Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1852-02-19
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1.-THE REMARKABLE HISTORY OF DIR.
JOSEPU IARTJGJIE

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porch, in the respectable town Of Lngua-rie
y click at the gate caused them to look up, when
asprightly girl Of seventeen sprang up the steps,
"Good morning Caroline; how doyou do Maria
Have YOU heard the news l'
News! no, what is it ?"
DIR. Lartigue and Magdalcnc Winters are
to be married next Wednesday three weeks"
6 Is it possiblcl Well, well, well !"
Yes-going to be married, and so soon too
would you have believed it ~
Never in the world.'
"Why not believe it," said the third young
lady looking up quietly.
g For very good reasons, Miss Carcy-Mag-
dalenc Winters is very pretty, very rich. and a
belle Dr. Lartigue is neither handsome nor
very rich, and not much Of beau, and therefore
it surprises me-"
" Perhaps if You were as we'll acquainted with
Magdalene as am. Miss Myers, you would not
be SO much astonislicd after all. acknowledge
that she is both pretty, rich and bcllc-she also
is in possession OF fund Of good sense, which
will prompt her to choose for herself husband
who possesses an honest heart and integrity of
purpose, rather than handsome face, and who
will allow strict principles of morality and virtue
to prcpondcratc in the scale in which its opposite
is only lengthy pursc.''
That sounds very well, and must acknow-
ledge to you, Miss Carey, that if DR.. I.artiguc
is all you insinuatc, it is not so very surprising
after all. Gcoil morning, girls" and away ran
the volatile but good hearted Eusenia Myers to
call ON another friend. who lived at the extreme
end of the town. " How do you DO, Matilda
What! sick as usual 2" said she to Miss Brent
who was always sick. without little bit of gos-
sip to cnliven her. Have you heard the news !''
"What ncws2" exclaimed the victim of ell
nui, springing up from tho sofa.
"Why, nothing less than that DR.. I.artiguc
is to be married to AIagdalcno Winters. next
Wednesday three weeks" -...- .....z
!" J beg your pardon. it is a mistake" put in
sour looking dame, who had entered by an oppo-
site door.
DR.. Lartiguc is to be married next Wcdnes-
day three weeks, not to Miss Winters but to
Adelaide Darlington"
"Why, that can't be so-I got it from Dora
Fremont, and she is to be Miss Winters brides
maid"
{; And got it from Julia Wli,lcsbay, who is
to be Miss Garlington's bridesmaid, ;, rctortci the
other lady.
" Well. we won't quarrel about it," sai.l Miss
Myers, who saw the color rising to the cross
dances brow.
= liz surely can't be going 10 marry BOTH" al
most screamed Matilda Brent quite recovered
from her inlisposi,ion.
Mercy OIL me. perhaps he is ~ said Eu-
gcnia, and away she darrd for home. Charley,
what do you think" said she as she entered the
house, " DR.. Lar,iguc is to be married next
Wednesday three weeks to Mag,lalcnc Winters
aud Adelaide Darlington"
" Iurrah! by the Sultan, that will do" said
Charles Myers. Going to marry two girls at
one time? Well. by the beard of the Prophet
and NIL the three tailed Bashas between the Gulf
Of Venice and the Bosplorus, the fellow should
be tied up in sack and thrown to the fishes"
Rather have bowstring round his neck, !"
grumbled the father of Eugenia-"I hope you
will have nothing to say to him Jenny
=" No indeed, pa-hccan't catch me. think
he will find his hands full with two wives to
manage guess hc would bo put to it, with
three"
The news flew like wild-Gre and in few
days it was reported nll over the country that
DR.. I.artigue was to be married TO two, some
said to five or six girls the same night.
".Aunt," said stopping short, 4" it has just oc-
Cured to me why your town is called Linqua-
ville guess from what have read that it must
have been formerly great place for gossip"
"Formerly! yes dear, not only formerly, but to
this day--and am afraid that more appropl late
name for it will never be found, for James tells
me Lingua" stands for tongue. 1t is nothing
but tiulc-tattlc from Monday-ycs, from Sun
day morning till Saturday night. The Lingua-
williams have so much business to attend to for
other people, that they don't find much time to
attend to their own concerns, and if it was not
for DR.. Lartigue-but do, dear, go on; want
to know if he really was going to marry two
girls at onee7"
Now, patient reader, that have given you
the quintesccnce Of the gossip upon the subject,
will proceed, with cousin James, to cnlightcn
you as to the truth of the matter, as given by
the sandcrcd Doctor to him, but reported in
cousin Jamcs's. own language, as nearly as l
now remember it.
DR.. Lartigue, after combating manfully with
the OBSTACLES which orphan boys frequently meet
with, had acquired respectable education. and
commenced the study Of medicine with high
ly respectable physician. He was young stu
dent and susceptible, and his prcccptor was
rich in the possession ofa very lovely daughter,
his only child, the pride and glory Of his old
age. Day after day, as young Lartiguc me. the
sweet wining beams of Magdalene's violet eyes,
he felt the fascination Of their guilecss influence,
and bowed to its thraldom, and before he left
her presence, fos the regions of Northern