The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-09-22

Made cheerful the meadows Of June; - ~
Mead-larks' saluting the morn with their flut-
Replied to hisraptureps,tuuo3.p
HoaTss g crovi a5o H calling, and fret leaves arc
hsanss a ssdnsss sSosaR ssSSsns
And glory from nature remains. =,
THE b6x TunNi1FE1t.I I''..r'- =. 49,.
~ BY CHARLES RFADR. 1T. -,-"
The 10. Is, train glided from Padding
ton, May 7, 1a47. In the left compart-
mentiof o certain first class carriage were
four passengers. OF these, two were
worth description. The lady had
smooth, white, delicate brow, strongly
marked eyebrows, long lsshes, eyes that
seemed to change color, and good-sized
delicious mouth, with teeth as white as
milk. A man could not see her nose for
her eyes and mouth, her own sex could
and would have told US some nonsense
about it., She wore an unpretending
greyish dress, butt ned to the throat,
with lozenge-shaped buttons, and a
Scotch shawl that agreeably evaded the
responsibility of color. She was like q
duck, SO tight her plain feathers fitted
her; and there she sat, smooth, snug,
delicious, with book in her hand, and
a sompcon of her snowy wrist Just visible
as she held it. Her opposite neighbor
was what I call good style of man--the
more to his credit, since he belonged to
corporation that frequently turns out
the worst imaginable style of young
man. He was q cavalry officer, aged
twenty-five. He had inousteche, but
not very repulsiye one; not one of
those suhnasal pig-tails, on which, soup
is suspended like dew on q shrub; It
was short, thick, and black as coal. His
teeth had not yet been turned by tobacco
smoke TO the color Of tobacco juice; bis
clothes did not stick to nor hang on him
they sat on him, he had an engaging
smile, and, what I liked the dog for, his
vanity, which was inordinate, was in its
proper place--his heart-not in his face,
iostling mine, and other peoples, who
have none--in word, he was what one
oftener hears of than ,meets-a young
gentleman. He lwas iconyersing in an
animated whisper With companion, q
fellow-off1cer. They were talking about
what it is far better not to do-women.
Our friend clearly did not wish to be
overheard, for he cast, ever and anon, n
furtive glance at his fair uis-a,uis, and
lowered his voice. She seemed COM
pletely absorbed in her book, and that
re-assured him. At last, the two soldiers
whisper (the truth must be toId) the one
who got down at Slough, and was lost to
posterity, bet e1O to 93 that he who was
going down with us to Bath and immor-
tality would not kiss either of the ladies
opposite upon the road "Done"
'Done!" Now, am sorry man I have
hitherto praised should have lent him.
self, even in whisper, to such q speou-
lation; but ''nobody is wise at all hours"
not even when the clock is striking
five-and-twenty; and you are to consider
his profession, his good looks, and the
temptation-ten to three.
After Slough the party was reduced to
three; at Twyford one lady dropped her
handkerchief; Captain Doligna1i fell on
it like o tiger and returned it like q lamb;
two or three words were interchanged on
that occasion. At Reading the Mars
bourough of our tale made one of the
safe Investments of that day, he bought
o Times and a Punch; the latter full of
steel pen thrusts and wood.outs. Valor
and beauty deigned to laugh at some in
fated humbug or other punctured by
Punch. Now laughing together thaws
our humanities; long before Swindon it
was talking match-at SWlndon who
so devoted as Captain fDolignan; he
handed them out--he souped them, he
tough-c -chickened them-he branded and
cochi-nealed one, and he branded and
burnt-sugared the other; on their return
to the carriage, one lady passed into the
inner compartment to inspect certain
gentleman's seat on that side tho line.
Reader, had it been you or I, the
,kxy ruo,,11 T. 1,ooo
average one would have stayed with us
till all was blue, ourselves included; not
more surely does our slice of bread and
butter, when it escapes from our hand,
revolve it ever so often, alight face down
ward on the carpet. But this was bit
of fop Adonis, dragoon-so Venus re-
NAMED in tete-G-tete with him. You have
seen dog meet an unknown female of
his species; how handsome, how en-
presse, how expressive he becomes.
Such was Dolignan after Swindon, and