The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-05-22


idolairy.
So when 1 next left my floral offering |
upon the rustic seat, left with it deli |
cate note, on highly-perfumed paper, ex-
gentle desire to know who 1t
was that had received the flowers, day
after day, and referring to the circum-
stance Of the glove. 1 signed the note
"Vivian."
1t was with fear and trembling that
again sought the place, but my joy and
emotion was unbounded when / saw a
tiny, tri-cornered billet in place of the one
had left. This billet stated that the lady
who lost her glove on that bench regretted
it no longer. She had found the boquets
l had left, and although she hoped to
meet me ut no distant day, preferred to
to enjoy the romance of the thing little
longer. 1t further requested that l should
correspond with her, and, for safety, place
my epistles in a crevice in the trunk of a
neighbOring tree, where they would be
found. Was there anything more ro-
mantics
Our correspondence was not IN the
highest degree satisfactory. / committed
the most poetical vows to eternal passion
to paper, and she responded in modest,
yet apparently sincere passion of kindness.
But when begged to know something
more of hsr-to identify her with some
one l knew-she was dumb. Her letters
were signed "Rosalie," and that name, un-
doubtedly assumed, was all 1 could learn
of her.
Just at the height of this correspond
ence, experienced a strange sensation,
caused by meeting Miss Ada Morley at
the house of mutual friend. / found
her a charming giri-highly educated and
refined-beautiful as an angel, and pos
sessed of exquisite taste.
But not feeling quite sure that she was
my unknown love, I dared not show that
l had any suspicious to that effect At
the same time, halffancying that she was,
lover, feared to seem cold and distant; !;
SO between the two, felt somewhat like
the fabulous donkey between two hay
stacks" And this, assure you, was a
very strange sensation
After having seen and admired Ada
Morley, began to experience raging
thirst to know if she was really the hero
inc of the glove. l would have given
anything to learn, and on several occa-
sions lay concealed in a thicket, near the
rustic seat, from 10 A. n. until p. NJ,
thereby catching very severe cold
which, the second time, gave me an attack
of rheumatism, which confined me to my
room for three days.
The third time of any trial, however, is
proverbially decisive, and l succeeded in
finding a tolerably comfortable hiding
place in a tree top overlooking the spot.
1t was a very warm day. The cicadas
sang mournfully and monotonously. The
air seemed heavy and soporific in ten
dency, and, perched in my place of con-
cealment, / began to doze comfortably,
when a rustic of muslin, and a song hum
med by feminine lips, aroused me.
grasped the tree-trunk nervously, steadied
myself and gazed downward with all the
eyes in my head. Prepare yourself, dear
reader, for the relation of what saw.
Prepare yourself for q dim adumbratiOn
of what l felt. Brace up your nerves
steady your physique generally, and stiffen
your muscles.
| A woman came lettering along-she
approached the bench-she sat upon it foI
a moment-she glanced toward the
friendly tree, whose creviced bark conceal
ed my note-she evidently saw said note
she arose-approachad the tree-toOk the
missive--opened thread it-turned around
and-O! ye gods and little fishes! / saw
her face!
Imagine, if you can, a woman of, say
five-and-forty years old, five feet eleven, o.
there-abOuts, in height, slightly STOPPING
with her disproportionately large heat
thrust well forward hair of mingled RET
and gray, and precious little of it; one ey,
larger than the other, and both of a wat
cry, or rather an ICY, grayish blue; ret
nose, sparsely covered with white hairs
no eye-lashes nor eyebrows; no roundnes
of form whatever, and no taste in dress
Add to these cheerful characteristics, F.;
shambling gait and parchmentcolorea
shin, pientifully sprinkled with freckles
and YOU have faint notion of the beautie
which struck me down, and came nea
precipitating me from my perch. Disap
pointmcn nj, anger and disgust, all struggles
for predominence in my heart, and for tn
first time l began to realize that ha'
made an Internal fool Of myself!
As soon as my 'charmer" was gone,
descended from the tree, and wended m.
way to my uncle's house, mentally ejacu
lating:
!. "Rosalie-fair Rosalie-sweet ROsali
sweet thunderl fair devils!" ct cetera. il
tone of the most sardonic irony imagins
BILE.
Then how glad l was that had nc
: spoken to Ada Morley, in a manner :
evince my suspicious of my hopes!
found my uncle in his study, and, a
luck would have it, he handed me a lette
from New York. glanced it over hast
ly. 1t was from my sister, and cOntaine
, nothing of importance, unless a descriI
llOn OI ucw uIcbS, anu xuls
Jones' old bonnet, with running con
! mentary on the Rev. John Biblebanger'
last sermon, might be called importan
But the chance was too good to be lost, S
/ put ON a serious face, sighed hemme
and hawed, and crumpling the letter uI
! struck an attitude indicative of intens
emotion of some sort or other.
bad news from the citys" asked IN
uncle, lighting fresh cigar.
"Not exactly bad" l mendaciously
replied, "but very yexatious. l am force
morrow"
For how long,"
. Impossible to tell 1t is cOmplicate
affair, and don't see my way out of j
, am very sorry to leave D., but it
: imperative. Can James assist mc to pac
upY
Ny uncle expressed much disappoin
ment at the necessity of my absence bt
!, fore winter, but asked me no further que
tions.
Two days later 1 made my appearance
in the city, and sought in the round Q
pleasures and dissipations that metropol
of my sentimental folly. 1t is not my il
, tention to tell you how fell in with a Ia
of excessively jolly fellows. who were any
, thing but romantic; who gave neat littl
suppers, and invited neat little girls I
them; who drove neat little skeleto
wagons, behind neat little fast horses, at
neat little fast pace; who spent neat littl
; incomes in neat little periods of time, an
lived neat little lives generally. 1t is nc
my intention to tell you how they PEI
: suaded ME to wear short hair, Englis
, collars, and christianity habiliments.
, is not my intention to tell you of two O
three love affairs, more or less serious, i
which 1 indulged, nor of the divers an
sundry experience passed through bt
fore 1 became one of the excessively joll
and unromantic fellows myself. Suffice
that l did undergo all these phases :
young manhood, and two years after tn