The Arkansas advocate., 1830-06-02

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 { There is never a sweet without it: l bitter,' he said, " often when that belov. ; cd girl and l have walked along the vernal shore of the lake by the mansion of her father, as gazed upon her speak
 ing eye and sinless brow, have thought myself utterly unworthy of her affection. She is too full of etherlal purity for my guilt-tainted soul. You know, what sh6 does not, that ] am Q sceptic. Her ductile and elastic spirits full of praise to God when she looks upon his works works. f Often she has spoken to me of the mer- cies ofheaven, in making us so supreme ly happy in our love; and like all her sex iler wonlan's heart seems to forbode evil from the transitory nature of the things of tE.is world. How many times. as we have reposed beneath the trellised vines of her fathers garden, have | pressed her to my throbbing bosom, and kissed away the tears which sensibility had drawn to her cheelzi But am half-moralizing! Itis sombre theme, with all delight; and I'll give 1t up for something more collaborating. Do you love Burgundy?
 As he made this interrogation, he went to his closet, and drew forth bot tie of the 9sateyiat thereffom; he cut the wax from its top, and drawing the long cork from locaaa tenens which it had held while in the south of France, and while tilted upon the Atlantic, he filled a glass and presenting it to me, filled another for himself. ] refused his offer to renew my draught, and soon after retired.
 WhenI awoke in the morning, the room was full of the smoke of the lamp, and Graham had not been in bed. The wine had disappeared from the bottle, and tlac lamp vas upset upon the mini ature which he had laid upon the table, and 1t was broken. Graham was stupi- 1 fled with wine, and his face looked fe- verish and sick. The loss of his nGnia- tufe was source of deep regret; and he lamented it as a fearful omen for the future.
 Three months from that morning c Ira ham sailed for England. lis educa= ton was by no means complete; but he was the idol of an indulgent and veal thy father; who had long fapoured his determination to make tourto Europe. If ever parted with friend with re- gret, it was from EyERARD GRAHAM. He had his faults; bat maugre them all, loved him. We vowed mutual and abiding friendship, and a constant cor fespoudenee, and as my design of visit ing England was well known and ap- proved ofby my parents, hesitated not to pledge myself to meet him in the British metropolis, as soon as my minori- ty should have expired.
 Two years after, during which time l had not heard a word of my ffiend, l was in London. ] will not attempt to describe my feelings as our majes- tic vessel glided up the Thames. Ii was a beautiful day in September, when 1 first saw at a distance the cloud ol smoke which overhung the British Cap. itol. Oddly enough, the weather was clear; and the yellow sui lit up the countless sails that were passing to and fro, with a singular beauty. In short space found myself in Picl<et-street, 1T the neighborhood of Waterloo Bridge and Temple Bar; anon, was mingling with the restless crowd that moved a. long Fleet-street to Ludgate Hill. soon saw St. Paui's--that mighty edi- l fee, whose towering dome looks down 1 upon the riches andpoverty-the happi- ness and misery of nearly two millions of immortal souls.
 l Ipass over the pleasure and the new ness of enjoyment, with which l looked upon the wonders of London, after my l letters of introduction had been deliver cd, and my check bad been honored 'by
 my banker. 1t was to me kind of e pooh, when first saw the pace of Re
 gent-street Quadrant, and when l walk ed up Great Russell street to Drur, Lane Theatre. The inquiries l hae made among my friends for Graham however, had ali proved nearly ineffec tuai. He had brought introductory let ters to some of them, and was known a lounger at the New England Coffee }, House, previous to his leaving Londol , for the Continent.
 ,, l was one day returning to my Hotel | after visit to the famous Abbey 0 Il Westminster, when the thought strucl me that l would return on the river. , accordingly chartered small boat nea