Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1824-11-18
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breach.
then shall blame
ellis pcstered seoses to recoil, and s,att,
"wben all that is within him does condemn
Tiself for being there"
THEY dragged him roughly through
The street till they stood before Wor-
thington's lodgings. Twenty tires
their miserable victim braced every
nerve to dash them TO the ground, but
sNkpe reflection that one was related TO
Ffizabeth Worthington, and that the
other was the brother of Caroline
& -, unnerved lis arm, and drove
every feeling of resentment from his
heart
= Angry eyes were flashing upon him
as lie entered HE house, and mounted
into the small neat chamber of Wor-
thington. lie stood abashed in the pre-
sence of the two indignant young men,
and the silence was for some iime un-
broken.
AT length Worihingion said, "NIr.
Ransom, YOU are the being who, of all
others, most wished to see, you are
probably prepared to comply with my
: .demands?"
''What are thew" faltered Henry
eDo goa ask what they are, Sir
what should be my demands to one who
would have disgraced me foreverm
Il understand you, SIR said Ien-
~, ''but enemies as we are, may in
quire of your sister,"
AYE, oir-it may increase your pre-
sent enviable feelings to know that she
is about TO be married Married, Sir,
to the brave lad who rescued her from
your grasp. She hates you, sir, as far
rs one SO innocent is capable of hating
but |, sir, will revenge. Answer me,
sir, when tell you that you are scoun-
drel, and say, if you will give me salts
tactionio
Every word had been a dagger to
Harry's soul, and he remained few
moments almost overwhelmed with e.
motion. He remembered her inno-
cence and beauty, SO brightly contrast
ing with bis own guilt = he remembered
that summer eyening-his conversation
and the remark he had made TO her.
Sind II Tie terrible curse gou spca& Of
falls on ay poor head, then yon r,ilhaps
some reas n to 5clisce there Is God''
A now the curse had fallen, and
he was plunged deep in wretchedness
and shame--he was in the presence of
two beings against whom he ietno ma
lice, yet who wished to kill him. Should
he accept the challenge of both he must
probably die; and if he should be sue
ceSsfu, what new pleasure would he
purchase by this new crime.
Alas, that any being should so madly
rush into such a labyrinth of sorrow
that any one should be so like the silly
fly, wooing the flame by which it is con-
sumedl
Conceiying it the best method Of lull-
ing all suspicion of his purpose, he a
greed to meet Wortbingten at six in
the morning. Completely wrelched,
but exerting desperate energy, he
succeeded in commanding himself, and
concealng tae full extent of the stormy
feelings that ragged within his bosom
They separated. s he bent his course
down to that same spot on the same Bat.
terry where he had made O'Fanagan feel
the power of his arm.
The night was still clear, and serene,
as it was when few hours ago he en-
tered the house of her he loved-eyery
thing wore the same aspect as it did
then, except that some stars had disap-
peared, and some had arisen; and the
moon had held hei way higher up ihro'
the ocean of blue, and more uninter-
rupted silence wrapped up earth and
sky in unbroken slunber. How silent
was every thing around when compared
with the agitations Of the guilty mans
bosom how beautifully still the broad
sheet OF water spread itself before him,
scarcely rufiled in the wandering breeze
that crePt along its stlvery tide The
distant splash OF the sturgeon the rip
ping OF the water-the rushing Of the
breeze--or ever and anon the long So
Tenn cry of the solitary Waterman, that
ali is well, were the only sounds that
broke upon the listening ear Forget
tag that his misery was all CONSEQUENT
upon his own guilt, he was ready to ex-
Claim with the poet
"Gnd that this world should be so beautiful,
"And YET So wretchcd."
lie had prepared pistols, douhly load
ed, TO send him shriel<ing from the earth
he had disgraced. One hour he gave