Literary cadet and Rhode-Island statesman. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1827-1829, 1828-11-26

from n LADIES MAGAZINE.
GRACE

the bloom Of youth and beauty she COM
handed her respect, aud tue daily beau
~ OF whose lie ensured her love, while
his fortune aud standing in society graf
i6ed her highest ambition. She might
by those who looked only on the surface
of things, have been pronounced happy.
Happy! How much is comprised in that
one little word, and how specifically
must they have examined the springs Of
human feeling, who truce happiness to
any other source than the heart. Mrs.
Wentworth had not a grateful one; and
while all good and pleasant things were
profusely scattered in her path, she pass
I'd them UNDECIDED, or received them az
her due; never has gift from The boun-
teous father OF all good, to be meted out
10 others.
In the arrangements Of her domestic
establishment, at a period when females
we're celebrated for their knowledge Of
household goods, Mrs. Wentworth was
unrivailed. The quick glancing eye Of
a Miss Pratt, would never have "seen a
broom, where a broom should not be-"
nor detected a mote in her deliberately
neat abode Then her dinners,-they,
like the chief d'euvre Of the Grecian ar
list, comprised tho pride of every cook,
and the perfection Of every receipt-book.
So extremely exact was she, in all the
observances of etiquette, that, by the
good people Of Boston, she was pro-
nounced the very mirror of decorum:-
and, like the mirror, her heart received
no abiding impression.
MI. Wentworth's character, was most
rich in christian graces. With him tho
sovereign good was to communicate hap
pincss; for he deemed it the first princi-
pie Of action, with the Author Of all ex-
i%stence. Happily for him, their daugh-
ter Grace possessed nom of her moth
er's traits Of character,. and it was de-
lightful to her father, to watch the grad
ual developemcnt of a disposition, SO
free iroth all that was cold, calculating,
or selfish. So fearful was he Of maxi
ing her an artificial character, that he
formed her,-with the faults of an open
and confidlng temper, and most in dan
ger Of erring from "excess Of feelings
edged too ~keenly."
Grace Wentworth had a highly cult
waited mind, though not what IS termed
n masculine one. She had judgement,
and discrimination, and taste, and a rich
beautiful Imagination, which cast its ros-
cate hues over all, and, through which
she delighted to view the world, and its
living mn and women, spiritualized and
beautiied. Her countenance expressed
every notion of her soul, and, its ami
ma'ed, varying expression, rendered it
| beantiful-most beautiful to those who
knew her, and saw how much the joyous
aud benignant emotions prevailed over
the gloomy and discontinued. Mr.. Went
worth loved his daughter with fond, en-
| crossing affe ction; aud Grace repaid his
love with attachment the most devoted.
When his spirits were depressed, she
would amuse him; when sick, she would
sooth him; and would laugh with so
much good nature, at some fancied dis
ease, that the saddest h%ypocondrIac
would have found her merrIment infec-
tons. But IN slight glance of disap-
provaI would instantly change the merry
brow and arch smile, to seriousness and
thought, and convert the laughing girl,
to the grave, intelligent companion.
Grace was admired, and it has been
said, that no female can have many ad-
mirers, without attracting them by CO.
quetry. The truth of this l doubt.
"Who can view the ripened rose, nor
seek to yea III" Who can behold
beauty, sweetness and intelligence, with
out feeling, and offering admirationf
Though Grace was moi insensible to the
praises other loneliness, she never sought
nor courted admiration, and no delicate
and pure minded female aver can.
She was accustomed in her youth to
seeing, collected around her fathers
board, the most distinguished worthless
Of the day, and they were not a few.
Thee she listened to that stern fearless,
but able republican; he, who amidst a
host Of patriotic spirits, was called the
patriot-Samuel Adams. There, too,
she saw the idol of the people, the gen.
erous, affable aud hospitable Hancock;
and the wit, sarcasm, and e.oquence Of
Otis, with the cultivated taste Of the ex-
celIent and benevolent Bowdoin, emil.
vened their social circle. One Of the
most celebrated divines and politicians
Of New-England, was also a frequent
and welcome guest. In him these char
acters were admirably united. CDR.
Cooper" observes his eulogist, "wel
knew that tyranny opposes itself to re-
ligious as well as civil liberty; and be-
ing among the first TO perceive the in
justice Of the British Court, this rever-
end patriot was among the first who took