Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-03-30
THE COUNT AND THE COUSIN.

lev to Horace Granville, they proceeded
down the steps of the City Hotel
q That was Adelaide Walsingham, your
cousin and mine, Charles" SAID Horace ;
really you must have left your memory among
the beauties Of Paris, If you cannot reco9-
nize your nearest OF kin.
You forgot, Horace, that when | first saw
Adelaide she was a little lively hoyden scarce
ten years old; the lapse of seven years
makes a lady, whatever it may!do with gen.
tlenan.o
Nay if you begin to discuss times changes,
Charles | must confess you cannot congrat-
late yourself upon having escaped d touch OF
his finger. Who, in that bronzed complex
ion and hirsute visage, could discover any
traces of the smooth checked boy whom |
last saw on the deck Of the French packet
ship some seven years ago. But tell me,
why did you not write that you were coming
home 2"
"Because l did not know my own mind,
Horace ] really was not quite certain about
until had been a week at sea. The odd pro-
nunciation OF my German valet having caus-
ed my name to be placed the list Of pas
sengers SIS Mr.. Stanly, it occurred to me that
tine mistake would enable me to return Dacog-
,tito, and thought l would humor the joke,
if but to see how many of my old friends
would recognize me. | arrived late last even
ing, and should now be perfect stranger In
my native city, had | not accidentally met
YOU this morning; and even you, Horace, at
first did not recognize me"
g Know you, Charles who the deuce could
even see you behind that immense growth of
brushwood upon your lip and cheek Do you
really mean to wear those enormous whiskers
and moustaches :"
Certainly not longer than it suits my pres
ent purpose, Horace. When / was IN Ger
many / learned to wear moustaches for the
I 4 Il L.
observation-disclosures everybody else die it.
In Paris / reduced them q little, but did net
entirely Danish them, because there also |
found them in fashion. 4 lively little French
lady, passenger in our ship. wageTed pair
of gloves that | would not wear them week
in America l accepted the oct, and for
one week you will see me " bearded like the
bard
NAV, if YOU like them" said Horace
laughing, you need not seek an excuse for
wearing them; they are quite the fashion,
and ladies' now estimate a man, not as they
once did, by his altitude, but by the length Of
MS Whlskers"
81 have no desire to win the ladies' favor
by wearing unshaven face" answered
Charles &" but pray Horace tell me some
thing more about our pretty cousin
She is as lovely IN character, Charles, as
she is III person, but she has one great fault /:
must VI our tdSA4OIdillC bt4lt-, SIT Has a
mania Tor everything foreign. Her manners
her dress, her servants, all came from abroad
and she has declared 20 repeatedly her
resolution never To marry an American
Nhat Is it that my fair countrywomen so
much admire IL their foreign lovers asked
Charles.
On, they say there is polish and ele-
ganee OF manners, which Americans never
possess Two OF Adelades most intimate
autedeluvian German family, and our lovely
cousin is ambitious OF forming an equally
splendid alliance"
If she we're to marry western farmer"
said Charles, with a smile, q" She would reign
over princIpality quite large and perhaps
more hourishiug, than usually belongs TO
these emigrant mobiles
Adelaide is uobIe-hearted girl" replied
Horace, land l wish size could be cured OF
her folly"
II she IS really sensible girl, Horace
and that is her only fault, l think she might
be cured"
Horace shook his head
Come and dine with me, Horace; be
careful to seil no one Of my arrival, and Wen
discuss the matter over a bottle OF fine old
MADEIRA, If YOU are not too fashionable TO
drink It,
The windows Of Mr. WalsinahaIn's house
pun ~ q ARteA VI Iii tNu lA4t u -4AcOlE
silk curtains upon the wet ana drearv street.
while the music heard at intervals told to the
gaping crowd collected about the door, that
the rIch were making merry. The rooms
were brilliant with an array OF youth ana
beauty, but tairest among them all stood the
mistress OF the festival. Alured in a robe
Of white Grape, wttu no other ornament than
pearl oandeau conhuIng her dark tres.es,
she looked the personIhcation OF JOY.
Cousin Horace, she exclaimed, as she saw
her favorIte cousin enter the room, YOU have
not been here these three days :" and then IN
Il lower tone, she added, . who that SPLEEN
did Don WhIskerandO with v HON | saw YOU
walking yesterday p
Horace laid his finger on his lip, as a tail
figure emerged from the crowd AT the EN-
trance II the room Miss Walsingham al
low me 70 present TO you the most noble
Count PteIttenuaumeT."
The blood mounted into Adelaides cheek
rs the Count bowed low oye- the hand which
he fastened TO secure Tor the next quadril!e.
There was a mischIevous sparkle in Horace's
eye, and deep and earnest devotedness III
TIE strangers manner, which made her feel q
little uncomfortable, though she knew not
why. A single glance sulficed 10 show her
that the Count was attIred IN magnificent
court suit, with diamond buckles nj the knee,
and diamond band looping UP the elegant
G1tdpc0A Cftts v men encountered MS arm. NJ
ter some minutes she yentured 10 look more
courageouSly at him. He was tall and ex
ceedlnsly well shaped his eyes were very
bright, out the chief attraction was a oeauti
ful mouth, garnished with the most splendid
-moustache that ever graced al American bal
room Adelaide was delighted. He danced
elegantly; not with the stlf, awkward man
ner OF an American, who always seems hal
ashamed of the undignifed part he Is playing
but with u buoyancy of step and grace OF mo
ton perfectly unriyalled. Adelaide was en-
chanted. He spoke English very well,
slight German accent only betrayed his for
eign birth, and AdeIaLle did not like him the
less for that. 1t Is she felt a little queer
when she felt herself whiriinE through tn,
waltz IN the arms Of an entire stranger, an,
her brow flushed with some thing very Hk,
anger when she felt his bearded lip upon he,
hand, as he placed her in seat, but this wa
only the freedom Of foreign manners.
The evening passed away like a dream, an,
Adelaide retired TO her room with burnin:
cheek, and a frame exhausted by what /
deemed pleasure. She was too much excite,
for sleep, and when she appeared at her faith
ers breakfast table IA duty which she neve
neglected. Il was with such a pale cheek an,
heavy eve that he was seriously alarmed
lot Will l-sfT 4.