The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware advertiser., 1826-01-12

of a summers sky, and every object, even
to the palld cheek of the languid Ellen, was
tinged with fis golden rays. l saw her close
her eyes, and put one hand over them, as
| if to shut out the cheering beams that SO i'll
accorded with her feelings; and ms heart
bled at the conviction that one so young, so
lovely and so loved, was insensible to all C.
motions but those of gref-that sorrow had
chilled her warm bosom, and nipt the roses
of health which had SO lately bloomed on her
now death like cheek.
| We now approached the church yard, and
all our fears were excited, dreading the ef-
feet which its appearance might produce up
on Ellen. few weeks before, her betroth-
ed husband was consigned to the silent grave
in this very cemetry, and the family mauso-
leum was close to the road.
The disconsolats parents appeared afraid
to breathe, lest they should disturb the
mourner from fit OF abstraction into which
she had fallen few minutes before; when
at the very moment we reached the spot,
she bent forward, extended her hands to-
wards the mausoleum, and uttering one heart
piercing shrek, fell back faInting in the arms
of her mother.
Three short months before, accompani-
ed the same group to London. The parents
were then happy in the prospect OF bestow-
ing their only child on the object OF her long
cherished affcction--an object not less
their choice than hers. The lovely FL
len was then blooming, beautiful and gay,
and redolent with joyful anticipation Of meet
, ing her future husband. Every mile we
travelled brought her nearer to the object OF
. her love and we'll do l remember the suf-
fusion of her cheek, when bantered by her
: doating, happy father, on the visible exhila-
. ration of her spirits. Happy herself, how
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kindnesses. endeavor to extend the sunshine
!. of her own pure heart. I looked at her and
beheld her radient with innocence, and
ioy and beauty; and fancied that had
!, Lawrence seen her, he would have immor-
:, , talized himself and her, by pourtraying her
:. y as the personifcation Of hope; for never
surely had the bright-eyed enchantress a
more lovely representative.
When we arrived in Grosvenor- square.
!, the lover was at the dooi, while a lovers i'm
! patience marked his eager glance and spark
@ wb hsT gS ckssened aad d Ma
!. though not less tender manner.
:, Days succeeded days, which, though ming
led with the oft-repcated chidings of the inn
: petuous lover at the claws delay" were still
= days of happiness. Tender attentions, bri..
dal preparations, plans for future enjoyments
. and present amusemenrs, enriched and va
+ ried each day, until the long wished for one
. was named who was to unite them. But
!, = four days prior to that which was to con-
:, sumate their happiness, the lover was seiz-
:, ed with an illness, which he considered a
slight cold, and neglected, being unwilling
:. to absent himself even for few hours from
: his mistress; the second day he was unable
TO leaYe his bed; and the third his illness
e, was pronounced past hope--past cure; the
). fourth--that day for which he had so ardently
; longed, as the goal of his happiness-he was
: a corpse.
: For many days, insanity, caused by vio-
II lent brain-fever, banshed from poor Ellen's
q mind, all sense of her misfortune and sor-
row. In all the wanderings of distempcred
fancy, her lover was never for moment abb
sent from her thoughts: she calletLon him
/, in the tenderest accents addressed him with
- all the fcrvor Of affection, and again and a.
? gain implored him not to leave her couch
4 while she slept; for that he alone could shield
her from some unknown enemy, that press
i ed her forehead with burning hand.
q BY slow degrees reason resumed her en-
4 pirc butt was visible that health had for
4 ever fed. Her first request made to her
. sorrowing, heart-stricken parents, was to
take her to Merton Park. OH what con-
trast is there between this melancholy return,
Il and our happy journey three short months
), ago! Our ncdrtS were then Cneered by
:, Hope; but now, Hope is banished, and re-
= signaton to the will of HIM, "who chasten-
!. eth whom he loveth,'' can alone enable
them to bow to his dispensaton.
il
!, At length the lovely and gentle Ellen is
released from her sorrows, and her pure soul
n has fled to those regions OF bliss, where tears
i are dried and grief endureth no more. /
J. this day beheld her pale corpse consigned to
h 'the narrow house," and l now see from
q my window the moons silver beams reflect
e ed on the mausoleum that now nourns her.
Il For three days after our arrival she lin
h gcred between life and death. A few hours
e before she brcathcd her last, she became
e conscious of her situation, and hailed her ap-
&c preaching death as release from hopeless
st careless anguish. a faint smile, the first
ii chat had appeared since her lovers decease,
,e played on her pallid lips but was soon chas-
It ed away by observing the unuttered and nn-
E utterabe grief of her parents For a few
e minutes S .e regarded them with looks Of
f. fondest, plying love; and with all the daugf-
= ter in her eye, 'the big tears chasing each
p other down. her pale cheeks, as their sor-
Of row and desolatioR as her loss glanced over
i her mind, she wcpt for some time with un.
v controllable emotion; and, alternately turning
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