The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1838-10-17

their parents she had rather die she had
rather starve and starve they accordingly
did. The children succceeded for some
time in avoiding their grand-uncle in his
rambes across the hills ; and the mothers
heart might have been softened could she
have seen the lone old man, as he stood "a
zing wis,fully from the proud cminence on
which Creme Castle was built, to the glen.
thick with fir plantations, where the thin
blue smoke might he seen curling upwards
from the house of Aberfoy. Sir Douglas
had never felt what il was To be alone ill
that autumn. lie had n wife and two broth
ers; they were dead; be had seen his
brothers ouy son grow up and almost
looked upon him as has son. Now they
were aited-alienated-Eve as strangers
to each other He had been fond of the
three bright haired, rompting sisters of the
disgraced Aberioy they hnd homes, and
happy ones, of their own, and came rarely,
aud ms visitors To the castle and lastly,
those little cheerful voices, whose shriil G.
jaculations of admiration and Joy had
sounded so pleasantly in his eurs, s,-they
r too, had deserted him
One day he found himself in the glen,
S aud within a few PAGES of Grgmc Of Aber-
J, foy's children, who stood hesitating,--a-
b fraid to advance, unwilling to re,ren, ,-sor-
3 rowful and startled. Blunt mud harsh were
Sir Douglass questions frank and simple
The chiIdren's replies; the old man heard
, the truth, and at length, setting his teeth, he
) said, aye may tell your lady mother iha,
she's the worst enemy yo ever had, let the
other be who he may and she'll live TO
rue the day she over set eyes on Aberfoys
house or Douglas Gr9mc's Castle.
Sir Douglas again departed, aud again
returned; but this time not alone. lady,
so beautiful, tha, the very piper, whose aye
bordered on eighty, was movedt TO an cxcla-
nation when he saw her, accompanied him.
She spoke broken English, in sweet clear
voice, the tone Of which, as Allan snd,
would have A" "wiled the founders out Of the
Firth )" aud clung to old Sir Douglass arm,
as though she would have crcpt into lis
heart for shelter. Even so did the lady
cling to Christa5el, IN that exquisite poem
Of Coleridge's, till she hnd made good her
entrance over the guarded threshold; and
even such mysterious influence did she
exercise when once admitted Sir Doug
lass will bent to the strangers widest
before one glance Of those passionate eyes,
whose rarely lifted lashes-b black, long, nnd
silkcn-made them seem so much more
soft than they really were and within II
year of their arrival, aud exactly six moatlis
before The birth of Gre1e's little girl Jeanie,
Sir Douglas folded to his heart, with alf
the rapture and energy of do,ing father,
! the child of his old age--and in that EN-
brace, ns in the coil Of u snake, lay crush
ed all the faint, lingering hopes still cher
ished. for his children by the unhappy
Greme Of Abcrfoy.
! From the hour of her birth, Jeans Creme
never saw the smile Of welcome on hu~
man face. Whether it was that his temper
was altogether soured by The events Of the
last few years, or that the presence Of tho
little mfan, continually reminded him Of the
contemporary production ut the castle, or n
mixture OF both causes, certain 1t is that
. Aberfoy disliked his dau5hter, even before
T her dawniug intellect taught her to shrink
from his eye and dread his nuger-or be-
$ fore constant rebufs and VI usage had Civ
en- her lltllc delicate face the expression so
y well described by the French phrase Fair
y de suflrancc.' Her brothers took the tone
= cf the household viii, respect TO her, mud
u Stunned the feeble creature who haunted
u their sports without strength of body or C.
b IasticIty of mind sufficient to enable her to
l pnrtake Of them. Her mother, disturbed in
= her repose 10y the eternal rebukcs of AberfOy
{. 10 the little girl, aud her sbtiii cries when
; the young boys, with llciyrnnny natural 10
) their age, used force to compel her to relin-
I, ,l,..y nd h.s aH
M much dislike as her passive nature could
, afford and the servants saved themselves
, a vast deal of trouble in the minor concerDs
+ of the household, by sending Miss yeanie to
, collect the eggs for breakfast, to fetch up
! milk from the farm, or go message to tho
: village Of Pid- MudJe, three miles beyond
, Aberfoy. II has been said, and believe
with some truth, that "thcy whom none
love, love none" but to this rule. Jennie
; Creme must form an exception. She not
only was an.ciionate, but she bestowed the
chief part Of her affections on the very in
dividual who seemed most to repel them
size loved her father, that little deserted
mournful girl land she would steal round
to meet him when the report OF his rifle
warned those ut home Of bis approach,
without daring to question him, with the
natural inqnisiiveness of a happy child
as to his days sport; and feel "a sort of
pleasure in seeing him sit down to rest,
and Inf his blue bonnet of the short thick
hair which time and vexation had rs yet on
iy partially changed. Sometimes, if he
seemed very weary, she would venture
,imidly to propose mixing him some wbis-
key and water or Atol-brose, by way Of re-
freshueni; and when the permission was
/. granted, it was great satisfaction 10 her
, see papa so thirsty" Gradually, too.
) she learned to make herself at least
not obnoxious--she no longer followed
} her brothers when they drove her back !;
shn went Enlily. OF chaked hack her isars-