Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1844-01-19

excessively romantic about Brooke, and We
leave our female readers to embody The
phrase into any form they please.
They met two or three times by accident
after which they met frequently by design
They did not make designations, but it soor
came to be understood that Georgana FIRE
quently walked on the banks, of the little
lake, aud that Master Brooke was fond o
fishing In our system of philosophy, it il
held to be impossible that such state o
things should not produce certain conse
quences. Brooke was worth the glance o
lady's eye, especially when she had moth
ING but the beauties Of nature to look at
he possessed both the gift of tongue and
eve, with which he spoke several languages
aud his strong excitable feelings often ex-
hlbited themselves in eloquent declamatons
which if not in strict classical tase, eXercs-
ed great power over the feelings and imagi-
nation of Georgiana. During the long
summer there were seldom any visitors, for
Mr.. Mervn was man of ease and dlsliked
the trouble of entertaining company, OF
which they had quite enough in town to sat
isfy even his wife. Mrs Mervin was not
the most watchful Of mothers, and Georgi-
ed from conviction that no harm could be-
fall her in this quiet retreat, where neither
turnpike, nor railroad, nor steamboat dis
turbed the peaceful inhabitants. This in
tercourse was not exactly clandestlne, yet
still there seemed a tacit understanding that
secresy was desirable Georgiana knew it
would not be approved by her parents, and
Brooke was conscious that there was an in
equality in their condition which precluded
all possibility that it would be tolerated if
known. Georgana at first considered his
company as a pleasant relief from the tedi-
business of dleness and solitude by de-
grees il became more easy of explanation
She began to fancy herself in love, aud per-
haps might have been little so, for she of
ten thought that if he were only a fashona-
BILE young gentleman, and had little more
tournure, she would actually like to unite
her fate with his forever. But this was
quite out of the question; and if she ever
looked steadily to future consequences, her
anticpations Swallowed forth nothing but
vain and indefinite prospect that ended in
nothing. As for poor Brooke, he was over
head and ears, and his destiny was fixed for
life. He had neither the resource of en-
ployment, dissipation, or splendid luxury, to
fritter away his feelings and dispute the en-
pire oflove in his heart. Georgiana had be-
come his all in all. Present or absent, she
occupied all his thot's absorbed all his wishes,
and mi CHIT be said to constitute his very being. |
He had not ye; declared his passion but
hundred little nothngs had occurred be-
tween them, on which a mind like his could |
build castle in the air, and from which it |
could draw ample nourishlnent for the most
ardent hopes.
In the course of the second simmer Of |
this intercourse Brooke was exceedingly |
disturbed by the intrusion of pair of cous-
ms, brother and sister, who had come to
spend few weeks, and relieve the solitude
of Georgiana. This, of course, interrupt
ed those walks which had long constituted
his sole earthly enjoyment, and when he saw,
as he often did, the idol of his soul walking
arm in arm with her cousin, chatting, laugh
ing and sometimes romplng in all the hiar
ity Of youthful spirits, his heart curdIed into
the gall Of bitterness, his blood boiled with
mingled rage and jealousy, and his brain
reeled with the intensity of his feelegs. lie
watched for an opportunity of speaking to
Georgiana, and at length succeeded. The
sense Of inferiority mingled with the modest
difidence of true love. which had hitherto
restrained his tongue, now yielded to more
imperious impulses; he unfoded his heart
he detailed the state of his feeings-re-
preached her with cruelty in thus wounding
his feelings with these exhibitions of fami-
iarity with her cousin, and he ended by de-
claring that he would take the first opportu-
nifty to meet and insult him. let what might
be the consequence. All this was spoken
with an impetuous overbearing eloqucnce,
such as strong passion alone inspires, and
which weak minds can seldom resist
Georgana trembled from apprehensions Of
the consequences of this threatened encoun-
ter she coaxed, soohed, and promised I'M
til she became unwariy entangled in en-
gagements which could not be severed with
out breach OF faith and the sacrifice of the
happiness of another Brooke at that mo-
ment tasted the full brimmed of happiness I
for the first and last time. Georgiana soon
afterward returned with her cousin to town, G
previous to which she had another interview
with Brooke, and, half in pity and half in y
apprehension of the consequences Of leav- ]
ing him unsatis6ed, repeated those promises, {
md renewed those pledges which had once q
before stilled the boiling surges of his bo- c
som. c
concluded nert Deek. v
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