Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1839-12-12
THURSDAY, DECEMBER -, 1889.

QUICKLY cast down; Out thut glance touched
him TO the heart, for he noticed how wan and
ethereal like she had grown. fever he had
loved Alice all his old feelings returned upon
him then. There is nothing like meek suffer
ing to touch the heart. His gacy was gone
at once.
"Pardon me, Miss Leslio-but had Mt you
better put on a shaw?-the air is growing
chill" and pen in lower tone, full of feeling,
he added, "anI you look unweI."
Thank yoa!' scarcely iaItered the sweet
girl, for he tone in which he spoke reminded
her orother daN, and it was as much MS she
could do to prevent her full heart from finding
vent in tears. Harry noticed thai her voice
Iquyered, and that when he deicaey placed
the shawl upon her shoulders she could scarce
lily keep from trembling. But discerning he
thought himself little suspected the cause.
Well, sir,-but let me fill your elass--thc
storm soon swept below, and while the top of
the Catskll was gilded with the sunlight, the
dark clouds hung like gau2e veil around the
body Of the mountain. Down 10 the valley it
was still raining. and the sunbeams glinting
through, made every drop sparkle again, nil
it seemed as If million of diamonds were (al.
ling flashing from the sky. 1t was indeed
magnificent.
Meanwhile the rain had left the roads so slip
perry that it was with great difficulty they could
proceed. The old gentlemen, however. made
the most of it, grew lively as young boods, and
after awhile one ofthem asked Alice to sing
All! you may well laugh there's nothing
like such scrapes 10 make men sociable, and as
night set in, and the the old rascaS --be.
gan TO wink through the flying scud as if they
were drunk, the gentlemen became perfectly
Iunmanageabe. Old Leslie was as bright as
Iany--but still Alice refused. She felt, poor
girl, but little like the gay company, and il was
only when Harry joined in the request, and she
cared il she still de lined he might suspect the
truth, that she consented. It was, sir, one Of
those old Scotch songs that will live forever
At first her voice was low, bat oh! how cxQuiS-
! teIv sweei--then it become louder, and swell
led out like the rich music Of an angel gushing
forth in its own immortal harmony. The lis,
teners were spell bound. Harry had often
heard her sing it in other days, and ii came
over him like a strain Of early chdhood.--
Leaning his head on his hand he was LOST in
thought. That song had touched long silent
chord in his bosom, aud though he had bent at
the shrine of many beauty since last he saw
Alice, he felt al once thai he had never truly
loved bat her. All! sir, there are feelings that
lie dormant for years, and which we almost
forget we havc,--but which at last n word, a
look, or Il tone will awaken, AMI we are at once
we'll nigh unnamed, u1der the flood of old
memories that rush in upon US. Just as she
ceased they stopped at the mountain house, and
as they stepped out and the lights fell an in
slant on Aice's face he noticed that her eyes
th To- Y ehn hol
been used 10 weep al it in other days. For an
instant a suspicion of the truth flashed upon his
mnd--but bold as he was, he was nj quite SO
vain as that.
have said that the moon--but lei me ring
for some more shcrbet-burst out IN all her
Silvery beauty. Harry ramb!ed oal aloe, bur
he could no, forget the pale face OF the once
marry Alice, and soon returning from his soil
tary walk who should he see as he reached
The piazza, but Miss Leslie, stan ling by col
umn and gazing out upon the moonlight. As II
by some mysterious influence Livingston APP
her She did not seem aware OF his
presence, and for moment he stood silent be-
side her. 1t was otlous nIgat. The moon
was sailing through the cioudess blue above,
flooding hill, stream, and vaIy beneath, IN her
Iiqnid light. Before them the mountain, siop-
ing almost perpcndIcuIarIy down, disclosed the |
valley Of the Hudson. nearly three thousand
feel below, stretching tor miles along he river,
and spotted with farms and woodlands, that
cooked like grass.plats in a garden--whIle the
ordIy river, dovinded in the distance to a
,treamIet, slept dozen miles away beneath lis 4
Jauze.like canopy Of mist, land hey The
nils and highlands Of three states melted mo Il
ne dim obScuritv OF the horizon. Over the a
Whole Of this nearly hDun Hess landscape a
,hadowy haze hung such as might have tioated
over the dreamy land orthe Ed, II ever
.ouId believe in fairies IT would be at such b
me and place. A dim, mysterious air breath I
ID around the whole, and the mind catching the o
influence, became insensibly solened and sub )
lued Livingston felt the power OF the scene, i
md Involuntary exclaimed,
as it not beautiIu" IN
"Mr. Livingstone CALCULATED the startled
yirl, hesitatnga moment, and then moving to- Il
wards The door as she added, "l--l-dld not a
Know you were nigh"
"Has Mss Leslie so completely forgotten an Il
I'D friend" he said, OBTAINING her, ''that she g
reas HIM as a stranger" $
.l--was startled" answered Alice, "bu', per- Il
laps," she continued eyasivey. scarce knowing b
whether to stay or not, yet nj last determining
O remain and assume as Indifferent manner j
IS if her companion was but common acquaIn- b
ance,' "Mr Livingston is Ionder Of gazing on b
UGH scene alone"
An awkward pause ensued. Livingston felt
low embarrassing it is to be left alone with one n
,ou have loved and yet dare no longer speak Il
o in YOUR old way. strange feeling came u
La knp Rot ha Ia,