A Woman-Hater

t he did not come, and Lord Uxmoor offered his arm earnestly. She took it; but hun

h Harrington. On reaching the hotel, the ladies took their bed-candles; but Uxmoor found time to propose an excursion next day, Sunday, to a lovely little

haughty glance on him, and Fanny s

r, too, had fallen openly in love with her-openly to a female eye. So, then, a blonde had no chance, with a dark girl by: thus reasoned she, and it was intolerable. It was some time before either spoke an atom of what was uppermost in her mind. They each doled out a hundred sentences that missed the mind and mingled readily with the atmosphere, being, in fact, mere preliminary and idle air. So two deer, in du

mysterious?" said Zoe, mal 'a propos o

" said Fanny, with

he nose; and now he won't drive to the lake

had observed Severne keenly: but it was not her cue

nd, Fanny. It

u have anot

here is no one

evidently smitten, and y

y civil. And don't be il

tent with on

h less two. I begin to doubt him; and, Lord Uxmoor! you know

t he is an excellent parti," sa

not to

not content with one. You forget how poor Harrington would miss your

red by turns. "I deserve this," said

am, asking your advice, and you only snub me.

m not a h

so before," said Z

mple and ingenuous, and blush if a man says half a word t

screamed Zoe,

ow lost her temper altogether. "Your conduct with those two

temper," said Zoe, with unaffected di

nced out o

mmed. Mystery-doubt-and now a quarrel. What a day! At

s in high spirits, and he and Fanny kept up the ball. She had resolved, in the silent watches

parkling rival. But Lord Uxmoor's eyes often wandered from his sprightly

in a moment, and at once put in execution, was to encourage Uxmoor's attentions to Zoe. She began by openly

her a serious declaration. This good, artful girl felt sure such a declaration, made a few months hence in Barfordshire, would be accepted, and herself left in the cold. Therefore she resolved it should be made prematurely, and in Prussia, with