The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1845-08-02
NGlSOlaIhILANla0Uso
MARY FENWlCK, OR THE ALlBI
BY 4 LAWYER.


and railroads had annihila,ed distances and
going TO London the everyday affair il
now is from all parts of the king gdom.
awoke, on a beautiful April morning, from
| the uneasy slumbers Of mail-coach passen.
Iger, just in time to drink in, at eve, eaI
and nose, the brilliant sparkle, refreshing
sound, and rev.viug odor Of nv native
waves. as they leap up to kiss,as il r fond
ness, The rocky barrier, which our eastern
coas. opposes to the not always placid.
Ocean. was ere long, TO pass barrier Of
a differerenl description row happily a
nominal one) between two sis,er nations or,
IN plain English, TO enter the town of Ber-
wick-on. 1weed,a few miles beyond which
on the southern side of the border, business
obliged me 10 proceed.
A, the inn door where we stopped 10
change horses, iu the capital of mo mans
| and'- whose Inhabitants assert their an
omalous independence by speaking dialect
which they take care shall be neither
Scotch nor EngIish--I also exchanged, for
he brief remsinder of my journey, taci
turn common place sort of a fellow-passen
ger-from whose physiognomy ! never
lreamet of auguring anylhing-lor one Of a
llferen, description, from whose modest,
lye, speaking counlenance, and the evden'
interest she excited IN the few who were
aslir al that early hour, il was Impossible to
void auguring grea, deal.
The coach door was opened. and with
swimming eye. flushed check, aud sllve
hair blowing about in the morning wind. r
venerable looking man took leave with eveI
mole than parental tenderness of a simple
lressed,yei genteel looking young woman;
who, retu ming his remuulous God bles'
md eward your with an almos. fIial fare
well, drew down over her face thick black
veil, and stepped in opposite to me, never
|fcit mole inclined. and al the same time
more or less, TO open conversation. To
rude on female sorrow seemed unus,l.
Iii able, 10 treat il with mere callous indiffer
ence impossible. Tha, of my new con-
panion appeared TO be of a genleel, subduet
sort, arising more from sympathy with
others than from personal causes, and ere
long, putting back her veil with The reviv
ling cheerfulness of one whose heart il ligh
'ened Of an unmerited burden, she looked
calmly out on the fresh aspect of nature.sO
in unison with her own pure and innocen
counenance, and said, in the tono of on'
breathing after the release from the pres
spre of painful feelings. How beau'ifu
every thing does look this fine spring
morning!
Il, does indeed said I, struck with th'
confding naiueHe of the involuntary re
remark, 'and suppose you are the more
sensible Of it from being young traveller!
Her only answer was one Of those pleasan
Ismiles which admit of various translations
land which coupled with her air Of rura
simplicity. chose TO constrce an assen
Coupling the remark with the clrcum
stances of her only luggage being sma
Sand.box, | set her down for farmer
daughter of the neighborhpod, and said,
suppose, like myself, you are not goln
fart!
Il am going to London, sir, said she' I
tone of cslmn Of self-possession, as
such Journey had been TO her an ever
lday occurrence. and so indeed had beef
no, maisphorically, but literally Il
case.
ITO London repeated I. with more su
prise than could we'll account for, we
YOU ever there beforeF
oh yesr was the reply, rendered mo
pipQuant by its singular composure:
came from seventy miles beyon day beio
yesterday
]; would be quite superfous 10 say It
my curiosity was greatly excited by Il
n. singular occurrence, and dare say
es renders wll set me down for We
stupid fellow { for lawyer especial