The spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1840-1844, 1842-12-23

:" shall love Mrs +. as long as live! made
the mistake the more readily because, being bcset
by The police for knocking down rascaly fellow.
who had insulted me in the street,"Q did not like
to tell my charmer Of the arrest, lest she should
conserve some suspicion of me,) 81 attempted to
get home through by-ways and the garden GATE
Susan let me in; she was waiting for that rascally
Jimmy, her sweetheart, who was TO pretend to
conduct You to the cars---"
"Oh! no." said my mistress; 81 ne.er heard of
jimmy. Susan was TO take me, and she was to
be dressed in mems cloihes--you know how |
mislOok you what great mistake made!"
"Oh that it could be made over again,' said l.,
sincerely enough. And then proceeded with the
story os have already narrated it, exposing the
schemes and the punishment, such as it was, of
Susan, and describing the illuson-,he persuasion
of its being my own chamber, in my own board
ing house-under which had entered her boudor.
"And how my adored creature" said ] ,''f eoping
Is necessary, let us start forthwith, and we can be
married before the cars start. 'Ts but stopping at
lIic NTsl phTson or magistrate s.
"Bur--but,' murmured my MISTRESS with the
sweetest accents, 'wond you really marry me
without knowing me-"
81 would, 'ciN," said l., cIasping her in my
arms. IL take you for better or for worse, be-
Iieying-sor my soul tells me i,-ihal yon are an
angel"
"Oh' James" said she, mcllingly, "donr you
kaow me ? am Ellen, little Ellen, cousin Ellen
Did'n you get fathers letter J"
Heavens! what surprising climax to the days
adventure! Was to get my namesake's Letters,
father his debts, and marry his intended wife into
the bargain No wonder the dear creature should
melt so soOn to find in mo her supposed cousin
and destined husband. But how was it she could
be so deccvcd' Certainly she must have known
hen own cousin. And what was she going to elope
for: This questions, and various others, which
came crowding into my brain, were, wou,hout my
asking thcm,) for, in fact, was for awhile speech.
'css,) answered by the darling Ellen herself, who
with looks of tho most confding fondness, as if the
N''''N' Nus Hp" uuiiS sClNtu,
"Aint it strange that we should come together
50, and that we should love, without, knowing each
other? But how should we, since we have never
been together since we were children And
thought You had red hair, too! How foolish! And
when thought you were only Susan disguised,
and wished had just such Il handsome looking
person for Il sweetheart, said nothing but the
truth; for, indeed, loved you when thought You
were only Susan, And TO think that was going
to run away from YOU Oh! how happy should
have been If had; and how happy am that did
not" And here my dear cousin (my cousin in
deedD threw her arms round my neck in the
sweetest way imaginable, returned the caress,
but expressed some ofmy establishment by ocao-
ing her words
"llun away from me, indeed from your cousin!'
ooh! you know, thought YOU had red HAIR;
ard never could abide red hair" said She "And
then, lhher-if YOU remember !athcr-you know
he is SO odd and obstinate. And then that con.
tract"
"ConlWc,." said ], "what conlract!"
"Why. with uncle John, to be sure; though il
was not contract, but only promise; for, you
know ever since | was born, father and uncle
John were determined we should be married to-
property. Now, cousin James," continued Ellen,
with undated affection, which was the more
agreeable, because these hints of the contract. or
promise, with the wise reasons about property
struck a sudden chill in my bosom, as suggesting
some great obstacles that might arise to my new
born loye--''now cousin" continued the dear gll,
"becauso though: you had red hair, and because
they were going 10 marry me TO you whether
would or not, hated you--il was foolish and
wichcd!--but don't hate you now. And when
we started of on this jaunt 10 Niagara, and father
told me ! must be first married to yon, here in
Philadelphia, hated you more than ever; and
when father told nc that he had written TO YOU to
meet us to-day, and that he expected you, and
if you came should perhaps marry YOU o.night.
could endure 1t no longer. And SO I made
conldunte Of that treucherous Susan, and wolwerc
to run away together"
"And whiiher,' quoh I, twas you going' and
why in boys clothes -
"Oh!" replied Ellen laughing, eve were going
home, to be sure; and the disguise was to prevent
our being tracked I though, it would be so fine
TO be snug and safe at home, while father was
hunting for me in all sorts of places; and then, AZ.
ter / had managed, through friends, 10 get him to
let Inc of from the contract, he would be so de-
lighted 10 find had no, run away, after all; Cor
going home is not clipping, is it J"
Oh! how adored the dear, simple creature ;and
how uembled with fear, lest, after ALL should
lose her. Would she love me so well when she
discovered was not her cousin, the beirothcd Of
her childhood for il was evident that idea now
gave her pleasure, however previously dlsagreea-
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