Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1843-01-05
popular Gales.
From the Philadelphia Saturday Courier.
CLARA WALTON.
Bp jtars. Sarab 3. Male.
AN EXCELLENT STORY.

IiHyb San y"u &c" w w" w.
yonder pretty cottage ? am sure It
must have history" said Mrs. Couant
TO her Iandlady.
"Ah, ycs-is it not love Of a place,
with its pillars and portcoes u hroundf'
said Mrs. Bell, adyaneing towards the
window. at is called a cottage orne,
you know, and belongs to Mr.-,"
"No, no don't mean that Haunting
pagoda, which is just such vulgar.
expensive. looking thing as any body
who has mouey may buy or build"
said Mrs. Conant. Il mean that dear
little cot on the hillside there, nestled
in among the green vines and shrubbcry,
and peeping forth from among the leaves
and flowers like q timid bride irom be-
meath her veil Who lives there;"
80 that is Woodbine Cottage, you
know" replied Mrs. Bell "and ihe
Waltons live there, you know"
eyes, | know it nov you have told
me-" said Mrs. Conaut, smiling at the
repetition Of yop haow which better edp-
Gated people than Mrs. Bell are some
times in the habit of using.
"lt is n charming place !" exclaimed
Emily Conant "and good old lzaak
himself, with his refined taste for the
beauties Of nature, never described n
more delightful spot. | hope Mr.. Wal
ton loyes fishing"
"Mrs. Walton is a widow," said Mrs.
Bell, and she added, compassionately,
Cher SOP, poor iellow, eonid not be per-
adcd to hurt fly, much less to pull
"A struggling fish out Of the water"
"Why, he must be romantic indeed"
said Emily Conant. What is he-a
poet!"
The landlady shook her head "You
have never heard, then, of Mrs. Wal
toms idiot son ~
Mrs. Conant ASSURED her she had not.
"WeIl, then" said Mrs. Bell. in her
rambling way-"Clara Walton is very
beautiful and very bright, and that
makes it more strange poor lenry
should be so ill-shapen aud dull. But
then he is kind, loving, harmless
creature, and his Wo!her and sister
think all the world of him, you know
Some people say it was a judgment upon
Mrs. w alton for her pride, when she
was So rich in her first husbands day
but that is over now, and she is poor
enough, you know. But mpst say,
that she has borne all her sorrows like
Christian, as she is. you know"
Indeed, know nothing Of Mrs.
Walton or her affairs. except what you
have now communicated" replied Mrs.
Couant. Il feel an in,eres. in her
from these circumstances widow,
poor, with an idiot son clingipg 10 her
for the protection which, from such G
relation, it you'd seen natural he should
give, makes a touching appeal TO my
feelings"
And she has lovely daughter"
said Emily Conant--'I wish, mother,
we could make their acquaintance. p"
"That would be easy enough ifyon
were sick or in distress" said tho land
lady. "Mrs. Walton is famous for her
broths and possc,s aud as for Clara,
why, she thinks nothing of going Inilcs
Ito carry something nice 10 the sick, or
Ito watch with the poor, while she would
not spare an afternoon from her work
or her books 10 visit a neighbor, socia-
bly, ~
/ 90, what a culogy " exclaimed Mrs.
!. Conant, turning TO her daughter
How glad am to find that the moral
beugly of the dwellcrs in that lovely
cottage is in unison with the charms Of
nature around them! What Para
disc we might make of this earth if al
were good aud kind"
/ "Clara and her mother are good apd
kind, chlued in the landlady ; That
every body allows but people say hey
arc over proud, though certainly, as
Mrs. Walton is not able 10 20 out
much--she has the asihma terribly at
timcs-oxcept TO church, 1t is not
strange That Clara stays ut home with
her, and to take care Of poor Henry.
But then, she never seems 10 care
about going, and that is strange aud
now, as she has managed io catch ihe