Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1845-03-07

othcr-tl'is also was soon dropped ; another
and another shared the SAINT fate. Books
had ceased to amusn her mind. Seating her
self ut the piano, she began a tune /; hardly
had the notes struck her ear, ere she stop
ped; the too familiar sound was no music to
her ear. A gildrd harp stood near her, she
turned and ran her fingers lightly over the
chords for a moment, the rich toned inslru-
ment seemed to lull her Impotence.
The doorhell at that moment rang violent
", she sprang f'om her seat. | hope it is
Eliza, said she, | I'm so lonesome.
A servant entered with a card, she took it
and rcad-Gcorgc Ashburn, fremont
House.
I'm not at home, said she in n quick, an
cry tone. as she handed the card to the SER
want who departed with the lie. The next
day at the same hour. the card was again
presented, and again, Elmira Warren was
not at home. Tkc next day. for the third
time the card Nas>handed her; she took il,
and tore it to pieces, and seating herself at
the table, she wiote as follows
Mn A~suBuRN-
Sir-You will ohlicn me, bv troubling me
no more; | do not wish TO see YOU, neither
will |. Twice !! have returned your card !;
the thild, | tore to pieces. TIE engagement
that has bound us, | now snap asundcr.-
Your wife, | cannot be, for reasons which |
shall not state. Call me false, if You will, |
Care not you have your ways, ! have mine.
IIrnccforlh, | am nothing to YOU. trust
this will answer. ELMIRA WARREN.
This letter was delivered. George Ash
burn, never called again.
Gustavus Hamilton, whom this %disappoint-
ed young girl had hoped to cnirap, bv the
art which had bcglilcd no small number of
Young men, was lost to her forever. In a
shot, time he was TO leave for Havana, and
rnmor said, with a wife ; "A lovely BRIDE
Eliza Morrill,.
Exactly four months from the night ofthc
ball, the marriage ceremony, between Gus
ta,uS + milton and Eliza Morrill,, was to be
celebrated.
Elmira Warren received an Invitation.
Her first impulse was to decline it but al
terioq her mind she resolved to 90.
Yes, | will 20, said she, as she read the
invitation a second ioc. | will see them
married. Glslavus Hamilton, the man
love. | will behold welded to Eliza Morrill,.
Although my heart would fam be spared the
scene. But for George Ashburn, | might
have been his wife.
Her own words, had sunk her in the csii-
nation of IIAmiiioL; bat she vented her
spirit upon Gcorga l,hhurn. The wedding
night WAS at hani. 4 brilliant t,rong had
assembled to witncSs the nuptials. The
company had nearly III arrived. as Elmira
Warren entered. She bowed slightly to
Hamilton. lie, as lightly returned the SALT
taliun.
All was now in readiness, the nnp,inl GER
cmony was about to proceed, as Hamilton
I rose from h.-~T nrsidc iil--ouc VINO was
soon to be his wife; and fixed IA piercing
look upon Elmira Warren.
My friends, sad he, as he turned TO the
assembled throng, you have hitherto known
me as GnStavus Hamilton, it Is now time
that | should lay aside the name llmi dors
not belong 20 me-know me by my r%isltlul
name, George AShburn.
Elmira Warren was thundcrstruck at this
avowal. The knowledge, that Gustavus
Hamilton aud George Ashburn, were one,
was too much for her. She tainted uliering
the name of George Ashburn, in a wild
piercing tone. By the aid of those around,
she soon recovered and Immediately left the
house.
The marriage ceremony was begun-pro-
grcsSel-was over. Eliza Morrill, was the
wife Of George Ashburn.
1t was, indeed, he-two years residence
in the West Indies bad so altered him, that
even his most intimate friends had no, re-
cognized him. r. had grown mach larger
and taller. His face, which was as clear and
beardless as a woman's, ere he left this city,
had yielded him a superb pair of whiskers-
these, with the rich brown hue his face had
acquired bcneathlhc influence of a tropical
sun, he had completely disguised him. The
business like air. and the rich dress he al
WAYS wore, also, added much to the disguise,
Three months after his marriage, he, with
his bride, sailed for Havana. The fortune
left him, he had invested with the former
partners of his father, with whom he was
now "A partner.
The young men of her acquaintance had
nearly all of them married-but not one, hac
offered himself TO Elmira Warren, the Co.
Queite.
DR.. KALLY.-This intrepid soldier ofth,
Cross, who has been Illegally imprisoned on,
hundred and seventy days in Madeira fol
preaching the Gospel, has been offered 81,
600 if he would leave Madeira but he h,
declined the offer, refusing to sell the RICH
of speech and of disseminating the word %
God for gold. rrryet breaches publicly, be
cause the charter ~tolerales every form o
worship in private, and within the confines
If diSspntinu clutches. erected within The