The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-08-31
A HANDSOME FELLOW.

my anguish may, Ill HedSuIe, nave
been pins and exc collie.
During my boyho and youthful days,
l was just as handsome. Then comes
the time when the down on my lip has
grown TO the consistency Of u caterpil-
lars back, and I shaved, read Chester
| FIELDS letters to his son, and gave that
heartless but elegant writer my exalted
approval.
| l pass the time of my entree into soci-
eJy to be much noticed by young ladies,
| courted by young gentlemen tor my pres
tige with those same ladies, till come
| to Summer OF my existence ana 1
haunt the seaside.
Oh, the hrtations and the charming,
| deceltful days OF that summer.
| The place was crowded with rich peo-
pie, from the man who boasted his an
cienJ lineage, not in words but in inso-
| lent stares, to the amazed, stout old
parvenu who thought that kid gloves ana
spotless linen hid all signs Of the ''shop,"
and who daily asseverated that money
was the thing after all, but who was i'll
wardly aware that it wasn't.
| In that season l believe knew all the
lmammas who were there, and all the
daughters too.
| There was, in particular. Miss Alicia
Proudtop. She was a large, languid doll.
such dressesl She could wear any shade
of any color, for her complexion was an
established fact; so is Mr. DOWNS rouge
shop an established fact.
Now Miss Proudtop was the belle that
| season, but l did not like her. Like all
the marriageable girls there she was in
| lernaliy boring fellow by attentions,
and her love Of moonlight walks.
| Now one day had left everybody and
everything for little while, and was
leaning on an old rock looking out to the
sea, W here the sun broke in millions Of
| little rays near the shore, l was stand.
| ing there, perhaps less vain than l had
been for long time, when a shadow
| passed before me, and L turned, and
there was just the prettiest little maiden
OF about eighteen, that one would care to
look upon. So fresh, SO nnconstrained
| by the senseless burden of. fashionable
| attitude and look, that think felt an
interestin her at once.
Shall l attempt to describe her eyes,
| her smile, everything that goes to make
| up plump, rosy little creaturep No!
| won't, because can't.
Suffice it is to say that found out she
| was stopping at the same hotel where l
had a six by Ten chamber, that her name
was Annie Thornton, and that nobody
thought of her, for she was not known
| in "societv." l determined to get ac-
| quainied with her and l did. l found
| out she was an orphan, and was there
| with an old rheumatic aunt. Annie and
1 took many pleasant walks together,
and 1 used all the exquisite wiles that
had never failed to captivate female
hearts before. would look pensiye,
and then catch Annie's eye, and she
would burst out laughing in that ring
l ;,,.. nf har I Ilu nff fatt
ashamed. l would talk POLITICALLY, and
she would bite her lips.
"Miss Annie," said one day Ca we'll
remembered aay) J, 81 believe you have
no hearty
'Indeed, Mr.. Vernon, In the little that
l know of anatomy, think the article is
necessary to lite."
"But you have no feeling"
"FeelingW she uttered eXcitedly
"You should have seen me dancing
around the room last night, when 1 burnt
my forehead trying to crimp my hail
with hot tongs.o
"Ah, you will not talk seriously 9
minute" l was little out of humor.
81 see no reason Tor being serious, Mr.
Vernon, on such beautiful day." she
Responded; and then slightly raising he
eyebrows, added, "and besides, the sub
ject does not call for anything serious
Gentlemen, as general thing, are moi
so rude as to accuse ladies of defects"
There! was thunderstruck. I, the
disciple of Chesterfield, to be told for the
first time in my lite that was uncour
teous. / raised my hat. "Good morn
ing, Miss Thorntonp l said, and was
walking away. Her eyes were laughing
"Gentlemen whom l have met never lei
young ladies on the seashore after Mey
) had asked them to walk" she said, ever
more tantalizing than ever, and 1 wal
, burning with anger as went to her side
for really my surprise had clouded m.
politeness.
snow Pm sure rve offended you," sh
said, laying little hand ON my arm
sbut Pm afraid you never have the trutl
told you; and indeed l never shall us,
that article again, when you honor IN
with conversation, for see you do no
like it,"
81 do like the truth, Miss Annie, but
is never told to me i'll such an abrup
manner"
, ''Ah mep' she sighed, 81 shall never
do, see. Pm sure l should copy Mis-
Proudtop more, for she never tells it ah
ruptly."
Il do not wish you to copy any one."
'Indeedl / never should nave con
suited your wishW
"Pardon me, Miss Annie, my too grea
familiarity"
u Upon my word, this girl has made m
act impoliteiy, rudely and even indeli
cately. was indignant.
Snow, Mr.. Vernon" she said,s'I CUES
; we'd better being going homeward, j
, that word is known here; if it is not to
abrupt"
| ssNot till you hava told mo that vo,
forgive me-"
! 81 have nothing to forgive"
"But my rudeness to your"
"Fhave really almost forgotten it,"
Pshawl She was arrant TflirG. / wa
not even enough TO her to have my i'm
pollteness remembered.
~ am glad you are SO torgetful,"
: said stifiy. "And now shall we 60 t
your aunLW
"Oh. not yet, let us wait awhile. d
you know, Mr.. Vernon, that 1 sometime
think IL would be so pleasant 10 die b.
| the sea shore."
) was astonished: this girl who ha
made me 80 ridiculous and now talkin
In this way.
81 oiten," she continued, "look owe
! the waves to the tiny ships that seen
10 me TO be like little hopes we some
: times send from US. They leave thei
> ports, our hearts, freighted with foud
n | tQn rflll wfahaa and tnaV aNjt paot on