SUPPLEMENT to the Cape*Fea« MBRCtJRY, No. 51.
. THE BRUNETTE AND THE POOR BOY.
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(See Sufpt, No. 50. J
ail MENS SIf PLACID A NJHIL NON PLACE BJT,
J. CARELESS.
A contented is aConiinual Feaft, faith SOLOMON; & this happy temped of Mi»d every Manftould endeavor
to obtain, tyere it but for hit own fake, faith SELF.
B
'tJ T You, raid I, looking at
mine Hoflefs as 1 landed
from the Stair-Cafe, a:re not
ot that Clafe *. There is lech
a generous Frankncfs in your
Countenance, that 1 cannot
doubt ot the InrcgHty of your Heart ; nei
ther can I fiifpeA 4t entertains a Thought
which'i^icacy would bluQi at.
There was, in her Perlon aiwl Manner,
every Thing, that a widowed Brunette of
twenty-one could have, to create Dtfire and
prevent indeceM Advances \ and the Weeds*
which She wore, in Memory of her dreeaied
Spoufc, ItfTened not her Charms ; but what
gave them additional L.uftre and pltafed me
moft was her Conduct to a lovely Boy, whom
She held at Arms-Length, awhile, to ga?:e
at—and gaze at him fhc did with all the ea-
gernefs otfondnefs. Her whole Soul Teemed
to center in her Eyes, and when their Nerves
failed,' She prefled him to her Breaft with all
thcTranfport of a paflionate Lover, when he
clafps in hrs Arms the Miftrefs of his Heart.
Heavens ! faid I enraptured, what a delivhi-
^fu! Scene!
Her eager Carefles, and the involuntary
Sighs and Tears that accompanied them, dif-
covered fo much Warmth of ABcdion for
the deed at well as the livings that they in-
ftantly excited, in my Breaft, a Variety of
plcafurable tender Ideas, which made me fo
rcgardlels of every Thing elie, that I would
have flood there, loft in Admiration, to this
very Hour, had fhe not been interrupted.
1 was forry for it; but Wordt^ are
celd on fuch Occafions, fo I asked for a
Bill
It is very well, faid I, cafting my Eye
carelefsly on the Amount, and here is another
iu Exchange for it.
It is only Piper for Paper^ Sir ; but this
is the moft valuable.
Their Difference in Point of Value, Ma
dam, is very trifling ; and I hope Fortune
will give you an Opportunity of parting with
it, with as much Pleafure as I do npw,
......Thefair^Sex are too polite to let a Ci
vility pals unnoticed.—A flight Curtley acd
Smile conveyed her Senle of this to me, bet
ter than the moft eloquent Orator could have
done in an Hour’s Harangue.—
That Smile was worth, five hundred fuch
Bills.
......It was oneof thofe Smiles, with which *
the Countenance is fuffufed by a grateful
Heart, to exprefs its Feelings Smiles,^
which give Expreflion to every Feature, andi j
which never fail to pleafe; but the moft en-' *
chantingonel hptfver Teen,of this Kind.was,
Melrffa’si when^^unging into the Torren t
after her, I faved her Lite at the Hazard o f
my ov/n. How pleafing was the Soliiitur e
which fiezed me, as I conduced her,, palefk
trembling, and almoft breathlefs, to the
Shore \ and when 1 had placed her in Safei.y
there, how inconceivably delightful was tlic
Kefledlion of having refeued io much Beau ty
and Mem from a watry Grave!..and inconcei v-
ably deli‘hiful will this Rtfledion be to fjhe
very laft Period of my Lite: neither flial i I
ever forget that Smile, which, with Svv(;tf-
nefs ineffable, returned an enthufialm of
Gratitude, for the Service I^had rendered her
With To much Plealure to myfelf.—
It gives me Pleafure to lee a S mile
upon any Face ; but when a Lady Smile* 1 and
I have happily occafioned it, by doing o r lay
ing fomcihing agreeable the Plealure 7 fed
can*twell bederrriLed..AruddenGlow cri mfon-
ed her Face m.cft charmingly. It was '/lot the
Glow of Anger or of Pain, therefore it pleaftd
me almoft as much as the Smile had (ionc.
—Whenever 1 fee a Woman, eljpeciaily if fhc
ha.s any Thing fentirine about her bcfides her
mere Form, 1 feel a Kind of Trindernels and
Refpea: in my Heart, and if I fo unhap
pily fituated that I can only lool : ather^l do it
with all the Avidity of a Mife. r, (of this my
broken Nofe is, at lead, Pri lof circumjlan-
tial^ and I think it would f t admitted a!|
Proof pejitive^ “ that brick 1 >;ljars are Ids
fragile than Nofes,” even by t! ist Jury which
whilom called wiijul and acd isnted "A6:ions
the fame)but with Senfations ir Bnitely fuperior
to his. Your clay-cold Hearti t may call this a
Fault, and fo let them call it...I. envy them not
their Frigidity but I thank Na turc for giving
me a different C aft.-—
Of the Clafi of Pfeudoils. i. e. dccciiful, falfc.
I wanted Change.*—One Bi I! was too large,
and another too Imall—-Oncj v/as taken up,