The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1858-02-06
Broaoh of Promise.
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els It possiblc2 Rose lcayit?" exclaimed
|. as saw n lady whom recognized as ono
of the most beautiful heircsses of boston en-
ter my office.
81 dare say YOU are surprised but my busi-
ness is of u strictly legal character, so You
need not waste any exclamation upon thr
event"
Rose Lcavitt was beauty and an hcircss,
but Ghc was a strange girl for all that. Hcr
father had died when she was about sixteen,
leaving something like million to be div
dcd betwcan her and her two brothers.
Charles and Henry lcavitt were much old
er than Rose, ard both of them had long
been settled down, quiet, orderly business
men. They were respectable in the fullest
sense of the word, and were never known 90
be crratic in the slightest particular.
Rose seemed cast iH another aud entirely
different mould from that in which they had
been formed. At school she had been so
Wild that neither master nor mistress could
control her, She would have her own way
"A peculiarly to which, am sorry to SAY,
very many young ladies are addicted
For the properties of life, which pass ~
such in the world of fashion-she had sovcr-
cign contempt, She hated dandiCs, hated
bellies, hated pianos, music books, French
and German "me,hods," in fact, she seemed
strikingly disposed TO live out her existence
aflcr the dictates of her own fancy, or hcr
caprices, as the reader may choose to regard
her.
She had passed into her twcnty-frst year,
without having done anything to call the at
tcntion of thc world Ot large To her. o. Her
whims had only been manifested in the school
room, or at the home of her elder brothrr
with whom she resided.
She wis now twenty-five, and in n fair
-, s,kn I
shall soon inform the reader. OF coursr,
Rose hud profusion Of lovcrS-heiresses al.
WAYS find them as plenty as sIow fakes in
Christmas But Rose very summarily dis
posed of the lot by selecting from them one
who was certainly very Supt rior fellow.
lie was not rich and had not been very
forward in his attentions, until il YVES plain
TO him and all the world that she had taken
II fancy to MIN. Charles Carpenter was poor,
hut he sincerely loved the waywnrd girl, aud
would not have bent at her shrine il he had
not l5ycd her
Then Rose, after she had secured him in
/ her tolls, ms the spider does the fly, seemed
little disposed 20 play the coquutte. Now
Charles Carpenter had not assurance enough
to deal with "a cuqucttiSh heiruss. lie was
not man of the world. lie was conscious
OF the vast difference in their socinl position,
and when she began TO hirt with anotlcr,
he did not resent IL but seemed TO regard ii
as a change of sentiment on her part 70 whi,l
he could offer no reasonable objection. Calm
ly yielding to the fate which denied him the
bliss OF being loved, he let concealmeut,
like n worm in the bud feed on his damn,k
check.
Rose nr,ed A new star had risen in The
armament of that circle in which she moved
in the person of Mr.. Sampson Deec. H.
had lately come from Baltimore, and was the
only son Of i merchant prince, who owned "a
fine estate en the Rnppuhnnuock river In.
Virginia. with two hundred negroes; in Fact
his surroundings were everything TINT could
bo desired
Rosc hirted with him, and Mr.. Sampson
Declc was MS constant ns the needle TO thu
pole. Soon the Irritation assumed more s.