Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1856-01-02

think have the very best reasons for think
ing SO. First-1 have the very best reasons
for supposing that you are a coquet, lover
of conquest over mems hearts
Second-your letter leaves me not little
in doubt, as to your entire seriousness and
may it not be that you intend to trip me
to lead me along in a frank. serious way, and
then turn upon me your killing battery Is
1T not possible that now, even while | talk
as with an honest girl, you are playing the
coquet, and are only seeing how far YOU can
lead me on? | do have some fears that this
may be so but if you do play false, SalIie,
III be revenged-will upon my word! The
fact is, I'm the easiest thing to manage in
the world j; indeed, Pm as credulous as a
kitten, and do many weak things, when I am
met with open frankness, even though deceit
covers the whole. It's true as preaching,
| so you know just how to take me, as no doubt
you did before this declaration. But never
mind, if get caught by you there is CON-
fort in knowing that could not be casght
by fairer victor; and this is no slight com
} fort let me asusre you.
Now then, you have never told me who
and what you are particularly.
i. Miss S. Well Pm little green-eyed, gol-
t den haired fairy, with heart in the right
place, that like every body's else has felt the
sings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Mr.. n. Plague Now Sallie, though |
have heard by the winds that you are rich.
handsome and talented desire to know
| from your own pen, what you are. l care
!, nothing about your pecuniary circumstances,
only hope you are rich, for your own sake !;
nor for your beauty or talents, but tell me
something of your likes and dislikes-your
notions of the world and the people, espe.
eially the way in which they live Tell me
whether Or not you are q matter-of-fact girl
/ or dreamer.
Miss S. Well, I'm little OF both-that
, is, dream when there's nothing ofsuficient
Importance to keep me awake to the stern
realities of this working-day world : for
instance, write poetry and prose when I've
, nothing else TO do, because Satan finds &C.
Mr.. n. Are you a piece of loreabls i'm
: pressible flesh and blood, or an ETHEREAL, un-
: substantial semi-beau-ideal.
t Miss S. Loveable'- well that's
rather delicate query for me to answer !;
don't you think so?
lnpressibie'-yes, very | feel for 9TH
ers' wo,' always; and little pale, barefoot
Q beggar ehild, crowds itself right into nv syru-
t pathles, and nestles down in the very warm
/ est corner of my heart.
t Mr.. N. Have ye got soul that is suseep-
q tible of loving strong and long? so strong that
:, it twould carry you beyond the point W here cal
} culation should be lost in Indifference to all
} things b1tone, and that one, the enjoyment OF
q the object loved? That's, isyour low at times
d the all-absorbing sentiment and feeling ot
Y your soul or are you utilitarian, earthly and
d calculate the chances Of getting plum be-
10 fore giving your heart away? Come, now,
! tell me about it, because | want to know
Miss S. | reckon I could love pretty con.
cId llrr khak ie
or of feeling the sweet pain, that inly thrill
If ing, but e1alts it more Should chance
y to meet with one that came up to nv stan
% dard, don't believe that Jona,han's love
h tor David would go a whit beyond mine.
h AS for giving my heart away for the SAKE
r. of getting a plum,' | don't believe in tn,
u theory though | shouldn't wonder if i
P, were practiced now and then, FROM the nu
OF merous thin and funerallooking Wiyss v,
a. meet WITH now a-days. For nv part, T.,
!! rather keep my heart all to myself, than of
- fer it in exchange for golden sorrow an.
-. if mine ever gets caught, it won't be by Gn
! feathers, honey-.nd-pie fxments, you'd bet
D. ter believe!
lp Mr.. n. You are a cruel creature, Sallie
e. ah indeed you are, for know ye, you hat
well nigh knocked all my ambitious notion
ct into PIE, with single sweep of you
n my cherished plans of procedure, upset
IN my porridge dish, and thrown all the fat il
ID the fire
~ Miss S. How?
he Mr.. N. How? say your why think m!
he darling-don't remember?
d, Miss S. No, indeed!
ne Mr. n The deuce, you don't IF min
re eUer gets caught!p
in Miss S. Oh I'll take that back, Nat.
to Mr.. n. My sweet little southern rosebud
ng Richard is himself again.
NJ You have read Shelly? Well tell me wha
is you think of the notes to Queen Nab, espe
to cially that which treats of marriage.
in Miss S. Why did you think | had roa
ke Shelley? | never quoted but one line of hi:
De- in my life, and didn't do that from any loy
Id | have for him, let me tell you. Yes, haa
lat read Shelley, but got enough of him in
TX very short time; we are not on speakin
cd terms, at all. | don'tlike him, nor ythin
I'll he says, 50 far as views generally are col
1e- cerned, the language though, is pretty an
IN poetic enough-but don't like him, that
IN all. How any woman of common sense, an
ip, a single spark Of divinity animating her b
,ut som, could voluntarily unite her destiny wit
on- that of such piece of profanity-such
i'd, Heaven-daring mortal, is beyond my power
- of com prehensiOn. In my opinion, if tn
world were full of Shelley's, let US go
deep down as righteous indignation cou
hurl US, we would never find place If puI
ishment to exceed the miseries of this mo
hat tai life
ar So you see Pm no Shelley-ite. l don
! T. repudiate the Bible-on the contrary, | b
no lieve every word therein written, and thin
ION it much easier to believe the world was CT
No ated ty a Supreme Being, than that it exi
vas ted from all eternity. Mr.. S. seems to thin
md that rather hard stretch Of the mind yc
the know, which tells mighty little for the cap
hnt bilities of his, | think. He would ha'
90 shown himself more of man, had he wri
hnt ten against Gretna-grecn and hasty ma
for riages, instead of advocating a system tn
vou would very speedily make love, like Col
not smiths friendship, but name, and wri
the epitaph Of all human happiness!
our Mr.. N. What are your notions upon t
subject of Temperance
vp Mr.. n. You know well enough what
lew think of that, aad I'll simply say, hearti
hut wish not one Of your sex could ever we
not the silkep chords of matrimOny, until he
in came thorough adherent. 1t would save
I world Of wretchedness to woman and degr
inst dation to man, for there isn't one In hu
MID dred that don't think with noble Campbell
oui without the smile from partial beauty won,
1t OH what were man +! a world without a sun. y