Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1843-05-27
Vol. A..

hazel tint which was diffused through the
same color in the eyes of Lilias; while on
ly a mothers heart could remember that
when two little heads were laid upon the
same pillow the curls which clustered
round Rosamond's brow were darker than
the chestnut locks of Lilias. The simili-
tude seemed rather to increase with the
progress of time, and in the sportiveness
of their innocent mirth, the fair children
would often puzzle their parents by chang
ing the ornaments which formed the only
distinction between them in the eyes of the
family servants. Nor were they less alike
in character than in person, and happier
had it been for both, if more diversity be-
tween them had really existed.
Entitled by their birth to rank and af-
fuence, gifted by nature with exceeding
beauty, and almost worshpped by parents
who had long despaired of beholding the
renewal Of their youth in their own off
spring, they early learned their own i'm
portance in the eyes of the whole household.
Their will became law to all. from the
proud old lord down to his humblest ser.
want, and it is not surprising that they
should soon have acquired full portion of
the waywardness which is ever the result
Of unlimited indulgence. Their similarity
of taste and feeling produced disunion be-
tween them even in the nursery, for each
was sure to desire the same qualification at
precisely the same moment, and as it was
scarcely possible always to fulfil the desires
of both, their wilfulness occasion ed con-
tinual discord between them. Many dis
pute which has separated those whom God
had united-many a family feud which has
left its Inheritance of hatred in the second
and third generations--many bitter jeal-
ousy-many an evil passion which curdles
the milk of human kindness in the hearts
Of men, and makes the bond of kindred on
| ly fetter which is gladly broken-may be
traced to the petty chickering's and still re-
newed quarrels which disturb the days of
infancy. The misfortunes which befell the
beautiful sisters, if traced to their first cause
will be found to have arisen in that disu-
MON of feeling and selfshness, which char
acterised their childhood, while the WON
derful similarity which distinguished their
moral as well as their physical nature, and
which should have bound them by the
closest ties, became only an unfailing source
of discord and dislike.
As nothing is more unlovely than child
hood without its innocent attributes, its
frankness, its overlooking affections, its ut.
ter unselfshness, its purity of feeling
we will pass over the events of the sisters
early life; events which, though of trifing
import in themselves were Of no little
consequence 10 the formation of character.
AT sixteen, the ladies Rosamond and Ii
lias were known to all the country around
as the Beauties of Folkstone; and the rare
spectacle of two young females SO exquis-
itely lovely and so wonderfully similar,
that portrait of the one would have serv-
ed as most accurate likeness of the other,
drew around them a crowd of admirers.
1t required an intimate acquaintance with
both to discover the points eff difference
which existed between them, and yet these
differences were of the most decided and
definite kind. Possessed of equally violent
passions, equally self-wied and resolute of
purpose, they yet were most unlike in tai
ent and in their power of selfpossession.
Scarcely had the beautiful sisters attained
the age of womanhood when death depri-
we'd them of their mother, whose weak in
diligence had fostered the growth of those
errors in her children of which she was
keenly sensible ere she was removed from
them forever. They felt little respect foI
the parent who had early submitted hel
better judgment to their infantine caprices
and, like all spoiled children, they made a
most ungrateful return for her unlimited af
lection. She was allowed to minister &c
, their pleasures, but when, excited by theil
J wilfulness, she attempted to act the men
! tor, or to assert her long dormant authors
r ty, she was met by utter contempt for hel
5 counsels, and disregard of her commands
, Her last days were embittered by their dis
{ obedience, and the children who had beer
' bestowed as blessings, were by her Owl
: excess Of affection, made her most bite