Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1841-10-28

them for several weeks, were sufficient to sour
the kindest hearts, and render his reception cold
and repulsivo. But he conducted himself with
such affab1ty and good grace, that the widow
and her daughter soon began to hold him in cs
teem--to love his company-and at length TO
| find that he added much TO their social enjoy
ment. So soon, indeed, did he gain their ahec-
tons, that at the expiration of his billet when he
found that thenceforth he must provide other
quarters from his daily pay, he was prevailed up
on to continue his abode IN the cottage, in the
character of lodger.
There was at the time nothing to employ the
British soldiery in France and Allan, therefore,
became quite domesticaed in the cottage. When
the weather permitted, he most commonly work
ed during the day in little plot ofground which
surrounded and belonged 10 the house; and in
the evening he employed himself in teaching
young Marietta the English language, and in
talking Of his native country, to whose blue
mountains his mind was ever and anon revert
ing. And time passed thus delightfully."- on and
every day linked him closer and closer with the
little family. The afectonate old woman look
ed upon him as filing up the place of her young
est and dearest son; and Marietta, in her girlish
enthusiasm, loved him better than brother.
But the life of soldier is, of all others, the
most changeable; and, although not unexpect-
eddy, the orders came abruptly, that he must
leave the gay fields of France and embark for his
native land. Anxious as he was to see the friends
and the scenes to which he had been so long a
| Il c. a.,
he left the cottage where he had spent two years
of quiet enjoyment. Nor did the widow aud the
daughter feel his departure less severely. 1t was
to them like another family bereavement The
old woman hung upon his neck and sobbed, while
Marlette stood, like be autiful statue, gazing
steadfastly at him through eyes from which the
big tears necessarily trckling You have
been, cried the afflicted widow, "a third son to
me-you have filed the place of Julian-you
have charmed away my bereavements and
must you leave me too2 oh it brings all nv
sorrows back upon me. There is no hope that
you shall return--say not there is hope, as my
husband and sons did | have learned well that
delusion il know yon will never return but
in the country to which you go, may the God of
good bless you and this will be my first prayer
in the morning, and my last in the evening" Ma
riette said not word and the soldier who
wished to throw a lightness over the scene, and
to dvert the poor girl from the seeming intensity
of her thoughts, took her familiarly by the hand,
with the intention of addressing her playfully.
But suddenly his spirits forsook him there was
a passion in her posture that at overcame
him; and this was, perhaps, the first time in
which he beheld her in any other light than that
of young and artless girl. Marietta, he said
with some hesitation--' Marietta, you have learn
ed the English language "a thought hung
over him which he could not articulate and all
the harassments ola protracted parting might
have been experienced, had not a band of his
comrades arrived to hurry him away. Abruptly,
and holding his hand over his eyes, he left the
house ; and the noise of many voices dying grad
ualy away, told the cottagers that he was gone
| forever.
1t was long before the grief of the widow and
the daughter ceased to be violent Days passed
-weeks-months-an every day called up
remembrance affecting as it was regular The
feelings of Marlette, however, assumed loftier
character than grief. She was of that age when
the mind is alive to all the romance of life--she
had seen nothing and seeing nothing of the
world-and had imbibed an attachment for the
British soldier, which every day strengthened
more and more. In little summer house that
Allan had erected in the garden, she was con-
stantly lingering, and indnlging in the most Eu
topaz reveries. There she first formed the wild