American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1858-03-26
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BREACH OF PROMISE.
BY A RETIRED ATTORNEY.

Il dare say you are surprised, but
my business is of a strictly legal char.
acter, SO you need not waste any ex.
clamations on the event.
Rose Leavitt was beauty and an
heiress, but she was strange girl for
all that. Her father had died when
she was about sixteen, leaving some
thing like million to be divided be-
tween her and her two brothers. sr
Charles and Henry Leavitt were
much older than Rose, and both had
long settled down, quiet, orderly busi-
ness men. They were respectable in
the fullest sense of the word, and were
never known to be erratic in the slight
est particular. aaa a loFDa1
Rose seemed cast in another and
entirely different mould from that of
which they had been formed. At
school she had been SO wild that nei-
thcr master nor mistress could control
her. She would have her own way,
peculiarity to which, lam sorry to say,
very many young ladies are addicted.
For, the prophecies oflife, which,pass
as such in the world of fashion-she
had sovereign contempt. She hated
dandies, hated bellies, hated pianos,
music books, French and German
methods, in fact, she was strikinely dis
posed to live out her existence after
the dictates OF her own fancy, or her
caprices, as the reader may choose to
regard hcr. Du....
She had passed into her twenty-frst
year without having done anything to
call the attention OF the world at large
TO hcr' E.s Her whims had only been
manifested nam, IN the schoolroom5 or at
u, the nome OF her elder brother, with
"hom she resided.
one was now twenty-five, in q fair
way 70 Decomcl historical character
iGc sh"il soon ln1orm the reader,
u course nose nad Profuslon OF low
cIs-Thelresses always IND them as
Picn'y as snow makes on Christmas.
But Rose very summarily disposed
OF the lot by selecting from them one
who was certainly very superior fell
low. lie was not rich and had. not
peen very forward IN his attentions,
t'nti IL mas pam TO MN, ana all the
Moiio' 'ra1 she haa taken q fancy to
iiin' al a IDS
oharleS carpenter was poor, but he
oinVeiely i1'eo ,'ne hayward giri, and
wou'o hoI nave ochtat her shrine Ii he
h"u ho' lo'eo hef' '.n -. sa8
Then Rose, after she had secured
nlin IN her trap, as the spider does the
ny, Seen,'o Nh = il'lle r1 uiSPoseo 70 pay the
ooiue..e. w" on"i,e' oaiPehter had
ooa,'a., nUS,assu'al,1p Sn; enough 70 oeal WIN
or oC4uus'U t,a ,vnr,d nrI0''' ii' was no' !" man
IT. ~ wv w l.,..
o.aa M "Ia .l oonSo:ou' o:oi VI .:'e 'ase uii,er-
ahS ~ I. 80 ."o,i Iuo,ai a;o pI9.'l'n, u'iu "hcn
nnt @ ua y; :, H H.. Sn1 m',n "i'o.'oi' he uiu
os cbonaa ~ of ~ s"nt;,nn'. t W W, iisa'u 20, :.
to which 6n could ofrer ~ Droasanppb,s p
objection calmly Welding totbe fste
which denied him the bliss Of beina low.
ed he let conceoltnent like q worm IN
the bnd feed on b;s adom,sL cbooL
Rose Airtcd a new star had r;;son
in the armament of that circle in which
she moved. in the person of M Samo.
son Deele. ai eaHria aaHl ,n
IT. bod ,o.o,v oo,,,,o {. .o,, r. u
onnd ,yas tbe so1 a. r,a,nh uni pt'.,,iole'
DnLa ,oJ g. oa.n. ., 0na"v n ,,ce'
nohannock river, in VIRGINIA with ,ro
hundrednegroes;in fact his surroundings
were everything that could be desired