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Cassy kept her room and bed, on pretext of illness, during the whole time they were on Red River; and was waited on, with obsequious devotion, by her atten- dant. When they arrived at the Mississippi River, George, having learned that the course of the strange lady was upward, like his own, proposed to take a stateroom for her on the same boat with himself,- good-naturedly compassionating her fee- ble health, and desirous to do what he could to assist her. Behold therefore, the whole party safely transferred to the good steamer Cin- cinnati, and sweeping up the river under a powerful head of steam. Cassy’s health was much better. She sat upon the guards, came to the table, and was remarked upon in the boat as a lady that must have been very handsome. From the moment that George got the first glimpse of her face, he was trou- bled with one of those fleeting and indefinite likenesses, which almost everybody can remember, and has been, at times perplexed with. He could not keep himself from looking at her, and watching her perpetually. At table, or sitting at her state- room door, still she would encounter the young man’s eyes fixed on her, and po- litely withdrawn, when she showed, by her countenance, that she was sensible of the observation. Cassy became uneasy. She began to think that he suspected something; and fi- nally resolved to throw herself entirely on his generosity, and intrust him with her whole history. |
