The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1855-09-12

where 1 expected beard in time, by dint
of cultivation-put on ridiculous POM
posity, straighten out my dickey and give
my pantaloons desperate hitch.
After an absence of three years / met
Reesy again. Twas almost thunderstruck
I could scarcely believe the evidence of
my senses-so beautiful, so peerless, so
superb was she in the crowning of her
womanhood. Her eyes had become in
vested with a beauty unknown to them be-
fore. They were not cold, calculating,
avaricious grey eyes-but soft, bewitching
eyes, "like brown birds flying straightway
to the ight''-eyes in their beauty set
apart for softness and for sighs-such eyes
as Moore says may have looked from
heaven but were never raised to them be-
fore! Her hair had turned to darker
hue, and curtained as fair, as high, and as
intellectual brow as ever beheld. Her
bust had expanded to fulness-her arms
were round and beautiful-and all was
fascination and gracefulness where all had
been awkwardness and ungainliness be-
fore.
81 have gazed on many brighter face,
But on ne'er one for years,
Where beauty left so soft trace,
As it had left on hers"
Her cheeks tinged with the carmine of the
sunset, were plump, and exquisitely reliev-
ed the fine and expressive mouth that
once had seemed to me so large. Her
features were softened by the refinement
of spirit that felt highly and thought
much. Her intellectual powers had been
favored with as rapid and captivating a
development as her physical. During the
interval of my absence she had been to
school and having imbibed desire for
knowledge, and partly because she wished
to repay her ''tantalizing cousin Fred,''
she went into the improvement of her in
tellect with her whole soul So she stood
before me peerless in her beauty--mighty
in her educational powers-fascinating in
her manners, yet young, loving, impas-
sionate, impulsive creature still. Her
voice seemed daily to grow more rich,
more soft and penetrating than any sounds
my ear had ever before received. 1t was
so clear, SO gentle-the intonations break
ing out into rich melody as they were
Notwithstanding with susceptibility and
delicate passion. learnt to love her
ere long, fondly, devotedly, with all the
warmth, the ardor and the power of my
soul. My looks, my words, my actions,
aside from the hundred other betrayals
that the keen eye of love alone can detect,
revealed the fact to her. But to all my
remonstrances, and my pleadings for her
to become my wife, she would respond
with novel gayety, call up unpleasant remi-
niscences, and repeat the compliments OF
days agone about 'pug noses," and "car-
roty hair" and 'suncouth physiognomy.
She loved me with all the fervency her
futtering heart was capable of, but was
schooling it until she thought I had been
sufficiently punished. For six months
was her companion at the Bellevue Farm
--and eventually was forced to confess
that Reesy did not love me, and that life
would then be forever an aching void. All
last concluded that trip to Europe
would be beneficial to my health! With
my countenance the very image of hope.
lessness and despair, and low tremulous
voice, took her hand to say farewell
toreoer!
She looked up into my face--and il
was all up with cousin Reesy thenl Sweet
impulsive girl! The tell-tale blood mount
ed to her cheeks, suffusing her very tenn
ples-her eyes beamed with love ane
tenderness that a lifetime could not ex
haust--her heart beat wildly, and'her soft
white arms fell around me like the wings
of an angel, while she softly murmured,
"Oh, Fred! / do love you so! Bette
than anybody in the wide, wide world
You shan't go, Fred!"
And, reader, Fred didn't go, In abou
two weeks afterward -
4 AT this juncture was called out of th'
room When / returned I found tha
Reesy had been reading over this littl
episode in my life, and had finished it af
ter her own way by adding the following
verses:
"Isaw her and lov'd her,
l sought her and l won;
q A dozen pleasant Summers
And more since then have run;
And half as many voices,
!, Now prattling by my side,
Remind me of the Autumn
When she became my BRIDE"
j A Fair Offer.
DR.. Franklin made the following offe
to young man: Make" said he. "a full
, estimate of all you owe, and of all that i