Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-01-09
For the Chronicle.
ESTES CONFESSION.
By REuBA.

| BY REUBA.
! Well well. here I am. twenty-sevel
years old and not married. I wonde
why that little elf. Este Lynn, so de
lights to torment me; she certainl
knows I am in love withher. In love
yes, l, Dick LeMays. bachelor, am il
i love, and that too with the prettiest
sauciest, little black eyed, black haired
piece of feminine impertinence extant
! and she, the little vixen, doesn't car,
the snap of her finger for me. Nov
here is her reply to the note / sat VI
all last night to write to send with tha
bouquet, and destroyed half cuire o.
paper in so doing. just listen:
Mr.. Dick will accept my thanks for the
| flowers. 4. l..
This is what l call huge. Call me
Mr.. Dick. Does not say they are
pretty. I'll send her some more per-
haps.
This was the self communion OF
Dick LeMays., as he entered his room
on returning from walk after supper,
and seated himself in great arm chair
by such cosy fire as bachelors only
know how to keep. Everything lay
around the room in characteristic con-
fusion of bachelors den, showing
what systematic house keepers men are
to be sure, and at the same time exhib-
iting with what perfect facility they can
find hat. coat, wrap, pen or slippers
when not displaced by the invading
care of woman.
Dick LeMays looked around his
room with great seeming qualification
as he again muttered: Whata truly
happy people we men would be, if We
did not have some evil genius in the
shape of woman toannoyus with their
never ceasing care hope I will never
have one to jezebelit over this house
hold; but then. there is that bother
some Este Lynn continually thrusting
her mischievous face before me and
upsetting all my sage resolutions. I'll
call Larry, may be she told him some
thing. With this he rang the bell.
Presently it was answered by one en-
tering and enquiring:
did yese call yer honor?"
"Yes, Larry, what did the young
lady say when you gave her the note
and bouquet?"
"She said enough to me self, she did,"
what was it?"
Something | am not likely to for
get soon, sure"
"Well what was it, idiot?"
"Begorrah, her own word she called
me an idiot"
"She did, what was that for?"
For the reason the young lady
thought | was rude"
Now, Larry, enough of this foolish
ness. | want you to tell me what the
young lady said about the note and
BOUQUET. Doyou understand ?"
'Iti is me self that does entirely"
Well?"
"She axed me who it was from, and
1 axed her if she could not read"
"You did, blockhead ?"
"Yes, and she called me that too. 1
thin axed her if she would be after
writing you little love letter tocool
your feelings"
"Dolt !"
Another one of her words. When
she brought me the scrap of paper, 1t
was me self as wanted to know if she
was not going to send your honor
bokay."
"Simpleton"
"Begorrah, her own word, as she
slashed glass of water in me face"
Get out of my sight"
Holy Mother, but he knows already
what the young lady said"
BE gone, you mass of impudence." "
"They were her partingwords to me,
as l left wild me note," said Larry, as
he backed out of the room.
Dick arose and said, III go and see
Este tonight and tell her that the
wretch has not half sense. / never
saw such jackanapes before" He
picked up his hat and hurried from
the room with the evident intention of
putting his design into execution.
Dick was as he said twenty-seven; he
had lost his father, and mother when
he was just twenty-one.
His father, commission merchant
in the city of c., had by hard work
and economy accumulated a respecta-
Bile fortune, and just as he was getting
in condition to enjoy it, death claimed
him for his victim; his wife, who for
years had been an invalid, did not long
survive him, so in one short month,
Dick LeMays found himself bereft of
both his parents. His father left him
about ten thousand dollars in money,
a good city residence. and a mind
habituated to the routine of business.
He placed his money at interest, rent
ed out his house, took room at the
hotel and obtaiueda situation as clerk
in the bank of Mr.. Cashall in G. He
had now passed six years as bachelor,
living up to, but never going beyond
his income.
He had never in all this time felt
the thrust of Cupid's dart, and that
was strange, as he was considered en-
inently handsome by the ladies, being
near six feet tall, of splendid form,
dark curly hair, black eyes, and ex-
quisite mustache and regular features,
features nodded into that peculiar
shape which evinces good sense as well
as beauty.
Dick had the highest appreciation of
the ladies, and had enjoyed their So
ciety generally till about four months
ago. when there had been quite stir
among the beaux and bellies of c., by
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