Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-01-28
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C0LDSTREAM.

large party is assembled to celebrate the
feast OF ST. Partridge, at Ravestoke Hail, an
old country house about two miles distant from
the northwest coast of Devon The various
branches OF English society are fairly repre-
scented by its component parts, There are Two
peers, two members of the lower house, some
Guardsmen, some undergraduates, clergy
man, and lieutenant in the navy. But our
hero Is not representative man, yet he be-
longs to class which, called into existence by
the accumulated wealth of the nineteenth cen
tury is ever on the increase
Frederick Iyrawey resembles Sr. Charles
Coldstream, inasmuch as he has been every
where and done everythng but he is by no
means used up, and can still take an interest
in whatever his hands find to do, Nor is his
everything somebody's else everything. Ii is
not bounded 10y Jerusalem aud the py ramids
MIR. Tyrawley has fought in more than one
state of South America, and has wandered Tor
more than two years from isle to isle of the
Pacific mysterious reputation hovers round
nm. lie is supposed to have done many
things, bat no one is very clear VIII 1t they are
and ii is not likely that much information on
that point will be obtained from him. for he
seldom talks MUCH and never speaks of him
self. His present mission appears to be to kill
cartridges, play cricket and dress himself
Not that it must be supposed that he has been
in the habi. OF wearing less clothing than the
custom OF the country in which lie may Lave
been located required but only at the present
time he devoted much attention to buff waist
coats and gauze neck ties, braided coats and
curled muslachios
Such as he is, however he is an object of
interest to the feminine portion OF the party at
RaVelstoke Hail. for he is rich and handsome,
as well as Mysterious, and he cannot be more
than two and thirty. And the ladies at Ravel-
stoke OuL-numDpr fine men fnr oltl,nutrl, II j.
still rare for the fair sex to participate actively
an the saturnalla OF the partridge god they
Will always be found lowering i'll considerable
numbers on the outskirts of the feast; and
the varieties OF the British lady are fairly re-
presented.
There are some mammaS with daughters to
marry, and there are some daughters with
mamma to prevent marrying again. which is
perhaps the most difficult thing of the two
she has an income in her own right. There
are blondes and brunctties, and pretty, brown
haired, browneyed girls who hover between
the two orders, and combine the most danger
GUS characteristics Of both, who can wear blue
pink, and who look pretter in tine one color
than they do in the other; but who al
ways command your suffrage in favor Of that
which they are wearing when you look at
them.
Aud there is Constance Baynton, with grey
eyes and black hair. And the incest critic OF
feminine appearance might be dctied to state
what SHE had worn half an hour after he had
left her for no one can ever look at anything
except her face
Yet Constance is three andtwenty, and still
unmarried. Alas, what towards men are
The fact is, that Constance is very clever but
as Mrs. Mellish 1.-THE widow says, mot clever
enough to hide it,
Is she little vexed at her present condi.
ton Certainly she does not exhibit any ten.
dency to carry out Mrs Mellish's suggestion,
if it has ever been repeated to her The
young men are more afraid of her than ever {:
and certainly she does say very sharp things
sometimes. Especially is she severe upon
= iders, the butterflies OF fashionable existence
She appears to consider that she has special
mission to arouse them; but they do not like
being lectured. With the young ladies she is
great favorte, for she is very affectionate
and though SO beautiful and distinguished she
has proved herself to be not SO dangerous ri.
val as might have been expected. Indeed, it
has happened more than once that male admir-
alton, rebounded from the hard fair surface of
her manner, has found more yielding metal in
the bosoms of her particular friends. Besides,
she is always ready to lead the van in the gen.
eral attack upon the male sex, when the la.
dies retire to the drawing room.
Not that she would ever say anything be-
hind their backs she would not be ready to re.
peat to their faces, but in that course, probably,
she would not meet with such general support
In Mr.. Tyrawley she affected to dlsbelieve
She stated as her opinion to her intimate
friends, that she did not believe he ever had
done, or would do anything worth doing but
that he plumed himself on u cheap repula on,
which, as all were ignorant of its foundation,
no one could possibly impugn.
There is no reason to believe that in this in
stance Miss Constance was not as conscien.
tious as usual or that she really entertained
higher opinion Of the gentleman than she chose
to confess.
lie certainly was not afraid of her. and even
dared to contradict her favorite theory of the
general worthlessness of English gentlemen of
the nineteenth century 1t was one wet
morning when she had been reading Scott to
three or four of her particular friends--and it
must be confessed that she read remarkably
well-that she began to lament the decline Of
chivalry. Tyrawley was sitting half in and
half ont of range. Perhaps she talked little
at him. AT any rate he chose to accept the
challenge
81 cannot agree with you, Miss Baynton"
he said. ut is true we no longer wear ladies
gloves III our helmets, nor do we compel harm.
less individuals, who possibly may have sweet
hearts OF their own, to admit the superiority of
our lady love at the point OF the lance but Of