Beadle's Dime Novels No. 127: Bald Eagle — page 85: what you’re looking at

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A LECTURE ON SPOONBEYISM. 87 than I hate myself. I always was selfish and giddy, and a monster of wickedness, but I never supposed I should come to this.” Katrina fairly broke down, and gaye way to a passionate burst of tears. Nothing would seem to be more natural than that her companion should say something to console her, and he did make the attempt in a poor, awkward way, which instantly roused the spirit of the young girl. “Wait till I wipe my tears, Colonel Vinton; I have some thing to say to you.” | Now this was very much as if a shrewish woman should Say to a bad boy (she was very busy for the time being), “I know you are itching for a whipping; wait a moment, my lad, and T’ll indulge you!’ And it was so construed by the gallant colonel, for he burst into a fit of uncontrollable laughter. “To think that any body can laugh and poor Blanche not found !” she exclaimed, with a pout. “She will be found; there is no absolute danger, Miss De Witt, for she was on friendly ground. What were you going to say to the bad boy, Miss De Witt ?” Katrina laughed, and said, with some embarrassment, “To begin, colonel; men are such spooneys,’ and she laughed and colored a good deal in saying this. “I think that really is the word, colonel; I mean they are so very apt to think they like @ woman who is in no ways adapted to them ; they mistake a sort of admiration for something more serious, and—so—make fools of themselves.” She finished the sentence with a rush, whereat Colonel: Vinton laughed again, and said he thought men were rathe7 apt to understand themselves; at which she answered, “ Not a bit of it! I think Icould give a rule which would help them greatly, only they are so conceited that they will hot learn nor take advice.” “Tam not one of that kind, Miss De Witt. I.am all sub- Mission and readiness to learn.” “ Please wait till I arrange my ideas. This is it; when a -Man finds himself most aman in the society of a woman— Most brave, most aspiring, his best thought at command, and =: eo comicloooks.com