The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-09-30

tie impressible 20 give any man the least en-.
couragement fall in love with her; though
no doubt she i&suld not fail to be universally
admired where er she went. The few young
men, who weresForth baving, were all so spoil
ed in these fir.jng days They expected the
Young ladies 20 meet them at least quarter of
the way 1t was pity but she did not know
what could be Gone for so very dignifsd per
son 90 their y6aug friend, unless they could
induce Sir Chssles Grandson or Tbaddeus of
Warsaw to COM. TO life for her benefit"
whisper fros behind the scenes: Mrs. Van
RooselaDdt had developed 6re natural talent
for match maksSg in the way Of her duty, in
successively anst successfully disposing OF six
daughters of ID own TO six soDs-sinnpletons,
ignoramuses, 5se Jockeys, and others of men
of fortune. L. .-the celebrated British surgeon,
who, after he S-<tired from business, used to
ride down to now and then, and cut off
leg or arm way of amusement, this tri.
umphant lady, stead Of resting lazily beneath
her laurele, NJ took generous pride and
pleasure in &C, = "a show woman to any beau
ty, heiress, or .ish girl of family" socalled,
whom she couss catch, and in speedily making
her over to &c : body who had fine gilded
cage to put he ITO For the first time in her
life, she had y had q peerless beauty and
respectable he SO, in one individual, in her
hands for the q ater part of three months, u..
terly in vain. 3 it'll this most remarkable bait
on her experts I'D hook and with as fine 6sh
in the sea as yer were caught, she had not
only caught nj sng, except Tartar, but had
not even to he knowledge had 80 much as
nibble. She ~ therefore be excused if
though as usua IN the most gracious state of
mind towards l. fashionable world in general.
Mrs. Ronaldson seluded-she was doubly nifty
where Mrs. Roee91lson's niece was concerned !;
first, because G., stance had given herself airs
towards her ses,ndiy, because Constance had
given herself a9 towards other people. She
might have fou@d it hard enough to pardon
Coustance's dig 5,y Anybody in her situation
might have for, & it hard enough to pardon
Constance's has Ayhtinees, which. if the latter
had been ten yea younger, would have been
called by its pro 1sr name, naughtiness.)
Thus, then, FRS. Ron adson's compassion
was left in the lark. Acting on the scanty
hint Of the docte- however, in the spirit of the
undoubted origise.tor of homeopathy-the Eise
man, in the fine I'D English ballad, who, hay
ing jumped into = brambie-bush and scratched
out both his eye, on perceiving his loss, at
once, with pre-. ence Of mind and resource
never to be too nnch commended nor faithful
ly initiated, and A,ith all his might and main,
jumped into another bush and scratched them
in sgain-she an ,ued that what ball might
cause ball migl cure and gave her niece one
Immediately, at 8 venture, as q farmer might
bolus to an inc spoeed COW. Greatly to her
satisfaction, her -Atient seemed not ill-disposed
to her remedy I'D from that time the good,
supplemented IN, ,sron-a Roman Catholic, and
at heart q devotess--wss indefatigable in going
out and inviting =, making parties to 60 to the
theatre and the OK "a, and in Accompanying Con-
ata tn uirhf nd haor
which she thoue 1t could possibly give her
pleasure Constss ice seemed eager for every
novelty or excitersnt offer ed her and if, after
trying each, she ways psrried every chance
inquiry as to her she had enjoyed her
self, she was PREF ed, and answered so adrot-
ly, that her evass5ns passed unnoticed. Her
aunt's anxieties .,erefore were soon at rest.
If the young beamJy had ever really had any
thing resting up IN her mind, it must she
thought, have bt n some mere girlish trihe,
and have blown away before shs could take.
such interest in gsieties and the late hours
which Constance now kept we're quite sufficient
to explain her continuing somewhat pale. and
sometimes appearing at her light breakfast
with swollen eyes. Thus she had her own way,
and her grief to herself, to the full.
Her nature had its very good side; though
hitherto we have been seeing only the bad;
phrtiy UoChubc cue Wd5 ouOWlIS IL
at the time when our story begins, and partly
because, in spite of our own Mr.. Foxton's and
his readers) unusual sweetness of disposition,
we could not help-all of US, North, South,
East, and West-being good deal out of pa.
thence with her for her suicidal folly, and her
ill-treatment of our hero. A soul, higher and
deeper than she kpew, had lain slumbering and
starving within het and now, at the voice of
her 6rst womanly sorrow, it woke up, lifted its
hollow eyes, and cried day and night within
her, with dreary cry, which her compressed
imperial lips would not yet suffer to pass
through them, q" am hungry l am hungryI"
And when she would have fed it with the best
she had-!uxury, admiration, dissipation-and
it rejected them ali, she looked into her world,
and it was empty; while the cry arose again
yet louder and more drearily, until it seemed to
her that she should 90 mad, I" am hungry
am hungry, hungry, hungry Feed me, or /
shall die | am hungry, oh, my God And
he who giveth food to the beasts and the young
ravens which cry, we may believe, did not dis
regard the dolefut and desperate voice, even
though uplifted in repining misery rather than in
supplieation, for the poor wasted soul was fed
with such nouristrnsnt as itwould receive, il not
at frat with richKnd plenteous meal Wise
human beings do not treat the starving so; and
the prodigal sou must often stoop to eat his
husks, before he makes his way home to the
full feast Of welcome and the fstted calf.