Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-03-23

From the Northern Lights.l
DIR. HUGER'S INTENTION.

DR.. Huger was thirty years old when
he deliberately resolved to be in love,
Il cannot say ''fsll in love" of any
thing so matter-of-fact and well-con-
sidered. He made mp his mind that
marriage was a CORD thing. that he
was old enough to msrry,--fnally, that
he 1cOuId marry. Then he decided
with equal deliberations, on the quail
fcations necessary in the lady, and be
gan to look about him to find her. She
must be blonde. Above all things
else, he must have her gentle and trust.
full; and he believed that gentleness and
trustfuress inhered in the blue-eyed,
fair-haired type of womanhood. She
must be appreciative, but not strong
minded, -well-bred, with a certain
Iady-like perfeciness, which could not
be criticised and yet which would al
ways save her from being conspicuous.
Not for the world would he have any
new-fangled woman's rights notions
about her.
You might fancy it would be some
what difficult matter for him to find
precisely the realization of this ideal !;
but here fate befrieDded him,-fate,
who seemed to have taken DIR. Huger
under her especial charge, and had been
very kind to him all his life. He look
ed out of his window, after he had
come to the resolution heretofore re-
corded, aud saw Amy Minturn tripping
across the village green.
Amy was eighteen, blonde, blue
eyed, innocent, well bred, unpresum-
ing, without ambition, and without
originality. She was very lovely in her
own quiet, tea-rose style. Her position
vas satisfactory; for her father, Judge
AIinturn, vas man of mark in Wind
ham, aud one of DR.. Huger's warmesi
friends. So, having decided that here
was an embodiment of all his ''must-
HAYES" the doctor went over that even
ing to call at the Minturn mansion
Not that the call in itself was an un-
usual occurrence. He went there often;
but hitherto his conversation had been
principally directed to the Judge, and
tonight there was noticeable change.
Amy was looking her loveliest, in her
diaphanOus muslin robes, with blue
ribbons at her throat, and in her soft
light hair. DR.. Huger wondered that
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tints of her complexion, the deep lust
rous blue of her eyes, the dainty, flow
er-like grace of her words and ways
He talked to her, and watched the
changing color in her cheeks, and her
ripping smiles, until he began to think
the falling in love, to which he had so
deliberately addressed himself, the
easiest AID pleasantest thing in the
world. She had the prettiest little air
OF propriety, half prudish, and half
coquettish. She received his atten-
tons with a shy grace that was ire
sistibly tempting.
He went often to Judge Minturn's
after that-nOt TOO often, for he did not
wish to startle his pretty Amy by atten-
lions too sudden or too overpowering:
and, indeed, there was nothing in the
gentle attraction by which she drew
him to hurry him into any insane for
getfulness of his customary moder8-
ton. But he liked and approved her
more and more. He made up his mind |
to give her little longer time in which /
10 become familiar with him, and then (
% ask her to be his wife.
When he had reached this determina-
ion, he was sent for one August day,
% see new patient,-a certain Miss
colchester. He was thinking about