The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1857-07-22
MISCEILAN NY.
Miss Albina McLush.
BY n. p. WILLIS.

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dainty people call spiritu ellie. Motion
rapid motion-a smart, quick, squirrel
like step, pert voluble tone-in short, a
lively girl is an exquisite horror! | would
as lief have diable petit dancing his
Internal hornpipe on my cerepellum as to
be in the room with one. l have tried
before to school myself into liking these
parched peas of humanity. l have fol-
lowed them with my eyes, and attended to
their rattle till was as crazy as fly in
drum. l have danced with them, and
romped with them in the country, and
periled the salvation ofmy "white tights"
by sitting near them at supper. l swear
off from this moment do. won't
no-hang me if ever show another
small, lively, spry woman a civility.
Albina McLush is divine. She is like
the description of the Persian beauty by
Hafz: .'her heart is full of passion and
her eyes are full of Sleep" She is the
sister of Lurly McLush, my old college
chum, who as early as bis sophomore
year was chosen president Of the Dolcefar
Niente society, no member of which was
ever known to be surprized At anything
(the college law of rising before breakfast
excepted.) Lurly introduced me to his
sister one day, as he was lying upon q
heap of turnips, leaning upon his elbow
with his head in his hand, in green lane
in the suburbs. He had driven over a
stump, and been tossed out of his gig, and
came up just as he was wonder
ing how in the ID he got there! Abb
ma sat quietly in the gig, and when / was
presented requested me to say nothing
about the adventure. at would be SO
troublesome to relate it to every body
loved her form that moment. Miss
McLush was tall, and her shape, in its
kind, was perfect. 1t was not feshy
exactly, but she was large and full. Her
skin was clear, fine-grained AID transpa-
rent; her temples and forehead perfectly
rounded and polished, and her bps and
chin swelling into n ripe and tempting
pout like the chit ola bursted apricot
And then her eyes-large, liquid and
sleepy-they languish beneath their long
black fringes as if they had no business
with daylight, like two magnificent
dreams, surprised in their jet embryos by
some bird nesting cherub. Oh! is was
lovely to look into them!
She SAT, usually upon fauteuil, with
her large, full arm embedded in the cush-
ion, sometimes for hours without stirring
have seen the wind lift the masses of
dark hair from her shoulders when it
seemed like the coming to life of marble
Hebe: she had been motionless 80 long.
She was model for goddess of sleep,
as she sat with her eyes half closed, lift
Ing up their superb lids slowly as you
spoke to her, and dropping them again
with the deliberate motions of a cloud,
when she had murmured out her sylla-
bles of assent Her figure, in sitting pos
ture, presented gentle delivity from the
curve of her neck to the instep Of her
small round foot lying on its side upon the
| ottoman. remember a fellows bring
ing her plate of fruit one evening. He
was one Of your lively mona horid mon
ster, all right angles and activity. Hav-
| ing never been accustomed to hold her
own plate, she had not well extricated her
whole fingers from her handkerchief before
she set it down in her lap. As it began
slowly to slide towards her feet, her hands
relapsed into the muslin folds and she
fixed her eye upon it with kind of indo-
lent surprise, dropping her lids gradually,
| till, as the fruit scattered over the otto
man, they closed entirely, and liquid jet
line was alone visible through the heavy
lashes. There was an imperial indifier-
ence in it worthy of Juno.
Miss McLush rarely walks. When
she does, it is with the deliberate majesty
off Dido. Her small plump feet melt to
the ground like snow-fakes, and her fig
ure swaps with grace and yieldingness
quite Undesirable. She was idling slow
ly up the Mall one evening, just at twi-
light, with servant short distance be-
hind her, who, to while away the time
between his, steps, was employing him
self in throwing stones at the COWS feeding
upon the common. A gentleman, with a
natural admiration for her splendid per-
son, addressed her. He might have done
more eccentric thing. Without troub-
ling herself to look at him she turned to
her servant and requested him. with a
yawn of desderate ennui, to knock that
fellow down John obeyed his mistress and
and resumed his orders and as his mistress
resumed her lounge, picked up new
handful of pebbles, and tossing one at the
nearest cow, loitered lazily after.
Such superfne Incidence was irresista-
Ole. gave In /, who never before
could summon energy to sigh-I-to
whom declaration was but synonym
for perspiration-I, who had only thought
Of love as nervous complaint and of
women but to pray for a good deliver
ance-I--yes-I-knocked under. Al
bina McLush! Thou vert too exqusitely
lazy. Human sensibilities cannot hold
out foreverl
/ found her one morning slipping her
coffee at twelve, with her eyes wide open.
She was just from the bath, and her COM
plexion had a soft, dewy transparency,
Ike the cheek of Venus rising from the
sea. 1t was the hour Lurlv had told me
she would be at the trouble Of thinking.