New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-01-23

store for me.
As time winged its flight, / scattered flowers at
many shrine, but never knelt petitioner at any,
until the dsagreeable thought forced itself on me,
| that should never love again.
By sshe purhlind son and heir S
Young Adam Cupd,'
the treasonous thought was fearfully avenged.
After having made satisfactory breakfast Twas
one morning pursuing my way in most harmless
| manner to my accustomed ayocations, when a lady
lust in advance Of me slipped upon some trifie that
had been thrown upon the banquette and but for
nv timely aid, would have lad severe and awk-
ward fall.
| As she quickly extrieated herself frcm my arms,
her upturned face, in place Of being sufused with
| flush Of notification, was expressive only Of
| comic mirth; and her eyes gave me quick glance
| Of wicked raillery, as she managed, through the
sweet notes of an irrepressble laugh, to utter
| mile ren,e,ciraens y for the assistance. mo-
ment more, and she had turned the corner, or was
lost III the crowd, and departed, feared forever
| from my vision.
That day was totally Indifferent as to whether
| cation was up.sr- TOWN, ana felt as though all
things were weary, fat, stale and Improbable
That face with its coquettish nose, g bud bursti-
ness Of lip, sparkling eyes, clear, soft brunette
complexion. and setting of jetty, waving hair, tor
mented me like an imp Of mischief. @
That night, ennui, propitious fate, the sugges-
tons Of possibility, or what yoH WILL took to
the place where tsmost do congregateo the indigo
nous Beauties called Creole---the French Theater.
am afraid upon that occasion was in state
to have committed dreadful crimes, for certainly
had no music in my soul,p and thought the opera
dreadful bore, until change of location, and an
accidental use of the lorgnette revealed to me the
heorine Of my little morning adventure.
With tremulous eagerness / sought young
friend who was an habitue of the place, and point
ing the young girl out, asked him if he knew who
she was.
Slowly fixing his glass at proper focus, he
took, as thought, a deliberate survey, and then
| answered langudly
"Auh--the stout lady in blue silk-auh, yes
with feroniere of pearis-that is Madame
"No, no, p I said as politely as circumstances
required but inwardly feeling that would derive
ineable satisfaction from shaking him for his
chalanee "not the lady in blue with the pearls,
but that charming little sunbeam of thing in
simple white, with no ornament but her beautiful
black hair
He turned and looked at me with as much curl
osity as he could take the trouble to feel and then
resumed his investigation.
ssLet me see. Why, declare (here animation
weaklygdemonstrated) 81 believe its',-(stopping
to polish an imagined speck on the glass and then
adjusting it to his eyes in eisurely manner) 81
believe it's-it is-Hermance Don't you know? My
cousin, Just come out, Hermance de'Longueville. /
did not know she was here tonight. must 60
and speak to her-let me have the pleasure of in
Producing you.n
Talk about Tantalus all that he ever suffered in
signing for the unattainable was nothing COM
pared to what that introduction led the way to
for me.
/ fatter myself am sensible man-eminently
so-but if ever did play the fool, that little vixen
made me. She was so capricious, so evaneseent,
SO unexpected in her words, and yet SO lovingly
grlish and irresstably arch that she kept alter
mating as to whether idolzed hated her, and
halting between narrowing uncertainty as to
whether was TO her an object of perfect inaiffer
ence and deep-seated conviction that she gave
me her secret alteration
Sleep! Why was ignorant of e the balmy'' for
weeks at time. Lying awake, bordering on some
one of her innumerable freaks, or else gloatng
over some tender word, some coniiding glance, or
some wondrous witchery Of action.
Eat? positively declare my indifference to the
pleasures Of the table was really wicked; but a
combination of love, doubt, jealousy and hope is
as certain preventive of appetite as sea-sickness
itself.
Well, the sequel was what now know might
have been anticipated from the chapters that pre-
coded it, but it fell upon me as thunderclap
would, coming from eloudless sky.
1t reached me through the medium Of morning