The Woodstock age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1844-1845, 1844-11-21


to goat over it with your eyes. | want
to live while | am able to enjoy life"
"Thore are different modes of enjoying
life, dear Isabel believe ! could be
happy with bare suficiency." .,,|
"Wol, Eleanor, dare say you VIII
make the trial, ard wish YOU al JOY OF
your loye in cottages; shall look
higher"
We will now pass over twenty years
and return to seek after the destinles OF
our fair sisters. We will make our first
inquiry at this elegant house which Is so
tasternlly surrounded by young fruit trees
and blnssoming shrubs, where everything
wears the appearance of happiness and
content. This is the home Of the meek
hearted Eleanor. She is HOW at forty,
fresh, blooming and active as n girl
Good health and It's sweet companion,
checrlulness, render her the worshppod
centere of her family and friends. She
HAD married as she said she would, Il
young man of amiablo temper and excel
lent qualities. He was mechanic, and
perfectly master of the trade for which
he chcerlully served 4 long apprentice
ship. lie married soon after he com
mencod business for himself, and still
continues to work, although he has grown
rich, Yet he has never debarrcd himself
of the intellectual enioyments Of society,
books, and the evening liresdc at home,
and its evident that Eleanor has never
known WEAKNESS or sorrow, and is now
as fully alive to all rational enjoyment as
when she sat in her girhood by her faith
cr's hearth, Two lovely daughters are the
Hours of her little paradise; and three
noble boys come home from school at
evening to gladden. her heart with their
roguish glee and flial affection. She is
beloved by all that knew her, The hon
ored, and the poor bless her; she has not
an enemy on earth, and is at peace with
heaven. What can she ask more'
But where is the queonly Isabel? Is
she also happy in her hearts cholcc?--
Have patience, and will tellyou,
At village letc size met rich mans
son from neirhboring city, who had been
highly educated aud inflated into all the
mysteries Of science, and had iccqucn,cd
the most refined circles Of the most re-
fined society. He was cntranced and
captiyatcd by tho quecnly beauty and
prOud bearing Of village maiden. lsa-
bel knew well how tosecure her conquest
for she was artlul as well rs inSinuatinG:
and when the nuptlal day was fixed, and
her engagement with Mr. Dayoaant made
public, her triumph was complete, and
the consumation of the marriage seemed
20 lay all heaven open before her. Her
husband took her to the city, and in the
pride ofhis heart exhibited her amid all
the pomp which his immense fortune
could command. And she was hap
picst Of the happy, gayest of the gay,
tairest of the fair.
But man, however heartcss or even
dssolute he may appear, has an innate
yoarning for the sweet, aiicctionqte quiet
Of domestic life. lie longs for Il sanctu-
airy to which he may retire from the noise
and wearying strife Of business, ambition
and worldly pleasure, and rest amid the
b1lmly flowers tint clusterround the pure
iount of love, Harry Daycnant had been
educated in the temple Of fashion, yet he
had dreamed ofan enchanted land where
he might rcclnc in such bower and lis
ten to the murmprings Of those living wa
tcrs. And il Was this longing for domcs-
tic bliss that led him to prefer the love Of
Il village arl He should have known
that human nature is everywhere the
same, that pride, love Of displly and sell
ti.hncss, as well as the gentle virtues, are
intimate qualities which education may
disguise or modify, but cannot eradicate.
Keen and bitter we're the feelings with
which he discovered that Isabel was III
tcrly and thoroughly selfish She had no
room for any generous feeling or disinte!
cstod affection. She vas proud, not OF
her husband, but of his wealth, and she
loved no, him, but the splcndor and gale
ty which his position in society enabled
her to command. They soon became
estrangcd and while she pursued her gid
dy course Of unthinking vanity, he found
fearful soace in the sclt-sacricing
love of a poor girl whom he scduccd from
dutv. innocence and heaven
When this came to lsabe's knowledge |
she felt angry, insultcd ,humbIed, aud she
poured ont her hearts bitterness in s,or-
my Gliding and nyectiyc against her hns.
band, not only in his cars but among
his associates. He al first sought to G.
wade the charge, but she eagerly sought
the proofs, unwomanly as such things are
and confronted him with his inlamy.-
Stung with guilt and anger, lie reprouch-
cd her with her hcartessness, and said
if he could have found love aud sympa-
thy in her bosom he should never have
sought it elsewhere.
From that day they were as strangers
TO each other. lie sougct pleasure whcr-
ever he could find her footprints, and
Isabel still ran the giIdy round offashion-
able dissipation. The world pticd her.
and said she was deeply iniurcd;and suf-
iering womaD.
Still she made parties, attended balls,
soirees, operas and the theatre, was at
every place of fashionable amusement,
courtcd, admired and followed in all her