The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1845-04-11
~ From Graham's Magazine.
'ia'Fi. .ORENCE ERRINGTON. !
IAN DER TRUE TALE"
.He en.ertsine.d an a ngel unaware. |"
isrs FRANCES s. .soscoop.

III ). ffs 81 ID
x The krst time | saw little, Florence
Fearing, she presented as lovely Pic
ture rs the Imagination of painter OF
poeteyer conceived. She was leaning
over the yine-coyered brlusrade Of .
balcony, resting one hand on it, holding
q pipe, and with the other shading from
The sun her large gray eyes, in order to
gaze after brilliant bubble which she
had just set foating overhead. She
was the most delicate, ethereal looking
creature ! ever saw. The bubble its
elf seemed hardly more frail or beanti.
ful. The inmost leaf Of a white Pro-
vence Rose has sometimes the faint, soft
coloring that warmed her delicate
cheek; but her lips were red as the
wild wood-berry, and her fair hair, oi
The very, palest golden hue, fell around
her snowy shoulders Ikea veil woven
Of the starlight. So light, so pure, 50
airIy graceful did she look, that | almost
trembled lest she should suddenly
spread Il pair Of hitherto invisible wings
and vanish from my gaze. -
But the bubble burst, and little Flor
ence staried and let fall the pipe; it lay
shivered at her feet, and the child flew
IN tears, to confide her first grief 10 her
mother,
Ah, Florence many a radiant hope,
in after life sent from thy heart into the
sunny world--beautiul and trail as
that soaring "circlet oflight'-was des-
tined like that to die! 's,'' 'H a0g
q. She grew up lovely, loving and be-
Ioyed; but so tender and so delicate,
thatal who saw her trembled. Att
age of seventeen she was welded to a
man Of her choice. Henry Errington
was young, handsome, intellectual and
affectionate, although too much a man
of the world 10 lie suitable husband
for her. He regarded bis wife with
fondness and admiration; but she was
far too pure, too aerial, too finely or
ganized tor his roueher and warmer
Temperament. He did not understand
her. He did not kno " what to make
Of the exquisite iragiIity, the tin,id sem
sitiveness of the creature confided TO
his keeping; he had wooed, won and
welded The first being that caught his
fancy, and now that the pIaything was
-all his own, he could hardly have been
more at loss. Every flutter of her
spirits wings frightened him. as that Of
the Peri's would. He could learn in
time, by canstant study, how to feed
and clothe his dainty captive spirit; bat
there were HImmortal warnings" to
which he could verminister.
y II his manly voice took unconscious.
Is a colderor more careless tone, those
great gray eyes would be raised plead
.ingIy, imploringly 10 his, slowly filling
with 'unbidden tears" Hhe breathed
"a word Of praise, quick. vivid blush
would burn and fade in hev pure cheek
so suddenly thatit startled him. II he
frowned, the graceful lip would culver.
and the soft eyes close, as il to shut
out some terrible and overwhelming
spectacle.
At last he wearied OF bting Kept so
constantly on the s'qui pive." Hetried
10 persuade himself that his lovely, in
nocent and aflecnonate wife was ve-
~ unreasonable person, d pelted and
spoiled child, whom he ought, for her
own sake to discipline little. And
so, gradually, he became careless, and
'frequented his club, and gre " fond Of
gay parties and wiIinlly blndec himself
10 The fact that his Peri was perishing
Of cold, and starving for want of food,
or, In other words, that his wife's heart
needed sustenance and attention and
care, qui,e as much as her physical
frame. lf'.the winds Of Heaven shou d
not visit" the latter .too roughly nei-
ther should the chilling blast OF negle,
or unkindness from her other heaven,
himself, be suffered 10 fall upon the for
,mer. But men forget that hearts can
break, and that Peris were meant to
fly. ,e, s5 f5..ts1..
In the gay world he met one night a
brilliant and impassioned creature, to
whom he was, at her own request, in
,troduced. Henrietta Harley had been
in early life warm-hearied, generous
and guiieless girl; but, disappointed in
her dearest hopes. she had become al
most reckless Of her future fate. She
was now, at twenty-6ye,, a gay, witty,
capricieus and, captivating woman,who
seemed 10 have, but one object in life
excitemen for the restless mind--and
that she was determined to oiobtain at
any cost.
10 Henry Errington was just in the
mood to be caught by this contrast to
his trouble at home, and hesw soon
willing victim to the beautliuland gifted
coqueite. ae6 eB
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