Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-04-14
SENSATION IN HIGH LIFE.
A Belle OF Lucas Place EIOpes with a
Carriage Driver

A Belle OF Lucas Place EIOpes with 1
Carriage Driver.
Some time ago-it matters moi
how Tonga dashing and good,
looking young Irishman obtained
the situation of carriage driver to
popular and fashionable physi-
clan, whose practice is confined to
the supper ten" of Lucas Place, and
other wealthy neighborhoods. John
was a "broth of boy with a
smooth, rosy cheek, a sparkling
eye, and tidy leg, and very win
ming tongue in his head. As for
impudence, he had a full share of
| that useful commodity, and eonsid-
cred himself Just as good as the
best man in the wide world.
In driving the Doctor around to
visit his patients, John frequently
got a glimpse of the pretty faces
that appeared at the windows, and
he was not too modest to return
with a smile the sly Chances thrown
at him. One face in particular at
tracted Johns attention, because it
was very beautiful, and because,
too, it threw upon him such sender
looks that his heart was carried
away entirely.
John, being hopelessly in love,
set to work to lessen the distance
existing between himself and his
charmer. He saw the great bar
rier, which, like Giants Cause
way, separated his idol from him,
and he resolved to overlesp it and
make her his own. After revolving
in his mind many plans and expe-
dients, John came to the conclusion
that he would become doctor. He
saw in the example of his employ
er that the wand of the physician
opened the doors of the fashionable
and that a good-looking doctor was
the pet of society. He read the list
of the successful physicians of the
city, and found that many of them
had married into rich families, and
why should he not get diploma,
marry an heiress and live in a De
Soto stone front?
Getting a diploma, however, is
not such an easy thing. John re-
signed his situation as Jehu, and
read medical books diligently for
several weeks; but the hard words
refused to stick in his memory, be-
cause, faith, the image of the belle
of Lucas Place was then in full
strength, and there was no room for
the Meteria Medica. He pesevered,
however, and as a medical student,
visited his beloved, and they ex-
changed vows ofeverlasting fidelity.
The affairs came to the ears Of the
rich parents of the young lady, and
they set their faces resolutely |
against the match. John was for
hidden the house, and the belle was
locked up in her room and watched
by one who was more vi gilant than |
a Spanish duenna. But bolts and
bars only added fuel to the flame of
her love, and in her solitude she
thought of nothing but John. 1t
was so romantic to be locked up
and watched !
John, after vainly trying to mus
ter the contents of his books threw
them away in disgust, and obtained
a situation as conductor on a street
car. He watched his chance, and
with his lady love. and learned from
her that she was willing to defy her
parents and throw herself into his
arms on the first opportunity.
To make long story short, the
young lady managed to elude the
vigilance of her jailer, and flying
on the wings of love to her darling
conductor, they were united in the
holy bonds of wedlock in spite of
parental opposition. The wedding
took place day or two ago, and
the young couple are now spending
the honeymoon at a quiet and gen
teel hotel in fashionable quarter
of the city-lH Louis Democrat,
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