The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-08-25
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me to become frequent passenger, in
the summer Of 1S--,on a steamboat leav-
ing the wharves of New York, whose
destination was Boston On one Of these
occasions, Just before the boat started,
pretty girl Of perhaps seventeen or eigh.
teen stepped aboard, inquired for the
steward, and secured n statc.room, saying
she was going through to Boston. Her
manner was easy and self.possessed yet
certain audacious sauciness in her
splendid brown eyes the jaunty way in
which she wore her Turkish hat, her in
dependent air, and a namoless suggestion
of mischief which appeared to lurk in ev-
cry movement arrested the observers at.
tention, and seemed to indicate that she
was proficient beyond her years in the
worlds knowledge; that her tutclarc to
say the least had partaken more OF leni.
ence than Of prudence. IIer dress was
rich, and exquisiiely becoming, but with
no attempt at conspicuous. ornament. Her
hair was OF the same rich brown color rs
her eyes, and fell down to her wais,, rest.
ing as lovely on her fair young shoulders
us u tutH StDdIilt UItt Ntlt tnUNWfI
with electric life.
As we swept out into the Sound, she
came on deck, where most Of the gentle
men and ladies' we're congregated, and d.
rectcd fusilade Of small conversation at
the captain, addressing him in tone of
reckless evity, and with a familiarity
which startled the ladies and amused the
gentlemen and otherwise conducted her
self in manner which left no doubt a.
to her social status. In less than ten
minutes every lady on board was her
avowed enemy, and not at all afraid to
let it be known but she chatted on in her
rollicking way, regardless Of smiles or
irowns-apparently the rredeemabe de-
votee Of thoughtessness and FOLLY.
We were all on deck, shortly after tea
admiring tho sunset, which flooded the
sea and oky with transforming spendor.
II was gay company; not sud face
could he found amongst us all. The too
intense heat Of the day had subsidized, and
a soft breeze had sprung up; to breathe
the air was in itself an inspiration. Onr
,, rrepressibIc and oo.c confding young.laly
passenger was there and her childish
laugh rang out above the rest. She had
selected the good natured captain and one
or two Of his officers as the special object
= Of her hippant though by no means vic.
ious, raillery anu they permitted it part
ly from an acquired habit ofatiabiity tO-
, ward all passengers and partly because
! they we've amused by her irresistible vi
vacity. The lady.passengers, Of course.
,, Stunned and kept aloof from her rs from
noxious poison, as ifher very contact
|. would breed pes.;lence. The gentlemen
did likewise, to great extent; more |
believe, ,from a tender regard for feminine
i. opinion, than from any considerable IL
stinct of horror.
=, Suddenly the smile died on her lips,
and her face became inexpressbly sad
:, and earnest, az she gazed far ont across
the water Her attitude and expression,
= as she stood thus, formed picture which
- will never fade in my memory shc locA
ed so Innocent, so childlike, and 40 inten.
sely sorrowiul. In a moment she turned
y to the captain, with something of her old
d manner Reaching up her white hands.
c she took hold of his abundant whiskers,
j on each side of his face, as the reader
Is has seen petted daughter caress her
10 father. and looking up into his face, ask
'e ed, with great solemnity -
RS Did YOU ever want TO die, captain ~
L. Wel' no my child, he replied, some
p. what surprised at her changed manner.
N Il can't say that ever had n great de-
is sire to die,
5. And if you had such a desire, what
IN would you do?'
n, oh in that case said be, as he loo,ed
is her hands and turned away, i think, a.
it would be the most available method,
should jump overheard and drown my
ct SELF
i'd Scarcely had he finished speaking,
re she whirled, put one hand on the railing
:" and leaped into the Sound, The whol'
he movement was so instantaneous 'h'' i
was impossible for any one TO antieipaf'
or prevent it.
A cry Of horror wedt up from thos
who saw the movement. Some stoo'
EN- trans6xed and unable to move, while 9th
A~S eTS luTTlcu unOu' III NOuiuoSh
lat The captain had the boats lowered an
IN. manned almost instantly. A monen
ose after her Disappearance, she came to th
use surface. There was nothing scared IN he
exrression, and she made no struggle t
save herself. | saw her face distinct,
md as she came up, and iansied | could de
no tcct in it the same sorrowful look IT ha
a ,av worn few moments before though eve
ans that expression could not wholly depriV
md il OF a certain jaunty grace which becan
vn it we'll twas only momentary glimp'
,er. which We had Of her for she dlsappeare
,ue lust as the first boat touched the wate
think | never saw sadder men th1
+em those rough sailors, when they pulled II
bv heavy yawl alongside, and replied, to
So. hundred simultaneous iuterroeatorle'
We found no trace Of her at all. Al
those gentle ladies', who shrank with sui
,no. aversion from her half an hour beior
s in had many tender utterance for her nov
zen and could not voice their pity when th'
in knew that while she laughed the loude'
diss the homeless child's poor heart was brca
arly ing.-CAicagO Tri6Nne.
en- EATING WITHOUT AN APPETITE.-l
lous Hall says 1t is wrong to cat without
sue appetite, for it shows there is no gastl
ner' iuice in the stomach, and that nature dc
IN not need food and not needing it, the
she being no fluid to receive and act upon
So il remains there only to putreiy, the We
was Thought Of which should be sufficient
snip deter any man from eating without
acid appetite for the remainder Of his life.
ro. tonic is taken to whit the appetite
n oil is a mistaken course, for its only resu
was to cause one to eat more, when aires
was an amount has been eaten beyond W
ecS. the gastric is able to prepare. The