A Surprised Cavalier.

Cromwell Argus, Volume 2, Issue 83, 13 June 1871, Page 7

A Surprised Cavalier.

There was a grand carnival ball, by the Loidorkranz Sociotyin New York, the other night, in which the following incident occurred. The Now York World says : When twelve o'clock—the hour for unmasking—arrived, there wore of course the usual proportion of violent surprise;), and happy recognitions, &c., and possibly, also, a few of those accidental disappointments inseparable from a general incognito. One of the most disgusted men in the throng way a prominent member of a city department—a handsome fellow, who made himself gorgeous in the costume of a cavalier, lie! haunted the steps of a bewitching page, j | and that page did not seem loath to be pursued, indeed mot the advances half-way", Other men envied that cavalier, the pessession of the beautiful page, who soon resigned herself exclusively to Iris society j lie triumphed. Her golden curls hung in | rich profusion over neck and shoulders of! the tint which snow might bear if it could blush ; below the edge of her black half j domino appeared a very little mouth, from' which, when merry laughter rippled, the j light came glancing back oil' a row of j teeth like pearls ; her figure was lithe, but plump at all attractive points—in short. I she was, in his eyes at least, the belle of the ball. From banter to flirtation and to ardent protestations, he quickly progressed, while she listened, smiled and encouraged. Heavily she leaned upon him in the intoxicating whirl of the waltz, I j and often they wandered, with slow stops, !

!in the lobbies, in conversation sweet. He ! pleaded, with hei' to unmask, to permit I him to enjoy the sunshine of that beauty which he know she must possess ; but she steadily replied, '• You must wait until .the hour for uumasking." Until thou he became her patient slave. At length, in I a quiet place in the lobby, she dropped the ! mask. lie stood aghast before her. I " You !" lie exclaimed. " I believe so," she smiled complacoutly. " But your hair used to be black." li I had it dyed bloudo." " And your skin yellow." "Yes; isn't this enamel nice J" " And you wore thin as a skel.slon." -'Sly French pads and patent calves have put that all right." "Even your eyes ;iro changed ; they used to have a fishy look." " You often told mo so ; J spoke to my d )ctor about it and ho advis»d belladonna." "And your teeth T "Cost me Tiklols ; nic-i, ain't tlicyf and she grinned. Lie Cod, for that was the very woman from whom he had boon divorced throe years before by an Indiana Court.