Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-02-17
At THE SEASIDE.

IOUS leN0l Oh WHITE SdnQ ana sun
blistered rocks, line of wooden no.
tells piazzaed from the ground flooI
to the attic, and little brown, mo-
lasses-candy-colored cottages, were
the only objects upon which our eyes
had rested.
/ began to loathe the very sight
of the ragged bluff, and in fact we
were all in this deplorable state,
when, one day, as we all sat al
dinner, the diniDg-roOm door was
once more opened and two stran-
gers entered. They were both la
dies. One with a face like steel
cOrrOded by vinegar, and swapping
turtle sort Of eyes, the other a fine.
Informed, elegantly-dressed lady,
with the most beautiful face / had
ever seen.
30, Capt. Gregory, what a lovely
creature :! l whispered to that
gentleman, whose seat was next to
mine.
"Where?" he asked in a very in
different tone.
"Why, opposite. Hush, she will
hear you"
AS my captain raised his eyes his
knife and fork went on dancing a
perfect jig, and his face became al
most as white as the napkin he held
in his hand.
He looked in her direction until
she saw him, then she turned pale
and fluttered. Her vinegar-faced
campanion was the first to spy him.
/ believe she turned a sickly copper
color, and it made my teeth chatter
to behold the terrible look she gave
him.
But our captain grew nearly as
fierce as herself, and snapped up his
dinner like hungry dog.
We were in the parlor that night
and the band was playing a waltz.
He sat beside me, chatting, as one
or two couples started up and went
whirling down the room, and,
looking after them a moment, he
said:
81 love waltzing. Will you take
a turn around the room p"
If she had not been Just across the
room, l know l should have accept
ed his arm, but as she did sit there,
/ took his arm and led him straight
across to her, saying, before he had
time to catch an inkling of my in.
tentiOns:
miss Addison, do oblige me by
waltzing with Capt, Gregory. /
have promised somebody that /
wouldn't waltz with anybody to-
night Please do take him off my
hands,"
They made a handsome couple,
and saw him, when her face was
averted, looking down upon her
with all the tenderness and pride of
his strong nature, ami once, as they
paused to rest, saw her eyes flash
upward and rest upon hiIn, with
something like idOlatry visible in
their dark depths.
All at once / heard the furious
rustic of garments near me, and an
indignant exclamation, and to my
Consideration beheld the vinegar
faced aunt steam across the room
and snatch Miss AddisOn's hand,
literally dragging her from the room.
The blood crept from the ends of his
mustache up to the roots of his hair,
and he went out upon the piazza in
the cool air.
When he walked around near the
window where / sat, l walked out
to him.
"YOu are a brave one. I've a
mind to pull your ears. The idea of
a captain being frightened by vix-
enish old woman"
"Miss Lottie, allow me to say
that you do not know what you
are talking about" he replied.
at is as much her work as her
aunt'S."
YOU'RE a noodle! I've no idea
who Miss Addison is, but I'm,bright
enough TO see that there is some
thing between you two, and that
you are both very much in love,
and both very much afraid of old
Mrs. Addison, which is very silly
OF you"
"Do you think so, Lottie? You
is, Mrs. Addison, who rules Marion?
Do you think she is at the bottom
of all this mischief?"
replied that had no means of |
knowing to what mischief he refer |
red, but / had no doubt she was at |
the bottom of the whole of it; at |
which he went away.
For Il few days Miss Addison re-
manned in her room, guarded by
the griffin but as the weather grew
remarkably fine she again made
her appearance, and joined the
dancers, the promenaders and the
bathers.
1t was beautiful morning the
beach was covered with men, wom-
en- and children in bathing costume.
/ cOaXed Miss Addison TO leave her
aunt, and we went down with our
bathing dresses upon our arms,
and were soon equipped and tumb-
ling and foundering in the surf. A
wave, with Capt. Gregory's head
ON its top, was the first thing l
saw when l emerged from the deep
water and had cleared my eyes,
nose and mouth from the salty liq-
uid, and he was bearing down to-
ward us.
Here comes Capt. Gregory"
said to Miss Addison, who was
splashing the water around her, land
we will have some fun. He don't
mind a ducking."
But Miss Addison gracefully
turned away and sailed of into the
water. She SWAN straight past
dAA away lAOAl OtAlCAO W III 4
we're ioundering as we had been
doing.
we had come back into shallow
water, when across the waves there
anne rapid succession of piercing
shrieks. Il
"Gregory is after her. but L don't
believe he will get her; she is too
nraxed with all my heart, and
vhen 4 great cry went up, ''she Is
,sved 1 Gregory has reached her,
md they are eoming bach 1s = ! sank ana
Town on tne p think / should
' aI have cared If anyone else had
We'll. 4he reseues and the res,
ned reached the shore at iaSt ana
iregory with . face a. T ! Yes, Is i !,
Ieath was led away 6y h he.s I'll,
ing com Panions to the pa1nine +
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