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are deadly poison Aunt Hates heart was
| foil Of trusliu affect,on-what Of that -
what do men care for hearts or affections
They require something more solid-Iet.
tcrs of credn-blIls on Mr.. Henry Hase-
lacks of rupees golden icgo,s and such
things. Aunt Kate had none OF these,
she had her youth, her beauty, her hopes,
her freshness, her feelings, her warm and
generous feelings. Trash - what men of
anv sense cares for such frlppery, Poets
may tell you that these are the gifts fresh
es, from tie hand of Deity. Fools! they
are per,shable things at best, while the
good that men carve out with their own
haDds-honors, wealth, rank. and station
these may last a mans life. Youth
beauty are bubbles. gilt.
,erng IN the sunshine but shivering while
you BREATHE
Very pretty things for all that
! We'll, time will pass on, whether it be
a, the rate Of galopadc or q mnuet
Poor Aunt Kate found herself alone-her
youlh had left her. She looked in her
glass, and wrinkle upon wrinkle, written
in leglble lines answered her gone The
silver hairs gl,t,ered through her dark
tresses, and in no very mysterious hero.
glpyhc confirmed the word gone She
had reached q certain age. CabalIstlc
words! ep'aph Of youth and hope !-she
had passed the Rubicon. The opposites
Of the strongest passions are very nearly
allied to Aunt Kate-to cease to love was
to begin to hate
To hate? p
I Yes, even to hate. Think what injuries
she has received. You forget that every
unrepaid feeling is a debt-every unrequi.
ted affection an injury, That was an era
in Aun, Hates existence, she suddenly and
Unexpectedly inherited great wealth. II
you have ever watched the events of life,
YOU will have been struck with the fre
quency With which our wishes are granted
wher we have ceased 10 wlsh-our hopes
when we have ceased to hope success
when it is valueless-pleasnre when it no
longer pleases. A few short years before
and wealth would have bought Aunt Kate
happiness--it would have bought her friend
ship. love-
May! nay!
AT least the plated ware and she would
rever have found out the difference but |
told you she had passed the Rubicon.
Her eyes were now opened, and she cast
away from her, and fnrsRer, the dreams,
and The wishes. and the fond affections OF
her youth.
Then, after all, she was rich, handsome,
and unmarried, and my wonder returns {:
what were men doing to let her remain so
--men who all. present company excepted,
worship the golden idol 2
| If ha FL mi Of ho hov
all Immediately found Aunt Kate to be
very charming; but she had sense and
> memory, and it was not a few honied
words lha, could counierba lance the bitter
experience of years of wasted feelings and
affections. could not tell you the with.
, erlng scorn Of her rejeclions--d no; the
richest wine make the strongest vinegar
, Even the very loneliness of her nature
turned into hatred--hatred, no; of iDdvId
j, ual, but of our whole race aud Aun' Kate
vowed that none of our ungrateiu! gender
. should ever fat,en on her rich beeves.y
, Are they to be buried with her?
4 mo, she has done better han that, fol
, gold can be exhumed as we'll as buried
She has left them to her five nieces, on one
sole condition.
And that
i, is that they never marry!
+ 'Ah! on pain of forfeitnre--to whom.
% Of course to be divided among those
y who keep the conditions
But supposng tia, all violate them?'
o Scarcely n possible supposltion; but
then why, then to me, my dear fellow. o,
!, the mex, of kin. What will you give M
for my eighty thousand pounds expectancy?
p 1T Is worth specializing upon. Come
= let us calculate the chances OF your tiv'
descenis.'
IS j prize it at peppercorn. Tell me
% Charles, if you cen, If You know one maj
v in this commercial age, willing to sell him
:. sell to the bondage OF the matrimona
y yoke without remuneration. If yo
: know such a one, call him n ph9nlx-
unique; but for finding five such fools
trust that this age Of refinement could NO
produce them
You put the case disagreeably.
there dsl0,cres' edness in The world p
None. A word without q meaning--a
!. least the meaning only TO be found in tn
dictionary
= If the ladies' heard you
They have no objection to a sceptit
er But, even if five such supernumeraries
t. the earth could be- found, do yon think hos
a five girls would find an equal folly to mate
ne them, and buy new playlhing. and ne
or name, a, the price of Aunt Kate's soil
thousands
st 'You scorn the word. would say the
'e might be SO 'dlsinterested.'
Ut Fab! / am sick OF the word
~, They parted. Frederick Harrow wei
~ whittier be would it is no business of our
hu Allen Hyde did the same thing, but "
y shall take the liberty Of following him.
-. =, Allen Hyde went to his chambers H
w. spent three quarters of an hour in arraI
p" ging his curls, aud tied on five crava
hof 4 ho hon, ,loaeob hin, Ho than 10