Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-10-09

darkness-and ftr what! to ruin me-'o o'as'
nv dearest prospects without btnrht'ing ner'
s4ifa" The evil passions were stirred up WIN
in me-beU boiled in my bosom, ana was
wrought TO an ecstacy of madness. for ha -.
d,v remained in this tumult oil passion.
wards evening i, ceased 10 EXHIBIT iiseh on 'ns
outer man, ont ragged within more h'en'''!
than ever. . 90. ,J
eyes | remember il well. This day-anu
twenty wears have rolled away sal Wy inc "'e
moody and distracted, and medlla'ing, appar-
en,Iy. some violent deed. My sister SAT opp
site 10 me. She was employed at her nesaie,
bu, while. she sew,d, her blue eyes stfeame'
with tears, and ever and again she cast al me
looks of the dceprs, affection. MY dear pro
,be, has any thing occurred 10 distress you!
| thandered out, 'Slence, distract me ho'' ~
a voice which made her start backward WIN
terror; and, striking my hand Slo'eh's "ha'n''
my forehead, Jeff the room ana mou6'eo u,
stairs 10 my bedchamber. smailfilghiahu aitH
hung over the inantel-piece. 1t had been III me
family for ages put il i'll my pocket a'mos'
underwriting what did, and descended win p0r-
len,ous sDeed. Eliza met me as ! wa' going
ont. She gut her slender arms IN mine, ana
requested me. with voice OF melting tender
ness, 10 STAY at home, for that was evidently
very unweil With brutal violence pushed
her aside and rushed into the open air
"rhc evening wa, fair, beautifully lar. IN?
sun was sinking down glofious'y, ana mellow
ing nature over with his last departing beams
but remarked il rot saw nothing-l heari
nothing a lumult was in my heart; my ear
were stunned, and | hurried over the earth with
reckless fury. Nigh, came down, and found
myself al Mary's door Icnlered, but she was
no, within She had gone out to walk by ih'
banks Of the Forth.
81 went TO find her. Her lovely and inicres!'
ing form was seated upon a rock which over
looked the stream. When came up, she was
in tears: but she threw her arms around me
and kissed me with unspo akahe iondness no"
romantic was the scene. . how unfit Tor a deco
Of ,ianS! The moon was up in the vault o
heaven The armament was silvercd over
with her chaste beams, and the light oil Inc
PLANETS dissolved and lost in food OF pale and
celestial glory. One solitary star twlnkled BY
her side. And how beautifully were the rays
reflected by the stream that murmDred AMID
its rocky channel, and gave forth melancholy
music, which was the only sound that disturb-
Ell the unhruken calm of nature! Could crime
linger here? Could vice polu,e such a scene
with its accursed presence? Base, cruel, ireae H.
rrous was The deed Was there no bolt OF heav
IN 10 consume my coward heart? While she
chung TO my bosom and called me her own
while her deep melting eyes were thrown SO tx
excessively on ny savage coun'enance-yes the
deed was then doue--done al momen! wheT
any heart but that Of Il demon, wonldlhaNe 'er
disarmed. drew slowly the dagger from my
po, ket, and--my spirit shudders while relate
it stabbed hcr. in ihe back. a shrek, and
She fell 10 the earth. On! do not destroy me
W,i'iam, William, that was a cruel stroke
50 r.. -, d no, Kill me-, do not kill my poor
unborn babe?' She chung to my knees, but
ned her away, and she again fell exhausted
Their. was 20 time TO be lost laid vlo.en'
h ads upon hr. ard pitched her over the rock
heard her rustling am NJ the bran hes which
opposed feeble resistance 10 her fall, and
then dash among the waters. and feeble
cry and all was silent"