Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1873-07-26

town to frighten the disaffected inhabi-
tants into good behavior. This proceed.
ing, strange to say, gave great delight
to some of them, though fear it was on
ly the female portion of the town Of Ag-
nesville, Canada West, who hailed our
advent, not only as a protection, bnt as
break in the monotony of an other
wise decidedly dull country town. You
must know that in those DAYS of youth
and folly, dear reader, / prided myself
on an unexceptional taste in beauty, and
to keep up my supposed credit for this
| went Systematically to work to ascer-
tain who was the belle par excellence
before fixed on any young lady as my
'muffin" during our stay in Agnesville
For the first week | fiirted generally;
the second week began to reduce the
circle of my acquaintance; the third
found me in a state of waver between
two beauties, and by the end of the first
month l was, iguratively speaking, on
my knees before Miss Marguerite Duval,
who, l had now quite made up my mind,
was one of the most beautiful, as well
as one of the most innocent and simple
minded of her sex. Who could doubt
the fact for an instant who had been per-
mitted the felicity of gazing at her?
When with her, / felt inspired like Mon
trose,
ITO make her glorious by my pen, and famous by my
/ sword" ~ - '||T
When | was away from her-don't be
shocked my sentimental reader-I felt az
if had had nothing to eat tor fortnight,
followed by an extraordinary tendency
toward Villa Duval. This, | suppose,
was sympathetical electricity.
Let me descsbe her let me in tact,
make her glorious by my pen, as the SUBJ
stitute OF rifle, | fear precludts the posi-
blli,y of Winning her tame by other means.
She was tall and slight-very slight.
| Now this 81 ghtness is TO my mind, al
most fault in a canadian beauty, and it
is in the one respect OF figure that the
English maidens excel their Canadian
sisters. lmploring your pardon for this
| digresslou, let me proceed with my por-
trait. Very slight, with a graceful p!qu-
ant head, crowned with quantities of
silky hair, massed in an extraordinary and
mytrrious way, all loops and twists, and
and it was not bought. She tainted in
my arms once, and though it came tum-
bling down in glorious and golden con
| fusion, II did not tumble off. These won
iul tresses were cut straight across the
forehead a Ia Vandyke am aware that
this way of arranging the hair is gener-
silly condemned as 'bad style," but it
was not as common then as it is now,
and boldly say, nothing can be more
booming when it forms fair and silken
fringe over soft, young forehead and
dark pencled eyebrows. AS for the eyes,
II is simply impossible to describe them.
They were everything BY turns and moth
ing long. Yes, they were always bean
tifal-mel,ing, burning, laughing, loving,
scorning. They were large, they were
brown, with very large, dila,ing ir!des,
and they were guarded by double file
OF lashes, long, soft, and almost black,
and as l write these words in praise OF
her wonderful eyes, helping my memory
by aganes alta vignette by Nolman that
does them out scant justice, the recollec-
ton of them even now will stir the blood
IN my veins, and cause my heart to beat
almost as lumultuously as if | were once
more gazing into their untathomable
depths in the conservatory, or, to use
Maggie's own words, "the Flintorium,"
at'Ville Duval. q '.af ~
1t must not be supposed that was al
lowed undisputed possession of the first
place in Miss Marguerite Duva's affrc-
lions. Had that been he case, ask my
self, looking back as'l do now over an in
,eryening lapse Of time, how long should
| have valued such solitary possession
And ans wer after reflection, and always
taking the lapse of time into considera-
tioD, no, an hour! | should have Ger
taiuly have sent in my resignation, which
she would have accepted as grace
fully as she did everything, from boque,s
10 bracelets, with q faint sigh, perhaps
over the fcklcness of mankind generally
and soldierkind individually. But Miss
Duval was never, doomed 10 receive NOR
'iticalion AZ my hands; She had swarms
of admirers, some of whom were declar-
ed lovers, and i who was very young
aud very foolish and not a little vain,
actually allowed myself to be aggravated
INTO falling in love with her; i really can
not describe the process in any other
way, and the. amount ,ot excitement
went through in keeping my place among
my rivals and my anxiety always to be
| first by her side almost cured me oil my
eifly failing.
When the rifle brigade, or to use the
Agnvsvlle abreviation, "the brigade" !"
had been quartered there two months, il
was agitated among as that ball 10 our
hospitable entertainers wouldpnot only
be right and proper, but politic-in fact
the only thug wanting to restore com
plelly and Immediately that loyal state OF
feeling that once existed in Agnesvile.
We at once called meeting 10 discuss
and settle this important matter with,
out more delay, as we were in tear OF be-
ing recalled to headquarters Immediately,
now that the Fenian panic seemed 10
have abated. After the question of funds
had been discussed, and we had all de-
clared our readiness To place our enor-
nous fortunes at the disposal of the mess
committee, the next question was moot
ed as To ''when" and "where?"
"When? Next week" was the an
swer from one OF the younger and more
enthusiastic of The Prince Consort's own.