New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-05-13


yaTETSth|as "a anaaEiser ina irost.work Of some
COSTLY cakes: ssiy second was TO beg an lntrodnc
tinn ID her friend.
no tagging, ANY of those awkward pauses which
elsewhere are filed up with atmospherieal obser-
vatonss were improved by my new acquaintance
10 press articles of sale upon our notice.
n n Your sex takes very kindly to trading. Even
flirting seems almost to be laid aside for this unex
pected passion, Iyentured TO observe.
But our shop keeping is the result OF our
/. Doubtless. And when you staid away from
balls earlier in the season to attend religious fairs,
Ii was then your religion, was it not?
VIII You talk too much and buy too little. An,
judge she said, turning upon my compassion,
s.syou are gazing centempatiEeiy at those line
handkerohiefs-I see you wish to purchase
dozeG.i
How much would be the damages,' inquired
the Judge ruefully, who now looked at them tor
the FIRST time, and saw that they werecotton. ;.
IS. Ny friend means how much is the swindle,' =
said /.
Swindlein was the response we are work
ing without reward to uniform soldiers. From
what lady did you beg yours y
i believe have never begged anything from
your sex, unless it may be a kss--a kind OF aims,
yen must admit, which douhly blesses both giver
and receiver. But you need not look angry. \ our
handkerchiefs are not worth carrying home, but II
you will put yourself to be drawn for in lottery
/ VIII invest my last QOllar uGkbbS.s'
g Only one consideration prevents me.h
e And that is ~
The fear that you might draw the price, said
she, as she handed my friend his handkerchief
and took at the same time his twenty dollar bill.
The next night found both the Judge and myself
there, and indeed, many others who went to hover
around the aforementioned stand. She WAS always
lively and sarcastic, and occasionally discoursng
sentiment, when the crowd had sufficiently dis
perstd TO allow of promenade. But one thing OF
the nthhr she hHH alynVS crowd 0f hUhks ha1
| back, which she managed like 50 many balls
throwing them up and catching them too at every
descent.
| ii am wearied with selng,', she one night said
your best style and I will not interrupt you to
make Won buy anything. / will listen to anything
goa say-so long as you are interesting
q You give me a wide field--but for yonr sex
all subjects resolve themselves into one, the
married state, the future OF q woman's existence.
Perhaps / should say her present, as it is never
absent from her thoughts. You all think and
dream about nothing else. Every girl has a
philosophy about ". What is ypurs2n
Since you ask me, mine is that every woman
ought 10 have a certain amount of competence
and ease to develop her nature. A little love
would not be Objectionable, even of that devouring
kind you readso in novels. But little splendor
is much more q necessity
x But You might say the same of us.H
4 BY no means. "a gentleman may live in al
most any style for aught know, you yourself in-
have on, agree with you is very fne but possibly
it may be the only one you have"
e But my dear Miss
(. You need notieel embarrassed So long as It is
clean, you will bewell received. But what woman
could survive that sort of existence? Her home
is her world, and beyond these walls, of her
prison. if you please, she has really little happi-
ness to look for. Take one of these flowers, as
you call rs.
Do you mean I" said, one Of these wall
III, rad hao
pearance of just bursting into bloom?h
= Call us anything you choose, bnt by your own
name. But could one of these share the dull
realities of your garrett know it must be garnet,
and survive the transplanting2 We would all of
US die without d certain amount of fnery.
stAnd 30 you would, did not every lover become
d sort of poet and gild the dull realities of life
with brighter hues than those Of wealth.
q All! should like to be loved by poet, to
have my name handed down in deathless sung. 1t
is the only way, nowadays, that poor woman has
ia become famous. Y
Your wish is already gratlfied in both respects,
The name Of Sarah Jane-that is yours, is it not
shall descend 10 posterity along with those Of
Laura, Heloise or Juliet. 1t shall be remembered,
when your race and people shall have long been
forgotten. -
Here, her father. who had been quietly sleeping
in almost the only seat there in the room, COM
planned of being too much exhausted to remain
longer, and we were obliged to separate.
1t was now near the close Of the last night.
Standing near the Judge, whose face wore an air
of melancholy, detected what sounded like
sigh.
Il have not yet had my reyenge,n said, F." But
what Is the mRtter2 bribery false judgement? re-
morse 2-anything that way ~
No; only one OF two chickens too many at din
ner.n
81 see, turning your stomach into chicken
coop, as usual But how do you prosper in love
If you had acted anyway handsome, might be of
some assistance
& love mighty hard 2 said he in his dispassion-
ate way, Z. but Tam afraid there's no use Here Is
aletter which you may see. lam going to put it
into the postoffiee at the lower end Of the roomn
Here he handed me the following:
OF the many letters fair lady, which will be
sent to you Tonight there will be one, should this
reach you, which has meaning. But who it is
that thus addresses you, you will never learn This
thought alone could give Me the courage to pro-
coed.
4 1t will not surprise you--y you who are born to
be loved, and in whore ears the huz of'admiraton
is never absent---to learn that you have another
worshipper Your woman's nature it will please,
perhaps, thus to know that you are the object of
mans homage. But what will give you, at most
but momentary pleasure, will be death to him
The light,of the taper, to quote an old metaphor,
shines on, but the moth that plays around it is
sumed. All, fair citadel will the happiness Of the
man who finally wins the key to the fortress ever
equal the anguish Of those who have sighed for it
in vain
'sThey tell me that thus already too dangerously
gifted by nature, you have the additional adyan-
stages which are conferred by wealth. Others, on
the contrary, assert, and could wish for my own
sake that they were the better Informed that your
only dowery will be your many accomplishments.
Again Isigh that the latter may be true. Perhaps
in that case he who has not even now the courage
to beg once more to see you, might in time learn
the arts that move woman's heart, and offer--for
lave makes the most timid braVeyes, offer at your
feet his DEVOTION ABELARD.
g Is very ceverly drawn up document, Judge,
but think of an Ahelard who weighs two hun.
dred pounds. will go now and see what effect
| yonr letter has when it comes to hand. =
N Stay one minute couldn't you contrive ,ify you
get a chance to promenade with her, to make her
talk a little about me, just when happen to be
near. / should, somehow or other, like to know
what she thinks of me? Y promised, and soon
after hastened off into the presence of the lady in
question.
M Ii was you-do not deny it, was the first thing
she said to me, who wrote this letter. You, doubt
less, pennad ii as d Joke. But can you blame u.
for being vain, if thus you hatter US?
+" confess to a knowledge of the letter, but there
is no sentiment it contains which | do not believe
and feen
HsdI the same language! But every one i:
| leaving, and you must escort me home. There
will be q plenty Of gentemen=-you see 1 know my
| yaiue--whn viii envy you the happiness. But
| give it to you as a tayor.n
She passed her arm through mine. The Judge
| was now close enough to hear us. WHO is you
| fat triend,'t she INQUIRED. 81 have never We
| learned his name. d. you not think him rathe
/ old To be as fond of ladies' as he is?,'
| e Not at all. ampery proud Of him--he hold
his years SO well y said l. with an air of modesty
| 6 In fact, he ismy father"
The poor fellow slowly ran his hands througl