The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1858-07-28
TWICE WOOED.
by MARY C. VAUGHAN.

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Harriet Harand entered society at the age
of seventeen. The winter that followed her
debut was succession Of brilliant triumphs =
She was belle--a queen, and right regally
did she bear herself through the season of tri-
umph
Hearts were laid at her feet in scores, and
fortunes, and great names. but from the HON
age ofadmirers and the protestatons Of lovers
she turned with evual Indifference. Her un-
touched heart had no answering chord to thrill
beneath love tones or the glances even more
cloqent. ..rs f .F,'
So passed her first session. She moTcd reg
nant in society until the close OF the last ball,
the excitement Of her position sustaining her
through all the (atigues of her unwonted dissi-
patton. But when all was over, when the op-
era season was past, and the fashionables were
all preparing for the new excitements of the
summer, Harricts parents observed with anxi-
ETY. that she seemed languid and lost her fresh,
rosy bloom, and girlish sprightliness.
They were alarmed. The family physician
was consulted, and by his advice Harriet, in
stead of preparing for summers campaign at
Saratoga and Newport, was sent, at the ap
proach offspring, to the quiet home Of her aunt,
Mrs. Hope, in Rosedale.
Harriet was not well pleased with that which
she chose to call her sentence Of punishment
But when she arrived at Rosedale the little vii
lage looked so beautiful, and the cottage Of her
aunt so lovely and homelike in its unostenta-
tons simplicity and real ccmfortableness, that
she began to accept her sentence as not either
i Mrs Hope received her neice with such kind
ness her manners, in all their simplicity were
so refined, and lady-like, that Hafmeps heart
and taste were equally gratlticd. Casting aside
at once the little tinge of ill-nature which she
she had brought with her, she resolved, since
she could not we'll prevent it, to be very hap
py IN this pleasant retreat.
II Harriet's rambles among the envrons o.
Rosedale, her gardening, her rides upon the
beautiful black horse. which her father had caus-
Cd to be procured for her qualification, soon
brought back the roses to her cheek, roses that
We'd in brilliancy with those which grew be-
side every cottage and gave its tancifnl name tc
the quiet village. Long before mid summer
she felt and announced herself perfectly well
but still she had fingered amid the simplicity o.
her rural retreat, from which no accounts Of the
festivities of the world offashien could lure her
Il 1t was not until autum when her father came
purposey to fetch her home, that she reluctant.
, ly accompanied him to the, city, parting from
Mrs. Hope with many tears, and promises of a.
mother visit in the following sumner.
But neither on tho following summer no,
during half score that succeeded it did Har
4 riet Harland again visit Rosedale.
That winter she again entered society, agair
reigned supreme, ,enhropged its sovereign queen
Again she was everywhere followed by admira-
j ton and heart homage. Again she turned will
indifference alike from praises Of her grace anc
beauty, and from protestations Of love; but now
her manner had an icy scorn, her words ,
naughty JOHe anu iHcahllSt cuCh aS JiUy Hat
not conveyed in former times. Harriet hac
, changed in spirit, and the influences which has
brought such bounding health and abundant
7 life to her veins, he'd also, it seemed, worked
their effect upon her mind.
SO still another winter passes, another, anc
another, with all the gaieties, the firtations ant
the episodes Of fashionable, nomadie summe
life sandwiched between, and Harriet remained
unmarried. Still beautiful, even more beauti
fu, more queonly and graceful in her ripeninl
1 womanhood than in the early days Of girlish tri
umpb, still regnant, though the palm ofbells
hood had been often disputed by fresh disput
ants, still followed by adulation, she moved Oh
calm, cold, selfcollected, indifferent and eve
| naughty. Yet there were those who ayerred
| from their own knowledge, that Harriet Har