The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-12-15
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mercantile house. He was fond of society.
lie lived in one of those extremely select
boarding houses frcquented by delightful
people as regular hoardcrs who. if not the
rose, We're very near the rose. Many charm
ing families also came and went and some
OF them comprised charming Young ladies
who made themselves agreeable to the now
somewhat elderly buck whose years of
residence gave him the privilege of. host
IN the parlor after dinner
Middleton spent his vacations at Nara
ganSett, and there, too being fair dancer
and aSSjduous esquire Of danes he made
many friends and was talked of as being
devoted in turn to more than one belle of
the Casino and the beach every summer
lct nothing came of it, Year by year he
added to his well-choscn investments and
shirkcd the duty of stimulating trade by
distributing il part of his large income for
the knick knacks and chitrons Of wife.
Why was this:
The secret lay in the double eyeglasses
which hung about his neck and which he
was seldom seen to place upon his nose,
though he was never seen to read news
paper in public. and his private sitting
room would have revealed the fact that
the; were in Use nightly when Middleton
peruscd his favoritc papers. The fact was
that his sight had failed him prematurely,
just when he had resolved that he could
afford himself the pleasures of matrimony,
and when, looking about the world, he
found it and many of its inhabitants very
fair
His first essay at this time may give the
keynote of many subsequent ones, and
which the sympathy of the world has never
been called, although our hero's was prob
ably by no means an exceptional case.
There came to Middleton's boarding
house one winter family from Alabama
important people before the war-a father,
mother and daughter. General Rosa was
forid, porrly man. obviously choleric,
careless in the details of dress for even
a scrpulously white wristband sometimes
slow,d a frayed edge and his evening
clothes were shiny at the seams and def
cient in their complement of buttons. He
was undoubtedlya gentleman, rctcent of
personal observations, in spite of his fiery
nature full of pctits SONS to ladies, and
punctilious in attentions to them, cspeci
ally so to his somewhat faded wife and
his tall. dark-eyed daughter Fortune
or the kindness OF the landlady placed
this Young person at Niddleton's left hand
on the occasion when the family first
appeared at the seven O'Clock dinner No
presentations took place. In fact, Mrs
Simmons did not appear at her own table
at til" head of which Middleton presided
in right OF his residential dcanship, as they
say in diplomatic circles. The fact Of
sharing in the hoSpitalities of Sc select an
establishment was, rs in the parlOrs of a
private house, considered sufficient guar
antee to warrant ordinary intercourse
Middleton had heard the names and con-
ditiOuS of the new arrivals from the man
VINO iIaa come up To nru'il MS cont before
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hatl'e state
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but Mldolctoh tl"u@hl niue I" MISS hos"S
voice OF OF anything else ;" beautiful ms
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that year that no young l"''leS ilao visited
tle mousse Nt 'I'e emu ID MS annual S'ock-
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