The Delaware register, or, Farmers', manufacturers' & mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1829, 1829-03-21


expression of anxiety, of enreaty, OF reproach and
despair, which impending dissolution only could con-
vey. A convulsve cry escaped him. 1t was repeat
ed in DEEPER wilder tone. sudden plunge was
heard. There stiffness around met was the
stiffness of death.
I" / returned to the house by long and circuitous
route and Immediately, reaching it, gave the alarm
His body was found hour afterwards. | did not
see it, was pressed to do so, but replied-they were
the only words of truth that passed my lips for many
years-that ing feelings Mould not alloo me-
" Within two years afterwards Adela was mine
Z" had now realized the widest wish of my heart.
Sin Ihad committed aggravated misunderstanding
overwhelming. | had earned-lairy earned its
wages. Fortune was mine. Rank was mine The
being had so long and SO hopelessly loved, was mine.
There was living creature TO dispute my will or
control my wishes. Perhaps it may be asked, was /
happy Happy From the very day my brother died,
| never knew the meaning of the term. Soon-yery
soon retribution overlook me. The Almighty visited
me early with his chastisements was passonately
fond of children. There other reasons which
rendered me earnest and imporunate in this petition
| was the last of my race. The name of Moyston so
nobly descended-the title of no recent creation
would die with me. The extensive domains would, in
that case, enrich family who had already aggrand-
sed themselves at expense, and whose very men
ton was hateful to For these powerful reasons
independent of my passionate attachment to infancy,
i was anxious beyond description for living repre-
sentative. Years rolled on was cnILDLEss!
Conscience gradually resumed her sway The
figure of drowning brother pursued me like sha-
dow. Night and day-at home and abroad-in soc-
ETY. and in solitude-his image stood before me- My
health began to show symptoms of decay. Medical
science resorted to- My attendants pronounced
me nervous-hypocondracal recommended change
of air-of scene ; hurried off to Brghton--to
Chetenham and prescribed tonic medicines and
nutritious diet =
" Pshaw despised their prognostics. laughed
to their scfsuicient ignorance, and the conf
aence with which they boosted of their ability to
NV m'lady was beyond their art; and | knew it
Nv symptoms we're a wounded conscence-my suf-
ferings arose from the anguish of remorse-my fe-
vesh days and restless nights had their origin in those
bitter feelings of selfreproach, which, like the vuI-
ture oi Prometheus, preyed increasingly upon my vi
tails md but too lively. an emblem of the worm
that never dies
g After melancholy sojourn at Malvern, Harrow
gate Buxton, and half dozen other places sacred to
foy and fashion, returned to Mountsfeld with de-
eided increase of malaCy. 1t had now reached such
height, that was unable to encounter human eye.
Sleep fnrsook That clear, sweet, soft voice for
eve rung i'll my heard it above the swell of
the 2ealing organ-above the waves of the ocean as
they rolled in thunder the shore-n the silence of
midnight--in the glare Of noon-day-in the song-in
Che dance go where would, still invisible mon
itor sounded in nv ears" Henry, dear Henry, Sare
me-sdre me n
g endeavored to sooth my wounded spirit by acts
of the most unbounded charity. | would fain have
krbed Heauen by life of the most extensive benevo-