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rural festivals and holyday pastimes, and
still kept up some faint observance of the
Eo4ce opuIor rites of May. These indeed
had been promoted by It's present pastor;
who was lover of old customs, and one
Of those simple Christians that drink their
mission fifiled by promoting joy on
earth and good will among manknd. Tn
der his auspices the may.pole stood from
year 10 year in the centre Of The village
green; on May day it was decorated with
garlands and strsaners: and queen or
lady Of the May was appointed, as in for
mer times, to preside at the sports, and dis
tribute The prizes and rewards, The pic
lureoqnc situation of tho village, and fan
ciIulness OF lis rustic etes, would often at
;racl The notice OF casual yistcrS. Among
these, on one My day was a young off :
Ger, whose reginent had been recently
Chartered in lhe neiSbborhood. lie was
charmed with the native taste that preva
ded ibis village pageant; but above all,
with ths dawning Ioveliness Of the queen
dfMty. 1t was the village ftvorltc, who
was crowned with hjwers, and bIushing
aud smiling 10 all the beautiful confusion
OF girlish dilfidcnce aud delight The
arlessness of rural habits enabled him
readily 10 make her acquaintance; he
gradually won his way into har intimacy
and paid bis court to her 10 that unthink
ing way in which young oai?ers are Too
apt 10 trIAs with rustic simplicity.
There was nothing ia bis advances to
startIe or alarm lie never ever talk &c
of love; but there are modes Of making it
more eloquent than language and which
convey ii subtieIy and irresistably inTS
Tie heart. The beam Of thu eye, the tone
on the voice, the thousand teudernesses
which emNnate from every word, and
look, and acIion they form the true elo
quence oiIove, ard can almost be felt and
understood, but never described. Can
we wonder that they should readily win a
helr4 young, gnileIess an susceptible.
AS to her, she loved almost unfnnscl0us
Iy; she scarcely inquired what was the
growing passion that was absorbing eve
ry thought and feeling or what we're 10
oe its consequences S1o indeed, looked
not to the future. When present, his
locks and words occupied her Whole at
tention; when abseut, she thought but of
what had passed at their recent iater
D view. She would wander with him
through the green lanes and rural scenes
Of the vicinity. Ha taught her to sec new
beauties in nnture; he talked in the Ian
gudge Of polite and cultivated life and
oraalhtd into her ear the WiIchclles Of
= romlnco and poetry. ...a.. s1
Perhaps there could not have been a
passion, between the sexes, more pure
than this innocent girls. The gallant
figure ut her youthfal admirer, and the
splendor Of his military attire, might at
first have charmed her eye, hut II was
notth }se that had capliyltcd her heart,
Her auachmont hid something in it OF
idoalry. she looked pto hn rs be
Iinl Of IA superior order. Sac fell in his so.
ciaty the enthu,l sm Of IA mind naturally
dellcae ard poelical, and now first AVA
kened to keen perception Of the grand
and beautiful. OF the sordid distractions
OF rank aud fortune she thought nothlng;
y. It was the difference OF intellect, OF de-
meAnor. Of manners, from those of the
rode rustic sorIe,y TO which she had been
, accu stoned, that elevated him IN her o.
, pnion. She would listen TO him with
chIrmLd ear aud downcast look of mute
delight, and her cheek would mantle
with calhdsIusn: or it ever she veutured
sv gIance OF admiration, it was as
quickly withdrawn, and she would sigh
aud blush at the idea of her comparative
. unworlhiness.
r Hor Iovo was equally inpassioned ;
a but his passion was mingled with ieel
(. ings ola coarser nature. lie had began
r The connection in levity; fer he had OIien
. heard his brother officers boast Of thei
q village conquests, and thought some trl
n umph Of the kind necessary to his reputi
n ton as a man Of spirit. But he was toc
i full Of youthful fervor, His hear: haC
q not yet been rendered sufficiently col,
a and selfish by wandering and a dissipi
" ted life; il caught fire from the very fam
! it sought to kindle, and before he wa
u aware OF the nature of his situation he b
q came really irl love. ... ..,..r
ID What was he TO do2 There were tn
Va old obstacle which so necessarily occu
10 IN these needless attachments. His ris
e; in hie--the preIudices of titled conneA
mt ions-his dependence upon proud an
We unyielding father-all forbade him I
Of think Of fmltrimory;-but when he looE
i'll ed down upon this innocent being, SO tel
at der and confding, there was purity
at her manners, IA blamecssncss in her Ilt,
he and beseeching mudesty in her look
Ter that awed down every lcentious feelin:
.ly In vain did he try to lortify himself by
: thuusl nd heartIess examples Of men I
eli fashion, and 10 chill the glow Of generol
MS, sentiment, with the cold dcrisive Levitt