The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-12-16
From Once q Week.
COIdstreaIn.

A large party is assembled TO celebrate
the feast of st. Partridges at Ravelstoke
Hall, an old country house about two miles
distant from the northwest coast OF Devon.
The various branches of English society are
fairly represented by its component parts.
There are two peers, three members OF the
lower house, some guardsmen, some under
graduates, a clergyman, and lieutenant IN
the navy. But our hero is not represent
ative man; yet he belongs to Il class which,
called into existence by the Accumulated
wealth of the nineteenth century, is ever
on the increase.
Frederick Tyrawley resembles Sir Charles
Coldstream, inasmuch as he has been every
where and done everything; but he is by
no means used up, and can still take an in
terest in whatever his hands find to do.
Nor is his everything everybody elses eve
rything. 1t is not bounded by Jerusalem
and the Pyramids.
Mr.. Tyrawley has fought in more than
one State of South America, and has wan
dered more than two years from isle
to isle of the Pacific. A mysterious repu-
tation hovers round him. lie is supposed
to have done many things, but no one is
very clear what they are; and it is not
likely that much information on the point
will be obtained from him, for he never
speaks of himself. His present mission ap-
pears to be to kill partridges, play cricket,
and dress himself. Not that it must be sup
posed that he has ever been in the habit of
wearing less clothing than the custom of
the country in which he may have been To-
Gated required; but only that at the pre-
sent time he devoted much attention to buff
waistcoats and gauze neck-ties, braided
coats and curled moustaches.
Such rs he is, however he is an object of
interest to the feminine portion of the party
at Ravelstoke Hall; for he is rich and hand
some, as well mysterious, and be can not
he more than two-and-thirty. And the la
dies at Ravelstoke out number the men, for
although it is still rare for the fair sex to
participate actively in the satuInalia of the
partridge god, they will always be found
lowering in considerable numbers in the
outskirts of the feast: and the varieties OF
the British ladies are fairly represented.
There are some mammas with daughters to
marry, and there are some daughters with a
mamma to prevent marrying again, which
is, perhaps, the most difficult thing of the
two, as she has an income in her own right
There are blondes and brunettes and pref
ty brown-haired, brown-eyed girls, who
hover between the two ORDERS and combine
the most dangerous characteristics of both
who can wear both blue and pink, and wh(
look prettier in the one color than they d(
in the other; but who always command
your suffrage in favor of that which they
are wearing when you look at them.
And there is Constance Baynton Will
gray eyes and black hair. And the nices
critic of feminine appearance might be de
fed 10 state what she had worn half nj
hour after she had left her; for no one cal
ever look at anything except her face
Yet Constance is Internationally, an
still unmarried. Alas what towards me
iare The fact is that Constance is yer
clever; but as Mrs. Mellish, (the widow
says, "not clever enough to hide it,
Is she a little vexed at her present condi
ton? Certainly she does not exhibit an
tendency to carry out Mrs. Mellishs sug
gestion if it has ever been repeated to he
The young men more afraid of her tina
ever; and certainly she does say very shar
things, sometimes. Especially she is sever
upon idlers, the butterflies of fashionab
existence. She appears to consider that 81
has a special mission to arouse them; bl
they do not appear to like being lectured.-
With the young ladies she appears to be
great tavorIte, for she is very affectionatt
and though so beautiful and distinguishe
she has proved herself to be not so DANCE
Gus a rival as might have been expected
Indeed, 1t has happened, more than one
that male admiration, rebOunding from Il
hard surface of her manner has found mo
yielding metal in the bosoms of her partic
lar friends Besides, she is always ready