Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1859-06-09

good her retreat, Wnen some four or i've Ia
dies, strangers, entered. They were evident
ly novices in fashionable life, and we de
termined to have some fun. In playhouse
whisper we made some complimentary re-
marks, more poetical than truthful, calling
up more bushes than fashionable bellies coulc
muster in life time. In the midst of oul
quizzing, what was our surprise to see oul
girlish Circe arise, pass through our midst
with head erect, curling lip, flashing glances
of scorn right and left, and with the tread
and air of Juno take her seat by the side
of our couDtry friends! What she said, ]
don't know but our presence was as virtu
ally ignored as if we had been 80 many
mites. There she sat with an air of digni
fed and naughty reserve to us to the stran
gers gracious, unassumiDg and kind. Al
length, one of her many warders, (for they
travel with large party entered in search
of her. He held up letter-the woman
was the child again, she sprang eagerly tc
get it, but he playfully held it from her,
and would have a reward and the pretty pout
with which she at first refused, and then the
digni6ed manner in which she resumed hel
seat, as she glanced at us, I can give you nc
idea of. When he gave her the letter, ]
saw her impulse was to press it to her lips,
but she restrained herself, though the dewy
eye, the tremulous lip, the deepened color,
revealed all she would have hid"
"And you say she is beautiful? ?"
"No, skeptic, I shall say nothing more,
outcome and see."s :,
from the iuquisition"
"Did I not tell you you could not play
the Adonis to this Venus? You must seek
some lower quarry for your sport; she is
signed, sealed and delivered"
"What engaged? That consider in
my favor--.gives jest to the pleasure. l will
oust the lover and win the PRICE,
81 don't think you will" said Charles
Dudley, drily.
"Oh only want her for summer sport
he may have her again after the season is
over"
"Clara Manvers is married"
"What! married?' p Poh why did you moi
tell me that before-an antiquated belle Of
thirty or more, making capital of fading
charms"
"She is scarcely eighteen, and is a bride
Of but few months. You surely recollect
Clara Seahorns? thought she had made
rather an impression upon you, the summer
we wore a,T the lakes. She was here las
season, but was confined to her room the mos
of the time from the effect of an accident by
which she sprained her ankle"
81 remember her perfectly; she gave the
promise Of a glorious womanhood I always
intended to follow up that tender episode by
a genuine filtration, but different charms al
different times pressed it from my memory
Who did you say she married."
"EdwaId Manvers, very prominent law
yer, and a man who stands high ir the com
munity. He is double her age, but as noble
looking a man as I have ever SEEN"
"And, so, little Clara is a woman, and i.
married! wonder if she recollects tht
nightI slipped the ring from her finger, ant
swore it should never leave my hand but with
my life ?"
"You should have the life of cat, if i
was to be given for every time you made
such VOW"
81 wonder where that ring is? wish
could find it; it would be of service to. MI
now. Stop I have box where I keep sucl
gewgaws-Pll hunt it up"
"What for, Leslie? Do I not tell you sh
is married ?"
"Well, Innocence, what of that ?"
"Come, Leslie, We want none of you
French morality in America. Pshaw man
you have lived so long in that loose societ
you forget the Puritan manners of you
fathers"
"And would forget everything that stand
in the light of my own pleasure" replie'
Leslie.
"Take care, Southern blood is ready on
whisper to use powder or steel, and withou
moments warning"
81 do not fear" replied Leslie, laughin,
lightly. 81 am here for pleasure, and pleas
ure I will have in whatever form it may pre-
sent itself. Keep your lecture to consol
Edward Nanvers. 1 don't want his wife,
only want hertribute to my destinations. N
woman as yet has refused it-she must no
prove an exception"
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