The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1841-02-24
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manner Wnlcn mad marked his saIitafion.
on entering. Reality often falls shoreofs
anticipation, but the grief Of Edward was
fully as pungent as he expected. q Ail So.
ciety was now avoided, even that $of his:
'uncle's family, and he underwent almost
complete selEimprisonment in his room. s.
Three weeks had expired since the e
most melancholy event in the annals Of
our hero. With him they passed as if
the very wheels of time were cIogged,
and found him an enaciated invalid, from;
the deep detection Of his spirits. His IA. !.
ther, who had observed with greatune
ness his declining health, and fearing the
most fatal consequences, if the same sta y
of mind continued, determined forthwith Z,
to travel with him to Europe, hoping to
divert his mind by constant change of J
scene. His faith in the efficacy Of tra.s;
yelling was much confirmed by its influ-y5
ence on his son when before in bad health
though from a different cause, as we s
mentioned in the opening Of our ynaTa-
tive. 'i.s.; 80, ~, *, ~
In a few days all the necessary prepa4
rations being made, Gordon, with mingled
regret and pleasure, took leave Of --ss:.
town; for here had he tasted sof both the :.
joys and ills Of Life. They took a packetss
at New York, and were soon sweeping
Ger the broad bosom of the ocean. Id
the early part of the voyage, the disconfs
solate lover might be distinguished from y
the other passengers by his taciturnity
his perfect Indifference to every thing Ike
amusement, his total abstinence from food. IS
and the settled sadness stamped upon his
features. At one time he would pace the /,
deck, with mind apparently in the deep=s
est detection; at another, he would set I
near the stern, viewing the vessels track, 8
and wrapt in melancholy musing; and I
again would he seek his narrow berth, as :
if to avoid all society of his fellow man. /
Thus rolled on the gloomy days; but a
better fate than a broken heart awaited !.
Gordon. The exercise of his own philo.
sophy, the unceasing counsels.of a de9ot-;
ed parent, and the friendly consolation Of
the greater part of a feeling crew, began
to effect happy change; his constitution
yielded more and more to the.inyigorat-
ing influence of the sea breeze, and by !
the time he reached the port Of Liverpool;
be could 20 longer be called an invalid d.-
Pride, he thought, had triumphed over af-
fection; and he resolved, if such could be,
to forget the once adored Augusta.
Leaving our hero to travel without us,
let us take brief notice of Miss STAN
hope in his absence. The attentions Of
Harper were as constant on his part, as
they were we'll received and solicited by5
her; his heart was another Of her cap.
tives, and when she was aware Of her
possession, it became her sport. In full
confidence of success, he addressed her;
but how. little did the result accord with
his sanguine expectations! He too was
rejected. Different minds and dispesi-
tions are very differently affected by the
same cause. Harper loved Miss STAN
hope; but in him her refusal did NOT oeca-F !
sion that pungent and protracted grief
which preyed upon Gordon; and without
leaving g,-- town, be recovered from the
blow. - - :.
A truce had now commenced. Aus
gusta was without a suitor, and the fate
of the baffled lovers was to serve as a
warning to others. Her mind being now
free from excitement and open to refec.
ton, the remembrance of Edward,-hise
handsome person, his intelligence, his
pleasing colloquial powers, isimanly pro-.
priety, and withal his constancy and de-
votion, began to overwhelm her mind
with remorse at the folly Of her conduct.
If Augusta had ever loved any, one, that
one was Gordon; but an overweening
fondness for admiration, fashion, and idle.
pleasure, had too much engrossed her
rejecting upon 1hs ihP6fsH 5p u25sefE@S
marriage. A marked change began to be
observed by all her friends. That exu.,
berant vivacity which had formerly cha.
racterized her, could not now be number.
ed among her, attributes; that. blooming
freshness, which before madesherthe adj
miration of the throng, wasswaning fastsr
the sickly hue Of the lily now marked the
check where the rose had blushed, and the
devotec to pleasure had now become the
victim of that most wasting passion-iove
for an absent one, and one too, whom she.
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