Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1843-05-12

ly danced into the drawing-room, TO the
horror of Aunt Philis, who thought it an un-
pardonabe sin for any one to deviate from
the straight forward and perpendicular lines
of utility aud decorum.
In the course of the evening, Elmira ask
ed her sister if she did not intend to 90 with
her, in the morning. TO purchase Jewels
Leila don't care about jewels, said Mr.
Manners, significantly. she is a girl in ten
thousand
Leila began to examine her work-box vc-
ry industriously, and pretended not to hear
what they were saying.
i should not be surprised said Emily,
aughingIy, If she put her money out at in
terest, or in the savings bank, she's such
utlltaran.'
Perhaps she is going TO establish chart
ty school, cried Aunt Phillis, with a sneer.
Mr. Banks not happening to be present, she
thought she might relax little from her am
liability.
TO whatever use she has appropriated it,
said Mr. Clements, she will receive, not on
ly thirty, but sixty, nay an hundred fold
Charles, who sat beside his cousin, took
up spool of thread from her work-box,
and appeared TO be scrutinizing its quality
most earnestly, but he was in reality watch
ing her downcast face, and thinking il was
scarcely a merit in Leila to sacrifice person.
nj ornaments, since she was in herself so
lovely and so loveable lie knew the pur-
pose to which she had devoted her fathers
gift, and he longed to tell her of the graft
tude and admiration she had inspired, but
he would not wound her modesty by con-
Tossing his knowledge of her disintercsted
goodness.
Are you going TO take lessons in sewing,
Charles 2 asked cousin Joe, unexpectedly
breaking silence Il should Judge so, by
the interest you manifest for that work box
1t was the first wittcism cousin Joe had at
tempted to make, and every one laughed
Aunt PhilIis seemed ready to fall into con-
WILSON'S, for Joe was an object of her hon.
age inferior only to his father.
1t is not our intention to give a minute
description of Aunt PhiIlis' splendid fete.-
1t had the elaborate display aud ceremony
usual on such occasions, but seldom is a
fashionable party graced by such figures as
Mr. Banks and Aunt phillis presented TO the
admiring eye He wore a coat and small
clothes of superior black velvet, relieved by
vest Of the deepest crimson, composed Of
the same rich materials. White silk stock
ings, and golden knee-buckles, vouminons
shirt ruilles, and multitudinous rings, distin-
guished the man of wealth from the inferior
throng. Aunt Phillis prominaded up and
down the saloon, leaning on his arm, she be-
lieved herself the envy of every female heart,
as well as the admiration of every manly
eye She wore on this occasion, which she
thought but the prelude of nuptial festival,
a dress of white satin, trimmed with blonde,
a gossamer turban, profusely trimmed with
pearls and flowers, among which the orange
blossom bloomed with prophetic sweetness.
Leila could have laughed at her Aunts re-
hemcnt aliectaton of juvenility, but she re-
membered that she was moral and immor-
tai being, and sighed to see her thus twrflng
with roses and jems the sepulchre of youth
She saw her sisters neck and arms glitter
ing with Jewels and she did not repine, for
her eyes rested on her uncle Clements, and
she would not have exchanged her feelings
for the diamonds of Golconda. How well
he looked in his new suit of deep black -
How she admired the soft shadows of silver
grey that STOLE like a mist over his ietty
hair How her heart throbbed as she met
his allectionate smile, his grateful, approving
glance
Mr. Clements had another silent admirer
1t was no other than Mr. Manners. lie had
been watching his daughters countenancc,
and following the direction of her eyes, he
could no, help sympathising with her enthu-
siastic emotions. The freshness and sensi-
bility of liie's earlier days, when her mother
hung upon his arm young and con6ding
bride, came back upon him. He forgot the
hardening lessons the world had taught him,
his pusillanmous submission to his sisters
arbitrary sway-he was once more man
and father. Drawing near her, he was
about to tell her that he had discovered her
secret and that she need not fear his anger,
when he saw Charles anticipate him. The
young man bent down and talked TO her in
low voice, and she answered him in the
same tone. Moreover, there was an express
sion in the young mans eyes very different
from what cousins are wont to wear, and
Lelas color deepened, and fitted, and re-
solved at last into that roseate hue, which is
said to be emblematc of something more
than a cousins love.
Il must look to this thought Mr. Manners,
he is fine young iellow-but he is too
poor to think of marrying. | wish he were
Mr. Banks son for Lelia's sake.
The father was once more merged in the
man of the world. Nature yielded to Gold
Aunt Phllis was too much excited that
night to close her eyes in sleep. Mr. Banks
had done every thing, but make a downright
offer of himself He had invited her and
Elmira to accompany them home, telling her
that he wanted her to see his house and
grounds-to show her in what style he lived
She WINS 10 select a hnildinn snnt Cnr bis CON