The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1858-05-20

!ull OF harmony anu yet evldentIy soca
fully cultivated. 1t was voted almost
unanimously that he was noblemsn in
disguise, who had incos chosen to visit the
beautiful scene Of Virginia sweetest wales
and hills. h
After the ladies had dressed for tho G.
vening "hop," they persuaded commit
tee Of gentlemen, smoug whom we're two
or three who spoke French. to wait upon
the stranger to invite him to the ball
room.
He received them With grave courte.
sy, in a manner which at once told them
that he was gentleman by birth and
breeding. but declined their invitation,
declaring it to be bis intention to rest for
a few days only at the watering place,
and then to pursue his journey to the far
far west, where he said he meant to seek
home among the Indian tribes where
truth dwclt and treachcry was not His
tone like his words was misantbropic.
The committee returned to the ladies,
and made report. Many heart flutter-
ed while its owner listened, for had not
picture of live romance suddenly sprung
up iu their midst. Nor did that rom ance
decrease, when in the stiffness of midnight
after the guests had ali retired. the voice
of the stranger was heard upon the piaz-
za--on which thrilled every listening ear
as if it we're song from heaven. Was it
by chance that the song, SO low and plain.
tive, so full of melody was sung beneath
the window of Elsie CT if accident
which led the stranger there!
This she asked of herself while her
cold heart, almost melted beneath the i'm
passoued strain 1t was long ere she
slept, and when she did it was to dream
of being welded to an Italian prince who
had woed her in disguise
The next morning every one was early
up, in hopes to catch glimpse of the
stranger; and at the breakfast table the
conversation was literarily of him and
nothing else." Miss c. took par
ticular occasion to let all within her hear
ing know that it was beneath her window
that the serenadc was given.
The stranger ate breakfast in his room
and was waited upon most obsequiously
by one of the best servants in the house,
for he had already given golden reasons
for being as well, if not better served than
any guests there. And after breakfast
be sent for the landlord, with whom he
held long. and it would appear,a pleas
ant interview for while be was 10 the
room the "Major" sent down for two iced
juleps, thing he was seldom known to
do, even with the most favored guests
And when, with an important air and
smiling face. he came forth, he was in
moment surrounded by a bevy of fair ones
who cried:
"Oh, dear Major-you are in the secret!
Do tell US who be is! Is be Count, Duke
or Prince! I"
HE is, ladies'" and the Major paus-
ed, while bis gray eye twinkled merrily
as it over ran the group, "he is"
"What, dear Major, WHATl" cried
half score of voices.
"a gentleman" said the Major in bis
usual quiet way, as be moved on.
To the course of an half hour after the
landlord had left him, the stranger came
forth from his room, the dust cleanly
brushed from his we'll fitting clotbes-his
ruffled Wristbands and neat collar as white
as the driven snow His guitar was left
but he carried instead a neat PORTFOLIO
Was be an artist as we'll as a musician!
This was the question when be was
seen walking slowly and thougbtfully a.
long path which led to the most roman
tic scenery in the neighborhood. And
thereafter a sudden mania for taking
forenoon promenade infected all the bellies.
The hotel was deserted-ditto, the bill
lard room and bowling alleys.
When the stranger was next seen, he
was seated high upon rocky peak, with
his port folio on his knee evidently en-
gagged in drawing. Below him stood
group of ladies, pcrchance thinking that
be might include item in bis landscape.
A sudden gust of wind swept paper
from his port folio. Like leaf torn
from its native branch by the strong au-
tumnal wind, it rose in the air, whirled
and futted away, and finally fell near
the group Of ladies. who in a second made
rush for the precious prize.
"Oh, Elsie Elsie, it is likeness of
yourself" cried the one who was first to
graspit.
$50 it is" cried the rest as they exam
ined IL Ba -
Let me see i'll" said Elsie, and her
bushes came and went like the hues of
dying dolphin as she spoke, and the
beating of her heart could be plainly seen
through the bodice of her dress.
And she not only saw it, but she kept
it, and bore the merry jests of her COM
panions upon the subject in the most phil
osophieal manner, seeming to say; "Of
course be couldn't help falling 10 love
with mel" $50
The day passed on without anything of
particular note occurring, but at the din.
ner table the landlord exhibited spleu-
did landscape drawing, representing the
scene and the group of ladies as deserib-
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