The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1838-01-10


c her hands. She received The intelligcns
d with very pretty look of surprise,
: Really" exclaimed she, ~ nev,
: thought of you but as a friend; and la
y night accepted Sir John Belmore! A
u that is his cabriolet, must go down to tIl
G library to receive him she would not b
so interrupted there with morning vsiters |!
: She disappeared, aud at that momer
a Edward heard Julia's voice singing on tn
!, stairs. II was the last duet thar they ha
$ sang together.
Who shall school the hearts affection
Who shall Danish its regrets1
Ifyou blame my deep detection,
Teach, oh, teach me to forget1"
She entered, looking very pretty, but pal,
"Ah," thought Edward, {" she is vexed tn,
allowed myself to be So engrossed by he
sister last night"
so you are alone," exclaimed she. :"
have such piece of news 10 tell you Lau
ra is going to be married to Sir John Bel
more. How can she marry inan she pos
itively despisesl"
Ii is very heartess," replied Edward, will
great emphasis.
Nay" replied Julia " but Laura coulc
not live without gaiiy. Moreover, she il
ambitious. | cannot pretend to Judge for
her we never had a taste in common"
You," said Edward, "would not have
SD thrown yourself away ~
"Ah no." answered she, looking down,
" the heart is ny world ~ And Edward
thought he had never seen anything so love-
ly as the deepblue eyes that now looked up
full oftenrs.
All, too convincing, dangerously dear.
In womans eye, tn unanswerable tear"
Whither Edward nigh, have floa,ed on
the tears of the dove-cyed Julia" must re-
main n question; for at that momen,--n
most unusual occurrence in u mor0ing--Mr.
Afford came into his own drawing room.
So, Madam" he exclaimed in a voice
almost inarliculate from anger, know it
NIL. You were married TO Captain Dacre
yesterday and you, sir" turning To Ed
ward, "msde yourseIfa party to the shame
fuI deception"
&" No." interrupted Julia {" Mr.. Rains
forth believed me to be in Swan aud Ed
gar's shop the whole time. The fact was
] only passed through it,"
Edward stood aghast. So the lady, in
stead Of silks aud ribunds, was buying per-
haps, the dearest bargain Of her life. A few
moments convinced him that he was de frop
aud he left the father storning, and the
daughter in Mysteries.
On his arrival at his lodgings. he found a
letter from his guardian, in which he found
the following entered among the items -
/" Miss Emily Worhingion has been i'll, but
is now recovering" Edward cared, at this
moment, very lililc about the health or sick
ness Of any woman in the world. Indeed,
lie rather though, Emily's illness was
judgment upon her. If she had answered
his letter, he would have been saved all his
recent modification. lie decided on adju-
ring the 0aliering a. tickle sex forever, and
turned TO his desk TO look over some ac-
counts 10 which he wns referred by his guar
tossing the papers about,
half lslless, half Geiful, what should catch
his eye but a letter with the seal not broken
lie started from his seat in CONSERVATION.
Why, il was his own episte TO Miss Wor-
tbington No wonder that she had not
written she did not even know his address.
All the horrors Of his conduct now stared
him full in the face. Poor, dear, deserted
Emily, what must her feelings have been
He conld not bear 10 think of them-lle
up pen, wrote 10 his guardians,
declaring that the illness of his beloved EN-
lily would If they did not yeld, induce him
To take any measure, however desperate /;
and that he insisted on being allowed per-
mission to visit her. Nothing but his own
eyes could satisfy him of her actual recoye-
ry. He also wrote to Emily, enclosed The
Iruant letter, and the following day set of
for AlIenon.
Ia the meantime what had become Of tie
fair disconsolate Emily had certainly
quite fulfilled her duty Of being miserable z
enough in the first instance. Nothing could
be dulIer than the little village to which was
the Ariadne Of Alleuon. Day A
after day she roamed-not along the beach,
but along the fields towards the post office
for the letter which, like the breeze in Lord
Byron's calm, " came not" A fortnight
elapsed, when one morning as she was eros
sing the grounds of fine bat deserted place
in The neighborbood, sbe was so moch struck ,
by the beauty of some piDk May tbat she
stopped to gather it ;-alns like most 9th
sr pleasures it was out Of her reach. Sud- i
ienly, very elegant looking young man Il
emerged from one Of the winding paths,
md insisted upon gathering it for her. The
lowers were so beautiful, when gathered ,
hat il was impossible not to say something ,
n their praise, and flowers led to many
'ther subjects Emily discovered that she
vas talking with the proprietor Of the place
.ord EIms'ey-and, Of course apologised
pr her intrusIoo. lie, equally of course,
declared that his grounds we're only too
'sppy in having so fair guest.
Next they met by chance again, aud, at
asst, the only thing the; made Emily relapse
uto her former Ianguor wss--a wet day !
Ior then there was no chance ofsscisg Lord
A. a Il.