New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-09-03

its shape, and also the value of superb diamond
solitaire he wore in ring.
The surprise occasioned caused the stranger to
pause with half enunciated word on his lips, to
follow the arm up to the shoulder and then to the
face of the aristocratc waiter.
Baylezofas presence of mind did not desert him.
though he wondered how. he could have been
guilty of such an oversight in his preparations.
He affected to think that the young man would
have given an order, and with whisk of his nap
kin at some intruding flies, said:
"Mais, que uoutegrous, Monsieur ~ 5..a
Baylezoff was then convinced that they were not
residents of the city, for the language did not seem
familiar to them; indeed, the young man turned to
the lovely girl at whose side he had placed himself
| and said:
"Cousin Annie, you will have to be our inter
preter.n
milne is but book-studied French ana afraid
| would not make myself understood was the
modest reply.
Perhaps we can have waiter who speaks
English suggested the old gentleman.
"The other man who was here moment since
said nothing, but l imagined he understood u.s."
"Where has he gone?n asked Annie.
Baylezof stood entranced.
tating English-turned French sentences, but which
fell upon his ear more sweety than the most gra-
cious flow of elegantly correct words that ever
greeted him from the lips of Partisan dame.
Baylezoff, in referring to this incident, has al
ways talked somewhat after the following fashion :
"No, sir; no man Of honor wonld be guilty of an
untruth. entirely agree with the young English
man in the play, ga gentleman never lies,H never.
prfit 10 JIyy ipn 10 fantt hat
circumstances alter cases, and there is an old
| maxim that have always held to be justifable,
though at first glance It's morality might be ques-
tioned-you know about love and war;.
The consequence, or rather the cause of which
sentiments was, that his reply to the lady was the
exact opposite of what he knew to be fact, viz :
with profound bow.
Mddemoise1e, ici on ne parZe Francois.
He says he was resolved the opportunity he had
made for himself should not be thrown away, and,
moreover, he thus had granted to him the unex-
pected pleasure of carrying on conversation
even if it was on subjects no more romantic than
"chevrette,n "cassebargotn "crabs moux,n etc
directly with the object Of his sudden admiration.
This little embarrassment gone by, and the meal
served, Baylezoff had time, while they partook of
it, to listen and observe.
He discovered they were from Kentucky, and on
a pleasure trip, which was to end with visit to
relatives in Alabama
Hefound that the gentlemen were father and son,
and he learned from the venerable ady's quaint
and respectful fashion of sometimes addressing her
husband as father and sometimes by his pa
tronymic, that their name was Lee.
Quick to catch the smallest trife he read the
name "Annie Gayle'' on little cobweb square of
handkerchief as it lay for moment on the table
at the side Of the fair innamorata
II The young girls were her sisters-they were
orphans, and their uncle and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs.
Lee, supplied to them the place Of parents.
Although there was nothing obtrusiye in his at
tention, sympathetic and penetrating observer
would not have failed to see that "Cousin Charle'
as they called him, was Annie's lover.
How they all talked and laughed and enjoyed
everything. How tender and courteous they were
in their intercourse with each other-Annie would
fill her uncle's wine glass and put ice in her aunt's
tumbler, notwithstanding that great waiter was
standing idle, just as if they had been in the
privacy of their own home. m. ..
Baylezoff stood and watched her as attentiyely
as he could, without attracting observation, and
he mentally asseryerated that he had never seen
one of her sex full of innate grace and natural
wiles wherewith to tantalize and render herself
irresistibly dear, in all of his somewhat extended
experience.
Her beautiful brown hair folded back from her
face in such soft, rich locks her skin was so fair
and yetnot lacking in the tint Of health; her eyes
were SO blue, and clear and honest, her nose-well
he passed that by, as previous opportunity for
its investigation had been afforded, and rested ON
her lips. He wondered if the bread did not rise
with sensation Of happiness at being permitted
to touch them.
From her face he wandered to her dress. It was
so simple, SO becoming, SO tasteful! A pure white
muslin of exceeding plainness in its fashion, and
worn without ornament, except brooch of hair
her mothers, Baylezoff imagfned-which fastened
o;,,.,, loco that eneireIed her round throat 4