The Illinois free trader and LaSalle County commercial advertiser. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1841-1843, 1842-09-23

ness not to be resisted. +" He knows YOU
as know you, Edward, for what you are
III yourself. He knows you his full
equal-nay, his superior in all manhood
and true nobleness," and her eyes brigh-
tened proudly through her tears, and she
placed her hand confidently in her lovers;
"he loves you, too,--he is not migrate
ful,-he will not forget tina, hour when
my love for you first entered my heart,
child as | was, through the avenue of my
love for him, when The young hero who
had saved his life, almost at the sacrifice
Of his own, brough, him TO me on the
bank nearly beyond recovery, and looked
so bright and beautiful to our eyes as he
did it! He will not forget, either. tina! it
was your brave and strong arm. dear Ed
ward, that saved my life, too, that terrible
day when the lightning drove poor rcwe-
ma wild. and You prevented her aud me
from plungng down the Wolf Crag, only
by dashing your own horse in between
me and it, when il was only a miracle that
kept you from going over yourself He
has not forgotten all this--and when see
him-when tell him all--he will not
have forgotten how dear my happiness
used to be to him, ought TO be TO him still !!
Let us wait for George-he will be home
in few days-and he will not, he cannot
refuse to help us, and oil will be safe"
IL fear, Alice, that your own heart
overcolors Georges feelings in regard to
me. We have been much apart of late
years. He has been at college, and in
the world, in the midst of every influence
to strengthen his natural pride of birth
and rank. have no very strong hold on
his heart now-I saw it when he was
home lasl-nor has he written me line
since he left. And you know he has his
heart set on your being won over To favor
the suit OF his present friend, Lord Foster,
No. Alice--if | have little hope in your
father, | have not much more in George.
have only one hope, dearest and swee.
test, and in whom that hope is garnered
who knows so well as herself H'--and hi:
arm encircled The fair girls slender wais,
and no resistance repellel the kiss accom-
panying the look with which he seemed
to ask what was TO be his reliance on tha
hope.
Come what may" was the beautiful
answer of the trusting and enthusiastic
maiden, "thc life you saved is Justly ant
rightfully yours-when | confessed Il
you that my heart was yours also, tol'
YOU no unruih and when | added til,
pledge over my mothers grave, | felt al
the sacredness both of the pledge and tn
place-and never fear, Edward, that
shall be the first to forge! it"
Her spiri, moved over the dark an
troubled elements Of his, like the wing o
a seraph on a mission of peace. lie wa
Gained, and consented to her counsel
though still a. the bottom of his hear
there was dali and compressed heavin
of the waves of the worst passions, whlc
might yet break forth with fury whlcI
he could not himself calculate nor perhap
restrain.
On the third day from this morning tn
expected arrival took place. Edward ";
at first shy Of coming in contact with h
former friend and very soon found or iai
cied reason to feel confirmed in his wor
apprehensions MS to the relation and senl
ments with which he was regarded t
him.
There was a great deal Of kindness. al
certain kind of familiarity but there "
something of condescenslun IN II, of 80
f scious distinction of rank and social po'
{ ton; altogether something which he I,
{ to be very different from the tone and ma
ner Of his intercourse with hls newer /
h more "nohle' friend, whom he broug
8 with him from Cambridge. But he befc
il long found the opportunity he sought.
d ice detained Georse a! home one mornl
4, that the haronet rode out to show lao
4 Foster some fine coursing with favor
}. pair of grcyhounds. The two young M
;; suoll'd together in the park. Edw'
ID opened the subject with llmtering hea
nj though abruptly, and with bold and pro
ar manliness, which was almost haughtine
/, and which would have done no dlscre
Of to any peer or prince in the realm. !
i; other listened for a while, first in incr
,e nli,y, then Arrangement, then pity for
n. insane irfaiuatlen which had led Edw
,e even TO admit within the range OF his Y