The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-05-24
WON AND LOST.
These that will not when they may,
When they will they shall have nay.

| Those that Will not when they may
/ When they will they shall have nay.
A garden-party on the banks of tn
Thames; crOquet and strawberries tn
excuse, filtration and matrimony tn
object. But in all the glory of Jun
sunlight, the bright river glittering q
it runs ON to the sea, roses flingin
their rich perfume on the air, soft musi
blending with the song of birds, tn
excuse and the object are sometime
forgotten, and a delicious sense of pur
pOseless idleness and inexplicable en-
iOyment alone remains. At least sucl
was the case with Philip Kerr, captain
in the Royal rifles, as leaning agains
tree, he looked ut the scene arount
him.
What to him was the remembrance
that two brothers stood between hin
and a title? What the apparently Ger
tain fact that his fathers broad wood
lands and the halls where he was borI
We're not for him that his only hom,
was the headquarters of his regimen
i'm a garrison town, or the dining-rOOn
of the Rag and Famish? 1t was
nothing to him at that instant that hi
pockets were empty, and his banking
account Overdrawn. Had he not ire.
prOachable lavender kids on his hands
and, as far as he was concerned, price.
iess boots on his aristOcraticalIy small
feet? Above all, was there not smil-
ing upon him, between her turns al
crOquet, the only unmarried daughter
of the great city firm of Richley, Alpa-
ca & Co? Not very young, and not
very handsome, to he sure, but then
there was dOwry of thirty Thousand
down, aud seventy thousand to. come
when the senior partner should take
his flight to a better world, and that
surely would balance thirty years OF
age and a remarkably plain face.
Besides, she was well inclined to re-
gid with her wealth some wOrn-Out
cOronet; or, failing that, to attach her
self as a branch grated OH to some
lOng-descended family tree, and so en-
ter society" in her own right, as four
teenth cousin by marriage TO q peer of
the realm, rather than be admitted by
sufferance of dOwagers on the lookout
for heiresscs. u
While waiting this desirable event
she kept her hand in by a series of un-
limited and sentimental fiirtatiOns
with every agreeable and intellectual
man she met; for TheOdOsia Ripley
went in for iDtellect-high art, broad
church notions, and wcmen,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 pre-
sent aid-de camp and attache. She
had always the alternative, in all cases
when intellect asserted its superiority
and became too troublesome, of refer.
ring it to the senior partner. without
whose consent, as she plaintively re-
marked, II should but infiict upon you
a penniless wife, my dearest H9nIy,"
or Robert, or whatever might be the
Christian name of 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
would arrive eanOnymou
and asentimentai correspond
ence would be kept up with the family;
ouo W Wis SeaoC hiiP hau hot yCo
He was content to be smiled upon,
TO disregard the warnings of wiser men
than himself, and drift down the
stream, careless whether it stranded
him on the sunny shore of a home paid
for by his heiress-love, or dashed him
on the barren rocks of foreign service.
There were just two or three things
that Philip could not do. With all his
many fascinatiOns, his perfect mus
Iache, his talent for soothing irate
taiIors, his seat on horseback, and his
step in the valse, he could not he angry
Or stern with woman, or, indeed,
with any one. He could not take any
thing deeply to heart, and he could not
fret or fume as to what might or might
not he his destiny; and he leaned lazy
against the tree and slOught of nothing.
The game was ended at last, and
Miss Richley came toward him.
II am very tired Captain Kerr she
ed; land the seats here are all
IN the SUM-"
at was a fair challenge, and Philip
house, AMI he knew of shady walk
le could do 10 less than offer his arm
% the heiress and take her to it. And
here they sat, the sunlight just play
ng through the branches, ana the
liver ripping by. There was certain
luxury aud case i'm all this which
struck Philip.
A vision came across hi.n of the dull
town and the tIoOp-ship and
he foreign station; and then the con-
rast; home in England, hunting
md Shooting, London i'm the season,
md the mOOrs in August; and the
hOught shot across him, lone word,
md this may be mine" Then came a
lifting thought of fair young face,
With its rosebud bushes and its trust
ng look. He put it away rs too costly |
/ bargain, and turned to the woman at |
lis side.
Now he had certainly paid Great at
ention to Miss Richley. They had
,een much thrown together, and pru-
lent relatives had implored linn not
o neglect so golden an opportunity,
md here it was at once. He had but |
o speak, and dare his fate. AS well |
inish the matter now. Poor little |
IOuie! well, no doubt she would find |
better fellow than he was; and SO his
was taken.
Truth to tell, TheOdOsia Was expect |
ng en offer from him every moment.
was no new position to her, and her
leart was too well arranged under her
lightly laced silk bodice to indulge in
She has gone through the
anne thing some fifty-One times before;
'et to-day she is puzzled. "Philip
lear" is the handsOpest darling she
las ever seen, EXCEPT those Italian
owes, the g,lardid mobile, and they are
and then his father is baron,
Who married Lady Alice Somebody,
md his second brother is clergyman,
vho married the widow of dean, who
vas the daughter of an archbishop.
les, dear Philip is on all sides so well
yet TheOdOsia was puzzled.
\ friend had only that day spoken to
Ter of Scotch barOnet who desired an
and then sh would be a
ady, if not in her own right, at least
n right of her husband.
Yet the friend had said Sir M'Gregor
lad red hair, splay feet, and an irri-
able temper; and dear Philip was so
.ood- looking, and with such a sweet
ispositiOn; so that between Phillips
harms ard her own indecissiOn, she
stened when he spoke of his .tdeyoted
owe" with pleased smile, and he felt
hat the day was won, and that they
we're engaged.
No, not engaged. .f
She was too good a daughter for that
mot engaged till she had spoken to
n