Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1833-09-12

firmed by all the children save one. |,
was not the invalid who silently hung
her head, and hid her blushing cheeks,
as the sportsman seemed to wait anx-
iously for one invitation more to com.
plete the general welcome. After a
moments pause he fixed his looks on
Celia, and asked, in a tone which she
thought seemed to blend something OF
command with supplication,
"And will not you, fair maiden, Join
your voice to the other biddingsl Is
the tired stranger unwelcome to you
alonel Do you fear to give shelter to
the wayfarerl"
"You are welcome to the shelter of
my fathers house, Sir Stranger. Hos
pltallty never stops to take counsel from
discrction-nor do we fearto do kind
action, even though there were some
risk in it"
Celia was hurried to make this reply
by the somewhat dissatisfied looks of
her father and brothers, which rather
seemed to reproach the previous want
of courtesy, so complained of by the
stranger.
''lf there be risk, it is all on my side,
fair Celia, said the stranger, in a half
whisper, and sitting down beside the
hlushing girlwith selccommand which
was however softened by tinge of IT,
nudity. So it is, that even incipient
love teaches diffidence to the high and
lordly. When the passion is full grown
its first fruit is humility.
And it was not long before the adj
miration of Count Frederick ripened
into the most powerful attachment for
Celia. Day after day he found his way
to her fathers house-and having once
established footing of acquaintance
ship there, he was at every new visit
received with new pleasure. Unknown
in that part of the country, the good
serfs little thought who it was they en-
tertained, ard his modest bearing only
allowed them to believe that he was a
young man of gentle blood, amusing
himself, as he asserted, with the sports
which abounded in that neighborhood.
His numerous presents of game, and
his constant appearance in the accou-
trements of the chase, gave proofs in
support of the character he assumed,
and it was never questioned openly by
any of the family.
Franz Richter, for such was the
name he assumed, was quickly great
favorite with his new friends--at least
with those of the good peasants who
seemed inclined to admit him to the ia
miliarity of that term. But in the
manner of Celia there was a constant
reserve which would have driven FIRE.
derrick to despair, had not evident plea.
sure in his society as constantly strug-
gled through it. He saw that he had.
even in despite of all her prudence, her
modesty, and an evident, yet unpreme.
ditated air of respect, whenever she
listened to or addressed him, gained
great ground in her regard; and once
or twice, when Selling some fair occa
sion, he pressed on her with unwontec
warmth of language, she blushed anc
sighed, and gave such token of sympa
thy, that he believed for moment al
that his excited hopes suggested.
But Celia as instantly recovered from
these lapses of the heart. She started
back as if affrighted at the discovery
of her danger, and her looks seemed t.
carry reproach to her temper and re
morse to herself.
Thus three weeks rapidly passed by
Count Frederick was in no mood t
reckon time nor calculate dangers
Yet the long absence from his father
court and the chances of his being re
cognized, at intervals struck forcibl'
upon his thoughts, and finally he hear
the warning. He felt it necessary t
bring to a termination this romanti
freak. He had never before devote
1.-THE of the time to complete con
quest. The triumphs of the great owe
the lowly are, alas too soften read
made. Yet there was something S
delightful in this new method of low
making, and in the exquisite suspens
il entailed on the lover, and he shrun
back at the notion of success. Strang
perversion of feeling! Strange anc
molly of sensation! Yet, who has M
felt it,
While thus lingering in the doubl
, influence of his passion, he one evenin
bent his way to his accustomed haun
, and his road lay through one of thos
secluded little glens which run up in
many places from the river betwee
, two shadowing and wood covered hill
: Scarcely had he entered this solitud
3 when he saw female figure gatherir
herhs nv the side of the little strea