The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1859-06-09

Now, Kate, don't you turn against him
too! Everybody seems to hate him, Just
because lie is nobleman, foreigner and
has long name.-I think he is perfec
gentleman-and 1 shall take his par
against all Of them Charlie has already
seen the folly Of trying TO make me dis
like him !
'Oh, ho :! That was the trouble, was it
Charlie has In d shade of green in his
eyes has he? Well, l dont't wonder, con
sidcring the style Of manners Monsieur le
Counte puts on with you
'Ah, Mess Alice. all, you haf &c bee.
eauty off &c angels zis morning, all T.
'kate Archer, YOU must not mimic my
friends 1t is very impolte and very un.
ladylike. l request that you will stop ma
king those grimaces, they are rot at all like
Count Izlavotskwitsch's manners and if
they were, would be in very bad taste y
'!losty toity Ze angeliquc Mess Alice
haf some lcetel cbullissione off ze temper,
all 2
Alice flushed crimson from brew to
bosom.
Everybody insults me and my friends y
sh" said, bitterly "if choose, I shall mar.
;ount Izlavotskiwitscli y
you are Il little rossie, and you shan't
,nytllng of t.. lind ! want a new
,g WIKI, and YOU have got to make up
Charlie, if have to marry the Rus.
bear myself, to keep you from him
he result Of this conversation was, that
9 Archer went home with singular
glcd feeling Of JOY and vcxation and
Wc,herby-foolish virgin that she
-letred to her room to have what wo,
call Il real good cry aud to humlug
tlf into the belief that the count was an
ed and injured man, in every way wor,
Of her love and sympathy.
harlic Mynturn was punctual in his ap,
ance in Squire Archcrs garden that af-
,on; and can't tell what fun Kate
he had shooting at a tar.ct. Kate
all his cigars, sleeve buttons, his eye
and Il variety of other trilles, and
call the villagers crazy with horror, Ly
ng him home in light wagon, with a
of bays, alta killing pace-she being
cred conspicuous ly having the eye
fixed firmly in her left optic.
re was most extraordinary girl, was
Kate Archer. She was an only child, and
her father had educated her, as he said, TO
take the place Of l.alfa dozen girls and
boys She would shoot, ride, drive, row,
skate, smoke, play billiards, and whistle, as
well as any body or man in the country ;
and then, again, few women could excel
her in singing, playing the piano, dancing,
drawing, embroidering, and performing
the lighter household duties. With all
these acconpanmcnts, she could converse
charmng!y, was a natural actress and
mimic, and had such dasling, otf-hand
original manner with her that everybody
admired her, and many loved ller-though
all were shocked by her goinGs-on twenty
times day, at least
She had numbcrlcss offers Of marriage
from the gentry Of the neighborhood, and
might have male Il brilliant match, per-
haps but she evinced no hurry whatever
to enter the estate Of matronhood, and at
tanned her three-and-twenticth year with
out being even engaged-a circumstance
that greatly delighted her father, who
thought, as old fathers thnk-and with
much truth, generally-tllat no man was
good enough for his darling to marry.
Somehow, or another, this singular he.
ing seemed unusually high spirited and
good natured after the scene have just de.
scribed. She was in state of continuous
vivacity and jolification, similar to that i'm.
parted by very fine old wine, for long
while, and could hardly find means to en-
press the intensity of her satisfaction will,
the whole universe and all its componen,
par IS. This beautificd condition made hel
such charming company, that Charlie Myn.
turn could not stay away from her, and
was lowering about Squire Archer's nearly
all his leisure time-much to the DISCUS,
of Alice Wetllerby, who began 10 hate he,
former anazonian friend in good earnest
Kate tried, once or twice, to patch up {
piece between Alice and Charlie; bu
Alice always received her so coldly, since
her mimicking of Count Izlavoskiwistch
that she soon gave it up, with resigna
ton that would have been eminently Chris
tian had it been eminently disintercsted-
and made good her wager with Charlie BY
presenting him with box of full favored
| "Conchas.':
Although Alice Wetherby still felt angr,
with her quondam .famce, she was exaspe
rated with his intimacy with Kate Archer
| The count had hoon a franuanf ,;e;to