Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-02-09

expression OF Countenance that gave them perhaps
their chief effect, took even the hardened nature
OF Houseman by surprise; he affected by an emo
ton when he could not have believed II possiole
the man, who till then had CALLED hlm by the hum
bling sense Of inferiority, could have created
He extended his hand to Aram' by -, ne
exclaimed. with an oath which we spare the read
er. you are right! you have made me as helpless
in your hands as an infant. | accept your offer
If | were to refuse it. | should be driven to the
same courses l now pursue. But luok you; l
know not what may be the amount of the annul-
" YOU can raise. shall not, however, require
more than will satisfy wants, which, 1t not so scan
ty as your own, are not at least very extravaganza
or very refined. As for the rest, if there be any
surplus, in Gods name keep it for yourself, and
rest assured that. SO far as | am concerned, you
shall be mOlested no more No., Houseman.'
said Aram. with a half smile, you shall have ALL
have first mentioned; that is. all beyond what ma
ture Graves, honorably and fully. Mans best re-
solutions are weak: If you knew | possessed ausht
to spare, a fancied want, a pomentary extraVa-
gance, might tempt YOU to demand IT.. Let US
put ourselves beyond the possible reach OF Temp
tation. But do not 1atter yourself 6y the hope
that the income will be magnificent. My annul-
ty is but trifing, and the half OF the dowry | ex-
meet from nv future father-in.law isall that | can
"A Il ODtdtus hC "tOlS vi tioN 'p"fT 10
insignificant as a sum. Bat if this does not suf-
fee for YOU. l must beg or borrow elsewhere
This, after all. is a pleasanter. way OF settling
business said Houseman, than by threats aud
anger. And now | will tell you exactly the sum
on which, if | could receive it yearly | could
live without looking beyond the pale of the law
for more-on which l could cheer fully rennunce
England, aud commence : the honest man. But
then. bark you, | must have half settled on my
little daughter What! have YOU a child?' said
Aram eagerly. and well pleased to find an adj.
tional securityfor his own safety. 'Ay, a little
girl, my only one, in her eighth year; she lives
with her grandmother, for she is motherless; and
that girl must not be left p%eniless. should | be
summoned hence before my time. Some twelve
months hence-as poor Jane PROMISES to be pretty
she will be married off my hands; but her child
hood must not be left to the chances of be-
gary or shame"
Such is the compact; for its consequences we
refer the reader to the work itself. We close
with one or two chance extracts.
"There Is a certain charm about great superb
uritv OF intellect that winds into deep affections,
which . much more constant and even amlabii.
ty of manners in lesser men, often fails To reach.
Genius, makes many enemies, but it makes sure
friends-friends who forgive much, who endure
long, who exact little; they partake of the cha
racter Of disciples as we'll AS friends. There lin
gers about the human heart a strong inclination
to iook urward-to revere; IN this inclination lies
the source of religion, of LOYALTY, and also of the
worship and immortality which are rendered SO
cheerfuily tn the grea, Of old. And, in truth, it
Is a divine pleasure to admire! admiration seems
IN one MEASURE to appropriate to ourselves the
qualities II honors in others. We we'd, we root
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and their life grows a Part of our own. Thus
when a great man. who has engrossed our thoughts,
our conjectures, our homage, dies, a gap seems
suddenly left in the world--a wheel in the me.
cfanism of our own being appears abruptly still
ed; a portion Ut ourselves, and not our worst por-
tion-fur how many pure, high, generous senti.
ments it contains!-die with him."
Autumn.
Along the sere and melancholy wood the
autumna winds crept, with a lowly but gather
ing moan. Where the water held his course, a
damp aud ghostly mist clogged the air: but the
skies were cain, and checkered only by a few
clouds, that swept in long. white, spectral streaks
over the solemn stars. Now and then the ba.
wheeled swiftly round, almost touching the fig
ure of the student, as he walked musingly on
ward. And the owl, that before the month wa
ned many DAYS, would be seen no more in that
region, came heavily from the trees. like a guilty |
thought that deserts It's shade 1t was one OF those
nights, half dim, half glorious, which mark the
early decline of the wear. Nature seemed rest
less and instinct with change: there were those
signs in the atmosphere which leave the most ex-
perienced IN doubt whether the morning may rise
in storm or sunshine. And in this particular Pc
riod the skiey influences seem to %tincture the ami
nal life with their own mysterious and hayward
spirit of change. The birds desert their summer
haunts ian lnaecountable inquie,udc pervades the
brute creation; even men IN this unsettled sea-
son have considered themselves more (than 9th
ers) stirred by the motion. and whisperings of
genius. And every creature that flows up
on the tide Of the universal life of things, feels
upon the ruffled surface the mighty and solemn
change which is at work within its depths"
We have allowed ourselves brief space TO al
Jude to the minor characters. though the epithe,
will scarcely apply to the noble and beautiful
Madeline; but we should do scan grace to our en-
tertainment, if we did not commend to special
a certain corporal, quite "a man of the
world" We have closed these volumes with re.