The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-10
4 LOVE CHASE.
An English Story.

" III lOt btHlh az tllG Dtllluil2 anu Ut
scribe how, in my boyish days, 1 eportod
with Miss Cilly Busae. | will hot describe
how we used to Iomp together, 90 to dane
log school together, and TcciprOcatc all
those Little innocent endearmcats usual tC-
tNCen children Of nearly the same age and
opposite sexes.
When | had Just left college, and not yet
recovered my plying dismay at the small
regard which the world in general paid to
classics, moral philosophy and metaphysics
when the first FAINT visions OF a mOustache
came over my mind, and daily examined
with solicitude the soft down of my upper
lip; when l enjoyed the novel excitement,
aud knew not Of the agonies of shaving;
in those happy days renewed my intimacy
with Miss Cilly Busse.
Her mother and elder sister kept n small
girls school, in which Miss Clly was sort
Of supernumerary, that is, she attended to
the wardrobes, general department, and
occaiOnally the moral principles of the pu-
pills, and took any class which hap, encd to
be without regular instruction.
By degrees | began to regard the grim
looking house in which the Busses lived
with very friendly feelings.
To those who approached il in TIC morn
ing with books in hand, and a fearful
NIlCht VI lASu lCocObo VI tutlI IllIOS
it seemed to cau!c q chill, like the first as
pect Of dungeon but to me the dull brick
walls appeared to inclo2e garden of Ac-
ademus. No wonder that | went there Of
ten. There l would find Miss Harmonic
Busse engaged in the perusal of some for
mGahle treatise on education. OF course
| never disturbed her. There would be
Mrs. Busse, reading eoi fearful religious
work, By whose means lie could satisfaC-
torily disturb the m.nds of al her friends
| and relatives. ! never tried to distract her
| mind from SO agreeable an occupation
| But there would be Cily, sitting in a deep
| window seat that would just hold'two, and
| looking swectly with her little feet tuckc /
| under her, and her soft little hands en-
| gagged in some inscrutablc piece of femi-
| nipe employment. 1t was but natural that
| | should take the other half of the window
and lat, SO cut eff from everybody else,
we should grow extremely confidential.
We used TO talk about everything about
poetry, about our relghbors, about the
| flowers, and the last piece of scandal about
| the stars, and about ourselves. | tniOyei
the conversations extremely.
| Sometimes We We're left alone in the
room, but that used to make no difference.
until one evening, when tho c1lloquy took
a turn which Startled, dismoyci, and con-
| founded me. | believe We were talking
about the stars Miss Cilly was speaking as
she generally did. She pointed out to my
admring gaze the evening star,-the star
of love. From thence we digressed to the
affections. Miss Ciily's ideas Of love were
OF the loftlest cha acier. She could STIR
render all, endure all, accomplish al things,
for the object OF her love If loved, she
desired 10 other bliss; ii tcofned, she
| sighed out that she would carry her love
| into the grave. she knew that she could
never love more than ore-hcr iirst love
would be Ter last. She could not believe
IN the possibility OF any o,her marriage than
one OF aifection-morcy poor dros5, Whist
vas it that it should take the place Of the
only thing which could render existence
| happy? These ideas were not precisely
original, but being very earnestly aud ten
Derby expressed, they touched me extreme
ly. Then Miss Cilly began to be iuquisi-
tive as to my experience in the tcader pas
sion. She insisted that had been ia love,
and was determined TO know the object of
| my affections. BENZ q nervous and bash
| full man, the state to which quarters of an
hour cross examination reduced me- can
| perhaps, be imagued--I know Of no wi'er
| who could tcDict it. After having obtain
|
to the sub.tance of every conversation
had had with sny young woman m the
town during the last mouth Miss CHS lie
gan to draw deductions. This was the eli.
max to my agony, and burst forth in self
vidica'ion. | assured Miss Cily that had
been nowhere 1.-THE of the times that |
had tcen to see her; that liked nobody
| else as well IA | liked her; and that if sbe
was determined to declare me in love with
somebody, it must be with herself l can
not be certain that the { we're the words Of
my speech, but they were certainly the in.
tentitn. Judge, then, of my horror and
confusion when | beheld Miss Cilly first
blush, then draw forth her pocket handker-
chief, aud then, in voice broken with en-
otion, reply;
That size had long thought | cared for
her a little, but that the shock of SO full on
announcement of my feelings was very try
ing that she reciprocated my affection,
and that she was ready to DO for me all
that she had stated before, of which she
now gave an enlarged and improved edition.