Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-02-04
5eIrtt Missrllunu.
SOPHIE LINN.
A love STORY.

t'Mcn are never so awkward, never so
ungraceful, never so disagreeable, as
when they are making love. A friend
is a luxury-a husband ditto, l sup
pose; but that intermitten class of hu-
man beings denominated 'lovers,' are
terrible bores. 1t does very we'll for a
woman to blush and look fiustered now
and then, when occasion makes it desi-
rable; but to man with his face as red
As ripe cherry, and a real parcel of
strong. mindedneSs, sef-relance, and
masculine dignity, done up in broad
cloth and SEARCHED linen, quaking from
the toes of his boots to the top of his
shirtscollar. his mouth awry and his
tongue twisted into eonvulsions, in the
aliehlpt to say something sweet-O gra-
ossaid sauey Sophie Lynn, aloud to
herself, as she sat swinging backwards
and forwards before her window, half
buried in the cushions of luxurious
arInscllsir, and playing with a delicate
ivofy fRr that lay upon her lap.
zsl-fs atlr IN -, 1f5e-e0
say tircsome," she continued, with a
running musical laugh, latter one has
waltzed and sung, quoted poetry and
talked nonsense. with anybody, one is
puzzled know which of the two is the
more heartless, ones self or ones COM
psnien. to hear him come plump down
on the subject of matrimony, as though
that was the Legitimate. result Of every
such iRsipid acquaintance-shipi For
my part L never had lover (here So
phie fluttered her fan and looked pleased
for she had more than one,1 that |
wasn't heartily sick of after he had
proposed. There was Capt Morris-I
thought him the handsomest man in my
whole circle of aequaintances, until he
went on his knees to me and swore he
should die if didn't take pity on him.
Somehow he always looked like a fright
to me afterward Then there was DIR.
Wilkins-he was really agreeable, and
people said very learned. | was de-
lighted with him for a time; but he
spoiled it all with that offer of his
what long winded adjectives and how
the poor fellow blushed, and puffed, and
perspired! He called me an adorable
creature and hiecoughed in the mid
die of adorable Horrible! l have
detested him ever since. Then there
was a. Ir-i- sl.
Here Sophie started. She heard the
door bell ring. With Il nervous spring
she stood before her mirror, smoothing
down her brown hair with haste truly
comical ni
= at won't do TO seem interested, = she
said as she took a finished survey of her
person in the glass, and shook out, with
her plump, jeweled fingers, the folds of
her airy muslin dress.
The moment afterwards, when a SER
want entered to announce Mr. Harry
Aiuslce, she was back in her old seat
by the window, rocking and playing
with her fan, apparently as unconeern-
ed and listless as though that name had
not sent thrill to her heart, or the
betraying crimson all over her pretty
face. "Tell him l will be down pre-
sently,' she said f...
The girl, disappeared, and Sophie
flung open her windows, that the cool,
fresh air might fan away the extra rosi-
ness from, her complexion. Then she
went again to the mirror, and after COM
posing her bright, eager, happy face in
to an expression of occurrences, de-
scendcd to the parlor. a smile broke
OtSE anu SAV LSttShSu Out
both her hands to her guest but
as if suddenly recollecting herself, drew
them back again, and with formal bow
of recognition, she passed him and seat
ed herself in a further corner of the
room. t @ .a
1t was very evident that something
was wrong with Sophie; that she had
made up her mind, either not to be
pleased or not to please. Could it be
that she had foreseen what was coming?
that a preseutiment of that visit and its
results had dictated the merry speeches
il her chamber? Be that as It may,
o half hour had not elapsed before she
knew that Harry Ainslee's hand and
heart (Which, by the way, was nothing
wonderfully were in the same place
where Capt Morris's and DIR. Wilkins
had been before them l-..,f .esy
The first map that ever heard say