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

these fair cousins each other upon subject which they
both afraid discuss sober strain But though
they shared fear that fear had origin
Jane and Agnes nearly of the age the former
however, having the advantage Il certain, by the BY
that ladies accustomed call advanage) over the
by eight months she being almost twenty and
Agnes almost out OF her They had been brought M
under the roof educated in the school, and from
their cradles to the period of which speaking
had been snch nseparabe companions daily occupa
ons and amusemens of their whole lives, that either might
have addressed the other the language of fond recollection
used by Helena to Hernia
Is all the counsel that we two have shared
The sisters vows, the hours that we have spent
When we have child the hasty footed time
For parting us-oh, now, is all forgot!
All schooldays' friendship, childhood innocence!
We, HERNIA, like two artificial gods,
Have with our needles created both flower
Both on sampler, sitting cushion,
Both warbling of one song both in one key;
AS if our hands, sides, and minds,
Had been incorporate. So we grew together
Like to double cherry; seeming parted,
But yet union in partition,
Two lovely berries moulded on stem;
So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart,
Two of the first like coats in heraldry
Due but to one, and crowned with one CREST
But whatever the sympahies and the hidden
the and to themselves unknown
bonds of attachment which held them togehenaure GER
any formed two creatures less alike all those ys
qualities of mind and by which they were dis
ngushed Jane had such exuberant flow of spirits
that the most amusing thing imaginable to her
opsy endeavong be serious Her mirth never broad
coarse; had nothing of the hoyden the romp ;
but it kind of constitutional viVacty inexhausbe
spring salient gaety, which flashed necessarily sparkling
radiance from her eyes, burst in foc humo from her lips
Every day she lived she shed tears but because
times every day she laughed till they and cloud
less had been her sunshine hitherto that they almost
only she could ecoect she did she'd This perpe
ual of the mind impaired corresponding glow and
animation her manner, freshness and genial warmth TO
all her actions which made her presence the signal for merry
looks and cheerful DISCOURSE Her nmbe and elastic STEP as
she entered nearly irresistible invitation
up for quadrie the sound of fiddle; while the
smile that played about her mouth
say Come, good folks, let laugh at world that only
laughs at us!And then her augh-it such clear
hearty chucklng augh-there such breadth harity
spread all her features, dmpng her smooth vermIon
cheeks and glsenng her liquid eyes, that, without saying
word it failed to provoke chorus of Cycling ono
how miscellaneous the company from the asthmatic
wheeling of seventy, down the shl carong of seven
Agnes Fitzroy, on the contrary, though no foe to
Mods, and becks, and wreathed smiles,''
had within her Christening spirit of pensve sobriey, which
kept her from rising to the height of mpetuous
gaety her The sbe faculty strong in
her. neither the perception of the really udcrous
disposition to the udicrous words actions