Litchfield enquirer., 1865-04-06
WHOLE NO. 2OS1.

'Sy SHN shO otuSi uHlll ut lust pup up my hand and drew it down to my shoulder When had done it was frightened. Perhaps she would be so angry when she woke that she wouldn't speak to me again. Perhaps it was abusing the trust my friend had placed in mo when he put his cousin under my charge. At first would given any thing to put that head back where I took it from but pretty soon foIgot all this in seeing how pretty those yellow curls looked, struggling down from under the blue hood and across my coat, and how delicate the line of the profile was, and how calm and even the breath that kept rising in little warm pufs against my cheek.
 Perhaps all this is simple enough to other men who have been through such things ia their youth but can tell you that when man comes to be fifty, and never has known any woman so well as his negro laundress, why this sort of thing seemed like new revelation.
 Sleep, Sir? l didn't close my eyes again that night, l promise you 1 just sat there, hardly daring to breathe for fear of disturbing her, thinking and thinking whether it might be possible that day would come when she would put that little head on my breast of her own accord, and whether there could be any thing in me that might make her forgive my fifty years and my selfish old bachelor ways.- never wronged her thinking that my money would tempt her ; but it did please me to fancy how I could bring treasures from the ends ol the earth to heap on her ;.and thought how could give the rest of my life to making her happy, and worship her as no young man ever could. Fact, sir, l think there's something in witchcraft. Aud unless l was bewitched that night, I cant understand my own folly, for before he gray morning light came in at the window l had built the finest castle that ever stood in Spain, and had brought myself to be- leve that it was very likely Miss Kitty might consent to nhabt it with me.
 They say there's no fool liko an old fool, and l believe it..
 Just as l was thinking of the set of dia- monds I'd order for her from London, Miss Kitty awoke, and lifted up her head so sleepiy that don't believe she knew where 1t had been lying.
 By this time we were getting into New York, and she rubbed her eyes and said she must put on her bonnet. So 1 handed it down, and watched her put it on, and then admired the neat way she folded the little hood and put 1t in her travelling bag When all was done she turned smiling to me, and said: 'l am sure you must have daughters ol your own, Mr. Brewin, you are so interested ID moods and bonnets.,
 Here was blow at the very foundation stone of my castle, but l stammered out that had no daughters, and was not even married.
 ,'Oh! said Miss Kitty, and looked little confounded. suppose she had thought mo patriarch
 However, thought should look differently after had been to the dentist aud the barber, l. .'-- l-cI.
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 Ss talsi i'ss1 ffc5st. No 70. some friends at the Fifth Avenue Hotel 5S~ ., | leave with them to-inorrcw for California. l am going out to join my husband, who has been there year.
 tcolz a shower-bath once, and the sensa- ton experienced when Mrs. Lewis pronoun- ced these words brought back that horrible moment as no effort of memory could possibly have done.
 Whether that girl-for she couldn't have been over twenty--was the most innocent or the most artful, don't know. Whether she knew what she had been doing all night, and took malicious pleasuac in finishing off the business with this last neat little blow, or whether she had just thought mo civil old man who took fathcrly interest in her, l won't presume to say. But l think-I hope the latter, for the sake of human nature for the sake of my own belief in womankind.
 didn't say anything for minute, and then wished her pleasant voyage. | She thanked me, and said she could hardly hope to find so kind and attentive compan- l ion as had been.
 looked at her sharply enough, and her eyes looked straight into mine with little smile. but not the least bit of malice. No, sir, I'll never believe that girl had been consciously making Q fool of me. She never could have given me that look afterward l We didn't say much more, for we were al- most at the station. I put her in carriage, paid the man, and gave him the direction-- Then took off my hat and wished her good morning but she put little white hand ont at the window for me to shake, and said
 Good by, sir shall never forget your kindness.s
 That was the last ever saw of her. We'll, it was more my fault than any ones else, suppose. But if Tom Renard had in troduced me, as he should have done, or she had spoken of her husband at first instead of at last, shouldn't have been what now con slider mysclf-an aggrievcd man.