The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-12-25


Hautain might have been excused for her
cxutatlon over the matchless beauty of the
p, v,,:cS,. ! VII here describe u the read
er, before the fat goesII; forth which is to
separate thsmdor eyer And y day.,"1S
Angel Temple was Hall and slight, with
dellcately moulded limbs Of oriental grace,
and a skin that was almost dazzling in its
alabaster whiteness and transparency Her
small shapely head was crowned with the
tnest raven tresses in the world and her
large, gazelle-hke, brown eyes were deep,
earnest, and tender, or naughty, disdainful,
or indifferent, according to the VARYING
moods Of the owner Of the lovely head, in
which they burned like lamps in the temple
Of Diana
Those wonderful eyes eclipsed all the
ether charms Of the face, and fascinated the
beholder with their basilisk SPELL Stephen
Hautain looked into what he believed to be
their true pure depths, and felt that they
had bound him to their service either for
lie or death; and she looked into his deep,
grey (and fathomable to those whom he
loved), and felt that she had set! the seal to
his death-d doom. "He will be faithful, !"
she thought, faithful through all to me;''
and sharp pang, like the Sting Of steel
weapon, shot through her heart, and left her
cheek paler than the white fower in her
:: hair: He looked, as Lady Hautain had
told her, handsomer than ever. and his slim
but ,tirmly knit figure was cast IN the mould
Of an Apollo. ..:.. u.
Stephen Hautain was reckoned the hand
sol soonest g: man Of his day, and was adored BY
the women OF his acquaintance who had
not daughters to marry; and Angel Temple,
n whose perverted nature satire was q
cr'oo.wnning gift, said to herself, as Reginald
entered the room at the same moment, and
gazed snlkily round it until his eve lighted
upon her own face, "Look on this picture.
and on that, and did not spare the lash ID i
the bitterness of her own self.contempt.
Mr. Hautain, as the world called the man
whom we have introduced to our readers as
simply Reginald was not going to allow
his fascinating brother to engross The atten
ton ton. It the woman whom he Reginald had
honored with his notice; and bringing his
ungainly person to her side BY series of
awkward evolutions- (Which always, by the
way, mark the progress Of that odious ano
maly, man shy through egotistic self
sciousness), he commenced conversation
quite irrelevant to the one which she had
begun with Stephen, and which had not, as
yet, overstepped the usual conventional OBJ
servanoes. ;t:
Il have been trying to get up to YOU.
MISS n Temple. before they announced dinner;
it is my privilege to take you in, you know,
now."' q
!stYou have cleared quite a passage for
yourself amongst Lady Hautain's tables and
chairs, she replied, and might claim Vic
toria Cross for the way in which you charg-
ed poor Miss Clementina's hoop: she Is
vainly trying to look unconscious of the
rent in her gown now. Have you no re-
morse, Mr. Hautain p .!:'5f " IN. .,ft7
@Confound her gownE' was the chivalric
reply, and, Il wish you would call me Regi-
nald, Angel" MI. Hautain added in an IN
dertone, as he stuck out his arm awkwardly
70 her as dinner was announced; tsit's rather
hard on fellow" he added, as they tra
versed the long corridor together, which
led into the banqueting hall, ito be always
snubbing one as you do +,,F -is- :s. t-:ss.
Mss Temple gave rather an irrelevant
answer to this leading remark on the part
Of her uncouth adorer. She could not help
listening to the ringing tones Of Captain
y H autain's voice, who was talking gaily to
one Of the honorable spinsters before men
toned, who had been boiling over with 4 in I
diggnation at being taken into dinner after
that chit, Angelica Temple but who was
cooling again under the genial influence Of
Captain Hautain's lively conversation.
. He was 50 happy,in such buoyant spirits;
in the radiant presence Of his beloved, that
he made himself more than usually agree
atle, a circumstance which the Honorable
Clementina Hautain put down to Che credit
Of her own charms SHE had been the
beauty Of the family in a day long past
away, but had been too wayward and capri
cious in her treatment Of her adorers, q fact
which in her dreary spinstefhood, support
ed upon mythical means, and an occasional
doshceUr from \ the generous head Of her
house, she now bitterly regretted. She was
always throwing out ominous;. hints to her
young nieces and cousins, especially those
remarkable for their: good looks, about not
being ''too particular, my dear;'' and fre-
quently repeated one OF two stanzas Of an
old fashioned song, Of which the first! lines
were .trass za :%, ~ :.5-:.47 I'll III; -
when was girl Of eighteen years 81 old NJ
ME- 5.i:.Iwss - handsone as handsome could be: T
NY hair DER my neck In ringlets flowed :,
- And lovers came courtngfo me" eStet
t went on TO show the danger Of caprice 1 i
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