Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1839-11-28

shook Mrs. Somers and Emily warmly by the hand,
and took his departure TO join his regiment.
Autumn came; the leaves grew red, brown, yell
low, and purp lie they dropped from the branches
of the trees, and lay rus,iing 10 heaps upon the path
below. The last lingering VAIN conveyed from The
fields their golden treasure. The days were bright,
clear, calm, ard chill; the nights were full Of stars,
and the ground was wet with dew, which, ere tbe
morning dawned, was changed into a silvery boar
frost. The Robin hoped across the garden walks
but the stranger came NOT. Darker days and long
er nights succeeded. The trees were stripped OF
their foliage, and the fields had lost their verdure.
Winter burst upon the earth, and storms went ca.
reering through the armament. But still The stran-
ger came not.
The lustre Of Emily's eye grew dim; but yet she
smiled, and looked as IL she would have made her
self believe that there was hope. And 80 there
was; for the coach once more stopped at the Blue
Bear; and the stranger. wrapped IN his blue travel
ling cloak, once more alighted from Il. Language
cannot convey to the mind Of the reader the deligh,
experienced by Airs. Somers and her daughter at
the return Of the stranger, who had so faithfully
and honorably redeemed his pledge. Emily's eye
soon regained its wonted lustre. But there was
still another trial to be made. Would she marry
hint In putting the question. he said, "niy tami-
" ia respectable, and it is not wealth | seek. !
have an independence, at least equal | should hope
to our wishes; but any thing else which you may
think mysterious about me, | cannot unravel until
you are indissolubly mine" 1t was u point of nc
slight difficulty Emily entrusted its decision en-
tirely to her mother. Her mother found that the
stranger was inhcxible in his purpose, and she also
saw that her child's happiness inextricably linked
with him. What could she do? II had been bet
ter perhaps if they had never known him; bat
knowing him, and thinking so highly ofhim as they
did, there was no alternative-the risk must be
run.
1t was run; they were married in Hoduct, and
Immediately after the ceremony they stepped into
a carriage and drove away, nobody knew where
We viii not infringe upon the sacred happiness oil
such a journey upon such an occasion, by allowing
our profane thoughts to dwell upon it. II is enough
TO know, that in the afternoon of The following day,
after they had left Hoduct, they entered an extern
sive and noble park. and came in sight os a magni.
fcent Gothic mansion. Emily expressed her adj
miration ofits appearance; and her young husband
gazing upon her with imprisoned delight, exclai-
med, " My Emily, il is thine My mud was i'm.
pressed with erroneous impressions Of women. !
bad been deceived by them. | believed their atfec'
tions were to be only won by ~nattering their vanity
or dazzling their ambition. | was resolved that
unless | we're loved for myself alone, | would never
be loved at all. With this yiew | travelled through
the country incognito, / came TO Hoduci, and
saw YOU. have tried you in every way, and found
YOU true. 1t WAS /, and not my fortune that you
married: both are thine. We have now arrived al
Burloieh House it is the seat of my ancestors
your husband is Frederick Augustus Butleigh Ce
Gil, Earl of Exeter, and you my dearest Emily ore
his Countess.n