Dancing, ghttering, flashing
now laughing SO gaily that II seemed inmate
rial whether the lips were laughing rox not
now ye:ied under the shade of the long firing
ed eye laShes-now eloquent, with inteilI-
gence-now melting in sensibiiity; they were
large hazel eyes, as soft as blue, and as sober
as grey ones; they were eyes that brought all
sorts of quotations from the poet into the head
of every one who knew anything about the
poets, and made .the plaia prosaic people of
this work-a-day world shake off their COM
mon-places, and express their admiration in
some such freak Of speech as that employed
by the gallant dustman who said that he should
like to light his pipe at the eyes of the Dutch
ess of Deyonshire And those eyes were
the constant theme of Meadows tongue and
pen, and those eyes were eulogIzed on the
pale pink paper, In verse which Adela Tenn
pie had the patience to read TO the end, al
though they were certainly very trite and in
sipid.
Not quite in the style of Alfred Tenny-
son. SAID Miss Hindley, in caustc tone Of
voice.
Perhaps not said Mrs Temple, quickly,
but all men cannot be poets any MORE than
all women can be beauties. | am tired of my
visits to this stupid watering place. | am
determined, Miss HIndley, to return to Lon
don next Tuesday, by the railroad
Meadows and his cousin were sauntering
slowly down Regent street.
Congratulate me, said the former; Il have
received the most encouraging and delightful
letter from Adela. She will be in town to-
morrow. | have the most sanguine hopes
that | shall soon have the happiness of call
ing her mine. am not at all deserving of
her
Not at all. in my opinion : said Corbett,
pensively. People do not always like 10 be
argued with.
And pray, why am | unworthy Of her 7
asked Meadows, rather indignantly.
Because you only value her beauty re-
piled Corbett; custom wiilrender that beauty
familiar to you. years will rob it Of its bril-
liancy, and your love viii deterioTate in pro-
portion / wish you valued her mental at
tainments as highly as-'
AS You do, | SUPPOSE interrupted Mead
ov-S rather Sc0rnfglly