Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1859-06-24


She crowded III impressions of many an hour:
Her eye had a glow like the sun of her cline,
Which walked every feeling at once into hower
! ...u Moore
T" rt. Hf
"Ohi you for ,cbom tcirtei whose heart can mel
At the Soft thrilling Voice whose power you prove
You kao0 what charm unutterbly felt
Attends the unexpected voice of love-
.u r.. Mrs. Tighe.
Lily arose early in the morning and
prepared for breakfast. And very domes
tic she looked in her close fitting gingham
wrapper and blacksilk apron more like
the Lily of days gone bye and very little
like the brilliant belle who broke hearts
for pastime. She fastened into the
breakfast-room and surprised Hetty, the
housemaid, by an unexpected usurpation
of her position. Setting the table and
buttering the bread for breakfast, and
sending Hetty to pick the strawberries
while she skinned the cream from "last
nights milch" and made coffee in the Old
Dominion coffeepot. Lily, of course was
entirely unconscious of the fact that
Clarence Hunter sat in the old arm chair
leaning against one of the vine wreathed
columns of the portico, from which con-
venient seat he could inspect through a
betraying crack in the half-opened shut
ter, all that passed within.
With northern celerity Lily soon CON-
pleted all that was to be done. The straw
berries were hulled and the white sugar
piled over them until it almost concealed
their crimson cheeks-the juicy steak,
smoking hot, was upon the table fanked
on one side by potatoes of aldermanic
proportions, that had initiated the frog in
the fable until their brown skins were
ruptured in divers places, and on the
other, by crisp looking buns with tempt
ing brunette compilations Side dishes
of oysters, lobster said and ruby -colored
radishes garnished the inviting table,
and breakfast was ready. Lily sent for
the tardy Fannie, who loved her morning
nap better than her morning meal, and
stepping to the window that opened upon
the verandah, pushed back the blinds and
with comical imitation of kousekeeper's s
bustling Importance, requested Clarence
to walk in to breakfast.
Il.
failed to make her appearance and as il
was too early for the family meal Clarence
and Lily were left to the undisturbed en-
joyment of their dual breakfast. Lily's
self-possession did not desert her and her
ready tact prevented the embarrassment
which her companion would otherwise
have felt. Clarence thoroughly apprecia-
ted the peculiar advantages of his posi-
ton never had he so truly enjoyed q
meal, the coffee was richer, the biscuit
| lighter and the berries far more delicious
than any he had ever before eaten and
true desciple of Epicurus he slipped slowly
the pleasures of the passing moments les
one should pass untasted. He even ven
tured upon compliment unheard 0:
attempt in the annals af his previous life
and when Lily invited him to take /;
second cup of coffee, replied that he
could sit and drink coffee all day if sht
poured it for hin" Lily with merry
laugh bade Hetty fill the copper -bOile
with water and Sc. Gloss to parchin;
coffee, for she did not think the presen
supply would meet such a demand, ant
she wished to crafty Mr.. Hunters pecu
liar tast.
Clarence was slightly abashed by thi
literal acceptation of his intended com
pliment and hastily swallowing the con
tents of his steaming cup at the grea
risk of blistered mouth, asked Lily t
accompany him to the conservatory
. Confusion or the warm beverage of whc
! he had just partaken imparting CLOWN
:, tint to his usually pale complexion Lii
Ipitied his embarrassment and to allevat
any unploasantness which her acceptatio
; of his compliment might occasion, ben
down the spraylike limb of a climbin
rose and broke from the parent stem
lovely bud half-opened, its crimson hear
. only beginning to unclose its soft, ros
petals to the wooing breeze that tore apal
its emerald prison bars, and presented
to Clarence
There are moments think when the spirit receive
Whole volumes Of thought ON its unwritten leaves
and in that moment Clarance dreame
that he recognized his spirits twin an
" his heart throbbed warm welcome to III
the guest for which it had tarred throug
> the tedious lapse of those long wear