Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1854-08-17
Only for Amusement,
ny VIRGINIA :. TOWNSEND.

What's that you're saying, miss? You,
mean, with the dark bright eyes and the
smile lowering around the bed of dimples in
your lips, like stray CLEANS of light. Only
for amusement, eh9"
The words came very musically from that
little-rosebud mouth, and the careless, CO.
quettish toss of those brown ringlets, wa.
certainly very bewitching. And SO you
have added another name TO your list Of
conquests, ard in order TO gain this, you
! have for the last six months been acting q
lie. You know you have, and that look Of
slandered innocence don't effect the matter
one whit.
You meant to bring him to your feet, and
you've done it. They said you couldn't
that his heart would be invulnerable even
to charms like yours and then you resolved
by fair means or foul, you'd achieve the
thing. 1t was hard matter at first though,
wasn't it ? But You smiled and sighed, YOU
watzed and walked, you beamed and blush
ed you looked and langushed, YOU flirted
and flu!tered until at last you triumphed.
What gances--half meek, half-melting
used to steal mp from undOr the corners Of
your dropping lashes--what smiles, sudden
and subduing, used 10 fash across that pref
! ~ face Of yours what low, sweet replies
used to drop from your lips! You don't
wonder when you look in the glass, that the
fellow couldn't stand it.
Then how you managed 10 get next to
him on the cosiest corner OF the sofa. pre-
tending that your eyes were weak and
couldn't endure the light or out in the gar
den where the breeze travelled down the
flowerrufled paths, and the stars looked
with their meek, seraph eyes upon you, for
the heat Of the crowded rooms always gave
you headache.
Then somehow you could never pin yaur
shawl. Your fingers were so clumsy with
your gloves on, and your bonnet strings
were always getting into knot that you
couldn't disentangle without his assistance
aud would ne he so kind as 10 hold the bo-
quct Of roses and seran;urls you were going
10 send to that darling friend of yours E?
How your little rosy fingers glanced among
his, as you wound the blue ribbon around
the stems.
But can't begin to cnumerate the thou
sandth part Of your doings md vancouver
inss. and you were so innocent, so childika
wi'hal. Goodness. A gray.headed diplo-
matist might have envied your skill.
Well, the denouemcnt came at last. and
didn't you behave admirably. What look
of cool surprise you managed to call up and
how very courtepusly you informed him that
you never dreamed of his intentions being
serious, You sincerely hoped nothing in your
conduct had given him encouragement, and
you should always entertain for him very
high esteem. Didn't he look blank though.
But you don't quite like TO think of the ex-
preston which overswept his face the next
moment. Even your heart was smitten with
momentary sclf-reprooch,
And so he has gone TO California, leaving
his widowed mother and sisters TO mourn
/. the absence Of their only son and brother.
What's that you're saying? It's nothing to
. you. You're not responsible for hi, move
, meats. Yes, you are responsible too, res
! pons>ble in the sight of high Heaven for the
true. noble heart you have wrongcd and
t wrecked responsible for the faith in wo-
3 mans truth and affection, which you have
; destroyed; responsible for the dishonor you
e have done TO your sex; responsible for the
= love You called into being 'onlY for your own
: amusement
# Woman's smile will beam and her beauty
e brighten around his pathway again, snd
- these may once more win his fancy, bu;
?. from the story OF that truth and constancy
g which is her chief ornament, he will turn
$ with the sneer OF the sceptic, for he wilI
= carry the memory yourself, the decever
to his grave.
And ON ! beautiful lady, believe me, when
you stand at that Bar from whose iudgmen.
there is no appeal, and your life record is
laid open in the light of the All-searching
Eye, you will find that for all these things
it will not avail YOU to reply, cnIy for amt Sc.
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