The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-11-07
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; that she never gave herself any airs. 70 TINS
Mrs. Burlington retorted that Miss Gilbert
wasn't always working and contrlvlng TO gam
gentlemen's attention, Mrs. Crestle;" ana Mrs.
Crestle responded that she wasn't SO So OLD tnat u
she had to exert herself to do so. The ladies
were fast becoming little broad and elegant
in their manner of scratching each other, being
so far removed from civilization. Each looked
on Daisy as an adherent that must be won to
her side. But Daisy would not ally herself to
either the Burlington or the Crestle faction !;
though she was a great pet with the general,
and accepted numberless little attentions from
Col. Crestle. ....
Now, one day, when it happened that Daisy
and Mrs. Crestle was on Mrs. Bullington's pi-
azza together, servant came up with a mes,
sage to the general, which he delivered and
went away.
| "What handsome soldier |" said Daisy.
"Is he7" said Gen. Burlington.
"My DEAR" said Mrs. Burlington, you really
ought not to notice common soldier"
"He wasn't common soldier" said Daisy; (;
for he had braid on his arm"
'The principle is the same" said Mrs. Bull
lington. ;,,.;...a n.;sv and
Mrs. Crestle laughed. But Mrs. Burlington
| did not laugh. :,
She delivered sort of lecture upon the evils
which might arise from young ladies looking
at young people of the opposite sex and then,
with swift, feminine logic, asserted that such
evils were intensified when there was great
social inequality between the locker on and the
looked on. Daisy stood there, very pretty and
slightly vexed, pulling a boquet to pieces, as
the calm stream of Mrs. Bullington's discourse
meandered gently on. Again the sergeant ap-
peared, and stood before them. Daisy saw him
look at her admiringly, and colored; then she
observed that his eye fell upon the flowers she
held. Suddenly, almost abruptly, she held
| them out to him.
SDo Won like flowers ?" she asked. '1f you
do. Won can have them" And the sergeant
bowed, and glanced expressively at her-his
4 eye was blue and expressive-and then ne
aMy dear" began Mrs. Burlington, and then
she stopped; utterance failed her.,
"WelI," said Mrs. Crestle, "has that sergeant
made a conquest of you, Daisy? First you
called him handsome; then you gave him flow
ers; what will you do next ?"
AOh! was that the same sergeant 2" said the
little humbug, innocently.
"Of course it was" replied Mrs: Crestle.. ;,
| fI think you are mistaken, Mrs. Crestle,"
said Mrs Gen. Burlington, with dignity.
~Oh, come nowr said Gen. Burlington, in
dignantly, "Iet US drop the sergeant"
| And SD the sergeant was dropped. But some
three or four days afterward, as the same peo-
| ple we're sitting in the same spot, Col. Crestle
| said:
tThere is going to be ball tomorrow
night :, o, -. n,,,- .u,a.,,, ,r;,h+en;,.
eyes" said Co.. Crestle; ga ball ever at Por-
ter's Gap. Shall we go?"
ooh. YES 2" said Daisy "by all means"
"Why, Ned" said Mrs. Crestle, Gust think
what you are proposing! There will be miners
and all sorts of dreadful creatures there; and
it's fifteen miles away from here. Our going is
quite out of the question"
"I think you are mistaken, Mrs. Crestle,"
said Mrs. Burlington. "It is possible for us to
to go, and 1 for one should enjoy it. General,
we will go, and take Daisy with u.s.
every well," said the general submissively.
Now. Mrs Gen. Burlington did not wish to go
to the ball at Porter's Gulch, and only the'con.
troversial spirit inspired her to do so. But, of
course, it was impossible for her to recede from
her position and so, on the appointed evening,
she and Daisy, together with Gen. Burlington
and DR.. Gilbert, entered the huge mountain
wagon belonging to the camp, and started for
Porter's Gulch. Just as they entered that -four
ishing settlement, DR.. Gilbert was recognized,
and carried off to attend sick person near 80
that the Bullingtons and Daisy entered the din.
ing-room of the Gulch House, where the ball
was 70 take place, alone. .a4.. ~
The dining-ro was certainly not an impos-
ing apartment. The ceiling was low and smoky;
the wallis unlike those in most of the houses at
Porters Gulch, were papered, but with paper so
hideous in its design and color as to make the
spectator regret that the laths and plaster which
had. at all events, the merit of simplicity, were
hidden from view. Dancing had already begun
when the Burlington party entered. The room
was crowded there were three sets of "plain
cotilions" ns"-wonderfully plain, Daisy thought,
with a shudder-already on the floor; while
forty-three young men with large hands and feet,
who were unable to secure partners, sat grlmly
in the seats which were placed on all tour sides
of the ball room. Such molly assemblage as
that was Fatwomen, gaunt women, gray halreo
women, and little girls among the dancers; and
GRANDMOTHER, if Daisy had only known it, was
executing that interesting and beautiful figure
known as che "ladies' chain" with her grand
daughter.
At one nd of the room the orchestra sat in
state composed of melodeon, a violin, gull
tar. cornet, and bass trumpet. The per-
formers on these various instruments seemed to
have various ideas of time and tune, and contin-
ually INDUCED in little departures from the key
in which they were playing. The blast of the
trumpet was not sustained, but intermittent
when it did occur, however, it was so powerful
as to entirely drown everything else. In spite
of the confusion and noise, the entrance of the
two ladies excited an amount of attention cal
culated to delight both ladies had they been
voraciously craving of masculine admiration:
The ''plain cotilion" soon reached its end, and
several men thereupon rushed towards Mrs.
Burlington and Daisy.
"The next Dance" said one of the toughest
looking of these, "is waltz. May I have the
honor, marin ?''
"Sir," said Mrs. Burlington, in mingled an
"Pll learn you how, marm," said the man,
with persistence worthy of better object.
"I do not dance with strangers" said Mrs.