Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1860-07-27
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THE END OF A WOMAN'S CAPRlCES.
A LOVE TALE.

=" Men are never so awkward, never so
ungraceful, never so disagrecable as
when they are making love. A friend is
a luxury, husband ditto suppose but
that intermittent class of human beings
denominated lovers are terrible bores.
1t does very well for women to blush
and look hustered now and then when
occasion makes it desirable but to see a
man with his face as red as a ripe cherry,
and real parcel of strong mindedness,
self-relance, and masculine dignity, done
up in broadcloth and starched linen,
quaking from the top of his shirt collar,
his mouth awry, and his tongue twisted
into commissions, in the vain attempt to
say something sweet-O gracious p
So said saucy Sophia Lynn aloud to
herself, as she sat swinging backwards
and forwards before the window, half
buried in the cushions of a luxuriant arm
chair, and playing with delicate ivory
fan which lay upon her lap.
" 1t also seems so strange. not to say
tiresome," she continued, with a running,
musical laugh, latter one has waltzed
and sung, quoted poetry and talked
nonsense with anybody till one is puzzled
to know which one of the two is most
heartloss, ones self, or ones companion,
to hear him come down plump on the
subject Of matrimony, as though that was
the legitimate result of every such in
sipid acquaintance! For my part never
had lover (here Sophie futtered her fan
and looked pleased, for she had more
than one) that | wasn't sick of after he
proposed. There was Captain Morris
| thought him the handsomest man in
the whole circle of my acquaintance, I'M
til he went on his knees to me, and swore
he should die if | didn't take pity on
him. Somehow he always looked like a
fright to me afterwards. Then there
was DR.. Wilkins--he was really agreea-
BILE and people said very learned | was
delighted with him for a time; but he
spoiled it all with that offer of his-what
long winded adjectves and how the
poor fellow blushed, pulled, and por-
spired He called me an adorable crea-
ture, and hiccoughed in the middle OF
adorable Horrors! l have hated him
ever since. Then there was a"
Hore Sophie started. She heard the
door-bell ring. With a nervous spring
she stood before the mirror, smoothing
down her brown hair with taste truly
comical.
1t won't do to seem Interested" she
said, as she took finishing survey OIL
her person in the glass, and shook out,
with her plump jeweled fingers, the folds
Of her airy muslin dress.
The moment afterwards, when SER
want entered to announce Mr.. Harry
Ainslee, she was back to her old seat by
the window, rocking and playing with
her fan, apparently as unconcerned and
listless as though that name had not sent
quicker thrill to her heart, or the be-
traying crimson all over her pretty face
Z" Tell him | will be down presently, "
she said
The girl disappeared, and Sophie flung
open the window. that the cool, fresh air
might fan away the extra rosiness from
her complexion.
Then she went again to the mirror,
and after composing her bright, eager,
happy face into an expression of dcmure-
ness, descended to the parlor. a smile
broke over the features, and she reached
out both hands to the guest but, as if
suddenly recolecting herself, she drew
them back again, and with formal bow
Of recognition, she passed him and seated
herself in further corner Of the room.
II was very evident that something
was wrong With Sophie; that she had
made up her mind either not to be pleased
or not to please. Could it be that she
had foreseen what was coming that a
presentimont of that visit and its result
had dictated the merry speeches in her
chamber? BE that rs it may, half
hour had not elapsed before Harry Aims
lees hand and fortune, (tbough the latter.
by the way, was nothing wonderful, }
were in the same place where Capt. Nor
ris' and DR.. wilkins had been before
them.
1.-THE first man that / ever heard soy
such things without making a fool Of
himself" muttered Sophie, cmphatically,
from behind her fan, as she sat blushing
and evidently gratifed, yet without deign-
ing any reply to the gallant, straightfor-
ward speech in which her lover had risked
his all Of hope.
He ought to do pennance for the
pretty way he manages his tongue. He's
altogether too calm to suit me-" And