Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1824-09-09
Msotefcaueeus.
VIRGINIA ST. VICTOR,
CHAPTER III.
IA .4msrican Tale.

is in her eye"
ONE day there was TO be party at
Mr.. MansfeId's, the lawyers, and Vir-
ginia was invited. julius called there,
that morning, and asked her if she were
going. She told him she did not feel
ike Joining patty of strangers; be-
aides, being poor, me could not afford
TO dress like the rest;
wherefore, dear julius, you must
excuse me tonight" she said, "for ]
cannot accompany your
''0h, us all the same TO me, Miss st.
Victor,r he said, with a slight shrug; 81
Iaerely called, thinking you and Miss
Chrisiiana might want beau TO accom-
pauy you''-for he had not yet got out
of the habit of attending, Virginia wher-
ever she went, which was, however, We
ny seldom.
Chris,iana was good-hearted girl, and
her indignation was reused by the in
difference of Julius; she, however, con.
tented herself by showing it in her looks,
aud merely said. but with an expression
III the greatest contempt,
ave are very much obliged TO you,
Mr. Msrston, but beg you will not trou-
BILE yourself about US; should we want
au attendant, Dir. Wander DoIen, or my
brother Nicholas, vii be always happy
20 await on us"
"Ob, very well, - Julius answered, and
bidding them good morning with care
less AR. left Inc house.
Virginia said nothing, but his GOODNESS,
and the too evident loss OF his affections,
weighed down her heart with a deadly
pressure. She retired to her room early
that night; and, as she entered her lit
tie chamber and glanced her eye on the
shelves OF books he had sent her, me
MORALS OF happier days, the sense of her
lonely deserted situation came over her
liiee cold chill
A she approached the window, sounds
of gaiety struck her ears, and the lights
from MIR. Nansheld's house were gIanc-
ing through the trees; for their gardens
were only separated by small corn
field. She sat down, all alone, in the
dark; and crossing her arms on the
window-seat, laid her head down on
them. The sound Of glad voices, and
accents of pleasure, that fell on her ear,
caused her heart to throb and SWELL
Oh! tits sorrowful thing to see young
and lovely creature sitting alone, bow
ed down with grief and desolution--to
see youth, which ougbtto be the season
of lght-heartedness, overcast with the
shades of anguish and misery. But she
shed no tears until there came, breath
ing up from the green foliage in the next
garden, the sound of two flutes, first
and second, playing the mourniul air of
s'Auld Robin Gray" and accompanying
them was the soft melancholy soothing
tones Of female voice. Then, indeed,
yirginia's tears flowed; for what misery
is there that will not be sootbed, in a
measure, by mourntul music?
She clasped her hands, and raising
them, with her ewes filled with tears, pas
sionately echoed Jenny's last exclama-
ton
$50 why was | spared to cry wae's
mer-Why was doomed to be deser-
ted by all that ever loved! On Julius!
julius! did ever think, in those happy
DAYS, that it would come to this. Did |
ever imagine | should be SO soon for
gotten' Oh my father,o she cried, why
did you ever leave me? feel that if you
were here to press me to your bosom
and comfort me, should be able to bear
this with frmer heart. But no! moi
throughout this world, filed with human
beings. there is no one who loves me
no one on whose bosom can find repose
and sympathy. Oh, was ever one so
comfortless and dreary as ami"
She laid her head down, and wept in
the bitterness of her heart; but it was
only for few moments she soon saw
the folly of grieving thus, and raising her
head up, she exclaimed,
But how ungrateful am! Have |
not warm friends, in this house even,
who sympathise with me, and will do all
in their power to make me happy And
an not to blame in regard to julius?
When he comes here. instead Of finding
me cheerful and lively, | am always
grieving about my father; thds leading
him forciby to contrast the difference
between me and Others. And do | not
refuse TO accompany him to those scenes
Of gaiety and amusements, teaching him
TO receive pleasure independent Of me3
! let him 90 alone, when, by my pre-
sance or my cheerfulness, | might yet
,.o4,;n lie heart But il Il not unworthy