Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1862-04-26

A strange girl was that every one called
Uhdne Reyere--and strange girl she was
"a bundle Of strange impuses--a model Of
. reversness--gliding bther aud thither like
a spiIit-disregardiug all rules, mocking at
all by-laws-dispellng the admoDitions Of
teachers by her roguish eye, careless and
reckless aud needless, she was the 6rehy
that shed its 6tful light on all her
companions. Her soulless namesake Of my
thcal story was not apparently more free
from restraint, control or reason than she.
No one could comprehend her mad prOnks,
} but there was wilchery in her ringing
! langh-a lurking power in her sparkling
] eye, and a m0gic influence in her nu,-brown
cuIs, which made her favorite with all,
and wOve q potent spell about the heart of
many beardless lord Of creation, and sent
them chashing the bright aud fitting
Will'-Ibe.wisp but she would not "soop
to conquer" oil the youths in Cbristendom,
and she rove along lin maiden media
tion fancy free" an enigma which no one
could solve, a mystery which puzzled all
the widest, brightest, merriest, most mex
plicable, incomprehensible girl with the
brightest, bluest eye, the sweetest lips. the
rosest cheeks aud the roundest arm in all
New Hampshire.
AT D. College, in the year 1859,
there was secret society bearing
as its motto, IN hoe Sign0 riaces,
upon whose shoulders rested every hen rOost
robbery, aud other nightly deeds of wicAed
ness for miles around !; no efforts were
spared by the jealous President and his
co laborers in the faculty TO trace the
deep damnation of some tuking of 10 this
notorious association, and at last, after a
victorious campaign of three months, the
baud was proved guilty and routed ar
lillery, cavalry, Infantry and all, and its
members cStracised--in other words sus-
peuded---sent into the country 20 rusticate,
ruminate and repent.
Fred Aylesford the most reckless, fear.
less, daredevil of them all, was invited to
place himself under the Rev. Principal of
New Academy. Here he met Undine Re-
we're ; filtration, fierce and furious eu-
sued-they rode and read and walked TO.
gei eiher-discussed politics, war, religion,
literature and love heir natures were alike,
aud, little by little, they began TO under
stand each other, as they had never been
understood before, and each stole many
ea6et from the others heart, which had been
sealed from every one else.
Fred saw that the giddy, metoric girl,
whom people called soullesS & careless, pos.
Sessed a great warm heart which would be q
treasure to him who should win it, that
from its depths came yelling up torrent Of
pure womanly feeling aud sympathy-and
he saw sthat this was noble soul and an
honest, manly heart, far different from his
reckless exterior, and so one night, when
his probation was nearly ended and the
time drew near for him 10 return 10 college
he took the fair, young girls hand in bis
and whispered soft tale of love to her
which found responsive echo in her heart,
aud she was his. So far so good.
But as in the case of Pyramus and This
be, this match didn't happen to please the
old folks for Undine, wild and wayward
as she was, had (as all such girls haVe)
stern aud rigid frieudS, who looked with no
y horror upon III alliance with such o
hopeless scapegrace as Fred, and with
many an ominous shake of the head and
ugubrious look, they warned, ,enrreated and
bcsougbt, but all in vain she was as ob,
stinale and preverse as ever, and though
she threw down no guage of battle, and
answered not q word to all that was said
still she made up her mind to like and to
tthrow herself away" as they besought her
not to do, upon this slme Fred
Aylesford, andIdo it she would, despite all
the discreet matrons and sapieut sages in
The world.
And thus things stood until Fred bis
patience all exhausted, his equauimty all
| a nd do lu h
u long separation, resolved to visit Undine
at her home, to storm the CASTLE force the
governor to terms, and carry, of the prize
So ore bright afternoon, be alighted at the
door of the paterual mansion aud was in
troduced to the proprietor, who received
him in a manner which said plainly enough
-"Polileness wont allow me to shut the
doors in your face without some covert act
on your part, but, miud you, | am not GO
ing 10 have any courting going on here.
Fred saw it all, but he was far from be
ing a cowsrd-especially when fair lady
was concerned-so he pushed on.
The day passed in stiff constrained man
ner, and all Fred's efforts TO SEQ his lady
love alone were unavailing The father
whom he wished at the bottom of the Rec
Otd, tupublJbhAtu uuill ulut OClOCh
when, in q manner not to be gainsayed, b;
arose md offered to show bis guest his room
now retiring at such an early hour wal
the last thing 10 please our hero, but there
was no alternatve-and be followed the re
entleSs parent up the winding stairway.
On enlerngh his room be began to indulge il
some not very generous wishes as to the ole
gentlemen. when note upon the stauC
met his eye. 1t read as follows "Com,
down about eleven, after the old folks ar
abed." Accordingly at eleven, down h
went, and there, beautiful aud bright a
ever, and, what was more to the purpose
alone, he found Undine-how the hour
danced merrily by, fraught with hsppines
and gladness-how the happy girl sank int
Fred's arms and wound hers about hi
neck-,how every prowling rat seemed spy
and every breath of wind detective ant
how they talked Of the past and planned fo