Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1868-09-10
Gin Interestiug gtury,
THREE DEEP.

Lest the following story should seen
too absurd. / beg to state that it is sub
stantially true. The hero was once vel
known to me, except that as be patheti
cally expressed it, ''he didn't know hi
own mind" He fitted from flower t,
flower in the rosebud garden of girls,
like well-disposed but exceedingl,
light-headed butterfly. Whether ther,
is fascination in such fckleness, I an
not prepared to say !; but Frederick Par.
doe was acknowledged by the fair sex te
be remarkably agreeable man.
He had a pair of deep, unutterable
eyes. which, according TO Dr. Hume's
theory may have descended to him
from some great aunt, who possessed a
superior nature, but had bequeathed to
her nephew only the empty eyes, with
the meaning left out.
I introduce him to the reader at a
large party, under the full blaze of a
chandelier. He brought the sweet Ad-
eleide blythe IL his carriage; but is now
stldfs s0f thar yUuug lady as II sne
had been quenched under an extinguish-
er. She sits in a corner weaving her
vexation into radiant smiles while she
watches him lowering near her friend
Miss Fontleroy.
B..If his attention to me had not been
SO very pointed, I might think-but no,
will not, cannot doubt him p
:. The elegant Miss Fontleroy sings:
r. - "New hope may bloom,
And days may come
ass OF milder, calmer beam;
But there's nothing half so sweet in life
.'5i As loves young dream
- Mr.. Pardoe turned the leaves, and
looked unutterable things. Yes. young
loves. dream was deliciously sweet; he
had found it so with this popularity
he had never had any definite object for
his dreams. He had worshipped parti-
ctlar stars, but they had all had THEN
time to set. He was beginning to think
the lady Of his love must surely be an
impossible she, since she took as many
FORMS as Proteus himself.
.,f"Miss Fontleroy," said he, breaking
the spell of silence by plucking sprig o
cedar from neighboring vase and pre-
senting it, ''you know the language o
this: s4,-
The memory of this shall be
AS lasting as the cedar tree"
Miss Fontleroy gracefully accepted the
gift. Their eyes met. Such hear
beam as shone in Frederick's!
'''I will doubt him no more," though
the proud May. His conduct may a
times seem triae capricious, but he i
truth itself. I will never be jealous again
and Of such girl as little Addie Blythe.
ID, '.Pon honor, now, | would give a prct
typenny if | knew my own mind"
= Men have had larger minds than his
and have known them thoroughly. l
looks reasonable, therefore, that it wa
not the size Of Mr.. Pardo's intellec
which stood in the way of his becomin
acquainted with it. Neither its profun
dity. e O.
@1 Judging the future by the past. it di
not seem probable that his very diffus
affections would ever come to focus.-
His heart was q little like his cousi
Barah's eyes and they were seryiceabl
enough till she tried to thread needle
and then she found she was what th
country people call "scatter sighted
she could see eyerythsng else but tt
needle and thread.
There's nothing half SO sweet in life
As loves young dream"
These words sang themselves ov'
again to four persons at least; for thel