Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-09-11
EVENING STAR.
AN INTERCEPTED LkfrER.

AN 1Hxk6CEfIkU LEJTEh. @
The following glimpses at young
ladys heart, taken from letter to 9
bosom friends, will amuse, il they do mol
instruct, the reader: .......
l. You tell me, dear Amy. you'r re
anxi<us to know all about that affair with
my recreant beau. 'Tis quite An embar.
RAISING matter. tbs true; but Won know,
dearest love, I've no secrets from you;
and so, without any undue affectalon
III tell you tale you may tell to the na.
ton.
2. I 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 be
draws on the works of his countrymen,
Baron Manchausen-had looked at his
pictures, and laughed at his 'sbrogue,' -
and thought him charming, unprinci.
pied rogue. /.
s. Conceive my surprise when one fine
summer morning, without cen . word or
whisper or a warning, the elegant Her
man, for that is his name-from some
old Dutch Duchy he says that be came, J
in terms which / cannot at this moment
repeat, his heart and his palette laid down
at my feet.
1. 0, Amy, I trembled, and colored
up so! | dared not say yes" 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.
3. AT last | got out, /" 1t was such O
surprise; knew not what to say" and
he looked in my eyes with q merry kind
of look that l couldn't resist; and then
with such ardor my fingers he kissed
In short, my dear Amy, hardly know
how, ended with saying I would be bis
vrow.
8. After this, matters went along
smoothly and trim he made love to me,
and | listened to him. We often took
rides in the sunshiny weather, and, on
rainy nights, sat on the sofa together.
lie used to talk to me sometimes of his
mother; also Of the Colonel, his wonder
full brother.
Z. loved him, dear Amy, I'll own to
the truth my SOUL was bound up in the
picturesque youth! 1t was not his beau
ty that won me alone; but something
he had in each look and each tone-a
mixture Of poetry, romance and art, that,
taken together quite " did, for my heart.
8. was proud of him. too-only once
IN while, when he told his adventures,
and people would smile, and tread on
each others toes under the table, even
my warm affection was always unable to
keep me from telling him that did wish
his tales would not smell quite SO strong
of fish. .. w.,
9. But then I'd excuse him one way
and another. I'd say, Gall the world
lies, for something or politicians
for plac IS, and lawyers for pelf, and mer-
chants TO get goods off from the shelf;
they're in for it all, though they 'fie'
and pooh pooh" it-and since he enjoys
1t, he may as well do it.
lO. Herman was all devotion; all pas.
sion and sighs; he seemed but to live in
the light of my eyes. What words of en-
dearm mt would fall from his lips how
countless the kisses on my finger tips
''LOve thinks but of loven was his ar.
dent pretence. Alas, found his reck-
oning-dOllars and cents, eIsnu..s
IL One day he came in from his la
bors at SCHOOL, thought he appeared
unaccountably COOL. Not one dearest
argel," or any such word, from the
tongue of the altered adorer was heard.
That evening he called upon Annabel
Chase; the next day heard the whole
state Of the case. .s7li5'b r.. oe.
II. lie supposed, it appears, dear papa
had the "rock, was rolling in dollars,
and swelling with {. stocks. /" would .scut
up" lii good style, and in consequences
that his child would come IN. for q bit
of fat" When he learned his mistake
1t was odd to discover how the rock went
at once to the heart of my lover! i
IL. DE came up to see me, and saw me
alone, and unfolded affairs with a grace
all his own. He would have preferred'
me, he said, for wife, to any one that
he had met in his life but as for himself,
why he hadn't liyre, and must agree
that it was IL fd,it rirre. - 1
IA. Such being the case, he would bid
me adieu. and hoped the affair would not
render me "blue.n thanked him, and
told him always were taught, that the
sea held as good fish as ever was caught
:. and perhaps l may yet do as well, my
dear Herman, as to be linked for my life
to pennileSs German" ... s... ',sr. =
l5. So we parted. hurried away
from the scene, if not very" blue,n Ibid
feel rather green" l 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,
l looked out for the jolts and forgot to be
sad.
Is. When I got in the cars, and was
safe in my seat, what person Of all the
world, should | meet2 Why, whom
but Fred Foresti. He has, as you know,
been travelling in Europe three years or
so, and has grown-oh, SO handsome =
why, Herman himself, when Fred was at
hand, would be laid on the shelf! .s
II II. Now, 1 had intended, when no one
was by, to let down my veil and indulge
in s..cry )" but talking q while to that
love Of q Fred, put such sentimental stuff