The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Fayetteville, N.C.) 1864-186?, 1864-03-08
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From: the London Family Herald.
TIE sIsssasEG g.i.TLE yysne.s-

"You must come with me- Tonight. Shirley
and | will snov you ona Of the most neWiteh
ing little widows YOU ever behcii. am s,!le
wer.,r,- -Ilater that you a!e, yol v i'll own your
SELF conquered ut once. Say viii YOU CONF
and Sc my beauty?
NO i THANK Sou,' replied his fri I'd 81 have
some thing to employ :n", especially tonight
out /. not nIic*y, / should b. oil, for lav>
al! Of old ITeie,'s f,c OF the "vij3 !er~."
look or them as most designing race-witi
their woe bc-ona voiccs and ever-4ea.iy tears
for the Ge,tr departed" p" # /! should even
lose my senses 50 tsl as t" marry one, hope
she at lc;t.,; bad the h..nn: OF having her f:s
husband hung: AS I De ave thot would bt
the only mea3s I should hive to prevent Ii.
virtues being brought up III comparison with
my faults"
s'Ha. la ~ laughed Etery ''-kil thi.
tra 'e against wia.ovS dr@wn torti: by 10,
lucklc>s invitation, But ycu al G entirely too
ve:''iant my i>end, on the sl.t .ect. ] will be-
you something han ls.rne, tntt YEN viii fill il
love with widow yet .:lt -so"d-cveEng
I must go ans make myself killing; for Ia
sides the widow, there will be lots o pretty
girls at Mrs. Enlp,on's to-s:ig,t AM! al
ways, for tao honor OF the "yutt<,,5..:,' LOOK
hanGSome.'
This conversation was hcld Il, Shirley 5
room, where i4e r,.s sitting, lz;ly i:nprovis-
ing on the guitar, when i.iicry gave the liz
vitation. Though not: Nctn9:i-<suter, as h.
friend had stated, yet, from jii, lctititg haJ
its, he did not o,teii st <4le society Ct Indies
When released iI'ou. ozI,:i;s2- ,.uty, he pre-
ferre1 enjoying himself :st!t ioof:s, tiu~c, and
male friends aud :si- il('1cc.j some of his
brother officers 70 ne>to<v i:ron lin t.,e y
nomen OF woman ll,ter.''
'W here is,,;ie friend You promised 30 Lrino:'
,ira0 NJ. iar.it. ,f :7t@n:,,, : y.
confess that nave qaite a cuipsity 10 be
hold Iieuteofat s':ir ey: att*r I'll you hav~
been telling me- O. iIf1.. :
e regret exceedingly not being able to re-
deem my proris;c,' be replied, chat prior
s,r Engagement prevented me i,oln t.oia3 so-
How do wish you would enter mo little
innocent plot Of lae against him ior II week
or so Say vet. like The child : bargain, be
for tell you;
"Nn excuse sae ". Fit-ry =: shall 10 In
such thing. Isil .nc, what j: your plot 2
Tell me, too. NJ. i.5i.-,v, said ;.'youag lady
Of about twenty, who approached, AID whose
merry eve betofrnc>I kindred spirit "a his
own--'teil me, toe, ANA y! Iviil answer for it
that sister J dilettc enters be ,re and soul in
to your plans. Hhatcs ar they my be-
81 Shall be q thousand fold a:sets!el TO
YOU, Miss Jeanrie, said Etlerf'. ell Row
for nv plot or rattrc- X, outline Of i. If YOU
will except my arm to lead -.ou to the easy
seat for rna,t confess slan.el like some
women Wit 10 pr!:ect my !eas'
None OF yonr i.!ots and con*piracies'for me-
I'll have none of them, s;s,.i Mrs. Ntl;in, the
widow, as she irfs tlc:a to obey her aunt
previous request for music, and where we
must leave her, seated at the fine toned piano,
discoursing most excellent music and holding
her audience enthralled as if by magic. As
3t, l. I
their SOULS at least, tor the time, and were
therefore the better fitted for treason, for STRAIT
agems and plots : in which We leave them
engaged.
l am sure, dear reader, had you seen Ju-
liette Martin, you like Elery, would have
called her bewitching little creature. Her
delicate from, large, beautiful eye of1ight ha-
eel, her brown hair, nearly approaching flaxen,
needed not the CHEEKY meuth, nor complex