New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-02-13

when Ar. jacobs comes and show him ycu KNOW
how TO behave like q lady
OH, never could entertain him father
should be frightened to DEATH II Is 80 easy mattel
To talk ia Cousin Nathan and these country hsaus
but these city people, who think one cow gives
skim milk and anothcr cream, and that We KEEP
cns expressly 10 give battermIk such people ars
4 not conEsnial could not act myself before him
III with you'd send me sway somewhere until hi'
j stay u ended. =
4 send ypa away, indeed when il Is You he i
c0snAx u sse that Is be quickly corrected him
sell. 4 be d coming for his health. But then
/ know his fAther would rather have him MARI,
some healthy sensible country girl, than any cit.
lady in the land z i
ssBat. Cousin Nathan. father Y FILTERED Fanny.
Cousin Nathan can go to grass" CURLY sal
Uncle Joshua.
And ! along with him y she asked with
roguish smile.
You and Nathan can't marry. Fanny. I'm agi
Il, the Bibles agin it, and the fates are agn il
He's promised To see You no more tn you are til
wife of some one else. He has giv'n you up slicl
and clean, and hope you've got too much spnnl
u feel any laundering for him, after that"
Fanny's cheek flushed very hotly, then grew
Il p0sAs
Very wei IT. after all he said to me last night
| ~ can give ne m ii this way, Tn sure dom
care. he didn't even bid me good bye "
Uncle Joshua thought by the way the blush
shade settled around Fanny's mouth, that she dig
care vast deal more than he imagined she could
/ ii When will MI. Jacobs be here, father 81
Tomorrow afternoon, in time for tea.
/ Never had Fanny felt such dread Of Z" to-mor.
row afternoon u III Ill her life. II came 1t last.
and she knew the expected guest had arrived, be-
caase Uncle Joshua was In the parlor down stairs
| talking with somebody, and that somebody, she
felt sure, was Jefiry Jacobs.
" III run out and get the eggs out Of the spec
HE'D hens nest, = thought Fanny, before put on
NV best dress.
Fanny considered the gathering Of the eggs her
sole perogative, and had any one else touched the
hens nests, there probably would not have been
another egg laid in Uncle Joshua's barn, so well
was II understood among the feathered tribe that
Fanny never " shooed Z them OF the nest to get
the fresh egg, or picked the SHELLS to hurry out
little chickens not yet ready to be Matched.
Fanny had scarcely reached the hay NOW, when
she heard Uncle Joshua enter the stable below and
commence to deseant upon the fine points Of that
Il OF oxr to his young guest.
would like just to get peep at that young
man, thought Fanny, and stealing to the edge of
the NOW she ventnred to look down into the stall
below. Alas for Fanny The board on which she
stood tipped with her weight and, in cloud Of hay
and dust, down she went, alighting squarely upon
the broad back Of that off OK.
Had witch upon her broomstick fallen before
him. our Jacobs could not have looked more aston
ished. Fanny could cry with vexation ard shame.;
but Uncle Joshua took her like baby in his arms,
put her over into the next STALL whence she could
escape into The house, and went On telling III his
oEox as though nothing had happened.
AT ten Mr.. Jacobs wondered If that graceful
little figure presiding at the table was the same
which had come down upon him with such a per-
feet rush, as be termed It, out III The barn Unfor
tunately for Fanny, she had face which once seen
her hair differently and changed her dress and
deeked her hair with daisies, Mr.. Jacobs made up
Bib mind 1t was the same head which be had seen
decked III dust and hay seed little while before.
A Never mind, z thought Fanny, stIll disguise
myself in new dress tomorrow I'll finish that
blue silk which father brought me FROM New York,
md then he'll be sure I'm not that dusty little
wretch he saw out in the barn. With heightened
color, she talked to Mr.. Jacobs, and the evening
slipped away SO delightfully."-, that the young man
retired with the firm conviction that country air
was already doing him much good.
The next forenoon, when the house was quiet
Ind Fanny imagined that Mr.. jacobs was ont in |
he fields with her father, she took out her blue |
lk dress and commenced sewing upon it. Hard /
she tried to keep up her indignation for Nathans
Iuiet desertion, her heart would swell and soften
d spite Of herself, and the blue silk dress would |
aue been ruined ii saltwater could have spotted I
t. Finally, she threw aside her morning wrapper
nd tried on the new waist to see how it would ft,
or Fanny was her own dressmaker. Uncle
osbua's house had no superIuons furniture, and
be only mirror it contained hung in the parlor
own stairs, Fanny thoughts she would run down
Fhile no one was about, and see how her dress
cooked. She certainly looked very sweetly, with
Ter bare neck and arms swelling out from the an.
inshed waist and her white skirt contrasting with
he rich blue silk. She walked into the curtained
oarlor, turned herself around and round before the
glass, and well pleased with the figure she saw re-
aected there she made smiling bow to it. stepped
back few PAGES and curtisied, held ont her hand
h her most bewitching manner, and said, ahow do
you dol then she suddenly drew herself up and
stood as if trans6xed- stared wildly at the glass.
hen covered her face with her hands and darted
rom the room. What had she seen there it was |
another face beside her own, with eyes full Or d |
Kind Of amused pity, and mouth struggling to keen |
rom breaking into smile! Fanny knew IT was |
Mr.. Jacobs face, that he was sitting at the oppo-
lite side of the room-the darkness Of which had
prevented her from discovering him when she first
entered that he had seen all her ridiculous ges
ures and her strange attire
TIL burn the blue dress up T! she exclaimed az |
Don as she had regained her own room. II shall
ate Mr. Jacobs, I'm sure shall Must be ALWAYS
ee me In my most ridiculous plfghtssn She actu.
lly cried with vexation; then sat down and wished
her heart she could just get glimpse Of Nathan
he would like SO to see if he looked sad or happy,
When Fanny told the mornings event to Uncle |
oshua, he only laughed heartily and pooh-poohed
II, and told Fanny Mr. Jacobs was a gentle
AN, and she must treat him just as though she did
1t know he had been in the parlor. But q
oman finds it difficult to forgive the spectator
any Of her silly absurdities, however uninten-
onalIy he may have acted such part; and Fanny.
Notwithstanding It MAS very plain that Mr. Jacobs
night her society on all occasions, avoided him
st as much as possible. He made up his mind at
1T that her heart was prsengaged, and determined
, learn who was his rival, II he could.
In the little sitting-room down stairs stood box
aunge, answering At the same time for closet and
ouch. It was simply rough board box. abont
tx feet long and two feet wide with lid To ii n