The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1861-08-15
I5UME EBENSBURG, PA. TIL URSDAY. JUST l5 1861

row if [ wished, and that the proposition
came from your husband first
"Alas." answered Mrs. Jujube, with
reproachful sigh, "you do us injustice.
Believe me, Roland, that no mercenary
motive whatever induced us to seek this
alliance. Your own merits, my dear young
friend, were quite sufficient to account for
our wishing this connection
dwell, ma 'am," said Roland, rather
Modified, ''I wish you would teach your
daughter to be little more respectful, if
she is not afectionate'
"Idtsez yous, man ami !" exclaimed
Mrs. Jujube, as loud whistle without
was followed by scuffing in the hall /;
"here comeall the people" And so Mrs.
Jujube settled her skirts and prepared to
receive her company.
Mrs. Jujube's ball was brilliant affair.
"Our best society is proverblally given to
spending money, and such golden oppor-
tunity as this was not lost sight, | assure
you. The diamonds, the dresses, the
feathers, the jeweled poniar Is, the blazing
buckles, that waved and flashed and rust
led through the rooms that night were
net q Ia cour danced at the beginning of
the evening, which had been rehearsed by
the performers with the utmost care for
weeks previous. Then with what wild
JOY did the assemblage launch itself into
a redowda at the conclusion of the solemn
ceremonial of the miuet! Toward the
middle of the evening the theatre was
thrown OPEN Among other entertain
ments Mrs. Juiube haG fitted up very
pretty little theatre, where select few
were to perform little comedy, written
by Mr.. Beaufort for the occasion. OF
these theatricals Mr. Beaufort had taken
supreme charge. He had painted the
scenery, written the play, directed the
rehearsals, and scolded the performers
The piece was called "An Impromptu
Wedding" and turned on the adventures
Of young French cavalier, who found
himself, by a series of strange events, COM
PEELED to marry a lady in order to save her
life; was miserable at the way in which he
has been obliged to sacrifice himself; but
in the end discovered that he loved his
wife, and was happy as prince forever
after. Mr. Beaufort played the hero, and
Miss Jujube the heroine; while Mr.. Re-
land de Boore, to his great indignation,
found that Mr.. Beaufort had not included
him at all in the cast.
As the curtain drew up and the lights
blazed out the little theatre sparkled like
a gem. The gay dresses of the audience,
the picturesque groups that formed here
and there, the nodding plumes and dia-
mond-hilted swords might have made one
fancy that they were in the theatre at
Fontaine bleau, about to witness one Of the
Mosques or pastorals of which Louis the
Fourteenth was so fond.
The play went on, and was acted with
the greatest spirit Miss Juiube played
the adventurous court-lady with admirable
grace and vivacity; and Beaufort's splen-
did figure and handsome face made him
an excellent cavalier. The little drama
proceeded. The lady was taken as spy
in the camp Of the Prince de Conde, and
was about to be hanged, and the young
cavalier had been forced by the conspira-
tors to whose party he belonged to offer
himself as her husband in order to save
her life. The Prince had sent fo. an
abbe, and the ceremony was to be consum-
mated on the spot.
"Do you know that ceremony looks hor-
ribly real.' whispered Mts. Tantalus to
Miss Tintamarre, just as the able was
marrying the despairing couple, who ex-
changed vows with averted heads.
"Yes," answered the young lady "and
Harriette does not, it seems to me, act
this part as well as she does the Others
She should appear angry and Mortified,
whereas she looks as if she rather liked
it."
'IIook at Roland de Boore :" joined in
Mrs Crystals, pointing with malicious
smile to where that young gentleman
stood leaning gloomily against IA pillar.
''He does not appear to have any taste for
the drama"
"AsI live," exclaimed Miss Tintamarre,
''Beaufort is putting real ring on her
finger. Did you ever see such piece of
impertinence %
s.He gives it to her that she may put it
in her husbands nose -. said Mrs. Tanta-
lus, with sneer.
"'Pon my word" said Miss Tintamarre,
as the curtain fell on the act, 81 never saw
anything so like real marriage
.Don't say so to Mr.. Beaufort" an
swered Mrs Tantulus. ,'He intends the
play to be comedy, and you would be
turning it into "A tragedy"
"Harriette may like that sort of thing,
continued Miss Tintamarre "but for my
part, l know, | should be very sorry to
play such character, and be married, aS
Il were bva sort of dr,Im-head court-mar.