Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1841-07-08

Another minute, and Emma Emlin was
promenading arm and arm with William
Linden
Nothing in all mans sNblunary exis-
tence wounds him so deeply as sighted
love. The cold neglect Of her he adores,
at once sweeps away all his cherished
dreams of felicity, and his lone and DESC
late heart becomes the prey of the most
affective torment. If Emma had at that
moment seen the workings Of despair in
the countenance Of Augustus-if she had
known the utter loneliness of his heart
the exquisite torture, of his smitten soul,
she would have wept bitter tears ofpen>
itence.
Unhappy Augustus at the very in,
slant he was about to open his heart and
tell her the tender tale of love, she had
ruthessly severed herself from him, and
was flirting in his presence with his rival;
rival too, whom but a few moments
agone, she had declared her eagerness 10
avoid.
"Strange, vacillating, inconsistent girl"
thought he. Alvin left not the spot where
he sat, until the party were preparing to
return to the village, when Emma having
relinquished the arm of William, came
upto him and said, in acareless way that
was "ready to walk"
carco a word did either speak un.
til they reached the threshold Of Emma's
dwelling, when Augustus taking her by
the hand, said half chokod with emotion,
"Emma, you have wouned my spirit fare
well forever !" and without waiting a
reply, hurried home, and sought the soil
tude of his own chamber,
That girl loves you doatingly, Mr..
Alvin said Ellen Eta to Augustus on
the following evening as he sal with her
IN the alcove of her garden, "and you do
+ rong to act thus hastily. Surely you
Ep6ght not TO destroy her happiness as
well as your own by step so preciPi-
tate"
"Miss Eta, attempt not to drive me
from my purpose it is fixed, irrevocably
fixed, Tomorrow | shall leave N,
and in change of scene seek forgetfulnoess.
"But why should you forget one who
doats upon you If you had this morn
ing seen her tear-bedimed eye, and heard
her agonizlng throb when she spoke with
me of your last nights parting words,
you could no longer doubt her"
81 have some reasons TO suppose that |
am not altogether Indifferent to her, but
she possesses not for me that soul devot-
edness which | possess for her, or she
could not have treated me SO contemptu-
ously."
i" why Mr.. Alvin, it was but the inno-
cent Irritation of frolicksome girl-pos-
sibIy designed to try the strength of your
When such means are employed, |
am willing to admit that my attachment
will not bear the test. cannot call such
conduct an innocent liItation."
Mr.. Alvin you are quite too sensitive;
you ought not to permit so trihing an &C.
"No, Miss Eta, am not too sensitive
| can bear the contemptuous neglect of an
ordinary associate in life; the mere friend
but cannot endure the freezing scorn Of
Emma EmIin. Miss Eta let this subject
now rest, and when | have gone say for
me TO Emma, that sincerely hope she
may meet with some one Who"
Let me entreat you"
"lf you value my friendship say no
more," and he abruptly left her.
Perchance this unvarnished narrative
may fall into the hands OF some of the
Iovelier part,of creation-Cor whom only
| write-who has unintentonally, but el-
lectually banished the creature of her
young hearts first love, by some way
ward vagary, which woman thinks it her
undisputed privilege to enact when being
wooed shall not, therefore, essay de-
Iineaton Of Emma Emln's mental an
guish, when she learned that Alvin had
indeed abandoned his home and her, and
had proclaimed his intention to seek an
abode in the "Far West" should GER
tainly fail, and then the failure would be
attributed by my pretty fair one to an in
ability on my part properly to appreciate
the refinement and intensity Of her sex's
feeling.
1t is enough to say that the loud laugh
Of Emma Emlin was hushed--ths fairy
step was gone--the witching smile was
no more, and in the gossip OF the village
she was known only "as the broken
hearted"
A twelvemonth passed and no one knew
whittier had wandered Augustus Alvin,
lor had time restored Emma to herself
she was still inconsolable and disconso-
ate.
About the termination of this interval,
Emma was one afternoon sitting in her
Darlor unconsciously humming TO herself
l pensive air, when she was interrupted
by the familiar voice Of Ellen Eta half
over her shoulder.
Augustus has returned"
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