The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1858-04-15

IVA tA1 AuuMlGuHe tAAeN Jvu AAg pgepe
lat over fans, glanced at from behind
pocket-handkerchiefs whispered about
behind open prayer-books--is, Of all
Sensations, the delightfuland agree
able a man Of my temperament can ex-
perience.
If any one is accusing me at this mo-
ment Of vanity, I shall not repel the
charge. do not say 1 am very vain
indeed, I am quito used to the charge;
but I do most positively assert that upon
this particular Sunday, and in this par
tieular church, I three several times
caught the brightest pair Of blue eyes
fixed attentively upon me--which blue
eyes being caught in the act, withdrew
their gaze in the greatest confusion
and if this is vanity, why make the most
of it.
After church I, Of course, fingered to
got o look at the pretty girls; and pretty
girls in a pretty town are the rule and
not the exception. There we're plenty
in this town, Of that peculiarly delicate
lilly style of beauty, half dozen Of
whom would make the reputation Of any
town.
stood Watching the assemblage as
they slowly emerged from the church.
The wind was high. Wells were tossed
hither and thither; mantillas and shawls
Auttered in the wind; roses came to fair
cheeks; stray curis hoated ravishingly
about white necks; pretty boots peepod
out, and hoops were little unmanage-
able
The congregation had nearly passed
out without the appearance, much to my
surprise, Of the blue eyes which / had
caught stealing glances at me. Disap-
pointed, I turned to leave, when sud
suddenly an exquisitely sweet voice ut
tered an exclamation close to my shoul-
der. I turned abruptly, and found my
self within three feet Of glorious beau
ty; looking plump into the very eyes I
was seeking for. She suppressed a smile
when she saw me; but she couldn't con-
ceal the two smiling dimples in her
checks, and she began to intently busy
herself with a refractory parasOl, which
the wind had nearly turned inside out
the cause of the exclamation that had
aroused me. But all her efforts could
not restore the parasol to propriety; an
other gust Of wind completely reversed
it, and another whisked it out of her
hand, and carried it rushing along the
green.
"Permit me, I exclaimed, with breath
less eagerness, and without waiting to
finish the sentence, I rushed rapidly aft
er the fugitive parasol. 1t was a pretty
chase. 1 followed it from the church
yard into a garden; over a fence, in
which caught my coat-tail, into a. cab
bage bed--through the cabbage bed into
a potato feld--across the potato field
full headway into a hedge Of blackberry
bushos-through the blackberry bushes,
until at last clasped it, lodged between
two elder bushes.
I bore it back a proud trophy. The
owner stood near to the spot where /
had left her; but such a look of latent
mischief lurked in her eyes, such an ill
concealed laugh lay folded up in those
ripe and ruddy lips, such demure, low
toned thanks, and such a blush!
It was so very careless Of her, and she
thanked me so muchl Whoreupon, 1
interrupted her by declaring that 1 was
delighted with the trouble, and, looking
into her eyes, wished only it had been
some real service to deserve the rich re-
ward 1 had received. And then with a
bow and a blush, she tripped of lightly
and rapidly; but as l stood watching
her, / thought 1 could sec her frame
fshake as if with laughter.
walked home to the inn on air. 1
was never so buoyantIy happy in my
| life before ] could not retain my de-
| light at the adventure. 1 began to plan
the most glorious results as sure to fol-
| low; l made up my mind to fall in love
with her at once; 1 fancied myself an
accepted suitor; speculated upon the
marriage, and even determined upon the
marriage suit. 1 grew excited upon the
subject, and, with flushed cheek, went
stalking down the road with all my
might. I walked faster; it began to
grow doubtful if / was walking at all; il
soon grew certain that I was not walk
| Iing-in fact, my elation became so un-
comfortable, that, before I knew it, !
was running at a ridiculously furious
rate-upon which discovery 1 stopped
short, and came to my senses.
determined to find out her name
to Gnd where she lived-to lay siege to
her acquaintance, and then, Of course
1.-THE rest would be easy enough. Her lit.
tie heart would hutter and struggle al
first, of course; but in a little time il
would fall, fascinated and helpless, into
I-stopI That is an awkward kind Of
simils I have got into. 1t has a snakish
.suggestiveness, but let me make haste to
supply the missing word-fall helpless
into my arms-and not jaios, as some
mendaciOus reader has been tempted tC
Suggest.
i soon found out her name and "locaI
Ihabitation" for, angel as she was, sh,
was blessed with both Of those mundane
xuries--but the acquaintance, ahI thai
was not so easy of accomplishment,
Her name proved to be Mary Cole
and an exquisite cottage on the out
skirts Of the town, and near noble ole
forest, soon discovered to be the littlt
easket which held the jewel that I GOV
eted
How hung about that cottagel How
| I surveyed IL from afar and how I stol
up to IL under cover Of it's shrubbery