The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-04-12
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Miss Albina Mel Ush.
BY n. p. WILLIAMS.

people call SpiritueUe. Motion-rapid
motion-a smart, quick, squirrel-like step, n
pert, volubie tone--in short. lively girls
my exquisite horror. would as lief have n
diable petit dancing his Internal hornppe on
my cerebellum as to be in the room with
one. I have tried before now to school my.
self into liking these parched peas af human
ity. have followed them with nv eyes,
and attend to their rattle till was crazy as
hy in drum. 7 have danced with them
and romped with them in the country. and
pered the salvation of my "white tights"
by sitting near them at supper. | swear off
from this moment do. won't-no-
hang me fever show another small, lively,
spry woman civiltv.
Albna McLush is divine. She is ike the
description Of the Persian beauty by Haiz :;
/ "Her heart is full Of passion and her eyes
are full Of sleep" She is the sister Of Lurlv
McLush. my old college chun, who, as early
as his sophomore year, was chosen President
of the Dolce -far-niente Society-no member
of which was ever known to be surprised ut
anything-the college law Of rising before
breakfast excepted. Lurly introduced me
to his sister one dav as he was lying upon a
heap Of turnips, leaning upon his elbow with
his head in his hand. in green lane in the
suburbs. He had driven over a stump and
been tossed out ofhis gig, and I came up
| just as he was wondering how in the
d--rs name he got there. Albina sat
quietly in the gig and when 7 was presented
requested me with delicious drawl, to say
nothin about the adventure-it would he so
troubesom to relate it to every body. I low
ed her from that moment Miss MrLuSh
was tall, and her shape, Of its kind was per-
feet. 1t was not a .fesEy one, exactly, but
she was large and full. Her skin was clear,
/ fine grained. and transparent; her TEMPLES
and forehead perfectly rounded and poliShel l
and her lips and chin swelling into ripe
and tempting pout, like the cleft of burS-
ted apricot. And then her eve$.-largo.
/ liquid, and Sleepy-thev lauguished beneath
their long black fringes as if they had no
business with daylight-like two magnf-
cent dreams, surprised in their jet embvros
| by some bird nesting cherub. OH it was
/ lovely to look into them!
She sat, usually, upon farteuH with a
! large full arm embedded in the cushion,
sometimes for hours without stirring. I
/ have seen the wind lift the masses OF dark
hair from her shoulders when it seemed like
I the coming to life Of marbel Hebe-she
had been motionless so long. She was a
model for a goddess Of sleep, as she sat with
/ her eyes half closed, lifting up their superb
/ lids slowly as you spoke to her, and drop.
ping thnm again with the deliberate motion
of a cold, when she murmered out her sylla
be Of assent Her figure, in sitting pos
/ ture, presented gentle declvitv from the
curve other neck to the inStep of the small
man. remember fellows bringing her q
! plate offruit one evening. He was one ot
/ your lively men--a horrid monster all right
angles and activity. Having never been ac-
customed TO hold her own plate, she had not
well extracted her whole fingers from her
/ handkerchief before he sat it down in her
lap. As it began slowly to slide towards
her feet, her hands relarscd into the muslin
folds, and she fixed her eyes upon it with a
kind of indolent surprise, dropping her Ids
gradually, till as the fruit scattered over the
ottoman, they closed entirely. and liquid
jet line was alone visible through the heavy
lashes. There was an Imperial Indifference
in it worthy of Juno.
! Miss McLush rarely walks. When she
does, it is with the deliberate majesty of a
Dido. Her small, plump feet melt to the
ground like snow-hakes, and her figure
sways to the iniolent motion Of her limbs
with a glorious grace and vieldingness quite
indescribable. She was idling slowly up the
Mall one evening just at twilight, with ser,
vent at a short distance behind her, who
| 10 while away the time between his steps,
was employing himself in throwing stones
at the cows feeding upon the common. A
gentleman, with natural admiration for her
| splendid person, addressed her. He nigh,
have done more eccentrick thing With.
out troubling her selfto look at him, she
turned to her servent and requested him,
with yawn of desperate eanui, to knock
that fellow down. John obeyed his orders
and, as his mistress resumed her loungue
picked up handful of pebbles. and
tossing one at the narest COW, loitered, lazil,
after
Such supreme Incidence was irresistible.
| gave in-T-who never before could sum.
mon energy to sieh-I-to whom declara.
ton was but a synonym for perspiratien-l
who had only thought oflove asa nervous
complaint and of women but to yray for a
good delivcrance--I-yes- un.
der. Albina McLushl Thou vert too ex
quistely lazy Human sensibilities canno,
hold out forever.
found her one morning slipping her coffee
at twelve, with her eyes wide open. She
was just from the bath, and her complexion
had soft, dewey transparency, like the
cheek Venus rising from the sea. 1t was the
hour, Lurly had told-me, when she would be
at the trouble Of thinking. She put away
with her dimplcd fore finger, as entered. q
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