The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1870-02-12
ORIGINAL STORY.
THE FALSE COUNT.
BY WINNIE.

nv 10 '""o ocauCiiui Slrl TO whom
you bowed so familiarly 2" said Jimmie
Earle to William Greenwood as they
proceeded down the steps of the CITY
Hotel.
THAT is Kate Lee, your cousin and
mine, Jimmie" said Willie really you
must have left your memory among the
beauties of Paris if you cauuut recog-
Mise yonr nearest OF kin"
"You forget William that it is nearly
ten years since | last Lchcld Kate, she
was then lively little hoyden, of seve-
raj years old the lapse of ten years
makes wondrous difference in a lady.
whatever, it may do with IA gentleman" ;"
"Nay, if you begin to discuss times
changes, Jimmie, [ must confess. vou
can t congratulate yourself upon having
escaped touch of his fingers. Who, in
hat bronzed complexion and hirsute
!FIsage, could discover any traces of the
Fmootlchecckcd boy, whom saw on the
decS OF French packet ship, some ten
years ago But tell me why you didn't
write tnatyou were coming home. Because
\ didn't know my own mind, Willie; |
really wasn't certain about it until i had
]oeen a Week at sea. The odd prununcia.
|'ioh of my yGernmn va.et having caused nv
name to be placed ON the list of passcn-
gers, as Mr.. Arlc. it occurred to mo
that the mistake would enable me 10 return
incoSnito, and | thought | would huu,or
the Joke, II but 10 see how many of NV
old friends would recognise me. [ ar
rived here late last evening, and should
how be perfect stranger in my native
city, had not accidentally met YOU this
morning and even you. Willie. didn't at
first know me.
"know you. Charlie who the deuce
could even see you behind that mn:ensc
growth of brushwood upon yuur lip and
cheek Do you really mean to wear those
enormous whiskcrs and moustaches p
"Certainly not longer than suits my prc
sent purposes, Willie. When was in
Germany learned TO wear moustaclrs
for the same reason ] learned To smoke
the meerschaum, because everybody else
did it.
In Paris | reduced them little, but
didn't entirely bauish them, because
there also found them fashionable. A
lively little French lady, passenger in
our ship, wasered pair of Paris kids
that | would not wear them n week in
America; | accepted the bet, and for
one week you will see NE bearded like
tho pard"
Nay, If you like them, said Willie
laughingly, you need not seek an ex-
cuse for wearing them, thcy are quite the
fashion, and ladies now estimate a man
not as they once did, by his attitude, but
by the length of his whiskcrs."
81 have no desire to win lady's favor
by wearing an unshavcn face" answered
Jimmie; but pray, Willie, tell some
thing more about our pretty cousin. She
Is as lovely in character, Jimmie as she
is in person, but she h;s one great fault
like the most Of our fashionable bellies
Il
she has mania for everything foreign.
Her manners, her dress, her servant all
come from abroad; aud she declared to
me repeatedly repeatedly ner resolution never to
marry hn Al. orioan."
"What is il that my fair country wo.
men so much admire i'll their foreign low
ers! Oh they say there is II polish an
elegance OF manners belonging to foreign
ers which Americans never possess.
Two Of Katic's intimate friends have
recently ma ed sciouS of some antcdi.
luvian German family, and our lovely
cousin is ambitious OF iorming an equally
splendid alliance"
"lf she were to marry a Western
farmer" said Jimmie, with IA smile, she
would reign over principally quite as
large, and perhaps more flourlsmmg than
usually belongs to these emigraot mobiles
Kate is II noble-heurted girl" replied
Willie, and wish she could be cured
of her folly" If she is really a
sensible girl, and that is her ouly
fault; | think she might be cured. y
Willie shook his head. Come aud dine
with inc, Willie; be careful to tell NJ
one of my arrival, and well discuss the
matter over bottle of old Madeira, il
you are not too fashionable to drink.
The windows of Mrs Lees house