Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1858-05-08

TO push matters, Or, as you say, have the
foundation knocked from under me IN Y
fancy food would be knocked from my
lips, and then. dear Will, you i have a
living skeleton in your house. But any
how, to my tale: Left alone to my
Il oughts, my wandering eyes swept the
room, and swept, as it were, as hand
over the harp Of many fair faces .~
"Where beauty fingers"
Where al were fair--there was one
Fai1ef! She, star, then rose upon the
horizon Of my
! ''Oh hush you will make me sick"
| ooh no, I won't and ii did, I would
Int repay you, sir, for the many morbid
fancies, you, -In your conrting days, i'm
posed upon me. But / will hasten.
You know the rest-how that even igno-
rant OF her naIne--her class, sought
and formed acquaiutanceship. Size was
as basEiful and as modest a. I was stiirk-
iag-fearfisl and no progress, not even
that she migAt know ME AS ] would be
known, WAS made -.
Ics ! and you we,e a gzonts. If you
felt as you would have NE believe yuu
cit, aud did not press your 81 t OF for
ever hush the matter"
"You know the situaliou--"
"Of course | do! Did you never
meet her in society agaiu?"
Yes! but never felt justifabIe in
pressing myself upon the attention Of a
young lady to whom was almost un-
lnown ; and then was fearful Of one Of
those stabs 10 the quick in the shape Of
a rejection. Bcsiles the dream was too
pleasant TO risk its dissipation by bring |
ing its rays Of Illusion under such f. |
cts rs prompt pertinacity would have |
produced However, now for the varia-
tions-One evening as reciiaed upon /
thai sba;ed couch upon the porch, /
telt after the usual train If thought Of |
iier. and tbs dangers cf delay and the
iuaug other soft tancies that remembr
ces OF ber always enseuderel IL say I
felt all inward, deep resolve to face every
ling, acu' ac''ve so've tx j question, ] started
o my feet full with earnest resolution
enough dare assert, to have made ME
ACE 3 regiment Of sepoys, Pressing
1astlly open writing drawer, I gfasped
! sheet Of paper and wrote upon its iyo-
= surface, "pl5iIoposaa kost."
'Wha& did you mean BY that i
"IIoId on and you will see There
vas u phiIopoeua betweed Us, aud if my
l(vances were not dissgreable, knew {
uougb of womankind to know that an !
'stIess, inadvertanb answer would come.
t, altogether out Of The question, my +
nipple paper would be torn and scatter K
i, or kept as an evidence of maiden1y !
rlumph. If the scales bent beneath a
ipgs even Of reciprocity, it would hnd
$ way back to me with, token in its l.
oIds, if but rose Leaf. iii stayed with
he receiver, and Eheard of it no more, :.
he secret was my own and an idle love ;.
'onld be all I'd have to cherish for one
'ho could uot care for me. IF it came
ould wait, if II were years, until the !
hahn that was between as Was broken 3
y the arm of si,ne I sent it, and oh, h
Will! it was with anxious suspense that +
waited Tor the result, 4 thousand fears =.
eset your friends mIud,r Had he IN =
5norance committed . fazhr-pss, or may 4
{ sown tbs seeds of=injury to that deli c
ate seII-respecs which ia some minds, +
i'll a@low no siudirectness Of appeal 81 )
lad ! swamped al prospects Of rec-
recity BY this precipitancy? No soon III
was It beyond my power to recall il, Il
ian would have given worlds to have :
one So. <.- H. n. :. :. .e , ., =
/ vas not long to wait, for in few
ays, which were years to. NE, it came :,
ack, aud. tearing It open, a scattered {:
lump Of rose-leaves covered the floor. Eri