The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1860-02-01
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B eauty at Billiards.
There Is a lady in this case. g..

Mountain resorts, lof course give no hint |
as to which that is-tastes differ,) and I had
gradually become enthralled. Her beauty |
was dazzling, and her name was Tarlingford.
For the first Of these items was indebted to
my own intelligence for the second to the
hotel register, which also informed me that
she was from New York.
], too, had come from New York coin.
cidence too startling to be overlooked.
Our acquaintance began oddly. One morn
ing, at breakfast, l was musing over hard
boiled egg, and wondering whether could
perforate her affections with anything like
the success which bad followed my fork as
it penetrated the she'll before me, when felt
a timid touch upon my toe, thrilling NE from
end to end like a telegraph wire when the
institution is perfect. looked up. and de-
tected pink flush making its way browward
on the lovely countenance across the table,
Il beg your PARDON said I, with much
concern.
1T was my fault, sir; excuse me, said She'
permitting the pink flush to deepen rosi'y.
Shall ] pass you the buttered toast =
said.
Mullins, if you please said she, and so
sweetly that was blinded to the absence OF
sugar in my second cup OF coffee.
was confused by this incident. Many
men would have concealed their disquietude
by an sfectation of sudden appetite, or by
bullying the waiter, or bv abrupt departure
, from the scene. did neither. felt had
a right to be confused, and goried in it.
Very soon Miss TsrIingford withdrew, and
4 experienced an aching void within, Which
chops and fritters had no power oTeplenish'
= opened a chsmbermaid's heart with a
half dollar, and the treasures OF her knowl
edge were revealed to me. The beadty and
her party we're to remain fortnight. Among
= her companions there were no males except
: a youthful responsibility. EsultemuS!
9 Later in the morning, heard the tinkling
Of the parlor pianoforte. Music has soo'h'
d ing charms for me, though, | have not saw.
0 age breast. | drew near, and found Miss
r Tarlingford triAng with the keys, those keys
which lock together 80 many chains Of hu
+ man sympathy. She rose, and gave out de-
monstrations OF impending Disappearance
9 1 interposed:
t" 'Pray continue. am famished for music
and came especially to listen
t 1T is hardly worth while.'
= 'How can you say so? 1t is ! who know
/! best what I need
y 4 will play for you, them =:
J. And she did. This was wonderful. Us
ualIy, long and painful struggle precede
le feminine acquiesceDce, on such occasions
es Repeated refusals, declarations ofiDcapacity
g. partial consent vouchsaied aud then way
yardly Withdrawn, poptings, head-tossnge
feeble murmurs OF disine lination, and finall
reluctant yielding, form the fashionable orde
IL of proceeding. The charm Of it all is, tha
n the original intention is the same as the u
" innate action. Whence, then, this folly 3
es Having been many times wretchedy bore
es by this sort Of thing, was now correspond
"s ingly gladdened by the contract.
IA Miss Tarlingford played well, and / sal
so.
,ct Pretty well,' she answered, frankly i; 'b'
ne not as we'll as could wish.'
'n' Shock number two. 1t is customary
as good society for toerable performers to di
I'm avow all praises, J(secretly yearniDg f
'"' more;J and to assuil with invectives the
! own artistic mplishments, Here was
me young lady who played we'll, and had Il
nt hardhood to acknowledg &c it. This roth
OF took away my breath, and vacuum beg
ne to come under my waistcoat.
/ For three :bfssful days Miss Tarlingfc
yer and were seldom separated. Her sister
'eu pale, sedate maiden, Of amiable pppearan'
and her brother, small, rude boy, of init
tn0 sive habits and unguarded speech, conseI
tedto undergo. for The sake of convention
os' es necessity. TO the mother of the Tarlr
MS fords, additional respect seemed due, a
was accorded.
IA Three blissful days of sunshine, meado'
ght coa, x,,oro,;ons tho n.;os,ic ,,orcn,;,
'ep of nature spced with the ssuce of flirtstie
:. or something stronger. Sometimes we to
0A' our morning happiness on foot, sometm
M our midday ecstacy served up on borsebat
Gu sometimes our evening rapture in an Up
wagon at $40.
anu The pueriIe Tsrlingford, interfering
frat, was summariIy crushed. Aspiring
ok, o,ros,r;sr d;s,inc,ons, he wrouoht ur
. u maternal indulgence, until, not without n
DIX pivings, maternal anxiety was stifled, a
ne with iDiunotions that we should hover p
emo ,ectingly near him, he was sent forth, tn
in our sides. In half an hour he was az
SO dentally remembered, and ives found to
sc. nowhere within view :; so we pursued
lote way, we'll pleased. He had dropped quie
ar. of, at the first canter, into a'miry slough,
lore had returned sobbingly, coyered with mo
.on. fcation and mud, to the armsof his pare
b of Keen questioning at dinner was the resu
ich, "Wby did you so neglect him = deman
ON. the fond .mamma, adding reproachful
,up. 'The child's life might have been sacrifice
pre-. Mother, we looked for him, and he ,
tee gone. Why didn't he cry outa' ~
let so / did shouted this youth of o.
cat speech J; 'butyou two had your heads toge