The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1842-06-02

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ry in which poor dog, like most young
professional men, cannot indulge"
"And you mean to say that YOU carried
on some such Irritation with Emily Max
WE'LL"
Afford nodded and smiled.
But have you not often thought that
n her case il was carried little too lar!
Have you no misgivlngs of this J"
His companion adjusted his cravat cool
~ before the glass as he replied.
at may be | did. confess have had
once OF twice uneasy thoughts about 1t
and certainly did think more of Emily
than OF any other glr ever met, and on
that account may have carried the matter
little too far 10 her case. But, If so, I've
repeated It. To be frank, | have never
seen woman since whom admired as |
did her,"
His companion made no reply, but look
ed abstracledly and somewhat mournlully
into The grate. A silence ofsome minutes en-
sued. A, length Afford suddenly looked up
DO you believe IN first love, Ewing ="
he SAID, 4" hat is, do you think II outlIves
every subsequent affection p
81 do"
The conversation again stopped, aud
both companions fell into anoiber fit of
musing. Al length Ewing rose and depart
ed. As he left the Aslor House he sollo.
qulzed with himself.
II wish that we we're on the subject, |
had spoken out 10 Harry. He is gener.
Gus fellow in many things bu, on this one
point most heaTtless and unprlncipled.-
lie seems. however, to regret his conduct
to Mrs. Gordon, and believe, after all, he
talks worse than he ac.s. lie may have
been male. filrt in his comparatively boy.
lsh days, but now he surely must have
more regard for a woman's feelings Than
10 win her heart by these silent, though SO.
ductye attentions Of which he speaks, and
then desert her, justllyIng himself By the
mockery Of mol having told her he loved
her."
The thoughts which were passing thro'
Affords mind when he asked his compan.
ion It he deemed first love the most ell.
during, our readers have perhaps OWNED.
. He was thinking if he might not win the
widow, and, although her fortune was not
wIthou, some Influence over him, We will
do him justice to say that, at that moment,
regret tor having ,ampefed with the feel.
lugs, of the only woman who had touched
3 his heart, was certalnly uppermost. He
pondered over the subject long after Ew.
Ing left hun.
- ~ bo catI / III tua On 4,
: now seriously. Ii you ever really loved
D me-and feel that you once did-It will
be no very difficult task TO klndle old feel
lugs in your bosom will throw myself on
$ your kind heart for forgiveness Tor the
wrong have done you and" he paused
7 and smiling confidently, Eve vii! yet be
5 happy"
: Henry Afford was as bis friend had said
OF really noble nature; but alas 1t had
! been sadly corrupted by the world, as his
creed on innocent tlir,alIons Witnessed
. He was, however, good looking and taen.
ted ; he had risen 10 some note 10 his pro
iesslon and II was therefore with no mis-
glyIngs, or very Sigh: nnes, that be sought
J renewal OF bis lnltma.y with Miss Cor.
} don, for the purpose Of becoming suiior
} for her hand.
II Emily Maxwell had touched his heart,
. the beautiful widow won his love. Afford
, had been a visitor at her mansion, but a
] short time, when he fel. that If he had be.
gan his suit as reparaion due to her he
had sighted, be now continued It as neces.
$ sary to his own happiness. Mrs Gordon
was indeed the same as Emily Maxwell,
but how UNNECESSARILY improved. Not
! only was her beauty Of more lofty aud
enhancing character; not only was her
] intellect expanded and refined not only
was she gifted With accomplishments such
. as few of her sex could boast Of but her
heart seemed 10 have gained deeper tone
: from the trials it had underground have
. been, as It were, chastened and porlGed ~
0 The furnace OF affection. The love Of En-.
lily Maxwell would have been pure and
deep, but after all only tina, of giyI; the
love Of Mrs. Gordon was such as d woman
IN all the full maturity Of her affections, has
TO bes,ow. And Afford felt that, having
once possessed the love Of the girl, he had
key to the affections of the woman
, In this conviction be daily grew more
confirmed. No one visited the proud man
sion OF Mrs. Gordon, who seemed a more
: welcome vIsltant. Ii she did 10, blush al
his entrance as she would have done eight
years before, she welcomed bin With a cor
dlaluy which there was no misrakiug.-
She sang for him, she promenaded with
Z him, and she danced with hm-tor who
> does not dance at twenty SIX and there
was nothing wanting in her dencanor to.
ward hlm, TO assure bun of her love, ex.
cept the absence of that conscious embar
rassment 10 his presence which once char
aclerized her. Blu, then she was blush
ing girl, and now she was a calm. collec.
ted woman. The difference was every.
thing.
81 will propose for her this very even
ing" said Afford TO himself, about six
weeks after he had renewed his visits to
her, "she must love me--she does love
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