Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-04-25
WON AND LOST.
"Those who will not when they may,
When they will they shall have nay"

When they will they shall have nay
A garden party on the banks of the
Thames croquet and strawberries the
excuse; Irritation and matrimony the
oil .iect. But in all the glory of a June
sunlight, the bright river g!ittering as it
runs on to the sea, roses, finging their
rich perfume on the air, soft music
blending with the song of birds, the ex-
cuse and object are sometimes forgotten,
and q delicious sepse of purposeless
idleness and inexplicable enjoyment
Demains.
At least such was the case with Philip
Kerr, captain in the Royal Rifles, as,
leaning against tree, he looked at the
scene around him.
What to him was the remembrance
that two brothers stood between him
and title? What the apparently GER
tain fact that his fathers broad wood
lands and the halls where he was born
were rot for him 2 That his only home
was the headquarters of his regiment in
a garrison town, or the dining-room of
the Rag and Famish? 1t was nothing
to him at that instant that his pockets
were empty, and his banking account
overdrawn. Had he not irreproacha BILE
lavender kids on his hands, and, as far
1s he was concerned, priceless boots on
is aristocratically small feet? Above
all, was there not smiling on him, be-
tween her turns at croquet, the only un-
married daughter of the great city firm
of Richley, Alpaca & Co.? Not very
young, and Dot very handsome, to be
sure, but then there was a dowry of
thirty thouSand down, and seventy
thousand to come when the senior part
per should take his fight to better
world, and that surely would balance
thirty years of age and remarkably
plain face.
Besides, she was we'll inclined to re-
gild with her wealth some worn out
coronet ; or, failing that, to attach her
self as branch grated on to some
long-descended family-tree, and so enter
" "society" in her own right, as four
teenth cousin by marriage to peer of
the realm, rather than be admitted by
sufferance of dowagers on the lookout
for heifesses.
While awaiting this desirable event,
she kept her hand in by series of un-
limited and sentimental firtations with
every agrees Bile and intellectual man
she met with; for Theodosia -Richely
went in for intellect, high art, Broad
Church notions, and woman's rights
and Philip being particularly agreeable,
and passably Intellectual, and, above
all, the third son of a Scotch baron,
Theodosia had selected him as her
present aide de camp aud attdche. She
had always the alternative, in all cases
when intellect asserted its superiority
and became too troublesome, of re-
ferring it to the senior partner, without
whose consent, as she p!aintively re-
marked, 81 should but inf ct upon you
a pcnniless wife, nay dear Henry" or
Robert, or whatever might be the
Chl list'an name f-the present aspirant;
and this reference generally terminated
in the dismissal of the agreeable and
intellectual being, no particular reason
being given, and the fair Theodosia
gently hoping, THAT though things
were not propitious, still, friendship
need not be broken" Then, by way OF
conso' alton, would arrive anonymous
presents, and sentimental correspon-
dence would be kept up with the
family but this stage Philip had not
yet arrived.
He was content to be smiled upon, to
disregard the warnings of wiser men
than mself, and drift down the stream
careless whether it stranded him on the
sunny shore Of home paid for by his
heiress-love, or dashed him on the bar
rem rocks of foreign service.
There were just two or three things
that Philip could not do. With all his
many fascinations, his perfect NOUS.
tache, bis talent for soothing irate
tailors, his seat on horseback, and his
step in the valse, he could not be angry