Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1825-01-06
Friendship and Love.
CHAPTER TIE LAST.

yers would call, at Issue--going tn
risk their honor, their virtue. and then
lives, in that deformed and horrible
IdvOrite OF fashion, ducl---as If the
fire Of pistol could extiuguish the fire
of love; as il brace Of bullets through
the head could make honorable amends
for wound in the heart
The night came--it was dark and
dismai--large black clouds la, scat
tered in huge piles along the sky-no
moonlight was shed across the heavens
-uot one little star gave cheerfuness
and variety to the brooding shadows
of evening. A few slreaks of quick
rapid lightning would sometimes run
along the edge of the larger clouds, ex.
posing the grand and gloomy magnih.
cence OF the scene. Then the rum
bling thunder growled suIlenly, and
all around seemed doubly dark.
On earth every thing was as melaD-
choly and black as above. Darkness
shrouded all things in its mantle of
| gloom Sometimes The breeze would
sweep along the streets, whirling
| clouds of dus, high 10 the air---then all
" Guild be motiOnless and sIuggishly
still--and the last mourniul sigh OF the
| wind would die sullcnly away, and
the dust gradually settle down into its
repose, and nothing would be heard
save the hasty steps OF some startled
traveller, impatient to escape the mel
ancholy forebodings OF the impending
| storm
Ithad been agreed upon by the young
men to 90 together once more, and pay
ii farewell visit to the subject oil their
quarrel.
Arm in arm they entered her dwell
ling, as if nothing had happened.-
They had determined to remain there
| only ten minutes, and to excuse them
selves on the plea OF another engage
| ment.
She joked with them as usual, but
i. would not do. She spoke to them,
but her remarks passed by unanswer-
ed Ii there is language in the looks
she might have read something unusu
al in their long gaze, bat if she did OBJ
serve it, she deemed it unworthy of
notice, and made no comment.
1t might be as unpleasant, as it
" ould be difficult task, to describe
the feelings of Henry ana William,
while they moved in the presence of
one from whom few moments might
part them for ever.
There is something Uery meIancho-
" in the idea of being separated from
any one for ever, and OH all such occa
sions sad reflections throng upon the
mind. Farewell, in its highest sense,
is bu: a mournful word-no matter how
applied, or to whom-hut farewell
forever is the spell that makes the lip
culver, and moistens the eye with tears
that forces the heart to beat, and
smothers the word of agony that rises
in the throat,
l remember when i was leaving
my old boarding school, a hundred
miles from my present dwelling, there
was large, square table rock, near
the school.room door, overshadOwed
with young cedar trees, and upon the
summit OF gentle declivity, SO as to
command view of the little village,
and the old cluster of oaks, and the 10.
Gust grove, and the broad, beautiful ri
yer, winding its way far off. and
cleaning in the brightness of the sum-
mer sun.
] was very little boy at the time.
IL was more than thirty years ago
| but went to my favorite rock, and
wept over the beauty that would
bloom for me no more Hooked back
twenty times as 1 left it; and though
many years OF dark adventure have
since passed, l can yet look back upon
that old rock, with its little grove of
trees, its rough, rugged shape, and
the tranquil peace that reigned around.
Ii, then, the heart is so susceptible of
/ anguish on slight occasions, what must
they have felt at the idea OF parting on
such an event, and from such being?
Suffice it to say, they drank in every
oouiiu VI itSt NoiCS, dill iCbiViiUtlc u
every action and word she had per
formed or uttered, till the fecting mo
ment ofther stay passed on, and they
left her.
| They retired TO their respective
lodgings, each with the firm, hul fool
Ish determination, that they would soou-
er die than yield any thing to the haugh-