Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-03-03
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ALBERT NEWLAND:
The Missouri Lawyer.


: The Missouri Lawyer.
In the month Of May, 1889, ,
young lawyer by the name of New
, land arrived in the Aourishing village
of BoonyiIle, on the Missouri river
The stranger was Of handsome ap.
pearance, with fine blue eyes, and a
countenance betrayiDg deep thought,
ardent passions. and especially exvlt-
ed ambition. His manners combined
I the most courteous demeanor with
polished race and dignity, and SEEM
ed, in every way, as we'll fitted TO in
spire admiration in the one sex as
respect and esteem in the other.
But, although bis dress was costly
and fashionable, ard he derived bis
descent from the first and most aris-
tocratic family among the elite Of Vir-
ginia, his fathers fortune had fallen
by the tickle chances of speculation,
and left him poor to actual penury.
However, Albert Newland possessed
an Inheritance far more valuable
than any amount Of material wealth:
in noble nature to dare difficulties
and dash away despair. Being gifted
with high order Of talents, and en-
dowed by education with a profound
and varied learning. more particular.
ly in the science of jurisprudence, he
determined to seek the vast field for
enterprise opened in the great, glow
ing west, and there win back, by has
own unassisted exertions, more than
his ancestors had lost; and this lofty
resolution accounted for his advent in
Missouri.
AS his means had been spent in
the act of emigration, it was neeessa-
ry, above all things, that the stran-
ger should find some speedy method
of manifesting his abilities to the
community. and be adopted the ex-
pedient of delivering public lee
ture. This novelty, as it happened
to be in that meridian, drew together
an immense throng of the citizens,
and proved entirely successful. The
speaker acquitted himself with such
logic and eloquence, that he immedl-
ately took his place, in the popular
estimation, among the most accom-
pIished scholars and orators OF the
country. His theme, as announced,
at once philosophical and poetic,
"Beauty in the abstract and con.
crete," was extremely well chosen to
call forth all his latent powers OF both
reason and imagination; and, by a
singular chance, an incarnate Illus
tration of bis subject sat but a few
feet 10 front Of the platform.
This was young girl Of such fas-
cinating charms, that the coldest, the
most cynical spectator could not be-
hold her without emotion; and Albert
Newland, on the first glance, turned
pale and trembled, as if he had been
suddenly brought face to face with
the angel, or it might be the demon,
Of his destiny; for, indeed, Lucy
Greenleaf was one Of those rare mod
els of female grace that now and
then, at distant intervals, appear on
earth to make men dream Of heaven,
and keep alive the sense Of celestial
beauty. Her form, although. in re-
slily, large for ber years, and full oI
healthy vigor and fiery animation
looked slight and sylph-like, from the
exquisite symmetry of her shape, the
tapering loveliness Of her limbs, ant
the bird like ease aud rapidity Of bel
motions, as if the soul itself lived not
alo neiu her brain, but inhabited ali th'
vivid nerves, and flashed down to bel
feet and tbs very ends of her fingers
Her features, small, regular, ant
expressing the guileless innocence 0
a child, presented that divine oval q
dear to the old passionate enthusiast
of art, while the skin, white as th
snowy petals OF the lily, though
shade, perhaps, too pale, seemed Q
delicate and thoroughly transparent
that the crimson blood might be see
at play in the arteries beneath its 81
ken surface, like golden streams &
ri lightning through the wings OF a ra'r
y bow Her hair, black as the man
o tie of a starless night, fell 10 glo'
g sy waves around her neck and shou
b ders, vainly endeavoring to hide th
h magic of her matchless bust and .,
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