The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1867-11-28
''BETWEEH THE ACTS"
Yhat a pIorious creature !"

"What a glorious creature ~
We we're at the Haymarket, In London.
Titiens was playing Norma" as no other
living woman can play it ) but the curtain
had fallen between the acts, and, with
long-drawn breath, people began to look
around.
l had expected to be In Winchester
that evening but walking down Picca-
dillv, in the morning, l had met my old
mate, Charlie Neville, who had bid
den me good-bv in Paris, month before,
on his way 20 America. He saw my sur
prise, and putting his ann within mine,
proceeded TO explain,
cine fact is, Hail." he said, "rm the
victim of one of those horrid match-ma-
king plots, which even the best of women
will indulge III. Now, there's my sister
Elieo, sweeter creature never breathed,
but she's taken it into her head that her
husbands niece, a raw chit, L IN told, just
from boariing-schoo!, is the very girl for
me to marry. Our mutual fortunes she
writes, 'are precisely what they ought to
be; and Clara has the sweetest of tenn
pers, is heart-tree. has heard great deal
Of NE ; and all such jargon. Pshaw. it
is enough to disgust one with matrimony
altogether. But the long and the short
of it is, that Miss Clara is to spend the
summer at Newport with my sister, and
that they look for me to spend it there,
too. Do they think am going to walk
into their trap? was on my way home,
as you know but I've changed my mind,
and [ only wish [ could fall head over
ears in love with some pretty English girl,
so as to have an excuse for never return
ing st all. What are your plans :? Going
to make tout through England, this fine
weather. Well, dine with me to-day, aud
60 to the opera, aud then I'm your man
for couple of mouths, or longer"
Thus it was that l came to be at the
Haymarket that night, and to hear the
exclamation with which l have begun my
story
Charlie, as he spoke, had significantly
glanced up at box in the dress circle
| looked, too, and diG not wonder Z. k;s
enthusiasm. There were three women
there, all lovely, and one of them pre en-
inenIly SO.
81 wonder who she is" continued Char
lie, 10 whisper. "By Jove! that's girl
to love"
just then, young guardsman, who sat
next to us, turned around, and recogni-
zed Capt. Coldstream, whom l had met at
several fashionable houses during the past
two months. He saw, directly, what had
attracted my curiosity.
'Lovely girls, aren't they? % he said,
dropping his eyc-glass. "The youngest,
Lady Louisa, is a regular charmer She
is just out. The family are late in com
ing up to town, delayed, l believe, by
sickness. All Lady Emily recognizes
me; [ must pay my respects"
"But who are they % ! asked, as he
rose to go.
81 thought [ told you the Ladies
Vavasour, daughter of Earl Vayasour
came in with the Conquest, and all that
sort of thing, you know"
l believe Charlie did little else for the
rest of that evening but steal slances at
the Vavasour box. l am sure he heard
very little of the music. Even the last
scene, which absorbed verybody else,
failed to interest him.
All the way to Windsor, the next day,
Charlie talked of the Lady louisa AT
Winchester it was the same thing. l be-
gan to think we had better give up our
excursion and return TO London, for we
had invitations TO severa. houses where [
was sure We should meet the Vavasours
and Charlie was desperately in love.
Of all detestable inns, the "White
Hart" at Salisbury, is the most detesta-
BILE. But tourists, who would see the
beautiful cathedral there, or 7isit the ia