New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-08-19
DUELING ANECDOTES.

There is trait in Irish character which have
always conceived to be naturally chivalrous,
and that is general dislike to seek in courts
of law q momentary compensation for honor
outraged through woman's folly. In England,
reparation for loss of services is considered a
thing as correctly reclaimable as loss of profit
on a broken contract for cargo of seal oil or
guano, while in the sister kingdom, in nine cases
out of ten, the man who works upon the weak
ness of wife, or trifes with the affections of q
sister, is not subjected to the assessment or
amount of injury by the computation of jury,
but is summoned to give personal satisfaction
in the field. Many fatal case, recorded in the
annals of Irish dueling, will tell how frequently
prohigate success has paid, in turn, o bloody
penalty.
In caricaturing Milesian manners and feel
ings, it has been asserted that you could not
look at Cork lady at supper table but she
graciously murmured, s'Port, if you please!"
or dance q second time with mans sister, that
he was not certain to drop in next morning, be-
fore you dressed, to inquire whether your in
tentions to the young lady were matrimonial.
That number Of unhappy marriages have been
effected by pistol intervention is too true; and
| recollect one sad case where the love was on
the lady's side, and fine spirited and honora-
BILE young fellow, with all before him that could
promise happiness, was suddenly removed from
existence, ere the third week closed that fol-
lowed as bright a union as could be fancied.
R was remarkably handsome, and those
personal advantages were enhanced by the
total unconsciousness that he possessed them
young lady saw-loved-a remembering
what Viola's friend suffered from concealment
she saved the damask of her cheek, and intim-
ated to the gentleman the state of her affections
In reply, poor R candidly told his situation
to the lady. He had wooed and won the only
woman he loved, and the next Monday would
bless him with her hand.
Harrette NJ was handsome. self-willed
rich, and proud as Lucifer R, in fortune
| was her equal, but in birth d caste below. Th,
| circumstance, however, that imbittered he
rejection-and if rejection be humiliating to
man, how fearfully must it agonize the woman
| who, perverting conventional usages, sues whel
she should be sought-supplicate what sh
should conceal, and is rejected?
| "Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned;
Nor He'll fury like woman spurned.n
| And for whom had her hand and fortune bee
declined' The daughter of village curate
rich in nothing but youth, and innocence, an
beauty.
The Devil never prompts delinquency, tha
he does not manage to supply a tool. Georg
Pemberton was Harriette's kinsman, lieuteI
ant the -th, wretchedly poor, and his regimen
an expensive one. His manners were assuming
and, with an empty purse, how many sligh
will an i'll tempered individual experience shoul
he have the misfortune of being gazetted to
crack corps! George Pemberton was returnin
| on leave between returns, to raise small sum
money; or, falling, to sell out; and he four
| his cousin Harriette all alone five minutes aft
the - Chronicle had been received detail
ing in glowing language, the beauty of t
bride, as being in perfect keeping with that
fha harA rAcny act Yoay xutp WOO VIC hnG
conjugal allegiance at the altar. The hap
couple the paper added, chad gone to -
s to spend the honeymoon"
In such frames of mind, and such circul
stances, the cousins met. Pemberton. in rig
of his relationship, would have saluted his fa
kinswoman; but she drew her face away, a
: looking contemptuously at his short and shap
: less person, coolly observed: "Palm to pa
must do, George; for, i faith, you are too ug
! even for o cousin to kiss!"
5 LAS handsome and as insolent as ever! Wh
( Harriette, expected to see d willow wrea
Is and pallid check. You bear your throw oy
. patiently"
. The ladys brow contracted, and she haug
tily waved her hand. Sc Enough! no more
this; | know your business here. You wa
: two hundred pounds, and my father will Il
: advance as many pence, were it to save yo
e neck, and not your commission"
d linen L must send IN my papers, and lea
II the -th.''
!, ,s Unless some fool is found who will lend mon
70 to a gentleman, who, on six shillings -ds
e keeps pair of hunters observed the lady.
8. 8. Pemberton looked sulky and displeased.
Il ssNay, George, thou art ill-favored enoug
e. e. without knitting those beetle-brow togeth
a 1 have the money. Would you earn it %
= 81 would 60 to the Devil,'' was the rep
''rather than quit the -th from sheer power
3 What shall dos'
at She turned her dark and lightning eyes
3. his, and, after pause of half minute, point
s with her finger to the paragraph which q
q nounced the hated marriage. Then droppi
y her voice to an emphatic whisper, she laid
lips close to her kinsman's ear: .' Read Sp
L. me that honeymoon-the moneys thine!''
And, without waiting reply, she hurried
her apartment.
Never did the arch enemy of man select
better agent than George Pemberton To
= currish temper he united suffieency of amir
es courage to make him dangerous; and secret
fuences, with which his revengeful kinswon
: was totally unacquainted, fitting him for
tn task He knew that his retirement from re
l ment oficered by men of property, and to VIII
rs he had made himself obnoxious by the
attempt of yelling poverty under insoler
= would be felt a triumph. But deadlier feeli
er toward the husband of Lucy Meadows urged
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