Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-06-30

soon as he had completed his studies, and
had remained there, principally in Paris,
until his twentyffth year. His return to
America, unmarried, had put all the mar
riageable young ladies in the city into
flutter. His claims, to be Gin society,""
nobody could deny, for his great-grand-
father had been colonial governor, his
grandfather a general in the revolution,
and his father Senator of the United
! Statet while his mother and grand mo TIL
er had each been favorite toasts in their
day, and fashionable leaders in the most
select circle of their native town. Hence,
no young bachelor was more courted.-
But Amelia Thorne, his second cousin, had
secretcly appropriated him to herself
One so gentcely born, she thought, should
marry nobody less gentecl; and who was
there, she added proudly to herself, with
an equal quantity of the "bluc blood of
America as herself.
The next opera night, howcrc, Harry
did not invite her, as she had expected, =,
and she was forced to press her father into
her service as cavalier. Imagine her
chargin, on taking her seat, to observe her
cousin talking to Miss Vaughan, the latter
looking more beautiful than ever.
"Good heavens pa" she cried, "do
you see Harry? lie is actually with that
Vaughan girl"
"And | hear replied her father, un-
conscious of his daughters plans, 'that
she is very fascinating. l shouldn't won
der if Harry was to marry her.
Miss Thorne colored with anger, and
bit the end of her fan. The opera, that
might, gave her but little pleasure, for
she was watching Miss Vaughan, and was
mad with jealousy.
The next morning her truant cousin pre-
scntcd himself She welcomed him with
something of a snecr.
$50 you got introduced to Miss Waugh
an - We're her words. [ suppose, next
you'll want to know our cook"
My dear cousin said Harry, grace
fully taking his ssat beside her, you don
know how You girls-thc girls Of our set
! mcuu, astonsh me. | have Just come
from Europe, whcr, / have been preach
!, ing up republican institutions, and yet, tho
very first thing | hear, at home, is that
accomp ishmcnts and original worth arr
nothing, and being in society everything
TO be sure. a real lady owes it tc
herself not to associate with everybody"
BY which you mean that you, and ;
dozen or two others, pretend to be better
than those who are as cultivated as your
selves. Let me tell you, coz, that you lose
more than you are aware of, for Miss Nau
CHAN, and others like her, who rest theil
social claims on their accomplishments, are
as Charley says, far more agreeable ac
quaintanccs than 'our set generally. Yo,
are only laughed at, and this, not mcrcl,
by those you think you put down, but b!
all sensible people"
Miss Amelia was purple with rage. She
had never been talked to so plainly before
and she was not disposed to submit to it
, even for the best match of the season, mucl
less from cousin.
" Laughed at, am l ~ she cried, rising
"Sir, you forget who you are speaking to
But when people consort with tailor
daughters, their manners leave them"
As shall leave you, fair coz" an
swered Harry, determined not to quarrel
''for l see you are not looking quite a
lovely, at this moment, AS usual, and
t try never to see lady except in her bes
looks, so that | may always remember he
. pleasantly"
Half an hour afterward, Miss Amcli;
could have bitten her tongue off, in angel
: at herself What if she had also driver
him to Miss Vaughan?
: The suspicion, alas, proved correct
S Harry's engagement has just been announ
ced And those who used to sneer at Mis-
, Vaughan, as "not in our set" are alread,
making interest for cards for the wedding
which is to be 'thc affair of the season, ;
| and is to come off early in the summer.
Take my advice, Charley" said Harry
the other morning, "and marry wife wh'
. rests her claims on personal amiabihty, in
t telligence and accomplishment; for shell
make you thousand times happier thai
, any of the naughty girls, too proud t,
7 learn anything, and too selfish to care 70
anybody but themselves, who chiefly max,
r up what they call OUR SET"
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