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

reason, for discovered but too SOON that Adela's
beauty, her innocence, her msfortunes, and the air of
cheerful resignation with which she submitted to their
PRESSURE had made powerful and permanent-impres-
sion on my brothers. heart saw that had no chance.
And yet Adela's return to her lovers passion was
cold and faint In the extreme. Living in his imme
date MISUNDERSTANDING hour by hour, of his
unbounded benevolence his unaffected piety, his hui
miity, his respected she esteem
ed-but no, she loved him. To her mother his
wealth, his rank, his generous easy temper were ire
slstible. Mrs De Courcey smiled upon his suit ]
was bankrupt in affection from that very hour For
the first time now felt that younger brother:
for the first time my heart swelled with envy and AMI
mostly towards the unsuspectng Walter for the first
time regarded with feelings of satisfaction his sen-
der form and sckly habit treasured up the passing in
dications of decacy of constitution-and calculated
YES actually calculated, whether it was not possible
might survive him. And then better feelings would
RETURN and would oppose to those baneul, but
esCent emotions, my purity of intention and rec
titude of heart
Preparations for the marriage were in progress
Instructions had been ssused for the settlements; and
the ceremony stood fixed for the day on which MY
brother would attain his majority The feelings of
my mind strangely harmonised with the of Tie
year. 1t was far advanced in autumn tie trees
almost stripped of their foliage; TIE dow lay Trick
upon the grass the landscape entne!Y shrouded
with vapor, excepting where sgitsTy Sunbeam
ed to struggle with the mist the woods were silent;
and not single sign of life enlvened tire monntany
of the scene, save where the dusky livery of huge
old fir contrasted by the brilliant berries OF the
mountain ash. It was nature in her sepulchre.
"My brother challenged me to walk On NOR
ming cherries and gloomy as that which have been
describing, | the invitation contemplated
some particular object Nor was / mistaken. He
announced to me in form, his intended marriage
spoke to me most confidentiay, most unreservediy-
unfoded all his plans for the present. his prospects for
the future-apprised me, in the most delicate terms,
of the addition which he had deemed it right to make
to younger brothers portion-and again, and again
assured me, that neither time circumstances could
effect the slightest dminuton in his love.
Engaged in earnest conversations we had reached
rayine in the grounds. 1t was spot sad and solita
ny but wild and picturesque in the extreme. Ivy
mantled its sides in some places and in others oaks
and holly bushes whose roots found nourislment in
the crevices of the rock, excluded the light of day,
and half concealed the torrent which foamed below.
The weeping willow and the moumful cypress waved
DER its waters. At little dist lower down. the
sream--now brawling and foaming in hasty current,
now whiring in deep and circular eddes-was Joined
by sluggish and slumbering rivulet, and became
very considerable sheet of water Its depth, at
the side, was upwards of fifteen feet.
"Heedessy lettering ON the brink, and pointing to
some recent Improvements, my brother faltered and
fell into the flood The slightest motion on my part
would have saved him the least effort without incur
ring any risk, any danger to myself would have been
sufficient to avert his fate the very saplng which lay
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