The language of courtship is seldom recorded. The ever open ear of the Angel of observation, has only furnished us with these words:
“You are old, my liege, slightly touched with gray. Pray let me live and with Aunt Katy stay.”
“With old Aunt Katy you shall live my dear, and on her silent grave drop a weeping tear.”
We can only speak of Suza Fairfield as we wish to speak of all other belles.
The outward acts of every belle,
Her inward thoughts reveal;
And by this rule she tries to tell
How other people feel.
It was the neighborhood talk, that Suza Fairfield, the belle of Port William, and Don Carlo, the hero of Shirt-Tail Bend, were engaged to be married.
All neighborhoods will talk. Aunt Katy at the table, Betsey Green and Cousin Sally; the meeting and the show; all neighborhoods will talk, for God has made them so.