The Shreveport weekly news. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1861-1861, 1861-07-08

4 nATh9Tlc AND BEAUTIFULLY ToLu
rxEE, BY MR.. GAIT.

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e.. rxIE, BY MR.. GAIT.
After a short pause, Mrs. Winsom
resumed her narrative, SAYING
"But ye're no to think lodging
house is free from calamities. for l
ean assure you, that soon after the
jocose days T had with the Lus-
irons, I met with sore trial. 1t
came to the misfortune of a sweet
young miss, who was beguiled fsoss'
her parents by dragon otficer--one
Of your prodigals that defy the Ten
commandments and the laws of man,
with mnstophas on their upper lips
no that he was to be objected to on
aeeeunt Of his visogo,o,ny, for in
truth IL was an Absalom of beauty,
and head q tongue t- vile The, bird
from the tree. Insseed, after saw
him, I almost tho't the poor maiden
was butlightly to blame: and l never
could satisfy myself how so brave Il
gallant-so free-heartcd and fair
spoken,-couid bea perured wretch; ;
but. for all my womanly indulgence.
be was so, and l was condemned to
acknowledge it by my conscience. as
crooned in the watches of night.
Miss Fatima Camomile was one
sfthe seven daughters of the Rever-
end DIR. Camomile, by his third wife,
who, according to the most authentic
accounts, had fewer children than
either of the two who were her ances-
tors in his bosom.
THE Doctor Kept school for
select young gentlemen, ordained for
a classical way Of life and out of
it came to pass, that when Captain
Rampant was a bit laddie, he was
sent BY his doers to learn Greek
and Latin with the worthy Doctor,
who surely was most superior
man.
"Miss Fatima and the Captain,
when they were playing bairns-he
. birky laddie, and she hardy las
sie-fell into love, according to the
fashion Of teens and monage, and be-
trothcd vows of everlasting perdi-
ton. if they proved false to one an
other.
But it came to pass, as in course
of nature it was to be- looked for,
that his friends took him from the
Doctors school, and placed him in
the army, where. as might have been
expected, he grew, being a handsome
young man, and great ne wecl.
After some five or six years. his re-
gimentals were quartered in Il town
contagious to the village where Miss
Fatima lived with her father and the
multitude of her sisters in the enjoy
ment ofevery comfort, and the pleas
ant innocence of Il; classical acade-
my.
"Out Of the accidence, the Cap
tain-or, as I should call him, the
Hornet, for he was as yet not farth
promoted-repaired his old acquain-
lance with the Doctor, and renewed
his familiars with Miss Fatima, I'M
til of they came in a chaise-and-four,
making a EQUIPMENT into my first floor,
az if they had been IL real man and
wife, according to the Gospels OF
the Bishops of London, or the Arch
bishop Of Canterbury.
well, you see, being in my house,
began to have my doubts of the
sincerity ofthe marriage. l couldn't
tell how such doubts arose-.hat was
impossible but l thought they We're
overly fond to be by themselves
nobody came nigh then-and one
Sabbath night I said to myself, ISL
no wonderful that never young
lady comes to speir for Mrs. Ram
pant, if it were only to get insight
into the nature of matrimony? In
short, before Monday morning l was
worked into persuasion that Mrs
Rampant was not a creditable ledger
Young, lovely, and lamenting-fo,
she was often in tears-I discerned
there was doubt: and what would
have become ONE and my valuable
property in this house, had / lie
made Justification?
LET no man, or woman either, say
that / was moved thereunto by al
sspiscatory curiosity. No! l had ;
dread upon me; l thought my hous,
might inherit a blemish from tina
,houghtless and fr1endless pair. ane
therefore ! was stirred by an obiisa
ton IS duty to look into the youn:
lady's affair What discovery wa
mine! The salt tear rim into NJ,
eyes when I think Of her story. Oh
the natural peridiousness Of man
..She told me with what innocence
like two babes in the woods, whel
he was at her fathers school, the,
had loved one another. How often
while yet neither knew the meanin;
Of their words, he promised to MARI,
her, and how fondly she had reckon
ed on being Mrs. Rampant. 1t wa
very pathetical. "Otten when Ii
was gone" said the poor young lady
Il have walked into the fields, hav
ing NO companion but the holy moon