Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1862-06-28
SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE %, 1862.

we played SO respeCtaDly, tnat 1Or time
everybody, including ourselves, thought the
play was earnest. They and we were the
more deceived.
Yet she was decidedly psstty, was Louisa
| Lippcsley: man might have been very
fairly and crcditably in iotsi With her, sup
posing, of course that personal attractive
ness in any way justifes love. Certain la
dies, l know, who justly, perhaps, pride
themselves rather on the prepossessingness
of their minds than of their bodies, denounce
| steadily the possibility of love being founded
upon so frail foundation as a mere pretty
face and figure. Still, treating it as mans
question, which it really is, after all, Irepeat
that a man might have been very fairly in
love with pretty Louisa Lippesley. The
only difficulty in my case was that, perhaps,
at the time was hardly to be called man;
| was lather a boy. Yes. Louisa-my Lou
! lisa, / had sort of right to call her then
just as people say my house, although they
arc only temporarily in possession, under an
agreement Cor three years. probably-my
Louisa was unquestionably pretty. The
next time you pass through st. Paufs
Churchyard, look into the basket of the
man who stands by the offices OF the Reli-
| gious Tract Society, and sells the most
| lovely wax-dolls that ever were seen,-
English wax-dolls, they are only surpassed
| in beauty 10y English fesh-and-b blood wo-
men, look carefully for rather a small-sized
doll no. not that darling with the jet-black
eyes and the profusion Of jet-back ringlets
not the brunette doll, but the blonde, with
the flowing ambery tresses, the open blue
eyes, and the little red button hole of a
mouth-thats she; you see there the very
image of my Louisa Lippesley-the Louisa
| IN whom I Nos p,, Crn cpI tO bn ms norriaJ and
whom, at an early period of my history l
| thought l loved devotedly-only that she
had much prUtti'F skipped feet, did not turn
them in so persistcnty, was not stuffed with
| sawdust, and never, that l am aware of,
| adopted silver paper as an article of attire.
She was the youngest and prettiest of four
sistcrs,-Jane-Ann Charlotte and Amelia
With every desire to regard tavorably young
ladies who were likely to become by my
marriage closely allied to me, l must say
| that | did not like very much either Jane
Ann, or Charlotte, or Amelia Lippesley.-
Perhaps, as it seemed to me that l had given
all my affection to Louisa, did not appear
to have any ready balance for distribution
among her sisters. Very likely they intend
ed to be kind to both of us, and am sure
they were very fond of Louisa, even to spoil
ing her, if that had been possible. They
| always called her pet" Darling" and
Baby" and were always making much of
her, and kissing her dotingly, smoothing
her splendid amber hair, rolling her glorious
ringlets round their fingers, ionding her,
putting their arms round her waist and
lifting her off the ground-tor she was very
little and light was Louisa, and she was
always regarded as quite helpless, and unable
to do anything for herself "You can't do
.. IL, -.
Ann. Its no use yoW trying, Pet, you
know" Charlotte would eXclaim. 80 you
silly Darling, how could you think of doing
it by yourselfi" Amelia cried out, when my
! Louisa made any eXertion for her own be-
hoof. So, weighed down by these expostu.
lations, Louisa, who perhaps had a natural
talent for Incidence, was quite willing to
| abandon all effort to help herself, and to
allow her sisters to mend her clothes, or
make her dresses, or trim her bonncts, or
finish her drawings, or complete her daily
hours practice on the piano, or accomplish
her singing lesson, or do anything else for
her, their fancy or desire to aid her could
suggest. One result of this was, that my
Louisa appeared to be wholly unoccupied
from days end to days end--doing nothing
but lounge about listlessly, and yawn occa-
sionally in distressing manner She looked
ornamental enough, ii must be owned yet
il never occurred to me, even in the widest
moments of my imaginary affection for her,
that my Louisa was particularly useful
The Lippesleys resided at Highbury.
! occupied apartments at Pimlico. How did
we become acquaintedl Who introduced
me to the familyl ] remember now, that
was taken there by little Flukewood, who
was Mr.. Lippeslcy's nephew, l believe, and
| .l,, tl,a Nfh. .
at Blotkins and Blogbury's, Bedford Row.
At an evening party at the Lippesleys' l
] first saw my Louisa-in white lace dress,
with sky-blue sash-(sashes were fastened
then at the back, and streamed from bow
of large size--l remember thinking even on
my first introduction, that the sash matched
we'll in color with my Louisa's eyes.) Of
course, seeing my Louisa, fell straightway
in love with her, or thought did, and went
home to Pimlico and dreamt OF her; and
the very next Sunday found myself at High
bury church, shamefully uninterested in the
sermon, and outraging seriously the feelings
of the bcadle who had shown me into a
pew, by my ceaseless movements and wild
endeavors to look around corner, and
catch glimpse of my Louisa's fair face in a
white chip bonnet trimmed with forget me-
nots, her amber ringlets bursting out in
front in wonderful decorative manner
(For every woman then, may say, wore
profuse curls in front, and no one would
have thought of permitting all her hair TO
tumble out at the back of her bonnet like
a sort of cushion covered with chenille, in
the present fashion, which / admit pretty,
and would be more so if one could honestly
believe that much horse-hair, in the form of
''ffizzes," did not help TO swell the chenilled
cushion) "IIow I've been deceived in that
young fcllerw I'm sure the beadle must
have medtated. Il gave him good seat,
right under the pulpit, where he can ear no
end-and only see how he's behaving
bobbing about like anything~ In TRUTH
thought the sermon would never finish and
was contemplating the propriety of an
Act of Parliament TO limit the duration of
sermons, making it penal offence for any
Clergyman to be longer than ten minutes in
the pulpit. But of course was relieved at
last and waiting at the church dooT, and
removing a very shiny hat, in series Of my
best bows to Mrs. Lippesley and the four
Miss Lippesleys. "Iiow very singular y
they all said; and soon j found myself
walking towards their house, and carrying
all their church services for them, and still