Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1882-06-02
4 Eelstt Eturg.
MY DEMON.

when | fo:sooA the college walls
Of W, some years ago, | was pos
scssed of--oF-"
"Of immense knowledge:
NO such thing, my friend"
"Learuing-lorr-o o d aud musty:"
Nothing Of the Kind, | DO assure
you.
acquaintance, thorough. vast. va
riej. with men and things
Far from it. If anything, rather
the reverse of all TINS.
Shades of the campus You but
Joke. my dear fellow. Possessed
anl OF what, pray
"0C a demon
Nv friend interested me; his S:o@,
was making me curious: but | ex
hl5ited \ calm exterior, and unper
turbcd countence. He was deali0g IL
cnigmas; would show him the virtue
Of Iaconics. | simply said:
Indeed
Yes said he. Il vas possessed OF
it continually. II haunted me all the
the night aud all the day. stroyv
with it, but puIssant effort and super
human exertton were alike puerile
and inefficient"
smiled litile, partly to encour,
age nv friend, aud partly to cover the
growing interest felt IN his story,
considered that no person ought
ever TO get cxcIted.l
4 4
The demon, said, was u desire,
That desire To encounter a Coquette:
10 humble her naughty spirit, and
subdue her obdurate heart,'
| nodded three times. Each nod
was given with dcllberatlon. | eyed
him attentisely as he continued:
Look at that person; not tall, TO
be sure, but we'll kuit, full of grace,
and Adonis like"
As he said this, he rose from his
chair, and, drawing his coat tight
about him, stood erect and turned
quite around.
And those eyes note them-large,
dark, luminous. Just imagine how
they shone and sparkled on that night
ON the OCCASION
imagined.
Il Was the heir of nv rich, bachelor
uncle; and scarcely had entered upon
the possession of the wealth his demise
/ had left for my sole enjoyment, and
had time to arrange some business
matters in the little village which was
honored by his name, before the intel
/ ligence was conveyed to me that one
of the most arrant and tickle of coquet-
ties, was resident OF the white house
just across the way.
Il can't begin to tell you how this
news delighted me. l was superlatlve-
ly elated-editied.
"She appeared to be the theme of
every tongue. No one spoke of the
society OF the town without giving
her name the preference of first emo
ton. Her beauty, her voice, her elo-
quence, her education and accomplish
Inents, her standing, and, above all,
her desperate tllrtatlons, her audacl-
Gus conquests, her cruelty, her"
"Stop mOment-take breath,
said |, interrupting what was like to
be an endless chain of substantives.
"According TO runor, said my
friend, "no such tyrant was ever be-
fore seen. No mau ever approached
her but he went away with Ia deadly
arrow cleaving to his side, and she
laughing at his anguish.
This was quite enough. | deslr-
ed to know no more. 1t was bliss to
me-ecstatic bliss. Itsank down into
the will of my heart, and then, gush-
ing up, it meandered through every
VEN, nerve, fibre, muscle. 1t pre-
meated my whole being. | felt nice.
"rhen | drew myself up, every fea-
ture beaming with the one thought
vast, illimitable it seemed-and swore,
by the ashes of my sires and my de.
missed bachelor uncle, and by that
guardian genius which never deserts
me in any emergency, that | would