New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-10-08
6aIds.reanl.
BY HERBERT VAUGHAN.
Iron Onee 4 yYeek.

3 large party is assembled to eelebratg Hi
least ot ~, Patrldge ait RayelstOke Hall, an ok
ssaalfgy mouse abont two miles distant from thi
northwest coast Of Devon The various branehe
Cf English society IRE very fairly represenfed H
rs component parts. There are two peers thret
M1eEabets Of tile lsEer house. some gaardsmen
@saia n8deF graduates, clergyman and lieute
zant IN the navy. But our hero il NOT a represen.
aastse man; yet he belongs to a class which
called INFO existence by the accumulated wealth
o. tie nineteenth century, is ever on the increase
EEeaetFVlss-sF aBley resembles Sir Charles Cold
B1reafi. 51asi&Fsjvh lie has been evervphere and
done everything but he is By no means used IN and
san sslsl Take an interest in whatever his hands
4na te do, Morris his everything everybody else's
eserS l8i16. Il i cot bounded by Jerusalem and
4he pyramids
TIT Iyrawley has fought in more than one State
81 South America, ard has wandered for more than
S6o Years from Isle to isle Of the Pacific. a mys-
ferrous reputation hoYers around him. He is sup
posed 70 nave done many things, but no one is
very clear what they are and id is not likely that
mich 20 tormaroni0n the point viii be Obtained
IRON him, for he seldom talks much, and never
speak q himself. His present mission appears to
0e % Kill parfidges play cricket, and dress him
sell. Got that il mnst be supposed that he has
gFefabeen in the habit OF wearing less clothing
&nan the custom of the country in whichhe may
nave oeea located required; but only that at the
present time ne devoted much attention to buff
Waisteaats and gan2e neck ties braided coats ana
GUrled InnstachIos.
Such As he is. however, he is an object Of inter
stoke Hall for he Is rich and handsome, dc wei
rs mysterious, and he cannot be more than two
and thirtg. And the ladies' at Ravelstoke outnun-
neredfhe men, for although 1t Ia still rare for the
FAIR sex TO participate actively in the saturnali of
the partridge god, they will always be found hoy
eEing Ia considerable numbers on the outsEirts of
She feast and the varieties of the British lady are
4Mirty represented
There are some mammas with daughters to
MlaSsg. and there are some daughters with a
n1amnia TO prevent marrying again-wbieh IL.
perhaps, the most difficult thing of the two. as
stle has an income Of her own. There are blondes
and brnne ties, and pretty, brown-haired, brown
eyed girls who hover between the two orders.
and combine the most dangerous characteristics
sof both who can wear both blue ana pink, ana
Ns9 look prettier e the one color than they do
an tie other; but who always command your suf-
4rags ~ favor Of that which they are wearing
when you look attheln
And there is Constance Baynton with gray eves
ana plac hair. And the incest critic of feminine
appearance might be defed to state what She had
worn half an hour after he had left her far no
one can ever look at anything exoept her face
Ket Constance II three, d-twenty. and still I'M
married. Alas, what towards men are. The fact
- that Constance u very clever but al Mrs
Mslish. the Widow says, never clever enough
10 hide it, "
Is she little yexed at her present condition !?
Certainly she does not exhibit any tendency to
carry ont Mrs Melish's suggestion, If 1t has ever
Been repeated to her. The young men are more
afraid of her than ever; and certainly she does
say very sharp things, sometimes. Especially Il
she severe upon idlers, the butterflies of fashion
able existence. She appears to consider that she
E4s special measure to arouse them but they
do not appear TO like being leetnred With HE
young ladies' she is great taTortte for she Is yery
saffeetionate; aud though so beautiful and dis
finguished, she has proved herself to be not 40
dangerous rival as might have been expected
5mdeed, it has happened, more than once that
male admiration, rebounding from the hard sur
face Of her manner, has found more yielding
metals in the bosoms of her particular friends
Aessdes, she is always ready TO lead you iii the
general attack upon The male sex, when the ladies
retire u the drawing room.
Not that she ever says anything behind their
backs, she would not ba ready TO repeat to their
faces but ia that coarse, probably, she would
not meet with such general support.
iii hit. Tyrawley she Affected to disbelieve. She
stated as her opinion to her intimate friends that
she didn'tbellege he ever had done, or ever would
do anything worth doing but that he piumed
himself on cheap reputation, which, as all were
ignorant Of its foundation, no one could possibly
impugn
There isreason to belieyein this Miss Constance
was not as conscientious as usual, but that she
really entertained higher opiaion Of the gentle
altau lhan she chose to confess. He certainly was
NOT afraid of her, and had even dared to contra.
aass ot English gentlemen of the nineteenth cen
szEy. 1t was on q vet morning when she HAD
aesn reading Scott to three or four of her paFtie-
1lar friends and il must be remarked that she
g5ad remarkably weil--that she began 10 lament
tic deeline Of chivalfy Tyrawley was sitting
asf ii and half out oil range. Perhaps she talked
Z sittls 81 him. At any rate he chose to accept
tae challenge.
cannot agree with you, Miss Baynton,s he
sid II ii true We ne longer wear ladies
Aeses IN our helmets. nor do we compel harmless
ial1sls sQaals, WHO possibly may have sWeethearts