Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-01-13


room; that young lady dressed j
purple, with dark plumes in her hat
Il Ireplied that did.
well, that's Mary
placed as we then were. in th
! glariug light, / could see but littl
beyond the particulars Of dress b
. had remarked; but the chances q
the crowd as we left the theatre
brought me quite near, her, and
thought then, as / think now, tha
II had never liked into a pair. o
deeper. or more bear. full eyes. Blu
we passed on chatting pleasantly to
Igether Of different things, and tha
night | slept as sound .and dreamies:
a sleep as if there were never :
woman in Christendom.
/ 'Maykap you have, noticed--iI
you have what people called sau eaI
for music you certainly haye-tbat
you may listen to piece of music
which shall strike you as being Pc
culiarly beautiful, end 60 away, and
one hour afterward you could not
recall, so as to articulate single note
| Of it, though your life depended
upon so doing, And yet days af:
terward, when you least expect, you
shall catch yourself humming strain
after strain, as easily as if you had
known them from childhood; and in
truth, it shall seem more like an echo
ofsome thing with which you had long
been familiar, than the acquisition
of something entirely new.
"Just so it was to me with Mary
Marshall's eyes. / do not think l
thought of them for weeks after that
night at the theatre, until one morn
ing I was walking into my Office,
thinking Of my declarations not in
love but in law, when her image star
ted out in memory, with more than
the distinctness Of most familiar faces.
l cannot explain Why this should; be
so any more than | can explain why
tits that at occasional periods in eve
ry mans life, there flashes across his
mind, with a sort of curdling shudder,
a shadowy consciousness of having
seen and heard all that is then pass.
ing, al some remote point of the il
limitable past. l only know that
both are true. The cause of and the
deductions from, / leave to profound
er spectators.
'Once having presented ITSELF IL
seemed determined not to be exor-
cised, and it maintained its position
during the entire morning, pertina.
ciously returning to the attack when
ever displaced for a moment by as.
siduous application to the psrusal of
Coke upon Lyttleton.' .r. =
In the afternoon of the same day,
I vas passing slowly down fremont
street There hadbeen a warm sun
for some days, and the snow was dis
appearing. Now and then, when it
was drifted on the roofs, the dampen.
ing of the states occasioued- it to slip
from its position, and descend in min.
iature avalanches into the streets be-
low, sometimes carrying with it frag-
ments of ice, which, from the last
nights freezing, were clinging to the
caves.
/ Suddenly one Of these slides de-
.luged me with snow, and lady who
had been walking just before me for
some distance, was knocked down By
a fragment Of ice.
OF course. my first impulse was to
raise and carry her into the nearest
shop; the next to inquire if she was
at alIinjured. But the motion of Car.
rying commenced the work of reani-
nation, andthe restorative produced
by some ladies present in the: shop,
soon completed it, and the same eyes
/ had seen at the theatre, again met
my. own.
1T would be useless to detail to
you how it happened that1 called a
carriage and accompanied her to hel
fathers house; or how a pleasant ac.
quaintance sprang out Of that chance
service; offs thousand other things
you can as well imagine.
LET it be enough to; tell you, what
| suppose you anticipate, that friend.
ship soon grew up between US, which
long before the blossoms Of the fol.
lowing spring had ripened into &C
knowIedged love, and that, unheed.
ing any obstacle which might be &c,
up between us, we we're happy al
summer birds.
For some years previous t. this
httle--nay nothing-had been said by
o. IT :