The Delaware register, or, Farmers', manufacturers' & mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1829, 1829-10-17

crooked and ookng choose from ana no great
choice of them ether know which end of the wood you
grow att said Jane tossing her head From that moment
however, che considered herself wood, and was terribly
afraid lest she should be able to suit herself among the
tai straight goodlookng trees but vowng at the same
me that she did get the other end, she would never
of the crooked walking sticks Yet as she had
very audabe dread dying old mad and as the love she
barganed for in her mind, good homeiy every
day sort ovea that would stand and tear, and
get of fashion too soonshe did not absolutely de-
SPAR of finding such commodity, though she was almost
twenty.
Such the medaons, the doubts, and the msgivngs
the light hearted Jane but not such the medtaons
the doubts the misgvng of her fair cousin Agnes
feared lest she should OUe rather, lest she should love too
oon and be doomed experience that utter wrechedness
of loving, wisely at s but too we'll Afterwards
She had proved and she had sometimes sbrnnk with dsma
from the proof that she susceptible of those impress
sons which akin love- than might be compatible with
her future happness and those very symptoms upon which
Jane sportvey rallied her. to herself the source
of many bitter orebodngs Yes!' she would often mental
" exclam it true; hare thought myself love- and
have thought how best my condition might become while
the dream lasted my hand could have follow heart But
few short dspelrd the dream and then, alas have
only thought how miserable must have been my lot my hand
had followed my hearth II the dread Of such fate as
this haunted hers the dread that in some siminr dream
some of passion fanced devotion Of her SOUL
she should approach the ALTAR and awaken afterwards the
tremendous knowledge sense Oh
remained of the glowing vision These idle seftor
mentngs for she needed remember what had BEEN
add what might been, and the dark picture once
There had been when she believed the
passon-whch some hearts feel. and which human
heart ever felt twice1oas rosed and she only knew
not because its resemblance had died before herself
At other she pursued by fancies which, though
but fances had possible, perhaps prophetic, reality for
her Night she love- and her sad heart be
her love cradle and tomb '-ke flower that
blossoms in the Wilderness exhaes Perfume fades and
dies! Even as such flower might love itself the
solitude of her heart, called forth without her will, and
dropping decay in its whitening soil! 1t wonder,
therefore, that poor Agnes dwet sometimes with melancho.
orebodng upon the subect and she had burst the fet
tiers of Of those gloomy musings when her merry
rave SO false an Interpretation the hegho with which
terminated.
AGNES Fzroy, the youngest of numerous family, all
of had survived their father, general officer of dis
nguised character who fell the battle of Waterloo Two
of his had ced the profession, third
the navy the eldest had acquired celebrity d
ponast She had FIVE sisters who all married. but
" two Of them resided in England Agnes lived with her
mother at their family Worcestershire, within short
distance of Malvern and commanding extensive view Of
beautiful scenery including part of Hereordshire, which
stretches from the base of the lofty ridge of Malvern hills
Jane Douglass who niece of Mrs Fitzroys, had been
brought up by her from her infancy Her father private
gentleman good property when she only about
years old had sacrificed his valuable life in Difference to that
absurdty which requires that man should stand
to be shot before he honoraby acknowledge he is