Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1845-01-31

affection has made me, and say, do not at
least deserve YOUR love Under the solemn
assurance that should claim the name aud
station of your wife, / fell, and is your prom
Use never to be realized If sinful in the
eyes Of others, to you have been faithful,
and X you would save me from the wretched
grave redeem your promise now
'Harrass me not with your solicitations
they have been the burden fyour converse
lately. Why seek TO bind love so freely
given you! You no longer esteem me for
myself, aud would have the name Of wife
for the rank and station il would give you.
1t cannot be-
Now mark me, Charles, as with flashing
eyes and heaving bosom she rose and draw
ing herself TO her full height, she cast on
him look OF mingled anguish and affection
blended with naughty pride, nov mark me
we'll Scarce twenty summers have breath
ed upon me, and deceived, betrayed, by you
under your solemn promise, have left my
fathers roof-become an outcast from my
family-seyered all the ties that bound me to
them-yielded all my youth, my beauty and
my heart to you. Solaced by your love,
confident in your honor, have regretted
nothing. Devoted to you could and would
have forgotten all but even here, in my re-
tirement, shut out from the world, recluse
for you, even here comes the rumor Of your
marriage with another. believed il not
until GOODNESS proved it-nay Interrupt me
not | have seen your proud and hanghty
temper / have seen your determined spir-
it and have witnessed your deadly ven
geance. have seen you shed the brothers
blood while yindicating his sisters honor,
and still, still loved you. But when you
violate your own assurance, when you prove
yourself the base decever, and with passion
grati6ed would desert your victim when
you would cast her from you and take an
other to your bosom, know that woman's
vengeance is more deadly than your own
know that she tears from her heart every
feeling oftenderness that she has your own
wild spirit, and will avenge herself Never
no never shall another occupy the place that
belongs to me 7
Calm your transports listen to the voice
of reason, Louise. If other considerations
compel me to marry, can not still love you,
If Miss Everett is TO be my bride, may I'not
-
Miss Everett the name heard and he
avows il ! base, deceitful think not you
shall triumph = Her strength was o'ertask-
ed, and she fell fanting TO The floor. A smile
Of deep mysterious meaning passed over the
face of the seducer as he placed her upon the
couch aud rang for aid The plan works
WE'LL he muttered in himself, as leaving
her to the care Of domesiics he wrapped
his cloak around him, and left the house
Caroline Everett was seated in the par.
Tor of her fathers house, musing over the
history of her past, and indulging in bright
anticipations Of her future life Her thot':
ever clustering round him on whom sh,
was soon to lean for support, in whom hel
young heart conhded, round whom he
warm affections chung, as twines the ivy
round the towering oak-wiihout singl,
doubt to ruffle, or one suspicion to disturb
her. Absorbed in the happy paintings o
her imagination, she discovered not the en-
trance Of female, who throwing aside he
veil, stood gazing on her with fixed ant
earnest look. The stranger like herself wa
young, and with as much Of beauty, but OF
her features were the traces Of deepest agita
ton. As Caroline raised her eyes blende,
feeling of admiration oft strangers lowell
ness, and yet that underlined sensation o
coming evil as connected with her--a sen
salion springing from what source we know
not, and yet which all have felt.
You know me not, fair lady. The path
of innocence and guilt meet not and We
we once were friends. Do you remembe
your girlish playmate-the school compan
ion past aud happy years-do you remem
Der her, then called your own Louise 2
A strange expression, half Joyous, hal
painful, swept over the features of Caroline
as the reference TO her younger days Gale
up her memory, and she recognized in III
being before her the sprighily girl who ha
been her early friend A confused tale G
guilty passion and base deceit had reache
her ears she knew that friend had fallen
but she knew not her betrayer. Half ca
tending her hand, the involuntary shudde
that shook her frame did not escape III
searching glance of her visitor.
Let not your kindness conceal your de
testation. Between us there is barrie
impossible and eternal. Vice should nc
seek communion with the yirtuous. nee
not be reminded ofwhat am
Cease, cease your selfupbraiding. w
all are weak-we all may err let not III
remembrance of the past shut out the cor
solutions of the future. There is to all
Lady for me there is no future III
past. the dark, the dreadful past, is my etel
nifty. l came not here to gaze on virtue c
to pirate ofjoy; 1 came not to save you froI
self-inflicted anguish--from withered hope
from the racking torments of despair
You smile! you deem me mad You tur
to him who has vowed his loye--to whoI