Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-07-02
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BREACH OF PROMISE.
BY A RETIRED ATTORNEY.

a.. ''Is it possible! Rose Leayittr.' ex-
claimed as saw a lady, whom recogoized
as one of the most beautiful heiresses of
Boston, enter my Office. s+-. ~
h Il dare say you are surprised; but my
business is of strictly legal character; SO
you need not waste any exelamations upon
the event." ID s.r t.r,f 81. 80,
Rose Leavitt was beauty and an heir
ess, but she was strange girl, for all that.
Her father had died when she was about
sixteen, leaving something like a million
to be divided between her and her two
brothers. Charles and Henry Leavitt were
much older than she, and both of them
had long been settled down as quiet, order
ly business men. They were respectable
in the fullest sense of the word, and were
never known to be erratic in the slightest
Rose seemed to have been cast in an
other, and entirely different mould from
that in which they had been formed. At
school she had been SO wild that neither
master nor mistress could control her. She
would have her own way-a peculiarity, to
which / am sorry to say, very many young
ladies are addicted. 65 q. ,i = :
For the proprieties of life-I mean for
those set formalities which pass as such in
the world of fashion-she had sovereign
contempt. She hated dandies, hated bells,
hated pianoes, music books, French and
German Hmethods" in fact, she seemed
strikingly disposed 10 live hsE existepce az
ter the dictates of her own fancy, or her
caprices as the reader may choose to re-
gard it. s rs51stss tss. a-f
E She had passed into her twenty-fnt
year without having done anything to call
the attention of the world at large to her.
Her whims had only been manifested in
the school-room, or at the home of the eld-
est brother, with whom she resided
b She was now twenty two, and was in a
fair way to become an historical character,
as / shah soon inform the reader. Of
course Rose had profusion of lovers
,heiresses always find them as plenty as
snow flakes at Christmas. But Rose very
summariIy disposed of the claims of this
crowd, by selecting from them one who
was certainly very superior fellow. He
was not rich, and had not been very for
ward in his attentions, till it was plain to
him, and all the world, that she had taken
a fancy to him. Charles Carpenter was
poor, but he sincerely loved the wayward
girl, and would not have bent at her shrine
If he had not loved her. -4-3 H
Then Rose, after she had secured him
In her tolls, as spider does a fly, seemed
a little disposed to play the coquette.-
Now, Charles Carpenter had not assurance
enough 10 deal with a coquettish hsiress.
He was not man of the world. He was
conscious of the vast difference in their So
cial positions, and when she began to flirt
with another, be did not resentit; blItseem-
ed to regard it as q change of sentiment on
her part, to which he could offer no reason
able objection. Calmly yielding to the fate
which denied him the bliss of being loved,
he let 3coneealment, like worm in the bud
feed on his damask cheek" f..5.-, ~.
I'd Hose hirted. A new star had risen in
the armament Of that circle in which she
moved, in the person of Mr.. Sampson Deele.
He had lately come from Baltimore, was
the son OF q merchant prince, owned of a fine
estate on the Rsppahannock, in Virginia
with two hundred negroes his surrnnd-
ings were syrythipg that could possibly be
desired.
Rose 1irted with him, and Mr.. Sampson
Deele was as constant as the needle to the
pole. Soon the Irritation assumed more
serious aspect. The elegant gentleman
was ever by her side, and she never failed
to smile upon him. Poor Carpenter gave
up sllfor lost, and never intsuded upon her
presence.
For about three months Mr.. Deele had
elung to her, and then it was whispered
that he had proposed and was accepted