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46 elder sister gave a polka party, and while the guests were dancing and enjoying themselves in the front of the house, the sister slipped out of the back door and joined her husband again. Her father and mother were though disappointed and displeased, without the power of doing anything. This was not the last of their separations. Every once and a while they seperate, and live apart a short time. Nevertheless, the lady has raised a pretty little family, and is herself one of the handsomest women in Kentucky.

Another of the notables at Drennon was a famous married belle, whose delight it was to fascinate all men, married or single. There was also there a gentleman from the South, with his wife, a mild, delicate, lady-like person. This belle took a great fancy to the Southerner, and flirted with him on all occasions, greatly to the displeasure of his wife. They used to walk about in the evenings, and sit till late at night, even under the very window where his wife was waiting for him. One night, about one o'clock, she was sitting up in the room waiting for her husband, when she heard this belle say to him: "Let us sit till three, and see if she will wait up for you." Was not this trying to a delicate wife's feelings? The next season the belle was back again, but the gentleman and his family did not make their appearance.

We will for the present leave this lady, and give you a little sketch of a married belle from Georgia. This lady's husband was a man of high standing, and very wealthy, but in very poor health. They went to Drennon's Lick for his health, and to have quiet; but the lady entered into all the gayeties of that gay place. She would leave her husband coughing and bleeding