Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-02-12
KITTY COLEMAN.
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An arrant piece of mischief was that
Kitty Coleman, with her deep, bewilder
ing eyes, that said all sorts Of strange
things to your heart, and yet looked SC
innocent all the time, as though conduct.
ing themselves with the utmost propriety,
and her warm ripe lips, making you think
at once Of the "rose's bed that bee
would choose to dream in" And SO wild
and unmanagcable was she-oh, it was
shocking for proper people to look at her
And then to hear her, too why she actu-
ally laughed aloud, Kitty Coleman did.
1 say Kitty, because everybody called her
Kitty but her aunt Martha; she was an
orderly gentlewoman, who disapproved Of
loud laughing, romping and hickman.
ing, as she did of other crimes, so she
always said Miss Catharine. She thoug ght,
too, that Miss Catharine's hair-those
nice, long tresses, like the beautiful rays
of the floating sunshine, wandering about
her shoulders, should be gathered up into
a comb and the little baby was once SO
really obliging as to make q trial Of the
scheme, but at the first bound she made
after Rover, the FURNISHED cloud broke
from its ignoble bondage, descending in q
glittcring shower, and the little comb mes.
tied down in the deep grass, resigning its
Office of jailer for ever. Oh, Kitty was
a sad romp! 1t is hard thing to say of
one we all loved so we'll; but Aunt
Martha said it, and shook her head the
while and sighed -.-A ... ,S1-;.., ---.
Martha's brother, said it, and held out
his arms for his pet to spring into; and
serious old ladies said it, and said, too,
what pity it was that young people now
a-days had no more regard for propriety.
Even Euoch Snow, the great phrenolO-
gist, buried his fingers in those dainty
locks that none but parenologist had
right to touch, and, waiting only for q
succession of peals of vocal music, which
interrupted his scientific researches to
subside, said that her organ Of mir.hful-
ness was very strikingly developed. This,
then, placed the matter beyond all contro-
versy and it was henceforth expected
that Kitty would do what nobody else
could do, and say what nobody else had
right to say; and the sin Of all, luckily
for her, was to be laid on q strange lido
syncrasy. q peculiar mental, or re.ber
ebral conformation, over which she has no
control, and SO Kitty was forgiven, forgiv-
en- by all but -. We have a little
story to tell.
l have heard that Cupid was blind; Of
that, I do not belive . word-indeed, l
have confirmation strong, that the mali
cious little knave has the gift of clairvoy-
ance, aiming at hearts wrapped in the
triple foldings Of selfshness, conceit, and
gold. But people said there was one who
had escaped him, a winsome gallant for
whom all but Kitty Coleman had bright
glance and gentle word. As for Kitty,
she cared not rush for Harry Gay, and
sought to annoy him all in her power,
and the gentleman in his turn stalked
past her with all the dignity of great
mans ghost. Bitter, bitter enemies we're
Harry Gay and Kitty Coleman. One
evening, just because pretty belle was
present, Harry took into his head to be as
stupid as block or a scholar, for, notwith-
standing his promising name, our young
Lucifer could be stupid.
Kitty Coleman was very angry, as was
proper-for what right had any one to be
stupid in herpresence? The like was never
heard Of before. Kitty, in her indigua-
tion, said be did not know how to be civil;
and then she sighed, doubtless, at the
boorishness of scholars in general, and
this one in particular; and then she
laughed SO long and musically, that the
lawyer, the schoolmaster, the four clerks,
the merchant, and Lithper Lithpet, the
dandy, ali joined in the chorus, though,
for the life Of them, they could not have
told what the lady. laughed at. Harry
Gay drew up his head with as much dig
nifty as though ho had known the mirth
was at his expense, cast contemptuous
glances toward the group of nod-waiters,
and then, to show his own superior taste,
attached himself to the ugliest woman in
the room. She disregarded entirely the
opinion Of such dissingue gentleman, but
she only laughed the louder when she saw
that he was annoyed BY it; indeed, his
serious face seemed to infuse the very spi.
rit, ay, the concentrated double distilled
essence Of mirth into her; and a more
frolicksome creature never existed than
she was, till the irritated scholar, unable
to endure it any longer, disappeared in the
quietest manner possible. Then all Of
sudden the self. willed belle declared shat
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