Beadle's Dime Novels No. 127: Bald Eagle — page 51: what you’re looking at

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COQUETRY. 53 Verging upon dangerous ground, and shé felt a positive dislike to the handsome colonel for presuming to compliment her. “ Colonel Vinton, the only lovely being of my sex whom positively envy is the wife of the Bald Eagle.” _“ The handsome squaw 2” “Even so. Iam half resolved to marry, and to marry some fierce freebooter, like Black Dick, or‘ some towering savage, like Ramapaugh, just to escape compliments all the rest of My life.” “ Miss De Witt is cruel; she not only scorns the devotion of her admirers, but she even clips the wings of their fancy. The beautiful must not hope to escape the expressions of ad- Miring observers, whether married or single; the star is not injured by the worship of the glow-worm,” “ That means’—this with an affectation of simplicity —“ a Cat may look upon a king. I should like to see the man — Who would dare cast an admiring glance at the beautiful Mequa, He might feel the fingers of the stout warrior play- ing unpleasantly with his scalp-lock.” “Oh, Miss Katrina, what a horrible idéh ! “ Yes, I deal in them,” she answered, dryly. Colonel Vinton apologized, and then, at the suggestion of Katrina, followed Blanch and her father to see the paces of the young filly. Could we look into the heart of the Wway- ward girl, we should find that, under all this badinage, she was thinking deeply and sorrowfully of the devoted youth, Who rode away that morning, with an angry spot on his brow, and a doubt in his heart, which she might have dis- pelled, and did not. “ Wendell is a proud youth,” she said, inwardly. “ He is exacting and imperious, and how well he looks in his haughty moods! How grandly he talks, too! How he shows ‘ Hy- berion to a satyr,) contrasted with this milksop English Colonel! Ah, me! we should do nothing but quarrel; and yet—and yet—did he but know it, 1 would resign all my Willfulness to be ruled by his dear hand!” and the tears gushed to her eyes, as these thoughts, one after another, Coursed through her mind. comicloooks.com