, 1840-02-08

vi ~ 10 a "duuCtOs " iSi WILL IOAios
She cast her eyes round her apartment anc
seemed to be bidding farewell t. sthe famii
tiar objects that met her view. In one cor
Lner stood the harp whose melting sirsp:
were so dear to her father. She arose and
the strings, as she thought, for the
Mast time, but they had los. al power to
lsool.e the troubled mind. She threw her
cloak around her and as she passed the mir.
Tor was shocked at her pale and deaih-like
couhtenance.
The step of Adelaide Sianhope, as sic
passed through the long hall, was .the ayiy
ons hat sibs silence of the dwelling at
.thatla Hour. The faithful domes;ics, who
had grown grey in their masters service, had
retired TO rest. She looked more like a ghost
than a human being, as she entered her
fathers library and laid the letter on the Ia
be. As she turned 10 leave the room her
eye rested on the portrait of her mother
She stopped once more TO gaze upon the
mild benignant couatenance. The lips seem
ed ready to speak-and her dyiIg words, al
ways love aud obey your father rcsounded
in her ears. Wildly she rushed from the
room. Had she fingered another moment
her resolutions would have been shaken.-
Had she listened TO the admonitions OF con.
science, her purposes would not have been
fulfilled.
Like one pursued by IN evi! spirit, Ale-
laide StaEhoPc FASTENED TO leave her fathers
dwelling 10 fulfil her appoiatmen; with her
lover. As she opened the door the wind
moaned ~feariuliy around her, and blew her
hair in wild disorder about her face. and
nearly ex;inguished her light. She step
ped back into the hall and closed the door for
4 moment. Is ii thus, she exclaimed, ! go
forth from the home OF my childhood! Shall
| ever AZ lin walk through these halls! SIa,l
| ever hear the voice OF my father pronounce
my foryiveness! Scaldin, tears were on
the cheek Of Adelaide, as she closed the
door after her, and It's slow -rl,ia, on its
hinges seemed like the sepulchral voices Of
departed friends, rePrOviny her for tie step
she was taking. Sill SIZE went on. Her
slight and fragile lorm seemed almost 20 a. rs
ihe descended the sloping green bank Ia
from. 6f her fathers house, where she had
engaged 10 meet Edward Deiancey and is
wit!l hin 10 hts mothers, where their faith
was ~ be pli.htcd TO each Other, OF the fol-
morning. she had seen him but n
fe " times, AMI then it was under circamStan.
ces calculated TO deceive her. Alone and
in the twilight she hld listened to the artIul
Of l0gc, which had SO infatuated and
ier. lie had told her of 4 pleasant
home 10 which he should rcmDvc her, where
she would experience Il sisters love and Il
mothers care.
She now beheld him spring from 4 small
boat on the shore, where it appeared he was
in waiting for her. Female delicacy caused
Adelaide TO shriEk back, as he boldly ap-
and greeted her. Il thought, Ed
ward sid Sic. -you promised 10 bring your
sister wi;h you.' lie made some slight cx-
cuse as he took her hand to place her in the
boat.
She hcsitated for Il moment. She was dis.
with her self, and with him, ami had
she dared, would have returned home. lie
the struggle in her mind, and, catching
her in his araIs, hastily placcdh her in The boat.
The next instant. it had g!idel around the
title womontnry, that hid her fathers dwell
iroa her view. Tae feelings that now
her breast were Understandable. and,
lotof the most ronaytic nature. Reason
to rcasccnd its throne. and no longer:
u IL uPT voice u'SIe5lIuci' iiSI mp aHS'It.
she found herself alone upon TIE wa
with Edwar.i D. at that time Of
he uight, EUemed truly astonishing, and She
'egaa aln1et 20 feel that she had no love for
lin. She knew That If size had any, i; had
lot been funded on an acquaintance with
ne virtues OF his charlctcr-b1t that it h2d
'eel lighted up in her bosom, like some tram
lent meteor in the armament thatmight glow
or an hour and then expire. {
Long before the boat reached the shore,
adelaide Stanhope had drawn her slight per. /
on into the smallest compass imaginable, at /
he greatest distance from Edward Dbl
she now felt 1t impossible 10 sustain Il con- =
with the man 10 whom she had t
Ter faith and sacrificed the peace OF c
er aged father. The dark blue waters f
veIe around her-and the canopy that over Y
her head surpassed in brilliancy all h
nat she had ever beheld. Like so many h
nFecried watchers appeared the stars to
Of Imagination, as she looked forth in all L
mir splendor from the glorious fImament c
IVY adorned. There thought she, lis the b
yelling place Of my MOTHER and she press V
both hands upon her ewes as if unworthy