Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-05-02
HOW HARRY FELL IN LOVE.
By JAMES. H. DANA.

the little witch, was the only exception Mer
ry. dancing and pretty as fairy, it was
question whether she had ever thought of love
if she had, she had never talked Of it.
Harry's father was Senator in Congress
and he himself was young lawyer OF brilliant
talents, finished education and handsome for.
tune. It was known that his father WISHED
him to marry, and did not as is often the case
/ insist on bis selecting an heiress. The nov
grayheaded statesman had made love match
in his youth, and stiII worshiped the memory o
his wife he had too early lost. "Let your heart
choose. my son" he said. Marriage without
true affection, holds out but poor show for
happiness"
Most Of those, not directly interested 10 the
event, thought that Isabel Fortescue would
carry of the prize. She was decidedly the
belle Of the village. Having received her ed
ucation at fashionable seminary, there was
scarcely an accomplishment of which she could
not boast. Besides, the families of Vernon and
Forteseue had been the leading ones in the
county for two generations; and gossips said
that the union of the two fortunes and Of the
united influence, would give Harry position
almost unrivaled.
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often. I hose who envied her accused her OF
maneuyering to win him. Throws herself in
his way continually" said one. Ibid ever
anybody" cried another, ''see girl make love
so barefacedly?" "She ought to get him, I'm
sure" sneered another, "ior she has tried hard
enough" Nevertheless, as honest chroniclers
we must record the fact, that some of these
very young ladies, such are the iufrmites Of
human nature, did their very prettiest TO out
mnHuevre Isabel and get Harry for themselves
Harry had not seen Fannie since she was
child. II wGs only month since she had left
school and returned bone again; and the first
time she joined in the village social circle was
at picnic. Here her blooming complexion,
graceful figure and ringing laugh had been the
theme Of admiration by the beaux, and envy
Of the belies. Harry had been her partner in
asdance or two, and, in common with Others,
feit It would ouly be civil to call upon her.
So the morning aite= the picnic he sailed forth
to make the round Of the village girls.
He fIst visited Isabel. She was reclining
in a lee-eeul, charmingly dressed, and reading
novel. All she could talk about was her ia
tigue. Yet, she looked bcwitrhingly, it was
incontestib.e, in the subdued light of that
sumptuous parlor, with elegant pictures on the
walls, boquets of flowers all about. aud an at
mosphere Of exquisite refinement around
Never had Harry felt so much tempted to be
in love. He staid nearly an hour, when he had
intended to stop only for few minutes; and
would not, perhaps, have gone then, if other
gentlemen bad not dropped in.
From Isabeis he went to several other houses.
Everywhere he found the young ladies' dressed
to receive company. Some were reading nov
esi some had book OF poetry open before
them; and one, who had pretty hand, was
ccquetishly knitting purse. Not one of them
had anything serious to do Most of them
affected, like Isabel, to be quite languid, and
talked MS il the fatigue of the day before had
nearly killed them
When Harry reached the pretty. but unpre-
tending cottage where Fannie resided with her |
widowed mother, he found the hall door opened |
to admit the brct re, aud so, just tapping at the
parlor entrarce, he ente. cd bowling. In the
shaded light OF the cool fragrant room he could /
not, for moment see; but he noticed imme-
diately that no one answered his salutation, |
ard, directly, he beheld that The apartment |
was empty. Just then, however, fresh liquid |
voice, as merry as a bird in June, was heard
warbling in an inner apartment. Harry lis
tened awhile charmed; but finding that his |
knocking was not heard, and recognizing, as he
thought, Fannies voice. finally made bold to
go in search Of the singer. Passing down the
hall and through another open door, he sud
denly found himself in the kitchen, u large
airy apartment, scrupulously clean, with Fan
ME, at tie end opposite him, standing before
dough-trough, kEeading -four and carrolling
like lark
1t was picture an artist would love TO
paint. Fanrie's face was seen partly in profile,
showing TO perfection her long ashes, and
bringing out in relief the pouting lips and
round chin. The breeze blew her brown curls
playfully about, and occasionally quite over
her face, at which time she would throw them
back with pretty toss OF her head. Her
arms were bare, and rouud-whiter or more
taper arms never were; they fairly put to
shame, with their rosy pearlness, the snowy
-four powdered over them. As she moved with
quick step at her task, her trim figure showed
all its grace, and her neat ankle and delicate
foot twiukled in and out. For while she did
not observe Harry. It was not till she turn
ed to put down the dredging box, that she be-
held him.
Most of our fair readers, we suppose, would
have screamed, aud perhaps have run out the
opposite door, Fannie did no such thing. She
biushed little, rs was natural, but, having no
false shame. she saw no reason to be frighien-
ca, merely because handsome young gentle
man had caught her at work SO she courte-
sled prettily, laughed one OF her gayest laughs,
and said, holding up her hands:
Il can't shake hands with you. Mr.. Vernon,
you see. Mamma was kind enough to let me
go 10 the picnic, yesterday, and put off some
of my work; aud 50 am doing double to-day,
to make up for it. If you'll be good enough
TO wait minute I'll call mamma"
No, no" said Harry, charmed by this {! ank
innocence, and unceremoniously taking we'll
scrubbed chair, I've only few minutes to
stay. My call is on you; came to see how
you bore the faligues of yesterday"
Fannie laughed till her teeth, so white and
so little, looked behind the rosy lips, like pearls
set in the richest ruby enamel "Fatigued :
why, we had such charming time yesterday,
that one couldn't get tired, even ifone had been
a hundred years old
''YoUll never grow old " said Harry, sur
prised into what would have been Gattery, if
he had not sincerely thought it; and his coun-
teuance showed his admiration for the bright.
happy creature before him.
Fannie blushed, but rallied, and answered,
laughingly: "Never grow old o, soon enough!
What funny sight I'll be, 10 be sure, bent
almost double, and a cap on my head, like
granny Horns !"
Harry laughed too, so ludierons vas the i'm
age and thus he and Fannie were as much at
home with each other at once as if they had
been acquainted for years. ls