Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1830-04-22

wstohfulness Of good spirits over the purity
OF her child, that she may weave round her a
defence stronger than steel--thAt she may
place in her heart living amulet whose vir-
tue 10 like circle Of FIRE TO pollution. Ian
net "stinging pearls have seen, and |
know, that an empty mind il not strong cit
adel, and to the melancholy chronicle Of fe-
male ruin the instances are rare Of victims
distinguished for mental cultivation. would
that my pen we're "the point OF a diamond. y
and were writing on living hearts, for when
1 think how the daughters OF a house are its
grace and honor and when think how the
father and mother that loved her. and The
brother that made her his pride, and the sister
IN whose bosofn she slept, are all crushed.
utterly, by daughters degradation, feel.
that II every word were q burning coal. my
Language could not De extravaganza
nay pupil had. 40 yet, read no poetry |
was uncertain how to enter upon It. Her
caste for the beautiful in prose had become 50
decided, that feared for the FIRST impression
OF my poetical world. wished ii to burst
upon her brillianiiy--Iike the entrance to an
inner and more magnificent temple OF knowl.
sdys. hoped TO dazzle her with high and
unimagined beauty. which should exceed far
the massive but plain splendors Of PHILOSOPHY.
We had often eonversed on the probability
OF a previous existence, and one evening u
pensd Wordsworth, and read his sublime
"Ode upon limitations Of Immortality" She
did not interrupt me, but | looked up at
the conclusion and she was in tears. made
no remark, but took Byron. and read some oil
the finest passages In Childc Harold. and
Cain--and from that time, poetry has been
her world!
feThe world had become to Caroline new
place. No change in the season was indifer-
ent TO hsr---r-othing was common or familiar.
She found beauty in things you would pass
by, and a lesson for her mind or heart Ia the
minutestworkmanship OF nature. Her char
acter assumed cheerful dignity, and an clc-
walton above ordinary amusements or annoy-
ances- She was equal and calm, because her
feelings were never reached BY ordinary irri-
taaons: and, II there were no other benefit in
cultivation, this were almost argument enough
to induce it.
at is now five years since commenced
my tutorship. have given you the historv
Of two OF them. In the remaining three there
has been much that has interested my mind
probably little that would interest yours
we have read together. and, as far as posi-
bic, studied together.
"She hos walked with mo, and shared all
my leisure and known every thought She
is now woman Of eighteen. Her childish
graces are matured, and her blue eye would
send thrill through you. You might object
to her want of fashionable tosnnme, and find
fault with her unia shienalde impulses. I do
not. She is a high-minded, noble, impassion-
ed being-with an enthusiasm that's not With
out reason, and a common sense that is not 4
regard to self interest Her melton was not
learnt at sckools, but it is unep,basrassed and
free, and her tone has not been educated to
refined whisper, but itexpresses the meaning
Of her heart A. If its very pulse had become
articulate. The many might not admire
---ubt know the few would idolize her
~Our Intercourse is as intimate st,il; and Il
could not change without being less so--for
we are constantly together. There is--to be
sure--iately--a slight degree Of cmbarraas-
Observation-Disclosures read more poetry
than we used to debut it is nothing at ALL
nothing
My friend was married TO his pupil few
months after writing tbs foregoing. He has
written to me since, and will show yoa the
latter Il you call, any time. 1t will not do to
print it, because there are some domestic de-
tails not proper for the general eye, but to
me, who am bachelor, bent upon matrimony,
il is interesting to the last degree. He lives
the same quiet, retired iifa, that he did before
he was married. His room is arranged with
the same taste, and with reference to the
same habits as before. The light comes in az
timidly through the half closed window, and
his pictures look as shadowy and dim, and
the rustic of the turned leaf adds as mysteri-
ously to ths silence. He is the fondest of
husbands, but his affections do not encrosch
on the habits of his mind. Now and then he
looks up from his book, and, resting bis head
upon his hand, lets his eye wander over the
pale cheek and dropping lid Of the being who
sits reading beside him; but he soon returns
to bis half forgotten page, and the smile Of
affection which had stolen over his features
fades gradually away in the habitual sober
ness OF thought There sits bis wife. hour
after hour, in the same chair which she occu-
pied when she first came, curious loitersr to
bis room; and though she does not study SO
much, because other cares have claim upen
her now, she still keeps pace with him in the
pleasanter branches Of knowledge, and they
talk as often and as earnestly as before on the
thousand topics Of a scholars contemplation.
ILsgendmy
Brake de Gig.--A Frenchman once kept
livery stable in this city, who could sLeak