Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1862-06-28
TALES & SKETCHES.
From Temple Bar. J
MY LOUISA.

Viewed by the light OF NY present eXpe-
ricnce, | am bound to say that the whole
business in connection with my early en-
gagement to marry Louise Lippesley seems
to me to have been exceedingly imprudent.
OF course now am entitled to ask myself
and marvel over the inquiry, as every one
else did then, as TO What | could possibly
have seen in her, or what she could ever
have seen in me, to induce either OF us to
entertain the opinion that our marriage was
in any way desirable. | may say this now,
because, as all the world knows, the whole
affair has been broken off years and years
back because there is not now the slightest
suspicion of tCadrGSSe between Louisa and
mysef,-the mention of such thing even
sounds ludicrously; because she long ago
married somebody else Il need not drag his
name into the mattcr,) and has been, for all
| know to the contrary (may l say, without
being deemed Il monster, care to the con-
trary . a good wife to somebody else, and a
good mother to somebody else's great army
of children; because all gloss of sentiment
has been completely rubbed off our engage
ment and the old threadbaIe thing is enti-
tied now 10 no sort of reverence or regard,
and may Just as well be hung up as a scare
crow, like other worn-out and contemplate
matters, to trighten and caution other peo-
pie from following in our footsteps l hope
and believe that have faculty for venera-
tion quite as great as anybody else can have.
| am sure that if in that old broken-otf affair
there fingered yet the smallest trit1e Of real
feeling it should receive recognition from
me. would regard it as sanctifying the
whole, and not rake with my pen in senti-
mental ashes while they were still warm, but
pass on quickly to other and more inditler-
ent matters. But the truth must be told
reticenee on the subject avails not never
loved Louisa Lippesley; although, rash
creature of nineteen that was, dit ask her
TO marry me, and she-bless her never
cared button about me, notwithstanding
all she said to the contrary.
How, then, came to pass our engagement
Why did gaze into the calm, light blue,
perhaps rather cold-looking eyes OF Louisa,
and express, haltingly, a devotion did not
feel Why did Louisa glace at my smooth
face (may | add, expressionless faccl
think may, contrasting it with its present
looks of powerful intelligence and vivid
sagacity; if the reader has any curiosity on
this subject he has only, to know precisely
the sort of man / am now, to call TO mind
the picture No. 1943 in the Catalogue, ''Por-
| trait of Gentlemen" by =. Green, in the last
Exhibition OF the Royal Academy, hung
near the ceiling, in the northeast room D
why, say, did Louisa thus glance at me,
whispering reciprocity she did not possess,
for passion that had only suppositious
I existencel III seems very unaccountable all
this, coolly considered SO long afterwards,
But it is best TO say at once, that it was all
a mistake. We did not quite understand
what was the matter with us. We were
young practitioners, and had got hold of an
incorrect diagnosis of our disease. People
before now have fancied themselves threat
ened with gout, when they have been simply
suffering from chilblains. We took serious
affection of the heart what was really but Q
slight and evanescent irritation; and the
luck OF the thing was, that no one was a
\ whit the worse for our. misconception. II
VAS az error without Consequence; ! wish