The Portland daily press., 1865-11-13
Monday Morning, Nov. IS, 1855.
A Day on Knliney Hill.

My excellent father had left me in posses
sion OF a tolerablc capital, and a thriving busi
ness in which to invest it; he had reared me
TO his own pursuits, and had no wish to &C
beyond them. l was prudent, too, as wen as
industrious, and SO it came to pass, that when
had reached my thirty-Second year, found
myself the honest owner Of more than fifty
Thousand pounds, which, even in this age Of
millionaires, is not to be desp;sed.
l had never seen the lady, Old or young, |
should have liked TO call by the endearing
name OF spouse" 1t is true that sighed
sometimes over my solitary State, and envied
Tom Rivers and Jack Seedrift, when danced
at their houses, and heard the elder children
playing at the piano, and the baby 'squallng'
out its approval in falsetto; l might have con
tmued, too, to grumble and repDe, without
having the depths and shadows of my own
heart sounded, had | not met with Lily Sill
verton at Hover show in the morning and
IN the evening of the same day danced with
her at the house of Bob Greenshaw, whose
impromptu invitation to "a hop and supper
was the means of bringing us into more init
mate association.
From that Gay and night was a changed
man. did not require Lily's photograph, for
in less than month she was always before
me in some way or other, and at every hour Of
the day. When l shaved in the morning, she
stood beside the glass and (figuratively to
speak, directed my razor; when sat to my
breakfast, lin my minds eye," she poured out
the tea, and sweetened it by her ever beamin g
glance; in my office she bewildered my in
voices, and more than once induced me to
commence my answers to commercial cores
pondents with MY dearest Lily;' and when
went home again, or dined with friends, still
the flavor of her smile was on the mutton.
and the odor OF her breath gave to the port its
best boquet.
"Grantham," said to myself at last, "this
will never do; you cannot go on in this super
ridiculous way forever. Lily"-I was striding
up and down the room as spoke, and became
rhetorical for the first and last ti.ne in nv life
Lilly is only flesh and blood, after all. 1t is
true, SO pure, innocent, and peerless is she,
that Paradise is filter for her dwelling place
than earth; the blessed shades to which Venus
conveyed the sleeping son of Eneas, when she
substituted Cupid in his place, in order to ca
Jole and conquer the wretchcd Dido, ought to
be her eternal power; 1 know that am un-
worthy of her; | am not beauty, and am
aware OF 1t; want the subtle graceS and re-
lined accomplishments which are said to go so
far and weigh so much with the female heart
But Lily-dare l call her my Lily ?-is beyond
and superior to all this. | feel til know it
am sure of it! Greenshaw tells me she is a
hirt-a jiit-a heartless coquette, who uses
me as bait-such was his odious and auda-
y
Lttleton, Who is a vulgar fellow, but whose
property is estimated at million. Its cal
umny--a falsehood of the most atrocious kind
-concocted by that beast Greenshaw to an
noy me, because that last government con-
tract was given to my Eouse and not to his
will end it at once, L will and that done,
take the ruffian by the throat should he pre-
sumo 10 repeat it,"
In this excited state I was rushing away
lOnCn w my
tina Denbigh, reminded me that was going
into the street without my hat. This some
what Gained me; but still L persisted. As
approached the house-Lily lived with her
aunt in Great Joram street, perceived Sir
Jasper leave the door and "rush' into his cab
"He has proposed and been rejected" whis-
pered Hope; show could the loW-bred boor
expect a better fate ?" knocked and was in
stantly admitted-instantly; another Good
omen. thought, which was heightened by the
brilliancy OF Lily's eye, and the flush on her
beautiful cheeks. When we had shaken hands
and never did +he1 hand feel softer or its
pressure more palpable-sha arose and said in
low tone to her aunt:
My dear aunt, Mr. Grantham must excuse
me if retire; but you have my permission to
explain matters, and am sure from the MANY
marks Of friendship which he has literally
showered on me, he will be the first to con-
gratIllate u.s."
She was gone, but she left an able exponent
behind.
In ten minutes 1 had heard it all. Sir Jas
per Lytteton had proposed and had not been
rejected!
"And so amiably generous (even munifcent)
has he been n went on the wretched old go-be-
tween, in tone of rapturous emotion. sehe
proposes to settle four thousand year on our
darling Lily" tours, ha ha y "and as to horses.
carriages and establishment-Ahl Mr.. Gran
than, our good fortune is almost overcoming.
and am sure that none of our many friends,
will more heartily or sincerely
rushed from the chamber ofdeception and
horrors, and left her to conclude her bypocrit
ical speech to the disguised air.
Months passed away, during which learned
one thing, at all events-namely, that it is
much easier to fall into love than to fall out of
1t. l did my best however, and it was only
by opposing the foulness of the treatment /
had received to the impressions which the
beauty of the deceiver had left on me, that
made head against the suffering had endur-
ed. Let no onesay that l was a fool las Green
shaW did, with his internal Il always told you
SO" 10 back III, when | honestly admit that
my liver sympathized with my heart, and after
q course OF biue-pil and Moxon's maonesia. NV
attendant physician sent me abroad TO look
Tor health, when objected to any filrtber
dosing at their hands at home.
NSliO up INC ililillS anu down the DaOl,bn
from Alp to Alpine; and at length went to Ire.
lard, and after "doing,D Killarney. Giants
Causeway, the rocks and ruggedness of Came
mara and the hill OF Howth, found myself one
delicious morning on "Killeny Hil." Yes II
was delicious; 1 have every reason is call il
so.
This celebrated chip is what your blaae
tourist would term nothing to speak of a.; a
hill" Neither, is it; it is rather an agreeable
ascent than anything deserving Of more i'm
posing name. But when you stand on the top
of it, and look over the various scenery it COM
mands, the term magnificent" may well in
deed be conferred on the whole, without fear
ing that the speaker viii say too much. In
front of you is the ebay of Dublin" second to
none other in the world for variety and beau
ty. On one side the charming landscape
which stretches on to "Brayhead," is before
you dotted with pastureIands, villas, pianta-
lions, through which ''meanderS," for we may
say so, the Dublin and Wicklow railroad, edg-
ing the shore, and giving additional life and
animation to the picturesque scene; on the
other side you have variety again; beneath
YOU, almost, is the harbor Of Kingston, with all
its magnificent 'piers," its feet OF large vessels
and small The citizens ofDub1in have now
made it their favorite-ground in the summer
for ''picnics," and who find there every accom-
dation necessary for the pleasant combination
of a "rural fete."
II was on this charming hill, then, found
myself about noon, and after wandering over
the ground and admiring its beauties for an
hour or two, began to see that numbers OF
began to crowd the scene, ac-
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