Litchfield enquirer., 1861-06-13
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A large party is assembled to celebrate the feast of St. Partridge at RaveIstoke Hall, an old country house about two miles distant from the northwest coast of Devon. The various branches of English Society are very fairly re- presented by it's component parts. There are two peers, three members of the lower house, some Guardsmen, some undergraduates, a clergy man, and a lieutenant in the navy. But our hero is not a representative man yet he belongs to class which, called into existence by the ac- cumuated wealth of the nineteenth century, is ever on the increase
 Frederick Tyrawley resembles Sir Charles Coldstream, inasmuch as he has been every where, and everything; but he is by no means used up, and can still take an interest in what ever his hand finds to do' Nor is his everything everybody else's everything. It is not bounded by Jerusalem and the pyramids.
 Mir. Tyrawley has fought in more than one State of South America, and has wandered for more than two years from isle to isle of the Pac- fife. A mysterious reputation hovers round him. He is supposed to have done many things but no one is very clear what they are and it is not likely that much information on the point will be obtained from him, for he seldom talks much, and never speaks of himself. His present mission appears to be to kill cartridges, play cricket, and dress himself. Not that it n, ust be supposed that he has ever been in the habit of wearing less clothing than the custom of the country in which he may have been located re- quired but only that at the present time he de voted much attention to buff waistcoats and gause neckties, braided coats, and curled mus tachios.
 | Such as he is. however, he is an object of in terest to the feminine portion of the party al Ravelstoke Hall for he is rich and handsome as we'll as mysterious, and he cannot be more than two-and thirty. And the ladies at Rayel stoke outnumbered the men; for although it k still rare for the fair sex to participate actively in the saturnalia of the partridge,god, they will always be found lowering in considerable nun | bers on the outskirts of the feast; and the va rietes of the British lady are fairly represented
 There are some mammas with daughters te marry, and there are some daughters with amam ma to prevent marrying again. is, per haps, the most difficult thing of the two, as she has an income in her own right. There art blondes and brunettes, and pretty, brown-hairee Egirls who hover between the two orders ane combine the most dangerous characteristic O both, who can wear both blue and pink, and wht look prettier in the one color than they do 1T .he other; but who always command your sui
 trage in favor of that which they are wearing
 when you look at them
 Ana tnere IS Constance Baynton with grey l eyes ana black hair. And the incest critic o
 ieMihiue appearance might be defed to statt what she had worn, half an hour after he lef lcept her face. - 'i''s oN ,1 Yet Constance is three-and-twenty, and stil 7 unmarried Alas, what towards men are m
 fact is that Constance is very clever but as Mrs Mellish (the widow says, not clever enousl to hide it."
 Is she little vexed at her present condition
 Certainly she does not exhibit any tendency carry out Mrs. Mellishs suggestion, if it ha
 ever been repeated to her. The young men ar
 more afraid of her than ever and certainly sh does say very sharp things, sometimes. Espe
 cially she is severe upon idlers, the butterflies
 fashionable existence. She appears to considt that she has special mission to arouse them , but they do not appear to being lectured. Wit lthe young ladies she is great favorite, for sh is very affectionate; and though beautiful an distinguished, she has proved herself to be nots