The home journal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1857-1857, 1857-03-20

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Kitty laughed aloud in derisioa. "He's
q thousand times handsomer than you
are" she cried, scornlully, "and as much
more entertaining as he is more hand.
somo."
"Come, Kitty, don't be Too cutting
too cruel" began, but Kitty drew her
self up with dignity.
"They call me Katherine, who do speak
to me, sir" she said.
"Katharine, fiddle. sticks" ! cried.-
"Kitty is the prettiest and sweetest name
in the world, and comes natural TO me
don't bother me with your Katherines."
81 dare say you may like it," said Kit
ty, pouting half angrily, "but don't;
It's too free. How would you like it II
persisted in calling you Sim? | declare
ri call you Jim, if yougo on callingmo
Kitty" -.
"Do so, if you like" | replied, "and it
will soon sound to me like tae sweetest
name in the world. But may | presume
to bog from my fair and gracious Lady
Katherine a description Of this wood
Adonis she has been encounterlng"
"He is TALL" began Kitty.
"Taller than II" | interrupted. Kitty
almost annihiliated me with a look.
"By at least half foot--and of an
elegant figure" she continued with
marked emphasis. "He was dressed in
fishing costume, which greatly became
him."
w have an old fishing blouse up stairs
I muttered soto voce, think will get
it out
"The young mans manners were un.
commonly easy and gentlemanly, and
withal perfectly respectful and deieren
tial," continued Kitty. "Having once
| ascertained my name, he never once for
got himself so far as to abreviate it, his
conduct contrasting lavorably in thai
respect with some Of my friends"
"Well, Kitty" said |, "what otherper
rectons has your hero, or have you ex
hausted your list"
"Far from it," said Kitty" indignant
| ly. "He wears his hair parted down ir
the middle like poet, or that charming
Signor Pozzolini in the part of the Ed
cor a Methodist parson," observed
"And beside all that" continued Kit.
ty, che has mustache."
"a last best gift" said |; "but Kitty
that perfection, hope, will not be very
difficult Of achievement. Pll begin to
morrow. Let me seo--tall-handSom
-ngreeable-good manners-elegant fig
ure, and mustache! On the whole
Kitty, | think I'm very much afraid o
my rival" =,
"You have cause" Kitty replied, will
grave dignity.
The next day when Kitty reached he
| little retreat, she found the stranger agar
in its neighborhood; | must do the little
coquette the justice ofconfessing that sh'
did look startled, and indeed vexed, wher
she saw him; but perhaps thinking it to'
late to retreat, sho advanced timidly.
The youth met her with many apollo
gies, and plausible pretence Tor his in
trusion, which she could not gainsay
while something Aattering in his manne
made her blushingly divine that the hop
of again seeing her had been the tru
cause Of his temperance. BE that a
it might, the stranger, perhaps to civ
, Kitty time to recover her confidence, i'm
mediately sauntered off in pursuit Of hi
sport, and Kitty, fancying she had see
, the last Of the new admrer, drew fort
, her book, and settling herself in moss
f corner began to read. She however ha
scarcely succeeded sn fixing her after
tion on it's pages before the pertinaclou
stranger reappeared, and declaring thi
4 fishing was dull work, and that the fis
Q would not bite, he composedly ses
' ted himself at Kitty's feet, and begge
to know the name of the book she wa
g reading.
"Tennyson's Princess" replied Kit.
r curtly.
i. The imperturable stranger declared Il
/. book great favorite Of his, and bega
to talk 50 entertainingly Of books and al
$ thors, and Kitty warmed by the subjec
$ forgot to be djgnifed, and an animante
Q discourse on favorite authors ensued.-
Y Afterward the young man begged pc
:. mission to read her a few passages
$ had selected, which were the very on
). Kitty loved best; he read them well to
II and Kitty's bright eyes sparkled with d
n light as she listened. Turning at last
v the exquisite concluding interview b
n tween Ida and the young prince, the stra
GERS voice became more and more al
more earnest as he read, till coming
: the words
Indeed love thee come
IS Yield thysef up; mine hopes and thine are one )
T. Accomplish thou my manhood and thyself--
Lay thy sweet hands in mine and trust to me-
7, he suddenly flung the book aside, oxclail
ing
Q. "What words! what words! WI
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