The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-12-17
OFRIDAY
going to fetch my little girl iron.
school. You know she is at Mrs.
Grinley's finishing establishment foI

going to fetch my little girl iron
school. You know she is at Mrs.
Grinley's finishing establishment foI
young ladies and though she is only
ten years old, Mrs. G. assures me
that Virginia Cartwright is her mos,
forward pupil. We will take this
little puss with us, if you please
What o'clock Is it now?
Cartwright looked at his watch,
md Mr.. d. looked at his watch
Yawning and looking at your watch
are infectious gestures. John Ack
land also put his hand to his waist
coat pocket, and then suddenly re-
membering that his watch was not
there, he felt awkward and blushed.
John Ackland was q shy man, and a
lazy man IN everything but the exer-
else Of self-tOrment. He was in the
habit Of interpreting every trifle to
his own disadvantage. This unfor
tunate way of regarding all external
phenomena was constantly disturb
ing his otherwise habitual languor
with an internal sensation of extreme
awkwardness. And whenever John
Ackland felt awkward he blushed.
"Twenty minutes to One,' said Mr..
ID.
Good then,' said Cartwright,
sin one hour, as near as may be, i
and my little girl will be at your
door with the wagon and phaeton -
Can you be ready by then 2"
"All right" answered the editor,
"we shall just have time for light
luncheon
"Will it be out of your way, Mr..
D., said Ackland, after Cartwright
had left them, "to pass by D'Oileys,
the watchmaker's in - Street J"
"Not at all. How do you happen
to know tue name OF that store,
though ?"
81 noticed it while strolling thro'
the town this morning. My chro
nOmeter has been losing time since
came south. and l asked Mr.. D'Oiley
to look at it, saying l would call or
send for it before leaving town this
afternoon
When the watchm aker handed back
the chronometer to MIR. Ackland,
That watch was never made in the
States, l reckon, sir?' said he.
"No. 1t is English -
"Geneva works, though. I'll war
rant your chronometer, sir, to go
righ. for six years now. Splendid
piece of workmanship, sir"
Mr.. Ackland was much pleased
with his pretty little new aequaint-
ance, Virginia Cartwright. She was
dark-eyed. lively child, who prom.
ised to become very beautiful
woman, and was singularly graceful
for that awkward age of young
lady which closes her first decade -
Her father seemed TO he immensely
proud of. as well as tenderly attached
to, the little girl. Every little Incl
dent on their way to Glenoak sug-
pes,cd to him some anec lote of her
childhood which he related to his
guest in terms, no doubt, made
1uately expressive of her eXtraordi-
nary merits. Once he said, GOOD
God, sir, when l think what would
become of that child if anything were
to happen" But he finished the sen
tence only by whipping on the horses.
A large assembly OF Virginia nota
bles had been invited to Glenoak to
meet Mr.. Cartwright's New England
guest. II am going to be shown
off," thought John Ackland to him
self; and he entered the house hot
and blashing, like the sun rising
through a fog. Among these nota
bles was Judge Griffin, sour greatest
legal authority, slr,' whispered Cart
wright, as he pushed his guest for
ward, and presented him to the judge
with expressions of overlooking eu-
logy and friendship.
Mr.. Ackland, of Boston city. was
a representative man, he said, "a
splendid specimen, sir, of our great
merchant princes OF the North,
whom he was proud to receive under
his roof. More than that, he himself
was under deep obligations (why
should he be ashamed to avow it } the
very deepest obligations to his
worthy friend and honored guest,
John X. Ackland Here Mr.. Cart
wright, apparently under the impress
sion that he had been proposing q
toast, paused, and prepared to lift
the glass to his lips, but finding that
he had, just then, no glass to lift, he
informed the Judge and his other
guests that dinner would soon be
served, and expressed hope that, in
the meanwhile, Mr.. Ackland would
favor him with few moments OF his
private attention for the settlement oi
a ratter of business to which, indeed
he partly owed the honor of that gen
tleman's visit. The two gentle
men were then closeted togeth
. er for nearly an hour. Wher
they rejoined the rest of the
company at dinner, Mr.. Cart
wright appeared to have made (du
ring the recent interview) a most
favorable impression on his New
England guest. Host and gues
were already on terms OF the mos
cordial intimacy with each Other, land
Cartwright himself was in the high
est possible spirits. One of the
company present on that occasion, &
, very young gentleman, who had some
betting transactions with the owner
I of Glenoak, transactions from which
he had derived a very high apprecia
ton of the remarkable 'cuteness o
that genGleman,-expressed to hi'
neighbor at table q decided opinion
, that his friend Philip S. must Ger
/ tainly have succeeded, before dinner
> in getting a pot O. money out of th'
Yankee. who looked as we'll pleased
: as people usually do when they have
D done something foolish. After din
| ner, when the gentlemen Int their ci
.lgers, and strolled into the garden
!, Cartwright, linking one arm in tina
lof Judge Griffin, and the other in tina
! of John Ackland, exclaimed,--
E 81 wish, Judge, that you. who's
= powers of persuasion are irresistible
l would induce my friend here to list
: len to reason. No, no" he contin
' ned. as John Ackland made som
|. gesture OF impalience, "no, my es
I teemed friend, why should l concea