Litchfield enquirer., 1865-03-23
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lFrom London Society," THE COLoNELS VALENTINE, AND .... .',.+..3s ,...~.s ITS FATE. -s-. l.

'Iusver was guilty of such thing in my
 iite. saia the eoiouvii., eaamiy. < --A- :.
 Never sent . valentines' Never.'
 'No.' 2.7'l 9'''. 'ae.7 s.- e. r E 'Benighted ignorancs! Here is man to whom the most pleasing emotions are unknown;
 whose heart has never been wrung by the sight of it's tac-stmile pierced with barbed shalt, or
 softened with delicious couplet wrapped in rosesl I'll tell my cousin Mary. Miss Aruu. eel, here is a full grown man who never sent or
 received a valentine s4z efaA et 49 ss5ei
 Colonel Hugh Carton had been leaning care.
 lessly over the back of couch on which lounp- ed his friend and inquisitcr, Francis Graham, the boyish son of the Colonel's present host.
 And if Colonel Carton had been asked some
 ten days ago what he thought about country visits in general, he would probably have an.
 swered with . shrug, Boresr His opinion had undergone modification by this time, now. ever. Perhaps the Grahams were singulariy felicitous ;n the party of guests they contrived to drawtogether perhaps the days of such elo.
 rious weather as rarely falls to the lot of Feb ruaty's infancy had something to- do with the complacenta stats of his mind. At any rate, when young Graham appealed to Miss Arun det. there fwas iui Colonel Cartons momeutary
 emotion small stir of regret that this was the
 last evening ot hisstay. asi7 Y zd isdsii The young lady was occupied with one of
 those never ending resources, the photographic
 album, and she did not look up to answer her
 cousin 3 speech. It could not possibly matter
 to her about Colonel Carton and his valen. tines. tts'e't's os'gt }gt3ss:R sel F +I5st s. What q noise you are making, Frank she said You drown the music ! s..s.4.4,,3
 Music y echoed Frank. A dissipated en. treaty to Take this cup .of sparkling wine.
 You know ought not to listen to that, Mary.
 And t makes my flesh creep, and turns you all into watersnymphs and ancthes. Mo-. Whose #earicature have you RotTthere r atFi pI xYo ss Il have got Titiens as Margaret, replied Miss Arundel, quietly, faithful to her book. ,b .TsE
 aa Somebody dressed up to resemble her, yon mean q said Mrt Frank. 3Eg sdf ae a'atnJaf5 He made one or two more efforts to draw his cousin into what he called conversation, failed, sass If ap hid 2 yawn with some difficulty, and
 s.s sauu.seu away. Those two were hopelessly
 stnPlu tne one as bad as the other, And sud Frank, and he exclaimed. Bv Georrgsr rgsr and ,a looked back hut tAe relative nos;,;s,,s vsra Ejust as he he'd left them. - It might have been supposed that the Colo. nel thus left fress would 1naturally ;oir tha young lady in her examinasion of Ti,iens as Margareti but he did not.ah ssf .lFaas s9aafS ! l,a His eyes came back to Miss Arundel oye.
 her book sTheya rested there with . strange expression for U amument and then dropped
 Other people, perhaps. wouid have seen littis
 beauty inthe iace9 except the beauty iinseparaI blex2in ' degree ati sieast- from youth BuI Colonel Carton did not see as other peouie did He wasSup ain tue clouds about Mary Arundel up in tLe clouds for tho first time in bis fife All that was most exalted; all that he would have been sksptical about . fortnight ago, tint sd his thotebts pf her. He threw the light oI stars about her till 1t daszled him. He fsncisd lIs-seeI hoy YisionaFyl the practical man grow, vhen he iis touched hs fancisd that, little q he sepeht heE thsy sHene yet together in per ipetNala halfsconseioas thoneh htnof each other Ireieraces to each other's judgments But ii, visit Nas 0sef, and could not U prolourea: III didnot yet know whether be meant to eo avay
 having kept silence sof not. V ssiHa9 ussa Mi IiasI never thought toeloss { visit suck as this Withso much Fegrsk' n lid. a ! m oblired .3fsSE3skstIa "a L-a2 7FAf9sr 19T