The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-07-01
0d, whai-s fall was there, my countrymen
TDere you and and all of US fell down,
And the M n eounle sfumh ed-ouar nsIn
IL fgent down. did thew ?

| A4atne M q couple siumb edoveF u.s."
What Fsent down, did theyP"
"Msss Andrews on top of Miss Simmins,
and On top Of all ! meant TO brace myself
back Fhenlit ,ame to the point, o. have done
husdnds Of ,jmes in such emergencies, and
bring up all lAnding !. but the Aoor was waved,
and nay boot slipped, and, as told you, my aim
was good for nothipg and then conceive of
the momeatesn of that mass in motioni Sim
my,s breath lsas sqaashsd ont of her, under the
pile ot'us, iaope little sQuasck, just like what a
toy-doy makes when you tread on it !; but, after
we pried Mis- Andrews eff her, she didn't
seem 80 muea the worse; =.
| : FENDER maids are tough ~
And perhapt 'twas quite as we'll for me that
neither of tn ~ did recover her speech till I'd
had presency. of mind enough to be faint, which
did, lucltily. before either of them thought of
it. Sam Ha: mes and Seth Somerville had had
their eyes Of me all the time, and understood
and we're pestsctly enchanted with my conduct
from irst TO- .aat; 30 they rushed to the rescue,
and tumbled.ne into the dressing room, and
pearlpowde,d my face to an affecting pallor !;
and Minry laise and Fanny Flirt came out
and famed ad colcgned me. That little Fanny
Flirt's rea duck-only sixteenl Twas
nursery-parfs, you know. and 80 much manner
and style! e3elfpossession's perfectl
"Apologi4ed YETI"
"Not I. I've no business to speak to Miss
Andrews, b. ,suse don't know her and as to
the venerat Simmins, if l approached her
with. any sufa purpose, the natural candor of
my eisposittsp would break through all the fig.
mems Of cc.sentionalism in some such speech
as Aged sssiden, it is you who owe an apol
ogy 10 me and not to me only, but to the so.
ciety of 'whsch you are no ornament You
have receier5 but the deserts and the portion
of Intrusive I'D maidenhood ; and, if you do not
like them, t,psider what business you have to
be an old n aid, or to have any portion at all
beneath th.> sun. You are thirty, madam
thirty yearsrold, if you are day. You know
it, and no ~oubt the parish register shows it.
Long ago, you should have ensconsed yourself
in the weocing veil, or in the shroud and if
our laws ws.e not conceived in spirit of most
weak ard t~lfdefeating mercy, as short sighted
as yourseh they would set apart convenient
little spac in the Back Bay, near Braman's
Baths, to = used as Bosphorus in which to
drop you over, and with you all other Of
tenders hE. you, who presume to keep their
patronymxs after their twenty -ffth birthdays,
at the very latest. The Humane Society ought
to furnish .scks; and, if i won't, you can set
some Of ,fur sewing-circles to make them, in.
stead of aprons for the Broad. street babies'"
"Yoa' ismake the girls more attentive to us
than they are now"
"No nj tier. It's good fault"
"Well, we no objection to the plan, provi
ded You'll save me out Clara Arden, as our lit
tie Nell always makes the cook keep the pretti.
est kitten or her when she puts the rest of the
litter in 81 ak, as the washerwomen say; if my
dog didn's shake half dozen or 80 of her cats
from Tina to time, We should be eaten up by
them br. when he does, Pm sorry to relate,
she shnkt the house simultaneously with her
voice, an will not be comforted, like Rachel
weeping .pr her children"
"Whs~ do you want Clara Arden kept any
longer TO By the way, here she is Talk of
the devil, !"
A lady and gentleman of singularly fine and
distingri bed presence were drawing near,
towering above the couples before and behind
them, il air, calm, and generous beauty, as well
as in sta nre.
"Whe that with herr"
"Why her brother, the Doctor. Dent you
see, you blind bat? 2"
o." VIII does he walk with her, then? What
a spoon" i
Edwa Arden walked with his sister for
three Ieasons first, he was fsstidious, and
thought her decidedly, and, with. one exception,
incomps, rably, the handsomest and most grace.
full VOL. IN present, and accordingly the most
suitable companion for himself; secondly, he
liked t. please her and, lastly, considering
himseI on the whole the best male. speculation
in the matrimonial market, he was always
afraid lat somebody would take it into her
head u marry him, and that he should not be
able 9 help it without taking more trouble
than usually found it agreeable to take about
anytt g, and he was therefore glad to place
hms' under his sisters protection.
81 'Ion't believe she's q day over twenty
three resumed one of the ihterlocutors.
&. "N 'ist'll you bet?"
tmuch. The Harvard boat.race shelled
me- &, like pea-pod; and the Governor got
) wind If it, and was perfectly savage. l shall
| be a. DOOR as a beggar till next quarter.day
] after 90, unless he comes round. don't see
that she's anything to make fuss about,
: thou 4. She's a good locker, to be sure, Blu,
she ISN'T half the style of Miss Moad."
g" ihought she was an angel, once. tel
you did. What are you Sinking at tel
/, you, he was as good as an angel to me, once
whe was little chap, and had the measles
} We i'ere at Saratoga, at the United States
HotlJ. There was q great hop; and just al
, my 10 other was going to lead off in the Redowa
! DR.. irden, who knew she couldn't be every
: whte, at once, ran up to see after me, and
, fous me half mad with dreams, fright, and
, fever ell alone, up in the third story, where
the, put me, to keep my infection to myself.
/ Noltdy could hear when 1 called and my
hus = of nurse had gone off, flirting with
| son body. Well, mother was sorry, of course,
| and lid what abe could but she was engaged
J twe5sy deep; 80 she asked the doctor if he
wor Int Just send waiter to find the nurse
Ru- he man couldn't 6nd her, or didn't try, OF
SOL thing; and meanwhile got to sleep
agr a, and dreamed the devil had caught me-
t an vas examining my mouth with cinders and
3 as'7s. howled right out, and woke sputter
f INF, with my tongue feeling exactly as if I'd
? ha a particularly good time at dinner the day