The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-05-12

lass she was. Weiehed abont twice as much
as did, ana VA. full Of devi!try. I recollect
was her baby such hueging and kissing
never got before or since. You may Judge
how infantile this proceeding was, when tel
yon that fortnight before Il happened nae
stolen my fathers razor and shaved m LIZ
shave. Miss Tilly's maternal fondness h.eo
to have killed me. Her liberality 70 Az snrsn-
tended over period Of many ys 49,. t.t.n
which time the number OF Oo, nave been less
than several thousand. On my way 70 Ger.
tain village. met Miss Tilly aIa insn.on x
resort and remained: , maS and most
Of the time in the parlor. counted II piece OF
rood fortune that scarcely any interTuption
Occurred during that eventiuI day we Dao tne
u.rior entirely to ourselves. 1t was SOFT
ssmrine day, she was dressed in spotless white
she was charming.
Tiiiy and were then sixteen. About mid.
night, her sister Hatty, TWO years younger
"Tilly, ma says you must come ana go 10
bed"
So Tilly and l kissed and parted.
How it was l know not, but Hatty fingered
near the door after lilly had disappeared.-
When ] advanced she retreated, but stopped
at the head of the stairs, about ten feet off.
"Hatty." said l, mournfully, for 1 was real
y sorry at being compelled to leave the tn next
morning" Hatty, are you going to let me 30
without a farewell kiss 2"
She stood irresolute a moment, then flew to
me- gave me n little, quick kiss, and was off
and out OF sight in a second. Brief as it was,
that kiss was better than all of Tiiiy's kisses
put together; it was so timid and yet 80 warm.
Hatty really wanted to kiss somebody that
night. 1t must have been one OF the first kisses
she ever gave.
tits a lamentable fact for which / have
never been able to account, that throughout
the whole of my college life l did not get q
single kiss. And yet was with the girls all
the time could spare from my laborious stu
dies and in the of NV fOnOneSS Tor
them, went so far as to break up two female
boarding schools. Since l come TO think about
it, 1t seems to me that l did kiss Kitty Temple
and Mag Leigh on one or two occasions, but
as I want the account to be accurate, will
not put them down.
At this point might introduce a variety of
desultory kisses with which / was favored
during my sojourn in place which shall be
naIheiess but where's the use But for my
| being possessed Of a memory for kisses second
only to the memory of the late Lord Macau-
Law for everything, / should long ago have
forgotten these Kisses. They were yapid,
quite vapid, and did me little good. Still
prosecuted my researches with energy, undis-
| heartened by the quality of the kisses l OBJ
or somehow the kiss had been looking for.
The time came, but with it came not the kiss
had expected. One night 1 laid regular siege to
| the fair Sara-I always would spell her name
as Coleridge spelled il, and it pleased her
and begged her like a dog to let me kiss her.
l entreated, implored, l prayed, only did
not weep. l got mad, quarrelled, said marsh
and cruel things, swore l would have the
kiss in spite of her. But her sister was in the
room and she knew she was safe. l asked her
to let me kiss her hand. the top of her head,
| the hem of her dress, her foot. No, no, no,
| no-all the time, but sweetly, sadly.
| That girl lorsd me.
Young man! remember that the way, and
| the only way to get a favor from lady, is to
pretend you don't want it particularly. A
| good plan, also, is to take everything rs mat
| ter of course. If she sees-and she is quick to
| see-that you think it is something extraOrdi-
nary, she becomes alarmed-thinks she has
done wrong, and all that. Keep on like moth
| ing was the matter
Well, Sara would not let me kiss her. So
| went off in a towering pet, loving her harder
| all the time, and swearing would die before
| l ever sat foot in her house again. And accord
| ingly, two nights afterward, took her to a
revival that was going on at the Courthouse.
| Was very sedate and polite all the way to the
revival, and all the way back, which resulted
| in this:
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