Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-11-09

open wagon at two forty.
The puerile Tarlingford, interferin:
at hrst was summarily crushed Aspi
ring to equestrian distinctions, b.
wrought upon maternal indulgence, un
til, not without misgivings, materna
e. anxiety was stifed, and, with injunc
tions that We should hover protsctingly
> near him, he was sent forth thorn il
our sides. In half an hour he was &C
p cidently remembered, and was nowhere
in view; so we pursued our way, vel
81 pleased. He had dropped quietly OF
lat the first canter, into miry slough
) and had returned -sohbingly covered
with modification and mud, to the arms
of his parent. Keen questioning q
dinner was the result.
"Why did you so neglect him?" de
manded fond mama, adding reproachfully
, THE child's life might have been sacrl.
feed"
"Mother, We looked for him and he
was gone. Why didn't he cry out?"
$50 I did" shouted this youth of open
speech, "but you two had your heads to
gether, laughing and talking like any
thing, and couldn't hear, I suppose. -
with juvenile sneer.)
ooh, fe, Walter Now think YOU
were SO frightened that you could not
speak"
"I shall know better than to trust
him to your care again, said the indig-
nant mama, as one who withdrew a
blessed privilege. ..
Don't say that, mother, it would be
a punishment too severe said the mis-
chievous little pale sister in tones of
pity, and her face brimming with mirth.
Everybody laughed, and peace was
soon restored.
On the third evening, misery came to
me in an envelope post marked New
York: -~
"MY DEAR PLovINs =
+" I shall be with you the night after
you receive this. Engage room for
me- Have you seen anything of a Miss
Tarlingford, where you are staying ?
vn" should know her. She is very
brilliant and acco,-," -,"o!ished, but retiring,
am willing to tell you, but must go no
farther, that we are betrotheo.
"Yours, in hurry,
CRANK LILLIvAN."
MY heart was as the mercury of the
thermometer which is plunged into ice
but I preserved an outward composure
Turning over the pile Of letters awaiting
owners, I came upon one, directed in
Lillivan's hand writing, to Miss A.
Tarlingford.
TO think that paltry superscription
should carry such weight Of tribuia-
ton with iti
I thus discovered that my lines had
fallen in unpleasant places. [ was fish
ing in preoccupied stream, and had got
entangled.
avoided the public table and shrunk
from society. During the whole Of the
next morning I kept aloof from the
temptations of Tarlingford, and took to
billiards.
In the afternoon, as [ sat gloomily in
my room, with feet potruding from the
window and body inclined rearward,
(the American attitude of despair,) the
piano tinkled. 1t was the same melody
which had attracted me a few happy
days before. Strengthening myself with
a powerful resolution to extricate myself
from the bewitching influence which had
surrounded me, [ arose, and went
straightway to the parlor. Could it be
that fash of pleasure beamed on Miss
Tarlingford's face? or was I a deluded
gosling? The latter suggestion seemed
the more creditable, SO [ cheerfully
adopted it.
owe have missed you, Mr.. Plovins, -
said the fair enslaver, 81 hope you have
not been unwell?''
"Unwell ?-oh. no, no p
"You have not been near me-us to-
day." (reprovingly) "not even to din
ner, and the trout were superb" "
A sudden hope mounted within me.
"Miss Tarlingford, pray excuse me
your first name, may | ask what it is p
" Arabella is my name, and" (whisper-
ing) "you may use it, if you like"
"Oh, hideous horror And this is
what they call Irritation" [ thought.
And the hope which had risen blazing,
like rocket, went down fuliginous, like
the stick.
"Mr. Plovins, I will say you are
very--very inconstant, to be absent all
day thus
& Miss Tarlingford, it is not incon-
stancy, it is billiards"
Billiards p
Billiards. I adore them. You
know nothing of billiards. Women
never do. They are my joy. Pardon
me-" with sudden uprising of the
moral sense,) I have an engagement at
the billiard room, and should be there. ~
"Dear ne, l should like to do bill
liards,'
"Heaven forbid!''
"Why so, sir?'
| "No, [ do not mean that; but ladies
never play billiards.
II suppose there is noreason why they
!, should not?''
GA thousand
"Why, what harm?"
"My dear Miss Tarlingford, if your
first name were not tArabella-alas, alas!
there would be none
"Nonsense! now you are laughing at
me. Come, you shall teach me bill
, liards.'
at cannot be, Miss Tarlingford. -
7 (Low tragic tones.)
5 "Why not?"
because your name is Arabella."
every we'll, sir-if you do not like
my name, you need not repeat it,.
l II adore tit is not that. Forgive
me-"
= ''Then will get my hat And hel
: light footsteps tapped upon the stairs.
Here was a state Of things! Where
: were my frmness and resolution now?-