The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-05-17

and the audscious volubility of q lau.
yuape in which all arbitrary restrictions
Ters ignored. care you goiHgT she
asked.
'sWell, II believe am. Since saw
you last Tve encountered MISS Petrie
again, and Pm rather depressed.
"Ah,-yOu don't know her. If you
did, you wouldn't laugh at herr
Laugh at her! Indeed, l do not do
that; but when Pm told that I'm to be
thrown into the oven and burned be-
cause Pm such WORKOUT old institu.
tom
"You don't mean to say that you mind
thati'
mot much, when it comes up in the
ordinary course of conversation; but 1t
pals upon one when il is asserted for
the fourth or fifth time 10 en- evening
ALAS, alasw exclaimed Miss SPaldlng'
with mock energy.
"And why alas f''''
because it is so impossible to make
the oil and vinegar of the old Wor'u anS
Of the new mix together and sui ea'n
other" go, ,,;.,
"You think it is impossible, Miss
spalding" r,u+o,d.r
and Won are always piuching us on our
most tender spot. And we never meet
Won without treading on your gouty
toes" .-,
~ don't think my toes are gouty,"
said he.
~ apologize to your own, individual
". Mr.. Glascock; but / must assert
that nationally you are subject to the
govt" .. nd
over again that I'm to be cut down ana
thrown into the oven"
"Neyer mind the oven now, Mr.. Glas-
cock. If nv friend has been oveT-zeal.
Gus, will beg pardon for her, put IL
does seem to me, indeed, IT does, Win all
the reverence and partiality have LOT
everything European" - the WORD
European was an offence to him, and he
showed that it was so by his counter
auce,-"that the idiosyncrasies OF you
and of us are so radically different, that
we cannot be made to amalgamate and
sympathize with each other thorough
Typ.
He paused for some seconds before he
answered her, but it was so evident by
his manner that he was going to speak,
that she could neither leave him nor In
terrupt him. 81 had thought that 1t
might have been otherwise" he said at
last, and the tone of his voice was so
changed as to make her know that he
was in earnest.
But she did not change her voice by
single note. Ppm afraid it cannot be
So" she said, speaking after her old
fashion,-halfin earnest, half in banter.
eve may make up our minds to be very
civil to each other when we meet. The
threats of the oven may no doubt be
dropped on our side, and you may abstain
from expressing in words your sense of
our interiority."
~ never expressed anything of the
kind" he said, quite in anger.
81 am taking you simply as the sample
not as Mr.. Glascock, who
helped me and my sister over the
mountains. Such of US as have to meet
in society may agree to be very courteous;
but courtesy and cordiality are not only
not the same, but they are Incompatible"
"Why sop
Courtesy is an effort, and cordiality
is free. | must be allowed to contradict
the friend that love; but assent-too
often falsely-to what is said to me by a
acquaintance. In spite of what
the Scripture says, think it is one of
the greatest privileges of brother that
he may call his brother fool"
"Shall YOU desire to call your husband
a foolfn
MY husband"
"He will, suppose, be at least as dear
to you as brother ~
81 never had brother"
Your sister, then! 1t is the same,
suppose y =,
at | were to have husband, | hope
he would be the dearest 10 me OF all.
Unless be We're SO, no certainly would
not be my husband. But between a
man and his wife there does not spring
up that playful, violent intimacy
admitting of all liberties, which comes
from early nursery associations; and
then there is the difference of sex"
al should not like my wife TO call me
a fool" he said.
IL hope she may never have occasion
to do so, Mr.. Glascock. Marry AL
English wife in your own class-as, Of
course, yon will and then You will be
safe"
But have set my heart fast on
marrying an American wife," he said.
Then | can't tell what may befall
you. It's like enough, if you do that,
that you may be called by some name
you will think hard to bear. But you'll
think better of it. Like should pair
With like, Mr.. Glascock, If you were
to marry one of our young women, you
would lose in dignity as much as she
would lose in comfort" Then they
parted, and she went of to say farewell
to other guests. The manner in which
she had answered what he had said to
her had certainly been of nature to
stop any further speech of the same
kind. Had she been gentle with him,
then he would certainly have told that
she was the American woman whom he