Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-12-03

= were very happy ones, the contents be
I ing mostly abstracts of conversation
3 between herself and the dear Alict
I ] Thornton, and bits of Baltimore gossip
Q which wasn't particularly interested
in. But the cold got better, and hel
! letters grew rather shorter as she go
, farther into the round of parties and
| pleasure.
Finally there came a very thick let.
: ter, and there was something new on
. the stage. She wrote to me somewhat
after this fashion, while staying with
| Miss Thornton:
% You're not to tell this MarRie.-
but I'm getting involved in what seems
to be mystery. Ever since I've been
| here, the girls have talked to me of the
most charming gentleman ever seen in
Baltimore, and they all declared 1 must
be introduced; so, at last, got up quite
a curiosity. They said he was an Eng
lishman. very rich, and so handsome;
why! if one was to believe their stories,
he might be carried about for a show /!
He was said to be very reserved, and to
give very little attention to any of the
ladies, and in a number of cases declin-
ed introductiOns. He has met Mr..
Thornton, Alice's father and they are
good friends, so Alice has seen a good
deal of him, and he has been more po-
lite to her than any one else, and no
wonder dear girl! All thegirls say she
is the favored one.
EouG uh0 bOta ulLAA Oh AlA6s anu nS
seemed quite anxious TO know me.
She had promised 10 introduce him, the
very first chance, and that was last
night at her party.
''I wish I had time to tell you about
| il. Every one says it was one of the
most delightful ones ever given in Bal
| timoTe, and did enjoy it wonderfully.
But do let me tell you about the Eng
| lishman. It was about eleven before
he came and everything was at its cli-
max. was dancing with Mr.. Dent;
and the moment stopped, up came
| Alice, with the most egant-looki3g
man ever saw; and the stranRest thing
| is, that think now, and thought then,
I have seen him somewhere before.
| He watched me intently as he crossed
| the room, and asked Alice, as she has
| told me TODAY, who / was: and when
she said, ''That is Kitty Tenant" he
looked as pleased as Punch. Don't tell
mamma said Kifty,-'but he looked
at me with the most perfect admiration.
keep wondering where it is have
met him, but know cannot have, for
| they say ne is Just from England. But
YOU don't know how queerly he acted.
| All at once he looked as puzzled as
could be: and by the time be was close
| to me, he stared in the queerest way;
and when Alice introduced us, he
bowed, and said, Have MT we met be-
fore, Miss Tenant ?" / said II think
so": and said I wished be would help
me remember, for was very certain I
had seen him.
Suddenly it seemed to fash into
his mind, and he said to himself, SIT
could MT be-" but I heard him; and af-
ter that he was perfect icicle, and I
did MT have the courage to ask him any
questions, for knew it was something
borrid byhis looks. He evidently mis-
takes me for some one, and it is so
queer that I firmly believe have seen
few minutes, and stayed only a half
hour or so, avoiding Alice all the time.
had promised all the dances, and was
desperately busy all night, having such
a good time that quite forgot this un-
pleasant affair. Alice came to me after
the people were gone away, and said, |
Kate Teunant, what did yOu do to the
Door man ?'' and she seemed so utter
ly astonished when told her what had
happened. She cannot account for it
any more than / can, and says it was
unlike him as possible. I don't know
whether have told you his name; It is
Bruce,-Philip Bruce
When Miss Tennant reached this
point in her story, I laughed heartily
(said Aunt Nary, and Anna and she
did sha-knoW him." said I, 81
snUUfu have thought ttIs circumstances
would have made her remember him
always"
MISS Tennant said "Wen, should
have thought so too. know I should
have recognized him myself if 1 had
seen him, but Kitty was always the |
worst person in the world to remem ber |
people, and it had happened year be- |
fore, nearly. We always had quantities |
of company, and she had no doubt seen |
hundreds since.
"When answered her letter said |
nothing about him, for must confess /
that I did not recollect that the gentle |
man who stared so at Kitty, the night |
she played table-girl, was Mr.. Bruce OF
London, and, indeed, did MT feel par
ticularly interested; and my reply was
probably filled, as usual, with an ac- |
count of the exciting things that had |
happened to me at the school from |
which so earnestly longed for deliver !
ance.
kitty wrote me very frequently, and |
once in a while she mentioned this |
strange Mr.. Bruce, and finally it occur /
red to me that my sister was getting |
very much interested in him; and as I /
had a wOful dread of losing her, I ex-
postulated with her concerning the fool /
ishness of caring anything for a man
who had treated her in SO uncourteous /
way, and laughed at her cOnsidera-
bly,.
6For some time after that she did
not allude to him, and I had nearly
forgotten him. At last there came let
ter in which Kitty said: i must tell |
you more of Mr.. Bruce, If you are tired /
to death hearing Of him, for it is really
a perfect mystery. I have seen him, at
a number of parties, watching me in
the most earnest waV, as if he enjoyed /
it and still was rather ashamed. But |
when we meet he is Just as cool and /
distant as possible. He has not been to
see Alice, and all the way he has be-
trayed the slightest interest in me to
any one else is that he met Miss Burt |
in a store, who has only lived here a
short time, and to whom he was intro
duced a night or two before. He asked |
her incidentally if she knew Miss Alice
Thornton; and, when she said she did,
lady WAS, visiting her. Miss Burt said
she had never seen her, but q gentle
man had told her it was a young lady
Miss Thornton had met at boarding
school, 'tThen she has never been
here before:'' said be- And Miss Burt
thought not, indeed " as quite sure, as
she never had heard of me. Is MT 1t a
pity he did MT ask some one who could
tell him all about me?- and then he
could know whetht he had seen me,
of course
"Now Kitty, in that same letter, con-
fessed to me that she liked Mr.. Bruce
better than any one she had ever seen,
which alarmed me so much that re-
member I wrote her the most shocking
scoldiDg,"
Anu beiS MISS : AAauS was S'AehS 'OA
a little while, and, when she spoke,
said
81 see by your faces you're quite in
terested, and think the rest OF the
story cannot be better told than by my
reading you somo of the letters Kitty /
wrote 10 me at the time. I'd like to
look them over myself, and if you are
not in the least sleepy, will go up to
my room and get them"
In q few minutes she returned, and,
after making the gas and the fire lit
tie brighter, and taking an observation
on the state Of the weather, she COM /
menced reading.
Concluded nect ireek.
PLAIN PUNIPKIN-PIES.
Pie Paste Six cups Of sifted -four;
two and a half cups Of lard, shaved |