A GENTLE SELL.

Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1158, 13 March 1874, Page 4

A GENTLE SELL.

" Atticus" in tho Melbourne Leader is responsible for the following : —- c: Neither the lady nor the clergymen hereinafter mentioned belong to Melbourne. The lady was easy iu her virtue, and chaster in her dress and equipments than in her morals. But she could be modest in her manner when she chose and affect virtues which she had not. One day she went in her well-known trap, constructed to hold three, for a quiet drive along a country road, and on her return to the city overtook two clergymen walking quickly to escape an inpeiiding thunderstorm. She pulled up, and politely invited them to take a seat to avoid a wetting. They thanked her, and accepted, and she rattled them along at a rate that put tho fear of the rain out of their hearts. She talked church to them—she is everything to every man, and prepared for any emergency. They were rather pi oud of returning to town in such a pretty trap driven bysuch a pretty woman, but their pride got a fall when they reached the fashionable quarter of the city, for quick as thought on some impulse of the evil one, the young woman, who, by her conversation, might have been a district visitor and whom each would have jumped at for his Sunday school, whipped out a cigar, lit it with a fusee, put herself in a striking attitude, more artistic than elegant, and, heedless of their rer monstrances, drove her pair of spirited little ponies round aud round tho principal streets at full trot. One of the clergymen preached next Sunday to the pew-opener alone, and she declined to stay in the church with him by herself unless all the doors aud windows were open."