American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1859-03-03
A BEAUTIFUL SITUATION.

"Wbata beautiful situation for young
girl to fihd herself inl Perfectly willing
to be married, and with dear, kind faith
er equally as anxious for her to enter the
glorious state Of matrimony. which would
crown her with halo OF felicity and not
a lover to be met With" - SatF
Thus soliloquised ayoung Girlol ft'en,
as she sat looking over the wide domains
of her fathers chateau, apart from the
world Of Paris, and oh! most strange to
add, in a part Of the country as yet virgin
Of any thing like railroad. All this sorI
of reverie is delicious s-all those dreams Of
the halo of felicity crowning marriage are
beautiful al fifteen, but few years later,
and bow very like crown Of thorns the
halo looks,
Jenny d'Herbecourt was very much to
be pjtied. There was no inexorable father
no cruel guardian. nothing was wanting 10
complete her felicity but mere triae-the
man, and The man sorely puzzled the young
lady's brains. Where was he to be found
in that isolated spot, only visited by lum-
bering diligence! sis .tal.ss.
The good father was going to be mar
ried again to cousin of her own, one
Aglae-a nice good oreature--and she too
was anxious for Jenny to marry. Was
ever anything so provoking as all these
consents, without the assent Of some un-
known? Aglae was staying at the cbatau
and hard indeed must be the heart which
would not feel for Jenny, when she beheld
the charming trousSeaa of her step.motber
arrive. e ~ az n -a tre-. 81
"Soms one shall appear" sighed Jenny,
after conversation with her cousin Ag-
lac. the sort of one to inhame girls head
if not her heart--all about laces and cash
meres, orange flowers, &c. Most unfor-
tunately there was not young man in the
heighborhood, ,"free and able," Jenny re.
served 10 herself to make him "willing,"
until--of blessing on minds given tc
speculate-a company sent down. a young
engineer to survey the land, with the view
of commencing railway. Gustaye Del
vat was the son Of an old friend OF her fa'
ther, who had met the young engineer il
the country surveying the land, and dis
covering who be was, insisted upon his
leaving his hotel, and taking up his lodg'
ings at tho chateau.
A month had been domrciled there, ant
asspredly if he was first class engineer
he was third class gallant He didn'
seem to Know that there was a young CIR
within miles Of him-his heart was as hare
as the rails he was about to lay down. ant
all this GOODNESS made the iron enter init
Jenny's soull All day long he was max
ing his calculations, while she was specu
laling about him, :, =. ,53s,s I
One day she pretended to faint. Gus
lave flew 10 the rescue; he was forced I,
look into her face, and discovered that sb'
was charming, fresh and bright as the lap'
tefore his horrid railroad cut it up.
81 Still he went on with his parchment. =
SO Jenny went into HIS Office ard carried
!, off all his Instruments, &c., and looked
thcm up Insyain he implored. x
"You are looking very ILL" she said
"and shall insist on your only working
50 many hours a day" s. ,ss ,s.5 i.
Again he looked into the face Of one 81
anxious about him and yielded. She KEEP
'fthe key Of bis office. -.
This left him several hours day un
y 'disposedo Of. What could he do with them
I, Jenny solved the difficulty, and togethe
: they surveyed the surrounding. country
and lis beautiful walks as yet, not cut up
s One day the engineer forgot all the plan
I. he had laid down on bis own road of &C
tom mot to fall ii love will, Jenny, nc
5 to be'led into path which, he imagine
: would be perhaps harder to out throug
$ than a roqk, = Iflt were but thalI Ha
u oar lines run thropgh the Ike but he, fe
z that her heart would be hartlsr,l than AN
u granite. and Jenny aid not like. ID made
!, modesty to tell him she knew better. s
It of ito her stepsmother she sped 81 is,,s,.gt
y "Gustsye loves mel" she cried, ,a"b,
s swould you believe il Of o Parisian? he
y timid. ~ ca rk 81 s& sEs @
/, Something must be done qto overcon
rs tthS, .JA'So agreed her step.mother, but
o.;rl haraaH lr''I fsftis $50. n rst - III sdT