Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1871-07-14
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For the Port Tobacco Times.
LIEUTENAN DARCY
A Little Romance of the Late War.
BY MARYLAND.

DR.. Wharton's home-Arcadia, it was
called. and it was indeed an Arcadia of
congregated sweets, peeping from the leafy
umbrage of blooming locusts and trcmu-
lous aspens, and embowered in the richly
tinted hues of trailing honeysuckles and
pearly jessamines that. with the inimita-
bic grace Of nature, covered the rustic
piazza with cool and refreshing shade. A
few roses, most elegant in form and ex-
quisitely lovely in color, blushed near the
door. filing the air with their delicious
odors. and many other flowers most effec-
lively arranged in tasteful. plots and bloom
ing in uustudied profusion, heightened, in
no inconsiderable degree, the varied
charms Of the spot, whilst one stately elm,
the very pride of Ferrira's heart, grew in
the centre of the Bowling Green" and
threw its commanding shadow over ALL
The pastoral simplicity of such scenery,
dear reader, was calculated, not only to
inspire poetical fancies. but awakend, also.
the deeper emotions of religious sensibili-
ty. filing the heart with a grateful 7e
Deum Of tenderest Joy towards the Boun-
tiful Giver of all. Dr. Wharton had, six
months previous to the date Of our story,
married the elder and only sister of our
heroine, Nettie Dulaney. Nettie and her
sister had been left orphans at an early
age, and since that time had been living
with an unmarried uncle, who doated on
his lovely nieces, and to whom the young
girls were devotedly attached. Two years
before, their kind old uncle had died. be-
ing nursed in his last hours with the most
anxious watchfulness by his adopted daugh-
ters. The Misses Dulaney then moved to
the handsome residence of their fashiona
bic aunt in Baltimore. and being possessed
Of considerable wealth, spent every sum-
mer at some of the most fashionable wa
tering places, where their beauty, talent,
and varied accomplishments were much
admired and applauded by ALL Nettie
was not really beautiful. Her features
were not SO classically regular as her sis
ter's, but there was mirthful sparkle in
her beaming eye, a gladstone gniety in her
saucy dimples. an ingenious independence
of expression that made her favorite
? wherever she went The gentlemen how
cred around her with the most fatteripg
attention, eager to execute her slightest
wish; and those young ladies who did not
see through the unlovely spectacles Of
''green-eyed envy" loved her dearly.
They knew we'll how to value the earnest
sincerity of her impulsive, but most con-
slant friendship. The fashionable bellies
of Baltimore wondered that Nettie should
have grown tired of this gay life. so fiat
tering to feminine vanity and self-love !;
but she had. most thoroughly. The "oily
tongues" of silly datterers vexed her, the
insipid drawl Of city fops disgusted.
TO run away from the prim punctilio Of
ceremonious sconventionalities, she had de-
termined to spend some five or six months
atDr. Wharton's quiz little country place
She had been there about two weeks and
vas standing on the back porch gazing
with breathless interest through the clus-
tsring vines at little mocking bird that
he'd perched itself on lilac bough near
It had fixed its head in the most coquet-
hh attitude. and was warbling away. in
Wild and varied trills, it's untutored vesper
song. when Mrs. Wharton entered.
'sWhy, Nettie. DEAR" she exclaimed,
I believe you are more delighted with