DIE DOLLAR PER ANNUM INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. xowANDA: Thursday Morning, December 4, 1862. gdcrttb Hottrj. WONDERS AND MURMURS. Strange that the wind should be left so free To play with a flower, or tear a tree ; To range or ramble where'er it will, Aud as°it lists to be fierce or still ; Above and around, to breathe of life, Or to mingle on earth and the sky in strife ; Gently to whisper with morning light, Yet to growl like a fettered fiend, ere night; Or to love and cherish and bless, to day, What to morrow it ruthless rends away ! Strange, that the sun should call into birth All the fairest flowers aud fruits of earth, Then bid them perish, and see them die, While they cheer the soul and gladden the eye. At mom, its child is the pride of spring— At night, a shriveled and loathsome thing ! To-day there is hope and life in its breath, To morrow it shrinks to a useless death ; Strange doth it seem that the sun should joy To give life alone that it may destroy ! Strange, that the ocean should come and go, With its daily and nightly ebb and flow- To bear on its placid breast at morn, The bark that, ere night, will be tempest-torn ; Or cherished it all the way it must roam, To leave it in wreck within sight of home ; To smile as the mariner's toils are o'er, Then wash the dead to his cottage door ; And gently ripple along the strand, To watch tho widow behold him land ! But, stranger than all, that man should die When his plans are formed and his hopes are high ; He walks forth a lord of the earth to day, And the morrow beholds him a part of its clay ! He is bora iu sorrow and cradled ia pain, And from youth to age, it is labor in vain ; And all that seventy years can show, Is, that wealth is trouble, and wisdom woe : •That he travels a path of care aud strife, Who drinks of the poisoned cup of life. Alas! if we murmur at things like tV That reflection tells us are wise •* ; That the wind is not eve- ie oreath— That the sun is often the Dearer of death— That the ocean wave is not always still— And that life is chequered with good and ill— If we know 'tis well such change should be, What J i we learn from the things we see ? Th.r an erring and sinning child of dust Should not wonder nor murmur, but hope and trust. HJisrtllantons. m to© Lifflii i OR. HOW I BECAME A BACHELOR. BY J 11. D. That I urn a bachelor is rendered onmn-taka bly evident ly tin- foreuoitig caption. llow 1 became so, you have yet to 1.-crtt, and as y olj-rt in p< niiitsL' this sketch is not so much Ion! • )i-ii what i am, so nntoi funate, ( ever.— 1 buOe her good morning, and told her that I had come lo take my leave of her for a siiurt Hint, but lliut 1 hoped the day was not f;<- t wheu I should he pirmitted to come agi-iii und claim her as my Unde. Having now broached the, to us, by no means un pleasant theme of the previous evening's con versation, we were soon deeply engrossed in muking plans lor the future. But all things must have au end, and as the hours sped away like minutes, it seemed to my lntaluaieU iiiind us though 1 had ecaicOy intt-red the noiise until it was time-lor me to pronounce ;he much dreaded good by.wlilcti was to be the .Mgna. tor our temporary separation ; and, as hke " time and tide' railroad cars "wait for no man," 1 was obliged to do it, but it, was doue in a decidedly doleiui way, 1 as-ure you, and ere long 1 was speeding forward ou my homeward way, uiy thoughts centered ou one ooject, and tu.it Oqj et was Carrie, a prize which I was fully resolved I would use mv inmost exertions to guiu. * ***** Nearly two years had elapsed since the date of my engagement with Carrie Mayburu; during tLiut time i hati m.tde many visits to G t und always found her the same un changed being that she wus when first pre sented to the reader, unless it was that she seemed, at least to my eyes, if possible, more beautiful than ever. We had kept up a regu lar corresuoudeuce, her leiters al ways breath ing a spirit of love and affection coupled with the hope that the time would soon come when we would be united to separate no more in life ; mine, as may be reudily imagined, al ways re-echoed the sentiments embodied in hers. As the reader has always been ap prised. it was the desire of Mr. Mayburn that I should rise to some emineuce iu my profes sion before claiming the fulfillment of his daughters promise This I had e deavored to the utmost of my capacity to do, and I had reason to believe that I had iu a great meas ure succeeded, for by the expiration of the time above mentioned, I vas able to con gratulate myself upon having the patronage of the most influential citizens of this place who placed the most implicit confidence in my professional abilities ; consequently, I now felt justified in once more making application for the hand of the lair Carrie, aud as I wus so situated, at tho lime 1 came to the conclu sion, that it would he impossible for me to visit, G for several weeks, I resolved to rite to Mr. M. in reference to tho mutter, Dd ascertain his views of the case Accord ingly having composed my mind as well as circumstances would admit, I sat down with a new pen and a quire of extra quality uote paper, and summoning all my eloquence, tact aud chirographital skill. I transcribed a most elaboratory worded epistle, wherein I portrayed my present circumstances, position, still uusatisfied aspirations, until after nearly exhausting the vocabulary of Webster's latest edition, I was at length coustraiued to wind np by the assurance that but one thing wa9 lacking to reuder me supremely happy, aud that was, as you have already conjectured, the legal right to be the protector and posses sor of his lovely daughter, aud that I hoped he would have QOW no further objection to our union. Now it happened that I had in G a cousiu named Bob Tracy, who was the owuer of.a beautiful bay mare on whome for some time pust 1 had cast numerous wistful glances, and considering that a refusal of my request was entirely out of the question, I determined to drop him a few lines, desirit.g him not to etiolate for the disposal of the aforesaid mare PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. 0. GOODRICH. until such time as 1 should have a chance to coufer with lum, as I thought it highly proba ble I conld make him an offer for her which he wonld be willing to accept ; so I dashed off a hasty note, and having folded, sealed, and superscribed both missives, I consigned them to the post office and returned to my du ties with a view of whiling away the time as patiently as possible until I could have suffi c;eut leisure to enable me to ascertain the re sult of my petition. However wearily the wheels of time may sometimes drag on, yet they never have been known to cease their revolutions entirely, and thus in my case, although the space interven ing between my despatching the letters aud my visit to their destination seemed intermi nably long, yet it finally passed away and at length one fine morning found me comfortably ensconced in the cars, dashing on at a furious rate in the direction of G , and in a few hours I reached the goal upon which were fixed my highest hopes, which, alas for the disappointments to which we are all of us more or less liable at times to be subjected, as the sequel will show, were destined never to be realized, hopes which proved to be unsubstan tial foundation upon which I had been build ing my airy castles ; but I will not anticipate. Immediately upon my arrival in G , j repaired to a hotel, to put myself in the prop er trim, prior to calling at the house of my prospective friend. Having made an unex ceptional le toilet, I set out with a beating heart aud a sort of nervous impatience, and after a short walk found myself at Mr. May bum's door. I rang the bell, which was an swered by the servant, who at once ushered me into the sitting room, where were Carrie and her father, both of whom regarded me an instant with looks of surprise and wonder, when, to my astonishment, the former arose, and, with naught save a slight and scared) perceptible nod of recognition, glided out of the door. How to acconut for this strange conduct, was a thing utterly beyond my com prehension ; lor a moment I was dumbfound ed, but as I recovered myself, I turned to wards the father as though to ask a solution of the mystery. I did not have long to wait, for, with a face resembling a surcharged thun dercloud, the old gentleman suddenly burst forth— " Well, sir, you are a scoundrel and a vil lain, and us consummate a specimen of con centrated audacity, effrontery and impudence, as you now prove yourseit to be in polluting my house with your contaminating presence, I never saw !" 'To say I was astonished, wonld be but a faint way of expressing it. I was completely taken aback, hut, Gually, managed to find my speech, wheu I politely reqnested him to ex plain himself, as I was not aware that I had been guilty of any act to merit these animad versions. " Explain, sir ! —why, what do yon mean, you contemptible poppy ? and having most grossly insulted mv daughter as will us my S elf—a fact of which we have ample testimony in your own hand writing—do you dare to come and denv to my face any knowledge of the lac- whatever ?" This was something T was entirely unpre pared for, and I louaLti long and earnestly at the man to see if he was insane or not. What did he mean? What a preposterous idea! 1 offer an insult to his daughter ! her, for whom I would cheerfully have laid down ray life, and fell only too thankful for the oppor tunity. " Mr. Mayburu," said I, as soon as I conld recover my faculties, " I will not be ttius tri fled with any longer. I have never, either by word or deed, been the cause of wounding your daughter's feelings, and I—" But he seemed determined that I should have no chance to vindicate myself in any way, and stopped me short by producing from his pocket a letter, which he thrust fiercely into my hand, saying as he did so : " There is the undeniable proof : let us have no more words about it. Leave my house and never enter it again as long as you live, or I will have you pitched headforemost into the street." Mechanically I took the letter, the hand writing of which I immediately recognized as my own, aud ran my eye hurriedly over the coutents. Good heavens ! it was the note I had, by mistake, enclosed in the envelope ad dressed to Mr. Mayburn, and vice versa. As the reader is doubtless anxious to know what the letter could possibly contain to so completely turn the tide of affairs pertaining to my matrimonial prospects, I will give it verbatim : " JOLLY CHUMI sit down to scrawl you & word or two in reference to the superL animal over which you hld legal sw .y, and of whm as you are already aware I have desired to be in possession, kuowing her to be a gay creature, full of life and spirit, and withal decidedly fuzt. 1 feel that without her I cannot longer be satis tied; andlrom nothing, I assure you, will I derive so much pleasure as Irom trotting her around, and exhibit ing her to my frieuds. Feeling certain that my offer proves acceptable, I will call on you in a short time, un til which 1 do not wish you to dispose of her. Yours considerably, EDWIN WILLKT." After readiog it, I stood for a momeut as if in a trance ; at length I raised m_v eyes from the letter, gave one glance at Mr. May burn, and crushing the offending sheet in my hand, rushed, scarcely knowing what I did, with a sort of frantic despair through the hall, and without a word to any one J left the house, never again to darken its doors. A few days afterward I called upon Bob Tracy to say to him that he need not reserve the mare auv longer, as I had concluded not to purchase ; but as soon as he caught sight of me be ran out to meet and shook me by the hand and otherwise indulged in the most ex travagant demonstrations of joy, asking me over and over again if it was really me, as he despaired of ever seeing me again, for having received from me a most beautifully written gilt-edged note, asking in marriage a daughter, of whose existence be was most profoundly ig norant, be had no doubt that I nad gone stark mud, and had just about made up his mind to insert an advertisement in the pupers warning the publie to beware of me as a person dan geroas to be at large. I QOW gave op; I " iIE&ARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER." found T was besieged on all sides, and with an imploring look I begged him to say no more about it to any one, that I had banished all thoughts of marriage from my mina, and had concluded to spend my future life in single blessedness ; but despite the charge I gave Bob to keep qniet, the affair, through some mysterious agency, became circulated around, or, depend upon it, I would never have given it publicity : and now, having put you in pos session of the facts concerning the history of those " two letters," I will make a polite bow aud retire to my bachelor couch. THE FIGURES ON DRESS PARADE. —Assume an army of 600,000 men formed into single line and allowing two feet to each man, there are 5,280 feet iu a mile ; allowing two feet to each mau, and you have 2640 men to the mile. Now divide 600,000 by 2,640 and you have instead of 23 miles 227 miles and a frac tion over ; now countermarch the right wing and place as a rear rank and you have a front of over 113 miles, should the Generalissimo wish to make a rapid inspection by rail it would take two and a half hours, if on horse back it would take one day of twelve hours, and give no time to feed on the road at that. Now form them into a hollow square, front and rear rank, and instead of being not quite three miles from side to side, it would exceed 28 miles, and the square would contain over 784 square miles,a larger area than any coun ty in Ohio. When marching at the rate of 20 miles per day, it would take including ar tillery, ambulances, Ac., two weeks for the ex treme left wing to reach a poiut' left by the right wing ; now place this army on guard, say 50 feet apart, we might then guard a ter ritory of over two millions of square miles, or a hollow sqare being 1427 miles from side to side. We will presume that the relief guard travels at the rate of twenty miles per day of twenty-four hours, which seems very slow, but when we consider that they must halt every 50 feet and give the countersign, Ac., it will keep them busy to go the twenty miles. It will then take from the time the guard starts until the last guard is relieved 285 days or over 9 months, at the end of this time he must look very much as the man did that was sent lo the Atlantic telegraph office and command ed to wait for the European message. As a sentinel is not allowed lo stand still he will have travelled about 7240 miles. Now take the number of meu that have, are, and will-soon be engaged iu this war aud we have over two and a half millions, place these on guard ou the equator and it would encir cle the eurth with a guard 52 feet apart.— Tlr's army's regular ration of potatoes would be over 4,000 bushels per day. EDMUND BUR.CE. —When Burke came for ward, as his custom was, to the middle of the House of Commons to speak, the first pecu liarity which caught the eye of the spectator was the glasses which he almost constantly wore in the days cf his celebrity. He was tab and noble looking, with a decidedly pre possessing appearance ; by no raeajts smart in his dress, yet possessing personal dignity which the tailor could not have given him.— lie seemed full of thought aud care ; aud the firm lines about the mouth, the strong jaw, and severe glance of the dark eye, spoke of many an iuward battle which was known to no human observer. The head was solid aud intense, rather than massive, high rather than broad, and toletably promineut, fuller, one Would say at first sight, of the reasoning than of the imagining power. His nose, which was as straight as if it had been cut after a bevel, opened out into two powerful nostrils made apparently only to sneer. Altogether he looked like a great man with a great les sen to rend to men, more thau like a gentle one set in the world to please. He spoke with a decided Hibernian accent, although he left the country early in life. But it is to be re marked that men of genius hardly ever lose the tongue of their youth. He had a voice of great compass, and he was never required to hesitate for words. They came quick and vehement, frequently almost beyond the power of utterance. As he spoke, his head rose and fell ; now it swung, and anon it oscillated from side to side of his body, moved by the intense nervous action of his frame. Young Gillray, the foremost of English caricaturists, sketches Burke in various postures and attitudes. One of the most characteristic of these represents him as rapt in.the delivery of some splendid oration, with his hands clenched and his arms raised erectly over his head, his whole body a picture of living energy.— British Review. S&" Humau life, with all its follies, faults and sins, has nothing in it to rdock at, but ranch to pity, deplore, and love. Look out over the rose gemmed path of maidenhood ; see its merry and mysterious windings—how the far-off and nnattained urges itse/f on the almost bewildered pleasure seeker ! How the child woman tries to interpret nature's sign language ! How bright the tints she gives to her life picture 1 Happy, inexperienced maiden—happy in your dreams of coming bliss—envied of an gels in vonr sweet purity, fascinating in your unconscious beauty—truthful, trusting, care free 1 What can be more beautiful than thy young days nil unmixed with selfishness and sin ? No thought of evil, no fear of turning the pages of life, no pausing upon the untried brink of womanhood ! No suspicious pilot guides thy little boat out into thee deep waves of wedded life ! no terror stricken sentinel stands guard at the door which opens up ma ternal joys 1 Truth, trust, love ! these are thine iuherited jewels ! 0, woman, wear them I I© Deputy Marshal Jenkins of Philadel phia, assisted by two police officers of that city, on Tuesday last, arrested a counterfeiter named George White, at Brooklyu, N.J , and succeeded in securing all the paraphernalia of bis trade. Among the plates were a num ber on Pennsylvania banks, ot different de nominations. Printing in America. Tee first printing press in North America, as we learu from Coggeshall's Newspaper lie cord, was established at the City of Mexico, about the year 1600. The first press " work ed " in the Americau Colonies was "set up" at Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1629. The Rev. Jesse Glover procured this press, by " contributions of frieuds of iearniug and reli gion " in Amsterdam and iu England, bnt died ou his passage to the new world. Stephen Day was the first printer. In honor of his pioneer position, Government gave him a grant of three hundred acres of land. Pennsylvania was the second Colony to en courage printiug. William Bradford came to Pennsylvania with William Peun, iu 1686, and established a printing press in Philadel phia. In 1692, Mr. Bradford was iuduced to establish a printing press iu New York. He received £4U per aunum and the privilege of printing on his own account. Previous to this time, there had been uo printing done in the Province of New York. His first issue in New York was a proclamation, bearing the date of 1692. It was nearly a century after a printing press hud been set up in New England, be fore one would be tolerated iu Virgiuia. The southern colonists had uo printing done among them till 1727. There was a printing press at Cambridge, Mass., 1629 ; at Philadelphia, Penn., 1686 ; at New York, N. Y., 1692 ; at New Londou, Corin., 1709 ; at Annapolis, Md., 1726 ; at Williamsburg, Va., 1729 ; at Charleston, S. C., 1730 ; at Newport, R. 1., 1732 ; at Wood bridge, N. J., 1752 ; at Newbern, N. C., 1755 ; at Portsmouth, N. H., 1756 ; at Sa vannah, Ga., 1762 The first printing press established in the Northwest Territory, was worked by William Maxwell, at Cincinnati, in 1793. The first printing executed west of the Mississippi, was done at St. Louis, in 1808, by Jacob Hinkle. There had been a printing press in Ken tucky, iu 1786, and there was one in Tennes see, in 1793 ; iu Michigan in 1809 ; in Mis sissippi in 1810. Louisiana had a press im mediately after her possession by the United States. Printing was done in Canada, before the separation of the American Colonies from the mother country. Halifax had a press in 1761, and Quebec boasted of a printing offite in 1764. Iu 1725, there were 5 newspapers printed in the United States ; in 1775, there were 34 ; in 1800, about 200 ; in 1825, about 600; in 1830, about 1,000 ; in 1840, about 1,400; .in 1850, about 2,300 ; iu 1860 about 5,000. A Day at a Time. A little of the sea in a tumbler is colorless; but a vast deal of the sea seen in its ocean bed, is green. With life the case is reversed. In the common-piace course of life, the path we are treading may bok rather green— green, 1 mean like the cheerful verdure of grass ; but if you take it in too great a pros pect, the whole track is apt to take the as pect of a desert waste, with only a green spot here and there. You will not add to the cheerfulness and hopefulness of man or child by drilling iuto him ; this morning you will do such things ; and all day such other things; and in the cveuing such other things ; then you will sleep. To-morrow morning you will rise ; and then the same thing over and over; and so on. I have kuon a malignant per son who enjoyed the word of presenting to others such disbearteuing views of life. Let me, mv reader, counsel the opposite course : Let us not look at life as one unvaried ex panse, although we may justly do so. Let us discipline our minds to look at life as a series of beginnings and ends. It is a succes sion of stages, and we shnil think of oue stage at a time. " Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." Most people can bear one days' evil ; the thing that breaks men down, is the trying to bear, ou one day, the evil of two days, twenty days, a hundred days.— We can bear a day of pain, by a night of pain ; and that again by a day of paiu, and that again by a night of pain,and thus onward. But we can bear each day and night of pain only by taking each by itself. We can break each rod, but not the buudle. And the suf ferer, in real, great suffering, turns to the wall in black despair, when he looks too far on,and takes in a uniform dreary expanse of suffering, uurelieved by the blessed relief of even fauci ful beginnings and ends. FIENDISH TRAGEDY.—A terrible tragedy was perpetrated at Port Clinton, N. Y., on Oct. 31. Henrv Riquarlz, a hired man engaged by Mr. T. J. Kirk, took advantage of the ab sence of the eldest of bis employer's three daughters from home, to entice the two youn ger girls, aged respectively fifteen and eleven years, into the barn where he was at work, and after violating their persons, strangled them to death by lying leather cords around their necks. They were found with faces swol len and discolored, and eyes starting from their pocke's. On the return of the eldest daughter, the viilain refused to give any information re garding the girls, but seized the first favora ble opportunity, overpowered her, tied her hands and feet, and when consciousness, which she had lost in the struggle was restored, told ber that be did not intend to do her any in jury, but that he only wished to prevent her giving the alarm until he bad made way with himself. As he was leaving the house for this purpose be met one of the neighbors, who had come in on some errand, told her that the girls for whom she asked were up stairs, and then going to the barn, succeeded in banging himself before the alarm could be given.— Yery naturally the horrible affair created the most intense excitement in the town where it was perpetrated. IguTbe young lady who promises one gen tleman, and marries another, has not the right " ring " about her. VOL. XXIII. —NO. 27. A Chinese Juggler. As soon as he had cleared a circle with the old " striug and balls," he spread the contents of bis wallet on the ground, aud stripped him self to the waist. He was a poor thin fellow, who seemed to suffer from the effects of the trick he performed. He first of all spoke for about five minutes with all the volubility of Charles Matthews, evidently saying something witty, for the people round laughed heartily. In the middle of his harangue, however, he was seized with a fit of choking, and after an effort of trying to get something out of his throat drew forth a little slip of bamboo, like a Lisbon tooth-pick, then another and aud an other, then he sneezed, and out they came from his nostrils, then from his eyes, until he completed the uumber of 37, by making ona appear half-way out of each orifice at the same tiu-e, and thea threw the lot on the ground for any one to examine. He next took three glass balls, about an inch in diameter, and, placing them singly between his lips, sucked them into his mouth and swallowed the first, a red one, then a blue, aud last of all a white one; here was a little interlude of tooth-picks aodialkitg, after which he walked gravely round the ring, stopping four times : each time he gave himself a shake and a jump, when the balls were distiutpv heard to jingle inside him. On completing his round, after several efforts, he spat the balls out on the ground in the same order he had swallowed them, the red first, the white last. He theu took two more balls, one of polished steel about the size of a hen's egg, and another of glass the same size. These he first let fall on the ground to show that they were solid, then, placing them between bis lips.swallowed them like the smaller ones, but with difficulty, the ball swelling the throat as it went dowu; here more tooth-picks and talking, while he pre pared two swords, about an inch wide and twenty long, very like polished hoop-iron, clashed them together to show they were real aud passed both dewn his throat at once, un til they struck the balls with an audible click; withdrawing these, he placed his hand behind him, and after several apparently painful tri als, each ball rose in the throat, and fell from his mouth to the ground with a heavy thump. Pekin Letter. IMMENSE AP.MV MOVING DOWN TITE MISSIS SIPPI—Between 25,000 and 30,000 troops have passed down the river within the last two weeks. Those going down during last week went t? Memphis aud Helena—most of them to the former. It is now understood that Geo. Sherman, at present in Memphis, will coope rate with Ge.i. Grant, now moving against the enemy in Mississippi. From this it would appear that the report that the new troops now going down the river arc to be organized into a distinct army under Gen. McClernand is not correct. Nevertheless, we should not be surprised to hear of a big rise in the old Father ot Waters very soon, which will effec tually wash out Vieksburg, and open the chan nel clean through to the Gulf. MISSOURI FOR FREEDOM. —The triumph of the Emancipation policy of President LINCOLN iu Missouri, which from last accounts seems to be assured, is worth to the country at least as much as a great victory iu the field of bat tle. It is Dew estimated that we have six of the nine members of Congress, and ten ma jority on joint ballot in the legislature, which secures the election of two Emancipationists to the Senate of the Uuited States. Wheu the people cf a Slave State stand up for Free dom thus nobly, pro-slavery men in the free States should hide their heads in shame. J©- A young lellow of our acquaintance, whose better half bad just presented him with a pair of bouncing twins, attended liev. Mr. 's church on last Sunday evening. Dur ing the discourse the clergyman looked right at our innocent friend, and said in a tone of thrilling eloquence : " Youug man, you have an important responsibility thrust upon you " The new-fledged dad, supposing that the preacher alluded to his peculiar home eveut, considerably startled the audience by reply ing : " Yes, I have two of them." At Tiffin, Ohio, the other day, Van Amburgh's traiued elephant, Hannibal, broke open the wagon of a caudy peddler who fol lowed the show, and gobbled down, iu less time than it takes to read this paragraph, six thousand gingerbread cakes, seventy pouuds of assorted candy, aud forty pouuds ot " French kisses." The total value of his stolen treat was over SBO. a©- Gen. Wocl emphatically denies that he put Col. Miles in commaud of Harper's Ferry, for which he (Wool) was censured by the late Commission. Miles was appointed to that place by Gen McClellan, before Gen. Wool had control of the Department. Gen. McClellun was also censured by the Commis sion for his neglect to support Miles. jJ©"Brig. Gen. Patterson was found dead in his tent, at Fairfax Court-House, on Sat urday morning. His body was scut to Philadel phia. He is a son ot Major-General Patter son, vho commanded at Harper's Ferry at the time of the Grst battle of Bull Run. Wanted ! The chair in which the sun sets. A garment for the naked eye. Buckles to fasten a laughiDg stock. The animal that drew the inference. Eggs from a nest of thieves. A bucket of water from " All's Well." t@T The most remarkable case of indecision we ever heard of, was that of a man who Rat up all night because be could not determine which to take off first, bis coat or his boots. am surprised, my dear, that I have , never seeu you blush." " The fact is, has | band, I was boro to blush unseen."