The Illinois free trader and LaSalle County commercial advertiser. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1841-1843, 1842-09-30
From the Democratic Review.
THE yEOuAN,s REVENGE.
(Conclusi0n.J

behaved nobly and beautifully, develop
ing degree Of independence and energy
of character they were not prepared TO
find. When she was informed of what
had occurred, she herself reproved even
her father with most eloquent severity
for the great wrong he had done, to one
whose only crime. besides that of saving
the lives of both George and herself, had
been that of loving her well, and of well
deserving her love. She s,aidIly refused
to send him any message of rejection,
though she made no disclosure of what
course she might pursue and when hard
pressed by her father, she claimed the
right of being left to compose her own
thoughts, so violently agitated and agonl-
zed by such events, within her own pri-
vacy; after which for three days, she
neither made her appearance among the
family nor admitted any one but her own
maid to her room, imploring her fathers
forbearance and permission to indulge for
few days her natural desire Of being left
alone and undis,urbed.
She there formed her own resolve, thro'
prayers and many tears, but bravely and
worthy of her own right noble nature
She felt how heavily her lover had been
wronged. Her sense Of justice revolted
Indignantly against it. She felt his right
to an atonement commensurate with the
outrage tina, had been heaped upon him
and that she alone could make it, she
alone hea! the deep and envenomed lace
rations that had been ploughed into his
heart. Had the course of her father and
brother been different, had it been less vio-
lent and less unjust, her own too NIGH
have been different; and the affections Of
nature and kin might have trlumphed
over that other love which, however strong
in her heart, was yet of later growth and
less deep root.-But they had placed
themselves so widely in the wrong, tina,
they cast over into the opposite of the
balance every consideration Of justice and
right, as approved by her conscience, to
be added TO every impulse of generosity
and womanly tenderness, as prompted by
her heart; and she resolved to abandon
home and rank, father and kin, to be the
wife of her lowly, yet, as she deemed
him, noble and worthy peasan, lover and
as such to devote her life to the compen.
sation of all he had to endure on her ac-
count and from her own blood. Ii was a
hard trial both of heart and conscience ;
yet, convincing herself, by generous
elevation of reasoning, that in the choice
between conflicting duties she chose the
highest and most truly sacred in remain
ing faithful to the plighted tro,h she had
given in exchange for another heart; she
wrote him the following note, which she
had no difficulty in conveying to him
through the agency of her devoted maid,
to whom she did not hesitate to impart a
full confidence of the determination she
had arrived at:
"If the house Of B, in their pride
have scorned and spurned their very pre-,
server, her gratitude, her love, and hel
faith are not forgotten by their daughter
ALICE"
When she re-appeared in the midst o.
her family, though sad and distracted
Alice was yet calm. Her first words tc
her father were simple reques, that nc
alusion should be made to the recent oc
curence, or to any concerned in it. Deeply
grieved as both he and her brother werI
for her, in the mids, of all the stern bit
terness of their resentment against Ed
ward, whose conduct their deep-rootet
prejudices Of family pride permitted then
to see only in the worst of lights, they
willingly complied with this request
which, moreover, they construed into al
acquiescence with their own severance o
all communication with the low-bor
peasant, as they regarded him, who ha
been the cause Of this thunderbolt whic
had thus fallen in their midst. If Alice
for the first time in her life, departed fror
the transparent candor and tru,hfulnes
which had always hitherto SO beautiful
marked all her intercourse with them,
j, was a fault-or. rather, though it wa
fault, it was surely not "the unpardor
-h'c SIN" Inreply to her note she rece
we'd tic uosi devoted prosesle. ons Z
graatuie, and an enlreaty for an interview
which, however, must not be within tn
limits cfany portion OF the B----lomail
The spot he named was that aiNhica b
mad been cast forth beyond The wal OF Ii
na,k-ahs hour bcing. left "a her Ia n,