River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1876-08-17
Published Every Thursday.
A LOVE CHASE.

/ ana describe now IN my DOylSn Gays,
| sported with Miss Cilly Busse.
J will not describe how we used to rCmp
! together, 60 to dancing school t0geth.
er, and reciprocate in all those little
| innocent endcarments usual between
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 phi.
lOsophy, and metaphysics, when the
first faint vision Of mustache came
over my mind, and ] daily examined
with solictude the soft down Of my
upper lip when ! enjoyed the novel
excitement, and knew not Of the ago.
MES of shaving; when my watch chain
did not hang in sublime indepcn.
dence far in front of my legs in those
happy days | renewed my intimacy
with Miss Cilly Busse.
Her mother and elder sister kept Il
small girls school, in which Miss Cilly
was sort Of supernumerary that is,
she attended the wardrObes, general
department, and occasionally, the
moral principles Of the pupils, and
took any class which happened 10 be
without regular instruction.
BY degrees, began to regard the
grim-looking house in which the Buses
lived with very friendly feelings.
To those who approached IT in the
morning books in hand, and fearful
weight of unlearned lessons on their
minds, it seemed to cause a chill, like
the first aspect Of a dungeon but to
me the dull brick wall appeared to in.
close garden of Academus. No won.
der ! went there often. There | would
| find Miss Harmonic Busse engaged in
/ the perusal of some formidable treatise
/ on education. OF course, never dis
/ tuTbed her. There would be Mrs.
/ Busse, reading some fearful religious
work, by whose means she could salts
factorily disturb the minds of all her
friends and relatives. Inever tried to
distract her mind from so agreeable an
occupation. But there would be Cilly,
sitting in a deep window seat that
would just hold two, and looking
sweetly with her little feet tucked
under her, and her soft little hands Ell.
gagged in some inscrutable piece of
feminine employment.
It was but natural that should take
the other half of the window, and that
so cut off from everybody else, we
should grow extremely confidential.
We used to talk about everything
about poetry, about our neighbors,
about the flowers, and the last piece
of scandal about the stars, and about
ourselves, ! enjoyed the conversations
extremely. Sometimes we were left
alone in the room, but that used to
make no difference, until one evening,
when the colloquy took turn which
startled, dismayed, and COMPOUNDED
me. believe we were talking about
the stars Miss Cilly was speaking as
she generally did She pointed out
to my admiring gaze, the evening star
the star of love From thence we
depressed 90 the affections. Miss Cilly'sI
ideas of love were Of the loftiest char
acter. She could surrender all, endure
all, accomplish all things, for the OBJ
ieCt of her love. If loved. she desired
no other bliss if Scorned, she signed
out she would carry her love into the
grave. She knew that she could never
love more than one-her first love
would be her last. She could not
believe in the possibility of any mar
riage other than one Of affection
money--pOor dross. what was it that
it should like the place of the only
thing which could render existence
happy These ideas were not precise
~ original, but being very earnestly
expressed, they touched me extreme
~. Then Miss Cilly began to be in
quisitive rs to my experience in the
tender passion. She insisted that
| had been in love. and was determined
| to know the object of my affections.
| Being nervous and bashful man, the
state to which q quarter Of an hour
cross-eXamination reduced me can,
perhaps, be imagined-I know of no
writer who could depict il.
After having obtained thorough and
complete information as 10 the sub.
stance Of every conversation had held
with any young woman in the town
during the last month, Miss Cilly he.
gan 20 draw deductions. This was the
climax 10 my agony, and burst forth
in Standardization. assured Miss
Cilly that had been nowhere 1.-THE
OF the times that ! had been to see
her that | liked nobody else as well
as | liked her; and that IL she was de.
termined to declare me i'm love with
somebody IL must be with herself.
cannot be certain that these were the
words of speech, but they were Ger
taiuly the intention. Judge, then. OF
my horror and confusion when | be-
held Miss Cilly first blush, then draw
forth her pockct-handkercIief. and
then, in q voice broken with emotion
reply
That she had long thought | cared
for her little, but that the shock of
So full an announcement Of my feeling,
was very trying that she reciprocated
my affection, and that she was read,
10 10 for me all that she had stated he.
fore, of which she now gave nm en-.
larged and improved edition. That my
own heart must tell me what hers felt
al that moment, and must pardon all
inaccuracies in expression. Wherein.
on she subsidized into her pockct.hand.
krrchief.
| believe | did the correct thing, /
believe ! kissed her hand. - have
heard her say that ! appeared eurap.
\ turcd. VI may he, cannot SAY ans.
| thing about It.. | remember nothing
between the conclusion of her speech
aud my finding myself leaning exhaust.
ed against q fence quarter of q mile
of Then the whole horrid truth
/ burst upon me, With no intention of
doing 50, with no idea OF single bless.
edness and peace, ! had become an en-.
l uaup1 man anpf hpt t,pVs,tt'. ,.t,,..,t =.