April 20, 1865 pg 5

any of my wiles. What girl
with my youth and beauty wants
a beau who is nearly forty and
grey as to his hair? What if he
was considered the finest figure
in a Norway ball room! that's
nothing. Why once upon a time
I even I was the belle in that
same hall, but there were not
more that a dozen ladies present
and all of those were old maids.
Can you take a joke?

May wishes to present her
cousinly love. but I won't deliver
any such message. How in
the world can she have a
cousinly regard for you? Indeed
I can't see how it can happen
that she does -- unless you have
been making love to some of
my relations, which you had
better not do, because I'll expose