Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1837-01-06

ph9n child, and bred up ~ great sGcIus'on
in clcrgvlnans family in western New
York She was, in n word, the young
en,husias, whom the Rev. Mr.. B had
chosen Us wife for his Missionary friend.
and prevailed upon her to encounter a six
months voyage through stormy attitudes.
for the purpose Of connecting herself tor
life will, man she had never seen. did
not express sympathy that would be
useless in her situation, much less did
give vent TO the indignation which her
story filled me: her iana,ical friends. who
permitted a young. beautiful, and deli
cate female, to take so wild n stop. had.
perhaps, after all, acted from the best Of
motives. Indeed. the poor thing herself.
though no, exactly proud of having been
chosen 10 the station. she was about to fiji.
seemed about to enter upon IT with all the
exalted feeling of one who Is on the certain
road to n pretermeDi which most Of her sex
might envy. 1t would have been very
cqulvocnl kindness to have interposed
another view of the subject, and disturbed
the honest convictions of propre,y which
could alone have sustained her IN u situation
tor woman, So appalling.
accompanied Alice Vcrc-Gr such
learned her name 10 bc.-,o the vessel and
after bidding her kind farewell. | took an
opportunity while passing over The side. to
whisper few words TO the captain, which
might induce hun 10 believe tina, she was
not so trIcnd'csi as she appeared TO be. and
secure hcr Whatever attention il was in his
power to-utfer. la the morning. having n
fcw moments to spare before breakfast.
again s'rolcd down TO the pier. but the
whaler had hoistcd sail with the dawn, and
a brisk wind mad already carried her ou:
into The Sound; nor was it TIL years after
that heard gain the name of Alice We're
and learned the issue Of her voyage: tho
tho name and features and voice Of her
who bore It, did, | confess. long haunt me.
1t was too pretty a name bought to be
changed lightly, and somehow. when
heard 1t, could not for the life of me, ask
That mo which il was To be merged forev
or. The rest of her story learned from
u friend. whose vessel being driven from
her course IN coming from the East Indies.
stopped ut tic *S***** Islands to water.
where he casually heared the fate Of The
Missionary girl.
The tender md mag inaiivc temperament
of Alice We're, though perhaps il impe..
led her to make the sacrifice for which che
was schooleL by those VITO cn'ed ,heu.
selves her friends, but ,y fitted her for the
cold destiny to which she was condemned
TIE imagination of any wonan. isolated
upon the grra, deep tor six long months,
with nothing to think of bn, the stranger
husband, to whose arms she was consigned.
could not be active, Whatever her meutll
discipline might be. But With g,r Of
fancy, who had taken step SO ire,ricv.
obie, when surrounded by approving aud
encouraging friends, VIVA, must have been
her emotions In the solitude Of her own
CABIN, when such an influence such a
sustaining atmosphere of opinion was
wholly withdrawn. Doubt and fear would
at frs, creep into her mind aud when these
dIsheartenlng guests could no longer be
controlled by Fictitious no; Ions Of! duty,
fancy would throw her fairy veil around
their forms, and pain, some happy term
nation of prospect so fOrbdd,ng. And
thus was 1t with Alice We're. Anxiety soon
yielded to hope; her future husband aud
her future house filed her mind with
thousand dreaming fancles. She was no
romance reader, and therefore could not
make n hero of the future partner OF her
bosom ; bnl s1Int he indeed might be,
a saint, too, not less in form han in godli. |
ness, for the association of physical and
moral beauty is al,Cos, insepcrable IN the
minds Of the young and the inexperienced.
She imagined him too, as one who, though
not Choking from Nature up to Natures
God" for God mus, be first and all ~ al
with him" would still be one whose mind
would Look from he Creator to his works. |
with soul to appreciate al their eXCellen
cics. The 'anclcd portrait OF her future
husband was laid m simple though impress |,
sive coors, but the back ggound Of It e pic, |
iure was filled with all he spiendors Of
tropical cline, Of groves such as the early
Christians wandered through in Grecian ,
isles, and skies, such as bent over Him who
taught beneath them in the golden orient.
True, she was to be ex|ed for ever from
the sheltered scenes and quiet tireside of
her youth; but would she not be content
to rove tor ever with one only companion
whose soul could fully symDaihize with
hers in scenes so fresh and 81 Elysiau.
With mind soliened, if not encrvated,
by these day dreams not less than by the
bland aud voluptuous cline in which they
had been for soma time sailing, Alice We're
could scarcely suppress scream OF delight
when upon coming on deck one morning, she
| found that the ship had cast anchor IN The
beautinl bay Of ****, where her widest WIS.,
ons oftroplcal scenery seemed more than
realized. The water around the ship was
as clear as the mountain streams Other native
conr'ry: and the palm trees and cocous that
ben over ii lifted their slender columns, and
waved their luied heads against a sky more
| purely bright than any she had ever bcheld
! w'ulo clouds Of tropical birds Of The most
dazzling p'umagc sailed along the shores, or
'poned around tho vessel as if wholly regard
/ less Of man.
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