The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-06-25
Miseellaneons.
The Wrong Picture.

ga pretty face-avery pretty face
indeed !''
I turned the little photograph up
side down, held it at arms length
and scrutinized it closely with my
eyeglasses.
Henry Wallis looked pleased, &
man naturally likes to have his affi
anced duly admired and appreciated
$50 this is the Bessie Armitage
have heard so much of; really, Wallis,
she does credit to your taste. A
blonde, 1 suppose?'
Fair as lilly, with blue eyes and
the sunniest golden hair p
''Ah !! we'll, 1 must say 1 prefer the
brunette style SO far as my taste
goes; but then, fancies differ, you
know"
1t was all very well for Henry
Wallis to go into ecstacies about this
pallid, fairhaired little Bessie Armi-
/ tage he had never met the glance of
Cecilia Vernon's magnificent dark
eyes. What did he know about the
true type of feminine beauty?
"As you say, faneies differ" Wal
lis returned lightly. "But 1 wish
you would select handsome frame
for it when you go to town next
blue velvet, with gold rim on the
margin, or some such tasteful ar
rangement."
"Tn see to it, l said, depositing
the picture in the envelope and turn
ing it to my inside breast pocket.
You'll be very careful of it?''
Careful! Or course [ shall"
1 smiled little loftily at Wallis
solicitude, and we parted.
After all, Henry Wallis was better
off than I was, for he was securely
engaged to the dimpled, yellow
tressed little object of his affections
while was yet. as it we're, in outer
darkness, uncertain whether my
peerless Cecilia returned my devO-
ton, or whether she secretly inclined
toward that fellow, Fitzhugh Ire
foil. A score of times / had re-
solved to settle the question
score of times 1 had gone to the
Vernons' house with the very for
mula of declaration on my lips, and
as often had the words died away
unspoken.
If fate had only gifted me with
one-thousandth part of Fitzhugh
Trefoirs off-hand audacity! L don't
think any thing short of the deluge
could check that fellows cool self
possession; an earthquake would
not
However, love inspires the fee.
blest heart with sort of courage,
and | was a new man since Miss
Vernon had smiled upon me. What
was the use Of doubling? Why not
decide my fate at once? Henry
Wallis serene content exercised a
stimulating influence upon me.
would fain have been even as he
was.
There is no sense in procrastina-
ting matters any further" said half
aloud, as l walked up and down the
limited domains of my law Office
Il have been doubling fool quite
long enough"
Pm afraid wasn't very amia-
BILE member of the domestic circle
that afternoon.
81 think Paul is growing crosser
every day." said my sister, shrug-
ging her plump little shoulders
i'Mamma l wish you'd speak to
him.
But my mother, bless her wise
soul, knew better than that. She
only looked at me over the rims of |
Ter spectacles. and went on darning
Paul is worried with business
l suppose" she said, apol.
''Paul will do we'll
If you only let him alone"
| went up to my room after dinner
md made an elaborate toilet; but
II the pains l bestowed upon It
erved only to heighten the general
feet of awkwardness.
"Tve two minds to wait till to-