The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1845-08-20
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CADIZ WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 20 ls45

as she ran her fingers over the keys and com
menced favorite Scotch song. He seemed in
terested- she sang anotbor.
F'Helen,' said he, '.if am not much mistaken,
these are Scotch songs"
'sThey are" said she, sand very beautiful, do
you not think So"
"Really, my conscience will not permit me to
say yesm
"What! you pretend to be fond of music and
do not like Scotch songsr'
"No, do not. TO tell the truth, despse
the whole race. The old ones are worn oui, ,and
the new are made up of puerilities; one short
note and long one, bar after bar, and the piece
is called Scotch. once heard professor say,
that if a cat would walk over the black keys Of
a piano, it would play Scotch tune, and be-
lieve he was right"
dwell" said Helen, Gas | never heard of
performance of that kind on the piano, will not
undertake to decide the question:, but maintain
that one who despses Scotch songs has no soul
for music"
$50, madam" said the doctor. He rose has
tily, overturning chair, seized his hat, and left
the room. A new light burst upon Helen
where was the gentleman to whom she had SO
fondIy trused!- what could she do but shed
tears overher blighted hopes?
We need not hardly say that the doctor repent
Eed--that he sought an interview and was for a
long time denied. In the end, love conquered;
for once engaged lady feels very lonely with
out lover, after having enjoyed that luxury
Helen relented and the doctor was all devotion.
And here again is peaceful period in our his
tory.
Summer came, inviting 10 Cape May, Sarato-
ga, and a hundred other fashionable places for
dissipation, ennui and killing time. Our hero
fancied that his health required short respite
from taking care OF the health Of others, and
early one morning he parted with Helen. The
[adieus were rendered. He promised to write,
and "all that sort of thing" Helen had pre-.
sentiment of something, (people often have) but
she dried her tears and took breakfast.
"'Tis said that absence conquers love-" and il
is melancholy fact that experience goes far to
Iprove the assertion, One letter came, full of
life, fashion and affection, another in which the
latter was not quite so evident, and third in
which lit was scarcely perceptbe. This was alar-
mng--to tell the truth, Helen had vanished from
the Doctors mind We must tell how it happened
All know the merits of those resorts of sense
folly and fashion, called Springs" There must
be some beauty, when there is so much of the
reverse, and the handsome and brilliant Miss B
had suppanted poor Helen. All, tickle man anc
Suffering woman!
We have, as yet, said nothing about the mora
of this tale. 1t is in this piece Of advice to ou
female frends-avoid confdants. Be sure they
are as ready TO speak as to hear; and ''what goe;
in at one ear, goes out" not " at the other" bu
at the mouth. All the fears and fances of Helen
were duly promulgated by kind friend; and al
that the town could say, however unpleasant,wa'
told her. Such are the services Of confidants
Ii was a calm summers evening; and Heller
was sitting at her window, weaving web of fan
Icy, and silk purse commenced now long before
for her now faithless lover. A carriage passed
in it Miss B. and the young doctor. This was
her first knowledge of his return; and her frient
dropping in, revealed many dark traits in her 10
ver's character, and fresh proofs of his faihless
ness.
The next evening,the recreant lover called, ,bu
he found on the brow OF Helen no trace of dis
pleasure. Never did she appear more happy tC
sec him. She was all gentleness, Kindness
The guilty doctor could scarcely credit the evi
dence of his senses. Helen never seemed hal
$50 lovely, aud he muttered an inward lelicitatiol
that he had not gone too far. "She must love
me very much after all, - thought he, sand now
will choose between the two beauties"
But unfortunately for this pleasant scheme ear
ly the next morning he received note from He
len, stating in very few and entirely ntelligi
!, BILE words, that the engagement was at an ent
forever. The doctor thought of suicide and Miss
b., hesitating between the comparative merits o
InruQcic md oNalic ociJ IL Gballv dc,
f not to take poison, so he took his curicle anC
drove round 10 see Miss B. He offered himsel
, and shop, and was rejected!
, Then in revenge he commenced violent aten
: tlonsto "good sort Of girl" in the neighbor
hood, and married her; having at the same time
a half notion that both Helen and Miss B. woulC
go into mourning. But Miss b., instead of 90
ing into mourning went into the country, found
new lover, and forgot all about the young doc
tor Helen thought AT fist of becoming regu
lar nun: next believing that TO be sister of cha
rity would be going far enough, and finally con
fIcluded io-live single life in the ordinary way
land pet cats and cultivate dahlias. She also col
/, lected various small children, called them hel
infant school, and taught them part of the alpha
! bet; she joined ladies' missionary sewing socie
ty, and instead Of knitting silk purses for her ad
| mlrers, knit baby-socks for Juvenile Sandwich
Islanders.
Some two months after all this new clergy
man was called to the church of which Heller
was an exemplary member. He was young anc
eloquent! wore whiskers for fear of Bronchitis
and esclewed a white cravat. He soon begal
10 see Helen home from the meetings of tn,
sewing society, and the old maids had bareI
time TO say it was a"sottled natter before the'
were married Candor compels us TO say tha
the young gentleman was fine fellow and wa
worth dozen of the young doctor.
In a comfortable looking parlor, at the water
. ing place before mentioned, about yoar afte
the marriage, might have been seen clerica