The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-12-24
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COLDSTREAM.


are very fairly represented by its compo
. nents parts. There are two peers, thre
members Of the lower house, some Guards
men, some undergraduates, clergyman
and Il lieutenant in the navy. But our her
is not representative man yet he belong
to class which, called into existence by tn
accumulated wealth of the nineteenth centu
1 ry, is ever on the increase.
4 Frederick Tyrawley rest mbles Sir Charlie
Coldstream, inasmuch as he has been every
where and done everything; but he is by ne
means used up, and can still take nm interes
IN whatever his hands fnds to DO. Nor Il
his everything everybody else's everything
1t is not bounded by Jerusalem and the Py
ramlds.
Mr.. Tyrawley has fought in more than on,
State OF South America, and has wandered
for more than two years from isle to isle oil
the PacIic. a mysterious reputation hovert
round him. He Is supposed to have done
many things, but no one is very clear whai
they are; AN it ID not likely much inform
alton on that point will be obtained from
him, for he seldom talks much, and never
speaks of himself. His present mission
appears to be to kill partridges, play cricke,
and dress himself. Nor that It must be
supposed that he has ever been in the habit
Of wearing less clothing than the custom of
the country in which he may have been To-
Gated required but only that at the present
time he devoted much attention to buff
waistcoats and gauze neck ties, braided coats
and curley mustaces.
Such us he is, however, he is m object of
interest t" the feminine portion of the party
at Ravelstokc Hall for he is rich and hand
some, as we'll as mysterious, and he cannot
be more than twoand thi. And the ladies
at Rnvelstnke outnumber the men for al
though it l. still rare for the fair sex to par.
ticipate actively in the saturnnla of the
partridge. god, they will always be found
lowering, in considerable numbers, on the
outskirts Of the feast and the varieties Gf
the British lady are fairly represented.
There are some mammas with daughters
to marry, and there are some daughters with
| mamma 10 prevent marrying again, winch
! is, perhaps, the most difficult thing Of the
! two. rs shr has nn income IN her own light.
. There are blondes and brunrttes and pretty,
brnwn-eNeri girls who hover between the tw .
orders, and combine the most uanLrr0us
characteristics of both, who can wear both,
blue and pink, and who look rrettrr in the
one color than they do in the other, but who
! always command your suffrage N fnvor 1f
( that which they are Wearing when you look
! at them.
And there is Constance Baynton with grey
eyes and black hair. And the incest critic
of feminine appearance might be drt"d to
state what she had worn, half an hour after
he had left her for no one can ever look at
anything except her face.
Yet IL fyn nd
still unmarried. Alas, what towards men
are! The fact is that CoustAucr i. very
clever; hut as Mrs. MelIish (the widow says
''not clever enough to hide ~
| Is she httle vexed at her present cnnii-
ton ? Certainly she does not exhibit any
: tendency to carry ont Mrs MrIiish', suggrs
! ton, if IT hn> ever been repeated 10 her. ! he
Young men are more c.mlrnii of her than ever
and certainly she does say very sharp things
som'lmes. Especially she IS severe on
lilcrs, the butterflies Of fashionable exist
encc. She appears to consider thn; she has
i a special mission to arouse then. but they
no not appear to like being lectured. With
the young ladies she il IL great fayor!tc, for
she is very aiiectIonate: and though so beau
tiful and Distinguished, she has proved her
self not so dangerous rival rs might have
been exptcted Indeed, it has happened,
more than once, that male admiration, re
bounding froui the hard surface Of her man
n"r has found m're welding metal in the
hos"ms Of her particular friends. Besides,
she is always ready TO lend the van III tie
general attack upon the male sex. when the
the ladies retire to the drawing ronm.-
Not that size ever says anything h"hInd
their backs she would not be ready 10 rr
peat to th"}r faces; but in that course prob
abby -hc would not meet with such general
snprorr.
In Mr.. Tyrnwlcy she affected TO dlShelieve.
She stat d rs her opinion to her IntlmHte
friends, that she did not believe h: ever
had done, or ever would do anything worth
dong; but that he pIuned himself on II
cheap rrput ,tIon, which, as all were Igno-
rant of it> foundation, no one could puss!tIy
impugn.
There is reason to believe that in this
instance Miss Constance was not a> con-
scieutious rs usual: but that she really IN.
tertained n higher opinion Of the gent.tn"n
tIan she choose to confess. He certainly
was not afraid Of her, and had even dared
to contradict her favorIte theory Of tue
general worthie.sness of English gentlemen
of tn" ninrteenth century. 1t WAS one wet
morning when she had been reading Scott to
three or four Of her particular friends-and
it must be confessed that she read remarka
hlv wclI-that she began to lament the DE-
cline Of chivnlrv. TyrawIrv VII, sitting half
r and half out of range. Perhaps she talked
little at him. AtaDy rate he chose to ac-
cept the challenge.
II cannot agree with you, Miss Baynton,"
he said. 81 IL is trrc we no longer wear
ladies' gloves IN our hcmicts, nor do We
cnlApel harmless individuals. who possibly
have sweetbeartS -f their own, to admit the
superiority Of our lady love at the point of
the lance but Of all that was good in chiv
airy. Of courage, truth. honor, enterprise.
splf-sacrificr, v"u will find rs much in the
nineteenth century n> in the twelfth.''
He frightened up ~ he SPOKE, and it was
quite evident that he believed what he sand
a cireumstnncr which always gives an al
vantage t" a dispu'nnt.
More th,n on. par Of bright eyes smiled
approval. and Mis-, Constance saw proha-
biliu Of "a DETECTION from her ranks. She
changed her tactics.
You are too moderate in your claims
for your contemporaries, Mr.. TyraNl"v. If |
remember right, mud"sty has always been
ccnsluffpu II qua'itlca''oh oi ''u' Ah'phl'
81 am not ashamed to speak the truth,'
he replied; "your theory would have been
more ,"nahle before the days of the Crimean
war and the Indian mntiny; but the men
who lit their cigars in the renches of the
Re,lan. and who carried the gate Of Delhi,
NAV bear comparison with Bayard, OF Ceur
de LION"
"Oh, do not allude to our soidiers,"
said she. ''0f cours" know they are brave !;
bur- and here she hesitated II moment. ill
possibly piqued bccauseher usual success had
not attended her in her passage of arms, she
concluded --.'hut to our idle gentlemen, who
seem to have no heart for anything
Tyrawley smiled, ''poss'hly you may judge
too much by the outside,' he said. IL am
inclined to fancy that some Of those men
would be found to have heart enough for
ANYTHING that honor. or duty. or even chlv.
alry, could find for them to do"
I'll hope you are right SAID Miss Con
stance, with slightly percsptible curl of
her upper lip, which Implied that she did not
think so.
Tvrawley bowed, and the conversation