4/15 It is a character which always interests her--which half fascinates her. Miss Plumer, of New Orleans, has read more French literature of the lighter sort--novels and romances, for instance--than most of the young women whom Abel Newt meets in society. Her eyes are very shrewd, and she is looking every where to see if she shall not light upon some token of bachelor habits--something that shall reveal the man who occupies those pretty rooms. There is the Madonna; but there are also the last winner at the Newmarket, the profile of Mr.Bulwer, and a French landscape. The books are good, but not too good. |