Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1853-12-01
From the N. o. Crescent City, Nov. 81.

ANOTHER GRAND ROW AMONG THE UPPER TEN
Angela Metella de Mantaro-descended from
an ancient family of the proud Castilian race
extremely beautiful in person, and accomplish
/ ed in manners possessed of wealth here, vas
domains lit is said) in the land of her ances
tors, and also possessing a knowledge of hel
numerous destinations and advantages-coulG
not have been expected to pursue a different
line of conduct, under the circumstances here
| in related, from that which is set down to hel
credit by general rumor, which in this case
obtains universal credit.
Thomas Tomson, or Tom, as he was vulgar
ly known, enjoyed the enviable good luck of
being a declared and accepted suitor for her
aristocratic hand, and he was in consequence
thoroughly detested by the majority of his less
fortunate rivals, who endeavored, in all sorts of
ways, to cast him out from the place he had OBJ
tained in the fair lady's affections. Tomson
was an exquisite Of the first water. His per-
sonal attire was faultless, and his face and
and figure came near enough to the Apollo or
Adonis standard to captivate the fancy of al
most any sentimental miss Of tender years and
doubtful discretion. Tomson was one Of those
who believe that
"Speak six times 10 the same single lady,
And you may get the wedding dresses ready"
and his experience, since the time when he
commenced the cultivation Of moustache,
had in nowise altered this opinion. For this
reason he was neither surprised nor extrava
gantly elated that the naughty Spanish beauty
manifested in an extreme degree her apprecia-
ton of his various personal attractions and
endowments Tomson had become accustom-
ed to finding himself adored by the other SEX
and resigned himself to it with submission
equal to that of the eels who are said to be-
come accustomed to skinning and he treated
her sudden and frequent bursts of passion, of
alternate love, jealousy, and anger, with as
much nonchalence as refractory and incorri
gible husband might be supposed to sit and
smoke his cigar under the inhiction of cur
tain lecture.
Report hath it that this amiable and harmo-
nious pair, whose wooing period gave such
ample promise of future connubial beati6cation,
had made every preparation for their nuptials,
and had even selected the day that was to be
honored with their ratification. But suddenly,
and most unaccountably to all who knew them.
and to none more so, of course, than Tomson's
aforesaid rivals, coldness sprung up between
them, which appeared almost to amount to
aversion. Whenever and wherever they met
at theatre, ball, or concert in the social circle,
or on the public promenade, she bore herself
with lofty and unapproachable mien, while
he seemed totally unaware of the existence Of
such parsonage as Angela Metella de Man
taro. What could be the cause Of this change
from burning July to frigid December? Their
mutual friends puzzled each other in vain with
shrewd guesses, and no one, not even them.
selves, knew the true state Of the case.
Angela had frequently of late met her future
husband with an extremely beautiful young
female leaning upon his arm--so beautiful, in
fact, that our heroine's cheek paled with anger
and Redeemed with jealously at every such en-.
counter. When she afterwards saw her lover
she treated him with digni6ed and distant
regard, with view of impressing him with a
sense Of his own unfaithfulness and inconstan-
cy, and her knowledge of the same-for that
was the light in which she looked upon
the matter. Tomson, perhaps, understood the
cause of this demeanor, but as he could not
consent that one female should claim an ex-
elusive property in him, he treated the affair
with his usual cool indifference. And thus
matters went on, until there appeared to be
hopeless rent in the fabric of their love-
We do not pretend to say that Iomson s
above mentioned rivals had been at all instruc
mental in promoting this extraordinary state OF
affairs between the lovers, but it Is certain that
Angela kept herself through some mysterious