The Union. [volume] (Georgetown, Del.) 1863-1866, 1863-09-18

The Hon. Mrs. Norten 1.-THE famous Sheri-
dan beauty, who is the authoress Of "Lost
and Saved, the new romance just published,) |
gives the following description of ga married
Airt," Lady Nesdale. Was it written from
experience, or only observation?
"Milly believed in nothing except herself,
and most profound was her self alteration.
She devoutly believed she was the most charm
ing of human beings; she was convinced that
she inspired the most uneonquerable attach
ments, and that all other preferences or rival
ries were mere. entanglements.' She was
saved from much jealousy, partly by this
pleasant conviction, and partly by not caring
for the man so much as for the visible and APP
parent conquest. She was little tempted and
very shrewd. Never loving, she had always
the power to lead or to govern the men who
became enamored of her. She had the pref
test way of saying she could not afford
things, folding the palms of her Hindoo hands
over each other, as if clasping the emptiness
of fortune Flowers in her drawing-room
window and balcony were things Milly could
not afford neither could she afford box
at the play or the opera. Yet somehow or
other, she had more flowers and opera boxes
= at her disposal than any one, except the Mar
chioness of Uptown. Even now that Nesdale
had succeeded to the title, she got all SHE
could from every one-not from necessity, bu
from habit, and because the predatory soul o
the adventures was in her. Milly went VI
in glad balloons of inventive daring, and cam
down in parachutes of the same-making s
many contrivances for meeting Treherne
when and where she pleased, that Ariadne'
Ia clue was a joke to it. She went out shopping,
i and passed in at one shop entrance and on
,. at the other, heaven knows where, She ha'
A. appointed to lunch with her cousin or Isl
with sick FRIEND and ready Aunt Myr
ID took her away and set her down at those doors
She went to study art at picture exhibitions
70 where she looked at one picture and then val
r ished; took her poor children out and lie
re them sitting under shady tree with the Ii
y tie French bonnie till mamma came back
She went to country balls, and took rooms
he the hotel because it was so far to drive home
I or she went Quietly down into the country f
ID couple Of days and then walked forth
n. contemplate tombs in the neighboring churc
at ward till the whistle of the railway engiI
~ told her that she need not wait many mo
,e- minutes without seeing Montagu appear. 81
on attended that political pretence, the 'Ladit
Gallery in the House of Commons, al
y laughed through the grille at her grave hu
Al band and as he sat dangling some local hi
eot before she folded her lace mantilla clos
round her and skipped away with her love
nee And seeing something wistful in the cycling
ION the outside of her notes and letters by the pr
picked Ncsdale disturbed by his uncle war
his ings, she took to corresponding in cipher
the Times. For who was to tell that SO:
hit L: meant that she referred Treherne to t
, to ffty-third page, second line, of book ofwhi
God they kept duplicate copies, for the settling
n a their next project? or that grave, uninte
nds gible sentence, apparently abiding to nor
nth. affairs, was note of warning as to Nesdal
mar absence, or direction where to find a lett,
will And one of the pleasantest and most anus
nds. incidents Milly could remember, during
rour active period of slyness, occurred one morn
dur when, anxious to hear what had been sett
as early as possible, she then said to her b
UGH band across the table, Give me at least
advertisement sheet, you absorbed read'
ume and he, stretching out his arm, without c
as, looking off the leading article he was pei
pro- ing, handed her the paper with his thu
fifty exactly on Treherne's advertisement, as il
tend had desired to point it out to her."