Spirit of the age., 1860-10-17
Original 4apers,
CHAPTER VIII.

CHAPTER VIII
READER IS INFORMED now MISS CT, tp,rv
RII1sFfY- CARRIED our bIER cHARITAa1 r
ssb ,wiiAT CANE opfr MD RrorsSr-
FHT%lRASANT INFORMATION THAT THE CUR
TAIN Will DESCEND on THELAsr Act
y q AZ last the eventful evening arrived and
- judging from prospects, nothing appeared to
mar the festive scene Miss Charity was de-
lighted, and was feeding her poor heart on
nope miserable husks = imagining that
she had seen sights through slit in the
curtain OF iuturity. Now her parlor was not
"s large as the drawing room of a Curyon
street house in the metropolis but if decora-
tons and ornaments could add to the exten
SION OF room, why Miss Charity's parIor
might nave taken in comfortably the Champs
Ulysses or the Crystal Palace Her two
nonV windows were tastefully hung with
white lace curtains, whose gilt mount.
lngs wrcaths and festoons Of flowers were
Piaced IN proiusion Roses of the same fra
grant material stretched from window to
WINDOW, rom the centre Of which hung sus-
pended an enormous wreath SURROUNDING the
word " Welcome worked in red and white
roses. The door was also arranged in the same
manner. The visitor passed into the paror
1ypower Of flowers of every hue and
M1&on Immediately opposite the door
lover the mantle shelf hung an old family
yortrait of Miss Charity's maternal relative
before Mr. butterfly had poured out his SOUPS
alteration at her feet Mrs Butterfly, in her
Walueh sweetness, peeped forth from wreaths
oil IoWers. There were flowers every where
Inc visitor saw nothing but flowers flowers
on the wall, on the ceiling on the door on
the windows, on the portrats-howers flow
eTs' MOWERS. And dear reader, what more
appropriate decoration could Miss Charity in
ner desperate love agony, select for her iete ,
Oh blissful flowers how thew charm tho
nearts OF men They were made only for
e ''IIckeh ana the virtuous; the vicious
man, or the debauchee never wear flowers in
Lneir outton-hoeS, nor do they decorate the
aouse OF crime and the den of inamv with
to"ers but in the parlor of the virtuous in
I S ouuoH Oh ne sweet maiden, in the stu
"o ol toe( recluse where virtue is courted
theEs-A Ye.fgli flowers
T4hcir petals breathe of love their purity is
/embematc of heaven their withered leaves
- 4 symoolc OIL death and their little seed the
lesson tiey impart--that we too may leave
behind the seeds of influence, tending ever to
Virtue and Heaven Laugh not then dear
reader at Miss Charity Butterfly because She
poor soul, used ttowers to deck her palace
But the hour approached. The night was
beautiful one, for some kind angel had
swept the sky clean, and dressed the moon in
her sweetest garb; the garden of Miss Char
ity beamed sweetly in the luscious rays the
windows shonc with the brancy of the light
within; and the guests were arriving OF
course, gentle reader, we may not shatter
rule of etiquette by attending the fete unin-
vited if We only keep out of the company
and from a.secluded spot see and hear all =
The room - gradually filling Let us enter
Miss Charity stood beneath the large
wreath and between the windows. A stall
H. >wart waiter stood at the door, ready to re-
ceive the guests from the other walters, who
attended them from the dooa. Fannie Blow
-Ohl ye million Of Cupids, how dazzlingly
beautiful she looked!-w seated near her
and Abby Brantley intently scrutinizing her
angel features, sat a low ottoman at her
feet.
The waiter bawled
:" Mr.. Fitzdoode Mr.. Fitzpoode! Mr..
Fitzmoodlel"
ALL Miss Charity keep thy heart from
futtering Softly he approaches He
What he? Why-hm
:" Mr.. Ftzdoode, Miss Butter1yp'
Mr.. Fitzdoodle bowed Mis- Butterfly
ditto
They were acquainted.
fitzdoodlc sat upon chair near to Fannie
."~ Blow, and gazed. Fitzpoode was soon en-
gagged in conversation with an old gentleman
on sweepstakes and the Derby races Fitz
noodle was talking poetry to pretty little
, country girl, much to his and her gratifca
~ tion.
\ N...--a" " 7 Lord g Mutonhcad Lady Dazzle Miss
~ ree. former the gem Of the bvennc a,tor
co sndmade low bow 10 Mi{s Charity VII
t,p"leuged the compliment by manv fat
~ "9ruS whereupon she was answered
ci ms iordShip condescendingly and era.
-, And so on for an hour went tbe .t,
iuUSe VINO had arrived made themselves gov
ui"iy agreeable and entertaining those Who !
~ ~ arriving, had the pleasure of having I
. ig,r names called loudly by the announcin9 /
% %"S"e'-S0me OF them thus making the onlS I
noise IN the world they were ever dest;naJ1
~ Header, Adam PecksnfF was there
So ~ /" ~, NJ you then wonder that Mr. Fitzdood,o
- "Iu MISS Eannie Blow were left TO tben,
ou.'es' 9' up 'n the corner, in the course of tho
OHM oTtmingt And will you further wonder whv
vln ~ ~platltey talked so long to LADY 'Daz
Ic, away over on the other side of the room
- ,t So, iooS at Adam PecksnilF as he threadad /
or ~. JVnu, va, with morry, mischievious smie
hands =; 'lu ever and anon rubbing his S
ii""uS IN tune TO some haCsnnnT9o.n5 ,
cAuckle. lie had a Joke or Kind S.I pp. Gsseu S "
everybody chatted with Parson RIow no5 ioI i
tlien settied down into serious convers.t;n 49,
WIN hlm IN regard to the parish ernlnJ;
Sv Suies then talking ofagriculture with 'Son; 2,
nn'tenumer; and then playing whist AT tbo
c"ru,taoie, in secluded corner with sir IA
Ward Nockemdowne. There was no .r;.t - Il
racy around Dinghy Dell Oh! for tho t;uNo
"1Sn the world shall be Dnrley Dell = a
rannie Blow soon found herself face ro f,co :.
WIN Mr Fit-doode, but she had received bcr "
instructions and readily accepted his arm 70 o.
promenade in the garden. They found the Il
garden not very thinly inhabited but soon al
lounu secluded walk. Fannie suffered bar e'
gallant TO lead her, and prepared herself for D
the outpouring Of his spirit, which She ex. al
pected. S''' Ga m
lt was not long forthcoming al
Miss Blow" said he and ho drov = 1r di
breath-it might have been a srh-~Misss to
Blow, return to London to morrow Va