The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1870-12-24

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youf happinoss, snf then 10 your success
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The ceremony over, I WIS At liberty 81
ASK bin what In the name Of common
sense he meant.
." | mean this that I think you did a
plucky and an honorable thing when %
came 10 that resolution about Julia
o 10 a. poor rs a man very well can be,
except IN your taste for writing, and that
love will sOlidify into something tangible,
In fact, bread and butter. hoped all along
that you would stick by your colors, and
l tried to dissuade you In order 10 sec II you
were dreaming or vide awake, and | am
glad 20 see that your eyes are open. Now
for something else Here he took from
his pocket a package Of letters. "You
see, as your man Of business, | got your
letters from the box, and also opened all
but one that | knew was private. Now
for a little piquancy to the sombreness of
the conversation thus far. Your story has
been accepted with thanks, and | have the
pleasure of handing you a remittance Of
eighty dollars for the same. You have a
letter of acceptance from the manager of
- Theater of your farce, with plenty of
extravagant praise. To-day | saw your
name mentioned in the papers as a faciie,
elegant and entertaining writer, and that
for twenty-six years Is not so bad. They're
talking Of you at the club in the most
ridiculous style. That farce, by the way,
how comical and full of hits, and the
catastrophe was so exquisitely absurdr'
Here Dewison was pleased to go into a fit
Of laughter. And that story, that touch
of patbos you put in there was decidedly
well conceived, and the way you managed
to talk so glibly about a machine you
never set your eyes upon is a glimmer OF
genius not to be sneezed at. | tell you,
Penniman, play your hand out with your
partner, and don't attempt to go it alone.
Keep your name before the public and
in a hurry, are your Well, well, here you
are"
All how well | knew it! small, neat
and promising looking | always admired
the line of beauty in the p, there was
something which bespoke a handsome, in
telligeht woman, especially TO a fanciful
man like myself. | opened it tenderly
much in the same manner as you would {
prize squash, something to be treated witt
respect. 1t was very short, and ran thus
BRIARwcop, Dec. 20, 1856.
My DEAR DICK: Won't you come down directly
for the h~olidaysy | can't stop 10 write anything
at all, only that we're to have a glorious house
full Christmas Eve, and l shall be unhappy If you
don't come. I'll drive you up from the station
Pa wants you to come by the train on the aad.
Your aifectionate JULIA.
"To-night, if I'm a living mani How
pat to the purpose! Penniman, my boy
you're as much as asked to run away with
her. We must be off in thirty minutes"
I'VE? You're not invitedp'
Bother invitations at Christmas; I'm
going, invitation or not, and Pm off foi
some buds; back in twenty minutes!' And
he was gone.
| got together the most presentable
clothes | possessed, and after ~renovatine
myself thoroughly and packing my port
manteau, | sat down to await Dewison'S
return. | suddenly thought that he had
met Julia and her party somewhere in the
mountains, and had made himself agreea.
Bile to the people, and had come to be
scored down as one of the family friends,
and bore all the %annoyances and swindles
of that position with as great an equanimity
as he ate their dinner, danced at their par.
ties, and practiced his manners upon the
nice people they always had about them,
70 q man of Dewison's character the
want Of m invitation Is quite as surmount-
able an obstacle as a salad which stands
between him and his pate, and, therefore,
| was not surprised that he determined to
go with me to Briarwoods, where, at all
events, he would not be coldly received
He was popular nearly everywhere aid had
friends in nearly every village and city in
the country. He was a mar of %inexaust-
ible resources; never did a picnic fad it.
self without spoons but Dewison produced
some continuance which answered all the
purposes aud half a dozen more. / knew
him to start off a fishing party with hall
rations on a day that he thought promised
rain, and when they returned drenched
through, fishless and half starved, he led
them to a farmhouse where there was a
magnificent supper and rousing fires ready
for them Think he secured invitations for
some TWO hundred visits all the way from
a week to two months in length by that
very operation. He loved perplexities,
~nuisances, and mysteries, anything that
would make people unhappy enough to ap-
p~reciate his tact of setting them, To speak
rudely, upon their pins.
Any such man, with his good humor and
ingenuity dangling about his neck like a
pedlar's pack, will walk directly over the
iamparts Of the most hostile and cold
blooded clique in society, and hob-nob
with them in the very magazine.
In this particular case | must say | was
averse TO Dewison's going to Briarwoods,
as he is not a man upon whom you can
draw for a supply of poetical ideas or soft
ening influences. If you strike upon q
vein which you think is going to work
well for sympathy, he is very likely to
lose you with a volume Of stories which
make you ashamed of your gentle thoughts
and turns your subject into a fool or a
scarecrow. Still / might as well have
tried to dissuade him from smoking as
from going, 50 | put the idea out Of my
head.
Dcwison, with his usual good fortune, got
the rear compartment in the the train, and
we were also lucky to have it to ourselves
for the long journey. If there is n thing
that | dislike more than another, it is a ride
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