Literary cadet and Rhode-Island statesman. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1827-1829, 1827-04-18

Col. Morton as soon as the first days Of
her mourning were over What would
not Agatha have promised to adying ia
,her! Morton proposed returning i'm
medistely to America; he was glad to
take her from early associations, and
was ever desirous Of receiving her hand,
rather from affection than an extorted
promise. When he arrived in America,
he found his situation embarrassing
Tho news of his intended marriage had
already reached there. he was aware
that unless the lady was supposed to be
his wife, unlavorable conjectures would
be hazarded, he concluded therefore, it
was best to countenance the report, as
the delay of the ceremony would be on
ly for few days. Ii was several months,
however, before Agatha yielded to what
she now believed inevitable necessity
Sad and solemn were the nuptials; she
plead her deep mourning, and positively
refused to go out, and her husband con-
sailed himself by his former amusements.
1t was only three months after the cere-
mony, that Creenville, her first and only
love, appeared before her. Fortune had
favored his enterprise in Calcutta, AID
he was now stationed in America, as an
agent for respectable mercantile house.
Ii was when Agatha again saw him, that
she fully realized the strength of her at
tachment, she felt that she had better
have died, than have given her hand to
ONE, while her heart was engaged to
ANOTHER. But the deed was done, and
with yrtuous devotion she resolved the
sacrifice should be complete. She ex-
pressed her wish to her husband to join
the society she had hitherto avoided, and
though she could not be cheerful she
sometimes appeared gay.
Ii is necessary to feel interest to ex-
cite it. Poor Agatha gazed upon the
objects around her, with as little sympa-
thy as they had been so many Hindoos.
Though her beauty excited observation,
her Indifference soon fatigued the be-
holders, and because she said nothing,
they naturally concluded she had nothing
to say. Colonel Morton felt mortified;
she had "turned out" quite differently
from what he expected; when he first
knew her, she was all life and animation;
he did not reflect that it was himself that
had choked up that living fountain olaf
fection, which difiuses joy and happiness
to all around; that her eyes opened in the
morning upon no glad anticipation, and
closed at night for weary and restless
sumbers She seldom met Greenville in
society and when she did, she felt that
he was the last person she ought to meet.
1t was, however, solace to her to be-
love that she was the ultimate object Of
his thoughts and feelings, as he was of
hers. 1t was at this period that colonel
Morton received intelligence which
made it necessary for him to go to En-
gland; he did not urge his wife to ac-
company him, and she was glad to re-
main at homo in solitude. 1t was tho on
ly enjoyment for which she sighed
Here she was at liberty to indulge her
reveries, and they were the constant hec-
tic of her mind.
| Not many weeks after her husbands
departure, an alarm of the yellow fever,
or what may be truly termed the modern
"plague,' made its appearance i'll tho
city. The situation of Agatha was suf-
ficiently remote, but she learned upon in
qUiry, for it was her first thought, that
Greenvlle resided in that part Of the city.
The alarm grew every day more serious;
she heard with dismay that family after
family were removing, and that Green
Vile still remained. 1t became to her
heated Imagination case of life or
death; she wrote to him and conjured
him to quit a spot infected by pestience.
He was not proof against this instance
of former feeling, and he fastened to
her. Their meeting was affecting but
dignified. She exacted from him SOL
emn promise that while he remained in
the city, ho would, every morning send
her intelligence Of his health. lie en-
deavoured to quiet her apprehensions
and assured her, as he believed that the
accounts were greatly exaggerated
Nearly week had passed after this in
tervicw and Agatha regularly received
intelligence of his health; he still re-
mained on the spot, though the greater
part Of the inhabitants had quilted it.
AT length morning came and brought
no accounts; with the greatest anxiety
she awaited the next, and still no mes
sage came She dispatched a servant,
he returned and told her that bar
rier was fixed, beyond which no people
were permitted to pass. But one idea
presented itselfto her mind,-it was
Greenvillo deserted and expiring for
: want of assistance. With the rashness
that despair brings with it, she deter