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jccordingly objected , on "first principles of action , " to any interference by her clear dear mamma hi her own little affairs of the heart . Some of my older readers may be ready to exclaim here , " that our young ladies are becoming far too independent in such thingsand that it was not so in

, their time . " Perhaps not . But I , for one , am not sure that our young ladies are not quite right hi the main . For certainly , after all , the matter concerns them as much , if not more than any one else . But when I say all thisI don't approve

, of iirvpi'ovident marriages , all I mean is , that young ladies have a right to choose for themselves , subject , of course , to due concern by their elders and " wisers , " that they have enough to live upon . A very dreary thing is penniless love , depend

upon it . In the jiresent case Petronella , had long given her affections , young as she was , and such as they were , ( her own remark , ) to Don Tailored ! , a young Venetian , of high rankmuch wealth , good mannersand

, , hotter looks . There was nothing to object to in such an arrangement , indeed , it was the most natural thing in the world . But she was not insensible to the attractions

ot our hero , aud for a short time poor Don Tancredi was both distrait and jealous , depressed and dejected , all at the same time . Woman , however , treat her as we may , lias not lost either her originality of

disposition , or her acuteness of observationand when she saw that Don Tancredi was reall y suffering , like a true-hearted girl as she was , she thought the best and the "straightest" way was calmly to speak to Paesiello himself . He , to say the truth ,

though he paid the young lady an infinite amount of attention , so much so as to make the little matter a talk of Venetian societ y , yet , on the whole , I think , did it more to jrlease the mother ; and I am free to add that neither his heart nor his inclinations were deeply engaged hi the affair .

. When , then , the young lady , aU chaining and blushing , and in much confiding wgeiiuousness , told her artless little tale to j aesiello , he , with his usual kindness of le art and alacrity of movement , felt it was , ) f ™ tyj as the Americans say , at once t 0 make tracks , " and to leave Venice and

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its attractions—Donna Isabella and her " soirees , " Petronella and Don Tancredifar , far behind . lie , in fact , had to get out of the way ; and if others acted on his sound principles , what a deal of useless vapouring and needless pathos , and dreadful dilemmas

would be lost to the world . I think that Donna Isabella was a little disajijiointed with the " denouement , " but as she was a woman of high principle , she told Paesiello , with a tranquil smile upon her most charming countenancethat she

, thought " he had acted for the best . " Under these circumstances , one fine morning our hero left Venice , serene and satisfied , Don Balthazar commending him for his highly discreet view of things , sending out puffs from his cigarette as he spoke ;

Antonio alone of the party venturing to exjiress a doubt whether his master " bad not shown a little of the ' white feather '" in so soon yielding to the claims of Don Tancredi—for , as he said , "lam not so sure that that young lady , after all , really

meant what she said . My experience of women is , that you must , as a general rule , understand them by contraries , and act accordingly ; for often when they say ' yes , ' they mean ' no ; ' and still more often when they say ' no , ' they wish you to understand that they mean ' yes . '" ( To be continued . )

An Old-Fashioned Love-Song.

AN OLD-FASHIONED LOVE-SONG .

BY MltS . 6 . M . TWEDDELL ( FLORENCE CLEVELAND ) . Authoress of "Rhymes and Shetciies to Illustrate the Cleveland Dialect , " & t . LOVE overtook us early ,

In days long , long gone by ; At sixteen we were lovers , My clear old man and I . We wander'd on the hill tops , — No mountain seem'd too high

For us to climb together , My dear old man and I , H