Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-09-21

AN ISTEkCkPTED LETfER.-IHc Hc lOl
lowing glimpse at young lady's heart
taken from a letter to a bosom friend
will amuse, if they do not instruct, tht
reader:
! /. You tell me, dear Amy, you're
anxious to know all about that affail
with nv recreant beau. IT'S quite ar
embarrassing matter, tits true; but you
know, dearest love, Pve no secrets from
you; and so, without any undue affecta.
ton, I'll tell you tale you may tell to
the nation.
2. / had met him quite often at party
and ball, had danced with him, talked
with him, walked with him, all-had
heard all those stories, where largely
he draws on the works of his country
man, Baron Munchausen-had looked
at his pictures, and laughed at his
"brogue," and thought him charm
ing. unprincipled rogue.
8. Conceive my surprise, when, one
fine summer morning, without e'er a
word or a whisper of warning, the ele-
CANT Herman, flor that is his name
from some old Dutch Duchy he says
that he came, in terms which / cannot
this moment repeat, his heart and his
palette laid down at my feet.
4. o, Amy, 1 trembled and colored
up so! 1 dared not say eyes" and
couldn't say "no." My breath came
so fast that l hardly could speak-all
the blood rushed at once from my heart
to my cheek; while Herman sat by me
quite tranquil and cool, and thought me,
no doubt, complete little fool.
8. At last l got out, sit was such a
surprise-knew not what to say"--and
he looked in my eyes with Kind Of a
look that | couldn't resist-and then
with sueh ardor my fingers he kissedl
In short, dear Amy, l hardly know
how, l ended with saying-I would be
his vrotci
6. After that, matters went along
smoothly and trim; he made love to
me, and I listened to him. We often
took rides in the sunshiny weather, and,
on rainy nights, sat on the sofa together.
He used to talk to me sometimes of his
mother-also Of the Colonel, his won
derful brother.
7. 1 loved him, dear Amy, I'll own
to the truth! my soul was bound up in
the picturesque youth 1t was not his
beauty that won me alone; but some
thing he had in each look and each tone
"a mixture Of poetry, romance and
art, that, taken together, quite did for
my heart.
8. Twas proud of him, too,-only,
once in while, when he told his ad-
ventures, and people would smile, and
tread on each others toes under the
table, even my warm affection was al
ways unable to keep me from telling
him that | did wish his tales would not
smell quite so strongly of fish.
9. But then I'd excuse him one way
and another. I'd say, "All the world
lies, for something or other-politicans
for places. and lawyers for pelf, and
merchants to get goods off from the
shelf; they're in for it all, though they
'fe' and pooh-poohl' it--and since he
enjoys it he may as well do it."
10. Herman lOas all devotion, all pas
sion and sighs; he seemed but to live in
the light of my eyes. What words Of
endearment would fall from his lips!-
how countless the kisses on the finger
tips! "Love thinks but of lovel" was
his ardent pretence. Alas, l found his
reekoned-dollars and centsl
IL. One day he came in from his la
bors at SCHOOL, thought he appeared
unaccountably cool. Not one dearest
angel" or any such word, from the
tongue of the altered adorer was heard.
That evening he called upon Annabel
Chase; the next day | learned the
whole state of the case.
12 He supposed, it appears, dear
papa had the "rocks," was rolling in
dollars, and swelling with "stocks, "
would "cut up in good style, and in
consequence that his child would come
in for bit of ''the fat" When he
learned his mistake, it was odd TO dis
cover how the rock went at once to the
heart of my lover!
13. He came up to see me, and saw
me alone, and unfolded affairs with q
grace all his own. He would have pre-
ferred' me, he said, for wife, to any
one that he had met in his life; but as
for himself, why he hadn't hUrs, and
1 must agree that it was u fat rirre.
IA. Such being the case, he would
bid me adieu, and hoped the affair
would not render me blue / thanked
him, and told him always were taught,
that the sea held as good fish as ever
were caught-'and perhaps l may yet
do as well, my dear Herman, as to De
linked for my life to a penniless Ger
man.
Is. So we parted. I hurried away
from the scene, if not very blue did
feel rather green ] left in the stage
coach the very next day, and shed
few tears the first part of the way; but
FIVE miles passed over, the roads grew
so bad, / looked out for the jolts and
forgot to be sad. I
is. When l got in the cars, and was
safe in my seat, what person, of all IN
the world, should / meet7 Why, whom
but Fred Forrestil He has, as you
know, been travelling in Europe three
,,oo,.eo- eo and has orowu--oh so