The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1822-09-06

Their vino bore il, aud died that it might see
| The day.
The lady rose up with these words from
! her husbant's bosom and as a sweet bal
my whispering breath Of wind came from
lile broom IN Tn rivers bank, and rnned
| her cheeks, she seemed 10 revive from that
despondlag dream aud with faint smile,
looked nj around lie sylvan Bower. The
cheerful hum of the bees, thu seemad to
| be fastening their work among the honey
flowers before the dark the noise of the
river thai had been uahcard while the SIM
was setting, The loving OF the kline going
| lcisurcly homeNards before their infant
drivers and the loud lofty song Of tie black
bird IN his grove these, aud thousand of
their mingling influences Of nature, touched
her heart with joy and her eyes became
altogether free from tears. Her husband,
who had brcn deeply affected by words
so new 10 him from her lips, seized these
moments 81 returning peace IN divert her
thoughts entirely from such ca,leelcas ter
rors. "To this bower ! brought you 10
| show yon what n Scottish landscape WA,
the day after our marriage, and from that
hour 10 this, every look, smilr, word, aud
deed of Time has been after nine own
heart, except these foolish fears. But the
dew viii soon be- on ihe graas 80 come, my
beloved; nay, | viii not stir unless you
smile. There Anna, you are Your own
beautiful self again - Aud they returned
cheerful and lunghing 10 the hull; the In
d.'s face being again rs bright as if II tear
had never dmned lis beauty The glory
Of H. a..
sweet, fair, pensive silence Of the twilight
now iam elimmering on 10 one Of these
clear summer nights which divide, for
few hours, one daj from another, with their
iraasitory pomp of stare.
Before midnight, all who slept awoltc.
II MIS- hoped thai an heir was about 10 be
born 70 that ancirnt house; and there il
something IN thr dim and solemn reyer-
cnce which invests an ,lnhrokeu line of an
ccsiry, TINT blends easily with those deep
or aud NOR awful feelings with which the
birth ot 4 human creature in all circun.
dances, Is naturally regarded. Tenderly
beloved liy all rs this young and beautiful
lady Mas, who coming n stranger among
them, and rs they felt from another land,
had inspired them nsensbly with sort of
l''f i'i'FAiih win hfl Iiihlf w tHl toAA~
llhesa and ,lrttW, it may we'll br thought
that now the house was agiiatcd, and that
ITS agitation was soon spread from cottage
70 cottage To great distance round. Ma
ny a prayer, therefore, was said for her
and God was besecchcd soon Ia make her,
m his mercy, a Joyful mother. No fears,
II was said, were entertained for the b.
dy's life ; but after some hours of intolera-
Bile anguish of Suspense, her husband, tell
ing an old servant whittier he had gene
walked out into the open air, aud, in few
minutes, sat down on IA tombstone with
oit knowing that he had entered the lille
church yard, which, with the parish
church, was within ie1y fields and groves
of the house. He looked around him, and
20" nothing hui graves, graves, graves.
This stone was erected, by her husband,
in memory If Agnes Illofd, an English
woman, who died in ciId oil, aged nine
irrn." Yhis inscription WIG every letter
ol II distinctly legible in the moolighi |
and he held his eycs fixed upon il, rcading
4 Ger aud over with shudder anh then
1.as mp. and hn1yiug out Of ihe church
yard, lac looked back from the gate, and
thought he saw II female hgatn ali in white
with an infant in her arms, gliding noise
lrssly over the graves and tombstoncs.-
But he looked more steadiastiy, and il was
nothing. He knew it was nothing but he |
was terrified, and turned his face away
from the churclyPrd. The old servant
advanced towards him and he feared 10
look him in the face, lest nc should know
that his wiir WAS corpse.
Life or death p at length he found
powerto uiter, "My honorable lady lives,
but Der son breathcd only few gaeps-
no heir, no heir. was sent to tell you
come quickly 10 my lady's chamber"
In moment the old man was alone
FOR, recovering from the torpidity of fear,
his master had flown Off Ike an arrow, |
and now Hilh soft footsteps was stealing
along the corridor towards The door Of his
"ilc's apartment. But as he stood within
q ii'W steps of IT, composing his c0unie-
nance and strengthening his heart, 10 be-
hold his beloved Anna lying exhausted,
and too probably i'll, i'll indeed, his own
mother, like shadow, came ont Of the
room, aud not knowing that she was seen,
cI2sped her hands together upon her breast,
and lifting mp her eyes with an expression
OF despair eXclaplmed, as in petition TO
God, "Oh my poor son my poor son
what viii berome Of him She looked
forward, and there was her son before her,
with face Ike ashes, tottering and
specchless, She embraced and supported
hIm--the old and feeble supported the
young aud the strong. 8" | am bind, and
must feel my way ; bat help me TO the bed
side that may SIT down and hiss my dead
wife. ] ought TO have been there, surely,
when she died"
The lady was dying, but not dead, Il
was thought that she was nsensibe, but
when her husband said, Anna-Anna %