Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1862-07-01
from Peterson. Magazinel
TAKING THE CONCEIT OFT
OF HIM.
BY MARY E. CLARKE,

Don't you think him handsome p
The speaker was lazilv luunyiue in
deep arm chair, curling her hair round her
Fingers and warming her feet at the fur
mace register. Apart from her, nearer the
window, sat young girl, whose whole
attention was absorbed in the contempla,
ZION Il small miniat--n nain.:-e
Hard ONE, certainly !" said she, 10
answer to her ctmpanIOn's quesnOns-
The features are ibutless, the carriage of
the head manly and independent, and tho
dark complexion and eyes suit the well
drfnei features. lie is certainly very
handsome :"
land yet, Caro-, your tone implies some
thing lacking in my Adonis," said Grace
Lee, nesting down more comfortably in
her chair, aud evidently preparing for
chat Come out with your objections"
You forget, Grace, that do not know
your cousin. i can Uul, judge of his fca
lures by this picture, and have already
passed Judgment upon them"
Butt"
FRANKLY, then, the face, 70 me, lacks
earnestness and depth of expression; it
is not intellect that is wanting, but soul. .
Caro-, you are witch! - cried Grace. -
Y,u have painted Warren To the lile.-
My irresistible cousin has found his pr0ph.
ct Now, as he has come home, probably
fifty times as faciuatiug us he was when
he left, l shall tell you his history, lest he
lay seige to your unprepared heart, and
carry you of in his train of adorers."
/ A naughty smile was the only answer to
! this speech.
Warren Lee was born in the good city
of New York, as biographies say, twenty
! seven years ago, one week after the death
oc his father. Left heir to largo fortune,
| the only child Of mother who lived but t
! love him, it is wonderful he escaped, SO
| we'll as he did, the consequence Of over
| indulgence--ahem! Being weary Of the
! biograp hical style, allow me to adopt the
conversational. Cousin Warren was ad-
mitted to be as talented as he was hand
some, and aunt Louise spared no trouble or
expense in his education. He speaks sew
eral language, has a good classical educa-
ton, graduated with honor at college, and
| for nearly five years, has been completing
bis course of accomplishments in Europe.
1t is now three years since aunt Louise
died in Florence and Warren, being COM
| pletely bidse. decided lately upon return
| ing to New York, and will probably grace
our parlOrs this evening. Now, Caro-,
don't suppose he rs a shallow plated dandy;
because he is not. But all his talents were
80 praised and lauded that he has grown
into the belief that he has no peer A lit
tie humility would make q splendid fellow
of Warren. But he has never had any
will to oppose his own-any word but OIL
praise or love-any call Of seIf-deuiaI and
what he wants now is something to take the
conceit out of him."
There was long silence. Grace fell
fast asleep in her warm nest, and Care
looked with new interest at the miniature
The heavy masses of brown hair waved
over a noble forehead, broad and high, and
the large dark eyes seemed, in the manly
hsugbtiness, to scorn the vanity of want
| ing to be painted but in the mouth and
carriage of the head Caro- read the effect
of the life Grace had described. The smile
was DOT ecOrntul, but rather inclinmg to be
supercillous and there was too much in-
dependence in the attitude, when closely
criticised.
Aud what Of the fair critic, who studied
so closely this counterfeit p
Caroline FarDleigh was not to be charged
with lacking what Warren Lee wanted
earnestness. 1t was written on her broad
| Wnlte IOreneaO, III tno ueptuS oI ner Jar n
blue eyes, the curve Of her beautiful mouth
In every motion, of her tall. graceful fig
ure you could read that her life was one oil
devotion to some object: change it might
but she would find, you felt assured. some
thing upon which to pour out the wealth Of
her love and activity. Every action, how.
ever trivial, was, for the time, her Fixed
idea If she read, it was not to skim
lightly through The book, and throw il
aside, but to weigh each sentence, to pon-
der over style, character, or subject, until.
without so intending, she could criticise or
praise, with judicious, careful discrimin-
alton rarely seen in SO young a person.
And now, in regarding this picture, she
could not glance at, pronounce it perfect,
and throw it aside but she studied every
feature, till it became as q living face to