Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1871-04-19
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SOCIETY circles in Washington are ex-
cited in consequence of the refusal of
the Catholic clergy to perform the mar
riage ceremony this week at the widding
of Mr.. Rangabee, Greek Charge d'Af-
fairs, and Miss GeTOlt, daughter of Bar
on GerOlt. The reason for this refusal is
that the parties intend to have the mar
riage also sOlemOnized in New York ac-
cording to the rites Of the Greek Church.
PERHAPS the President was i'm the
smoking-rOOm, and two or three of his
Cabinet Ministers were not far away:
the General of the army, the Admiral of
the navy, We're sure to be among the
guests. There were the foreign Minis
tersr whose whole life is in party-going:
there We're distinguished strangers and
WOrld-knOWn women, too {; but the ball
was given for none of them not for any
enjoyment of wisdom or learning or wit
these people were but accessories along
the Wall-it was given for the display Of
beauty and toilet; if was a booth in
Vanity Fair, as | said, for the sale of its
wares. NumbeTlesS beautiful sbaDeS
fitted by yOu-yOu, beWildered as some
MOhammedan Just let loose among the
hOuris of his heaven.
Your eye rested on one, perhaps, Il
face as pure as pearl, it may have been,
vet lovely with the lOveliness Of youth,
IFS deWy eye, its dOwny skin, its happy
smile; but the toilette was an allurement
ITSELF with its delicately--tinteds silk, its
hOar-trost of lace, its pearls and dia-
monds; the maiden moved so serenely
along, so native to the air, as it were.
that it seemed as if such scenes were the
only ones in which it was fit she should
be found, But you watched her for
while, saw her warm from the dance, as
she took her ice, while her bare, white
shoulders were in the draught that sway
ed the heavy curtain behind her; present.
iy She went further into the great SUD-
per room, eating there-like a locust
with the appetite of youth and dancing
she ended by swallowing the little bird
nodded of pate dc .tFOie grUS, and nest
ling in u jelly 50 strongly seasoned as to
drive the blood to her temple; she sip
ped potatiOn into which nothing Ell
tered but old spirits and fermenting
fruit juices, and then her partners arm
was around her waist, her head on his
shoulder, and she was plunging at tue
signal into the German, whirling to de
HciOus measures, presently clasped in a
new embrace, flying from that mans
arms TO anOthcr's, growing wild withlthe
abandon of the figure, her hair flying,
her dress dIsordered her powder cak-
ed, her face red, till pausing one in
slant for the champagne in a serY-
ants hands, your girl with face A.
pure a- pearl, seemed nothing but q
deliriou~ Bacchantc. II you pursued
observation further, you found that she
went home at daySreak, that still throb-
bing with excitement she could find no
sleep, but that knowing if she did not
sleep she would be unfit for the next
rout, she dOsed herself with a soothing
drug, and was soon lost in dreams as
wild rs the night had been-a tremend-
Gus drug, as yet unknown in all its DOW
ers to its diScovereTs-which burns and
pamlyLes her eyelids, and blinds her
eyes and makes her brain for many
q day as useless as her hands, rest
sting her nerves and weakening them,
and leaving them all ready, with the
next strain, for forming and tortur-
ing Mysteries and idiOtic epilepsy, and
you acknowledge that Lent came
none too early, unless she and all her
kin wished death to take them where
they never see the sum- Y. Iri-
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