, 1842-08-06
her eyes were opened--she missed
some one, and murmured softly,
"My mother? where is she?'

some one, and murmured softly,
"My mother? where is she?"
"Here, Rosalie," said the mother,
as she entered the room. "Cheer up.
love! here is amessage for you; Glenn.
ent Lee is engaged with his friends
tonight, he will call tomorrow"
ga 'messageF then indeed he has
forgotten me! tomorrow that will
be too late! Be still, still, my poor
heart!" she exclaimed. 81 could bear
all-all--but this! to know he would
not see me, ever now! Do not weep.
my mother! Come near me, speak
20 me, pray for me!!'
Thus e%ntreated, she knelt beside
her child, and though the sobs she
could not suppress almost impeded
her speech, she poured forth at the
throne of grace, the petition of a
heart overlooking with gratitude, yet
rent by the keenest and most peig-
nant anguish. She had just conclu-
ded as the words--"mother-SiSter
= Clement-Heaccnr came family
articulated from the lips of Rosalie.
A feeble smile lighted up the counte-
nance of the dying girI-her eyes
sparkled with a supernatural bright
ness-a gentle tremor stole over her
frame-and, lovely even in death. she
passed ''like the anthem of a breeze
awav!'
The gifted and the beautiful, whom
no one hated, and on whose head old
and young hourly invoked the bless
ings OF heaven to descend; whose
step was light as the young fawn's
on the green turf, whose merry laugh
once rang so joyously amid the old
trees which grew around the home
of her fathers, and whose voice was
musical rs the tones Of the wind. harp.
a. length slept that sleep which knows
no waking, this side the untried here
after!
The fortunes Of Clement Lee had
all been bright and prosperous. I'm
firing zeal, care, labor. and IncesSant
devotion of time, had raised him to
the front rank in his profession. His
hopes were fulfilled. his wishes graft
Ged--he had won his way 10 distinc-
ton. Profoundly versed in the attain
ments of science. deeply read in the
hlack-letter of the law. talented, ac-
complished, and, withal. possessing
that commanding eloquence which
never fails TO arrest attention and
compel conviction. he could not but
secure a strong hold upon the atiec-
tons of his fellow-citizens. His so
ciety was courted by the gay and
the noble; and they were proud of
his talents andhis growing reputition.
They respected him, for, honorable
and just in all his dealings, and stern
and innexible in the cause Of right,
envy dared not malign, nor calumny
assail him. They reverenced him,
because, to all outward seeming, he
was the friend Of justice. virtue, and
morality. They worshiped him for
the burning and thrilling words which
hung on his lips, and the genius which
kindled in his eye, or sat enthroned
in its sod-like majesty on his brow.
Their sufirages were gladly bestowed
on HIM, when he appeared before
them as a candidate at the hustlngs;
and their shouts of triumph were
loud and cheering, when the contest
was decided in his favor, and ne was
returned as their representative in
the councils of the nation.
Was he happy? He would have
said SO, as he sat alone at midnight,
in the privacy of his study, surround
ed by the treasured volumes, from
whose pages he had gathered the
knowledge which men wondered at
and admired. The arrangement Of
the books in their mahogany cases
was admirable; marble statues and
antique busts were placed around the
apartment with the taste of a con-
noisseur. A pair Of fencing foils and
masks hung over the mantle; and
from the ceiling depended an argand
lamp, which threw a soft and mellow
light over his wide, expansive fore
head, as he sat beneath it. almost
buried in the cushions of a high-back-
ed, old-fashioned armchair. apparent
ly intent on the volume Of Roche
foucault he was perusing. On the ia
bic before him, amid numerous manu-
scripts, and fancifuli nk.fountains, and
paper cases, was a collection which
might furnish an index to the charac-
ter of his studies, and the bent of his
minds. Poets and Philosophers, d.
vines and scoffers, monarchists and
republicans, appeared to have forgot
ten the warfare they have waged a.