The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1838-10-31

unhappy differences -"
II was not my father interrupted Jea-
ME, suddenly reused from the s,upor into
which this meeting had thrown her, by her
cousins alusion 10 the family quarrel be-
tween Sir Douglas and his nephew am
sure,-that is, think, added she, blush
ing at her own vehemence, that he will be
glad to receive you
Well said young Douglas, will de-
pend on your hope and who knows but
before leave Bath, may make all friends
here nnd in Scotland am q very spoil
ed child added he, again smiling, and
will make my father bid me to come back
to him
Jeanie's wish might have been father
to the thought that Douglas Crane would
be a welcome visi,er in her home but her
prophecy certainly was not verified. With
gloomy sullenness Aberfoy gazed on the
cheerful, handsome lad, who stood in his
own sons place, and rebutted all attempts
to please him. Sometimes, too, IA word
or II tone that reminded him of his boys, or
the mention of people aud places in that
spot he had once called his own, wrung
from him bitter CALCULATIONS, il! calculated
10 concliate either Sir Douglas on young
Creme. AT length, when the latter found
that his presence made Aberfoy always
gloomy, generally bitter, and sometimes
actually savage, he ceused 10 come, save on
rare intervals, to his house; and trusted in
meeting Jeanie nt little parties, or in her
rambles with aunt Nanny, who was de-
lighted 10 encourage the friendship aud af-
feciion between the two cousins.
| One evening, one summers evening, the
cousins sat together on rustic bench in n
garden. (Where aunt Nanny was, | know
not, but II is certain she was not with them.)
They talked of old days, for it was seldom
very seldom, t.ey trusted themselves to
speak of the future and Jeanie had been
eloquently describing the loneliness of her
unloved childhood, and the misery of those
early years, when suddenly Douglas Creme
snatcl,ed her To his heart, and while he
covered | or brow, cheek, and lips with kisses
he exclaimed, /" But you shall never be
lonely any more, Jeanie; never, neuer y
They were interrupted, or perhaps h,
might have said more, (though he certninl,
did not seem to intend it y but little as b.
had said, and vague as that little was, timit
and meek as Jeanie wns justly accounted
and unaccHstomed rs she was to lovers
language /; II is certain that she thus con
strued the sentence which had been spoken
by her cousin, as for the fifieth iiu,e she
hid he. face in her hands and blusIlcd over
the memory Of his kisses. He loves me
he will marry mel am never to be
lonely again !" II was, then, a proposal,
IA very conceited one certainly since it
breathed no doubt Of the lady's acceptance,
but still a proposal; and Jeanic scarcely
closed her eyes that night, watching I'LL the
blue dawn should usher in the day which,
she doubted moi, would bring Douglas to
ask her fathers consent.
The blue dawn came--thc sun rose
the broad bust of full and glorious
day-the glowing noon-tbe sweet md
quiet evening--ihe dim twilight aud the
starry sky-and hope and fear were over
for that day; but what were Jcauie's feel
: ings when the next, and the next, aud the
next, passed away without visit from
DoUglns Grame-when her father inform
1 ed her that her spirits were so much lower
, than before she had taken to going out so
, often, that he requested she would spend
, her evenings at home, and aunt Nanny took
} to her bed with n bad attack of rheuma-
tisml No loneliness that Jeanie had ever
suffered was to compnre with this, for none
} had ever been 50 anxious. The fall of n
leaf against the window made her heart
beat and her cheek flush the sudden clap
ping Of door caused her to start and trem-
BILE; and all this time she had to read to
h., -.
number Of dry dull books, and sing to her
father all Douglas GrHme's fuvorte songs.
Jeanne thought herself thoroughly wretched
III this state of suspense but as there is no
state of human suferngs which does moi
admit Of increase, she found there wng a
"retchedness yet more uncomfortable. Aunt
Nanny had been week IN bed, and was
recovering fast from her illness. when
"r@me's well-known knock caused his
cousin to let fall the cup in which she was
about ID administer the usual medicine, and
turn so marble pale, that when The servant
maid announced that Mr.. Gr9me was IN
Tie parlour, she calculated besides, But
oh dear me, Miss, you look like DEATH"
] Jeanic, who never doubted but that
Douglas came To propose, inquired aDxi-
ously whether her father had cent for her
No; the servant had merely given the usu-
al In,imntion when any visiters arrived.
Jeanie hesita,ed: she would not go down
she would wait till her father called her.
She had not long to wait and she descen-
ded the stairs breathing like newly caught
bird, nnd scarcely daring to lift her eyes rs
I she entered the room. But what was her
sururise when shc nerceiye1 Thai her IA
/ lher and cousin were talking together as
usual ; that Douglas greeted her in all res
I pecls as he had ever done and that the
only perceptible difference in the manner
of the latter wns sadness, for which he
sceounted by saying that bis father was III,
aud his mother ANXIOUS about him That
he shoald SO entirely have forgotten scene
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