The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1840-02-08

quaintance and words cannot describe the
Supplied misery she left behind was a.
wake a thousand things came back from
the pas, 10 tell me had given my heart and
soul TO one, whose objections were dofed
and donned as easily as cloak or bonnet.
And yet ii was hardly credible and when
saw her at a ball, | could not refrain from
asking her hand for a dance. It was not
Withheld, and the tact with which her soft
voice spoke of Indifferent subjects, without
trenching On explanation, or even touching
the past, was admirable, If not admired
Sick and wretched, with q lump In nv
threat like peach, choaking with excess
i've and conflicting passions, left the room
tho house, and strobe through smoking
rain and tempest of wind to my home,
The demanded and reluctantly granted
interview of explaration--th heariless
false jargon about unmeaning attention, her
ignorance Of my motives, and the like--are
better omitted. Our .fare,ceH took place
late one evening, and the next eunrigs found
me on the box Of south mail, on my way
to bury my sorrows, and, if possible, my
remembrance, in the sober studies Of Cam
bridge, What was the real cause Of Aura's
changed demeancr An English gentleman
named Pentegru, the owner Of beautiful
house and broad lands in the part of Scdt-
land whittier Aura went, had seen her, low
ed, proposed, and--won. True, three
weeks was shor. time TRUE former
passions must be banished or forgotten -
true, Mr.. PenLegru possessed no single re-
commendalon beyond very honest, we'll
meaning stupidity belonging to class
the uueducated country gentleman-now
almost extinct True--al these things
initiated against his suit--the proposal was
made beneath his own stately. roof, and in
Jsi-,. Of ;;,iz own ,.oos.e- e-nte2 nt,2 ,S,elds MISE
! Merion's mother, too, was there, and he
was successful. 1t was Aura's third attach
ment within four months
Ny heart was schooled to calmnesS.
had, indeed the bachelors gown, and COM
pleted my academic course, before ven
tured near the scene Of the above adventure,
The little town Of was gay and noisy
{ on the night entered it, with all the glo-
E ries of race ball. or some such festivity
AS the mail ratified past the windows of the
illuminated ballroom, felt longing Il
= enter its precincts, which was too easily
gratified to be resisted, Mine host, al
/ bows and smiles, told me what steps were
n necessary towards gaining admission, an(
f an hour saw me ascending accoutred for tht
, scene er revel. A waltz was in progress
as entered the door, and that very momen
Miss Merton was being whirled past by I
t tall and slriungly handsome officer, mos
, unlike the only man she should have beef
] watzing with, MIR. Pentegru.
n Who is that gentleman = asked /, Of
/, friend stood near.
d Captain EtheIing. Miss Merton ha
d been waltziDg with him the whole even
t ing
). turned away and moved onward, caugh
b her eye, and threw as much meaning
S as possible into the distant bow that gay
o her.
e Captain Etheling was a young man, VIII
o had recently changed his name on his ac
d cession to an immense fortune; handsom
v and accomplished, little requisite to max
IS him an universal favouTite in the little Gil
@ Gle of the town Of -. Accordingly, h
had scarcely been three weeks there, whe
It every female and most Of the males, wer
a ready to jcin loudly in his praiSes-the IA
= ther, as his demeanor was marked by !h
II most polished courtesy and afTabiliiy, Mis-
n Merion, not insensibe to ths value Of sue
e a conquest, and undeterred by principle an
5; respect for her engagement to Mr.. Pentc
IF CRU, had used every endeavour to brn
o him to her feet, and had succeeded fully,
J. one might believe the accredited judges I
II such things in. The two appsare
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