The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1861-02-14
ON PREBLE COUNTY OHIO THURSDAY FEBRUARY A. 1861

80 NJ I'N'SA Ai'i SiiN' O'S' 49, i" 80 ~ W.
urge me to accept a sonsip-law that
l can take no pride inH
The necessity for reply was OBJ
waited by the announcement OF
Morvcn, who was reallysa fayorite
with Mr.. WalsinghaInl until the
prospect of his dauglf's eleva-
ton threw him and an g NJ hopes
in the shade. a'z =. '''''t '-' 'sa-' -
The constrained manner in
which Morven was received by
both, made him at once feel de etrop;
but he was not to be repulscd BY
either hautcur or effected coldncss.
Suffice it that an explanation en-
sued, and 4 scene followed. Nor
ven expressed a conviction that
this romantic attachment was not
III sordid nature Of the calculat-
ing baronet, and that he was actu-
atcd chiefly, if not solely, by mor-
cenary views. lie sought at the
same time to prove the disintcrcst-
edneSs Of his own by offering to
make Isabel his wife without a
shilling. Mr.. WaI$ingham was
obduratc; but Morven further
agreed to voluntarily withdraw
his addresses, if he were unable to
prove to the fathers satisfaction
that the baronct's love was myth;
with the further proviso thatif he
did prove it, fair Isabel's hand was
to be the unconditional reward
This was agreed to-and Sir Will
lam was to be received the next
day.
Punctual to a moment, the baro-
net arrived at the hour appointed,
and was led toa apartment, where
seated upon an elegant couch, was
a fair girl, whose downSast and
troubled look gave token Of the un-
Willingness with which she grant
ed the interview.
The enraptured baronet was at
her feet i'll a moment. His COM
pliments was as varied as prolific !;
she was the entire heathen mythol-
ogy, from Venus to Circe, in the
first sentence; and every treasured
feature in her face he had traced a
thousand times, in every gallery in
Europe-painters and sculptors Of
all ages having stolen them piece
meal by anticipation. He then
ran through a long list of public
places and private assemblies which
she had graced by her presence,
deepening at each spot the wound
her first glance had created in his
once adamantine, now tonderly
susceptable, breast.
The lady was coy, almost to tacit-
urnity, and left him a full field for
the exercise of his powers Of con-
versation, which, like an Irish di-
vision, he had all to himself.
Notwithstanding a natural OBJ
tuseness Of no ordinary degree, Sir
William had sufficient acuteness to
perceive that to woe the gentle
maid was not to win her, so he de-
tcrmined to lay snare for her
vanity, Judging from his knowledge
Of the sex, that was the point most
likely to prove assailable. Turning
the discourse, by q novel and in
genious transition, from eyes to di-
almonds, he sounded her up on her
love for such baubles. Her eyes
frightened like their similitude,
and she unhesitatingIy acknowl-
edged that, if she had a weakness,
it was in the direction Of brilliants
of the first water.
There was a sudden light in her
eye, and a hasty hectic on her
cheek, as she spoke, wherein he
read a triumph, and took his leave,
with the determination to carry her
by a coup de diamans?
In three days his second visit was
to be made; and, at the appointed
time, he came, armed with conquest
in the shape of ~ suite of dia-
which cost him a thousand
pounds?
Under any other circumstances,
every brilliant in the thousand
brilliants would have cost him q
thousand pangs, but he felt that he
was laying out his money at most |