The Wilmingtonian., 1823-09-18

To deepen into a settled melancholy, and
|her health at last to exhibit visible alter
alton. Instead of the light-hearted smi-I
ling Girl, that was wont to be seen trip
ping to the kirk on spring Sabbath trick
ed out in all the guady hnery Of rustG
life, you might now witness pale anu
wasted figure, clothed in the simplest at,
tire. and exhibiting the most chasteneu
Ideportment and she, who heretofore had
been always foremost at the May-day
snort. or the harvest merry-making, was
Inow never seen, but sitting lonely IN the
chimney corner, or wandering like dis
consolate and broken-hearted widow, py
the unfrequented banks of the brook, or
among the desolate and melancholy heath
er
This alteration could not long escape
the penetration of Mary's husband and
Instead of softening, it had the effect OF
rendering still more uncomfortable ms ma
|turally sour and unamiable disposlt'on'--
'IIt would be needless and it would be end
-Iless, to attempt recounting the different
rlways in which this savage and merciless
'lrutfian betrayed his coarse i'll humour.-
Suffice it to say, that it grew to such ex'
cess, that at last the meek and passive
MARY could no longer bear it,.
The sun had set in chill and drizzling
|evening of spring, when this brutal mons
liter came home in state of intoxicatlon.
v His natural temper, in addition to being
stimulated by the strong liquors OF winch
she had drank copiously, was rendered ten
fold more caustic and irritable by the news
: which had been brought him, during the
day, of the unexpected death OF John A.
: Ian, without any legacy IN his favour. III
1.-THE most unleelng manner he told MARY
{ of the death of her father and, in the same
-Ibreath, upraided her with the disappolnt-
: ment he had suffered in not falling heir to
his property. This was too much Tor the
already broken hearted Mary; and she
: decided upon taking that resolution whicl
Chad often occurred to her, but which, til
then, she had never seriously Determined
} to carry into execution. Cold and com
. lfortless as the night was, she sailed forth
IL and clothed almost in rags, babe an eter
. ma! adeu to the scene of her connubla
misery. That long night the hapless Ma
," "Iry Allan never closed her eyes in slumbe'
" Alone and unprotected-labourlng unde
20 la decIine-without clothes-without sus
ortenance, she pursued, at the cherries dea
ID Of night, wild, unfrequented path, whlc
o. she would in other circumstances, not hay
Nv lventured to tread alone in summer and
r. Sunshine. Not human step once IN
as crossed that bowling wilde
H. ness; and, in the minds of simple pa
n's toral people, it was associated with Il
N .lpersonifications of wild and romant
his Superstition. Surely some more than h
Gilman power watched that lvelong mig
nth over the gentle traveller, and minister
on. that strength and courage, without viii
toI she must have sunk on the desolate mo
mo Mary's strength, however, had not long
yho undergo so ilnty probation. The Ii
"a shade of evening which she was to witn
tbe this world, had already closed arou
st;. her; and with another setting sun,
+ is was to sink into her long last slumber, a
Ito mingle with the clods over which
and 1--WE lried limbs now scarce supported b
: al. shall never forget the incidents ot
uadday which closed this hapless fema
Il. humble history. AT the boundary OF t
be;r dreary extent of heath over which NJ
) iii Allan wandered, there is a neat Gotta
,,nds connected with some plots of cultiva
,r ia ground, then possessed by David Ii
b;sllaw, with whom was intimately acqua
,o in ed. The traveller will easily distng'
cita. lit from the other cottages, which, like g
she in desert, people this interminabe :
y otude, and give animation to the lol
ouuo moor, by its being built ON green slo
lent upland, from which it commands
.ecu. prospect of the Almond, as it widens
nv ofIthe loch of the same name. To thai
nbsr NJ loved house was won't to 60 on
have every annual spring time; and mar
ntedIg gleesome holiday have | spent, in roaI
q in with its happy inmates, over the
who moor. when gaudy with all the q
intrv bloomness of spring, seeking for the
a is Of the green linnet among the resplen
Lroom and scented lchins. The da
,;on >, which alude was devoted to one OF
Iast boyish rambles. We had left the cot
larv,s after an early breakfast, with the intel
think of visiting a mountain cataract that
ASSN. distant among the hills. The aspect 4
j, that morning was enchanting. There ha
, ,pres. len, during the night considerable {
sune- tity OF rain; and the vapour, which
ream- streaming from the tepid earth, undt