The Trinity journal., 1856-09-20
Night Scene in Young Lady's Chamber

4 'NNNNhY
young lady at the West Enc was eXces-
sively frightened by little circumstance
which transpired about the hour of midnight.
The young lady whose beauty is only equal
cd bv her modesty and whose 'eye'S dark
charm has caused more than one waiStcoat
to palpitate. had retired to her chamber,
where, after laying aside the greater portion
of her wearing apparel she committed her
self to the tender embraces of Morpheus,
whose soothing influences were aided by the
gentle breath of Zephyr, who came in at the
open window and famed her cheeks with his
fcathery wings In word she was snooz-
ing nnely-or, to use the language of II mod
crn bard
Sleep on her velvet cyclids lightly pressd
And dreamy sighs uphcavcd her snowy breast,
While starbcams thro' the window softly creeping
Stole to her couch, and trembling there stood
peeping.'
1t was, as we said about midnight, when
the young lady was aroused from her deli
ciouS slumbcr by hearing noise at her win
dow. Half unclosing her eyes, she was
startled by the sight of II corpulent form APP
parently struggling to gain admission to her
chamber through the open window 1t at
once struck her that the intruder had been
caught by the rear of his unmcntionabes,
by nail or some other sharp instrument, as
he seemed struggling with stern dctermi-
nation to enter. Her first thought was to
faint-hCr second, to give the fellow push,
her third to jump out of the window as soon
as he jumped in-hcr fourth, to scream, which
was Immediately carried into effect. The
whistle of the locomotive on the Iron Noun
tain road, when it gave its first snort on the
4th Of July, was but a whisper to the screams
of that young lady. The whole house and
half the neighborhood were awakened by the
outcry
The old folks, three female servants, and
! two big brothers rushed to the rescue, and
broomstcks, mop-handles and boot-jacks
flashed in the gas-light as the household en-
tered the room Of the frightened beauty
An examination of the figure in the window
dispclled the fears of all, and changed the
screams Of the young lady into shouts of
laughter
The imaginary fat man was only her own
darling hooped shirt, which she had hung near
the window, and which the wind had inhat-
ed and set in notion There was no more
sleeping in the house that night
The happy termination of the adventure
put the family into such good humor, that
they laughed and talked until breakfast
time. Young ladies should be very careful
about the disposal of their hoops when they
go to bcd.-,H LouiS UcraM.
CHARLES LAMB.-What student Of En-
gliSh literature has not read the Essays Of
Eia?" They were written by Charles Lamb.
/ All dear, quaint, witty kind, Charles
Lamb, Born in London, educated at Christ
Church, and made clerk in the South Sea
House, the friend Of Samuel TAYLOR Cole
ridge and a gcnus-who docs not know
him? Colcrdgc and Lamb used to sit to-
gethcr in the dark parlor of the Cat and
Salutaton," Smthhcld untlmorning drink
ing and talking, talking and drinking. And |.
such talking ! They discussed politics. his /
tory, philosophy, and poetry and they
drank-drank until the wine was in and the
wit was out These bouts did Charles
Lamb no good. In his confession he thus
wrote
The waters have gone over me- But
out of the black Depths could be heard
| would cry out to all those who have but
set a foot on the pcrIous flood Could the
youth, to whom the flavor of his FIRST wine
is delicious as the opening scenes Of life, or
the entering npon some newly discovered
paradise, look into my dcsolation, and be
made TO understand what dreary thing it
is when a man shall feel himself going down
a prccipicc with open eyes and passive will
to see his destruction and have no power
to stop it, and yet to feel it all the way en-
anating from himself to see all the good
ness cmpted out Of him and yet not able
to forget time when it was otherwise to .
bear about the ptcous spectacle of his self
ruin-coalG he sec my fevcred eye, feyerish
with last nights drinking, and feverish look !
ing for the nights repetition of the folly
could he feel tie body Of death out of which .
| cry hourly with fcebler and feeblcr outcry
to be dclivcrcd-it were enough to make
him dash the sparkling beverage to the
earth, in all the pride Of its mantlng temp
taton.
oh, if wish could transport me back
to those days of youth, when draught
from the next clear spring could sIake any
heats which summer suns and youthful exer-
else had power to stir up in the blood, how
gladly would return to the pure element
and drink of children, and of the child-ke .
holy hermit"
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