The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1845-07-16
VOL. X.
Helen and the Young Doctor.

sy, and features most classically regular.
= The artillery of Cupid, which we hear SO
much about. seems 10 have been invented
before the discovery of firearms, and The ar
rows he discharged al the heart oil Helen mad
little effect In truth, all the young gentle
men of the town considered her decidedly
cruel. She had lots of verses IN her portio-
Ito, asserting that fact.
Helen visited the town oil s., and
there met the young Doctor We cannot
sion TO expatiate upon his merits. He was
what every young lady considers "a love-
No one ever questioned the character Of his
coats, ('Carpenter's' no doubt and his whis-
kers were iaullless. His first visit 10 Helen
was in the way of profession-for, like most
young ladies, she occasionally mad such
headaches and was sometimesso nervous
but his profession soon lost their proies-
sionaI char acter. Helen felt touched-phys-
clans have such winning ways-and Tor
once the course of true love did run smooth.
Helen was an engaged LADY, By some
singular accident the whole town knew II
the next day and it was delightful 10 see
the respect with which she was treated by
unenga Icd friends. Even the young mar
ried ladies exhibited towards her an unusual
degree ofdeferrence, as being not farirom
the holy state of matrimony.
! But all this is 10 placid 10 be interesting.
: AS, in the history of nations, peaceful occur
ences attract little notice while the attention
of the reader is almost entirely taken up with
periods of war; SO the quarrels of lovers are
the principal features Of all tales.
We suppose Helen may be safely consld-
cred at the summit of sublinary bliss-a point
we have often heard of but never exactly
succeeded in reaching. We would gladly
leave her there, long time; and the reader
may suppose month or two 10 have elapsed.
But time and our story move on towards the
catastrophe.
The serenity of the Doctors disposition
Helen had always considered rs one Of the
best OF the many good traits in his character
But on one particular evening he seemed
far from amable. In vain she exerted her
powers of conversation. The Doctor would
not be amused. She opened the piano, as
last resort, and sang again those songs TO
which, in their first days Of happiness, he
had listened with so much rapture-but with
out effect Selecting from number of OPP
cratic gems she sang, from Norma,
'Ah, were my love requited:'
but the beauties of Bellini moved not the
Doctor. i must be more simple thought
Helen, as she ran her fingers over
the KEYS. and commenced favoriIe Scotch
song. He seemed interested, and she sang
another.
sHelen,' said he, I'll am not mistaken,
those are Scotch songs
They are said she. land very beautiful (;
DO you not think soy
Really, my conscience will not permit me
10 say yes
what! you pre,cndto he fond ofmusic and
do not like Scotch songs?'
.NoIdo not. To tell the truth, despise
the whole race. The old ones are worn out
and the new ones, arc but made up purilites
one short note and long one, bar after
bar. and the piece is called Scotch. once
heard a professor say, that ifa cat would walk
over the black keys OF Il piano, it would play
Scotch tune, and believe he was right
WELL said Helen, las never heard n per
formance of that kind on the piano, | will moi
undertake 10 decide the question, but mus
maintain that one who deSpises Scotch song:
: has no soul for music
so madam said the doctor. He rose
f hastily, overturning a chair, seized his hat
! and left the room. A new light burst upon
f Helen-where was the genlleness TO which
she had so fondly trusted ?-what could she
/ do but shed tears over blighted hopes?
Weneed hardly say that the doctor repen
, te6-Ihat he sought an interview, and was
! Tor long Time denied. In the end love con
, qucred; fora time an engaged lady feels very
: lonely, without lover, after having enjoyed
: hatiuxury, Helen rclented, and the Doctor
, was all devotion. And here again is 4 peace
FIJI period in our history.
Summer came, inviting 10 Cape May, Sara
toga. and hundred other fashionable places
! for dissipaliag ennui and killing time. OuI
: hero iancied that his health required a sort o.
;, respit from taking care of the health OF 9th
: ers, and early one morning he parted with
Helen. The adieus were rendered. He
promised 10 write, and al sorts of things
Helen had a presentment of something
(peope often have but she dried her tear;
and took breakfast.
, IT'S said that absence conquers love- and
S it is melancholy fact that experience goes
= far towards proving the truth of the asser
ton. One letter come, full of life, fashion and
affection; another in which it was scarcely
perceptible This was alarming. To tel
+ The truth, Helen had vanished from the Doc
!, tors mind. We must tell how this happen
3. cd
All know the merits of those resorts o
e sense, folly and fashion called springs
II There must be some beauty where there
is so much of the reverss, and the handsome
v and brilliant Miss B. had supplanted pool
!. Helen. All, tickle man and sufierig wo
man.
We have, as yet, said nothing about the
moral of this tale. 1t is in this piece Of ad
;, wise TO cur female friends-avoid confddnts
! Be sure they are as ready TO speak as 10 hear
= and what goes in at one ear, goes OUT no
{ AT the other, but at the mouth. All the fear.
o and fancies of Helen were duly promulgated
If by kind friend; and all that the town coulC
:, say however unpleasant was told her. Sucf
e are the services ofconf danfs.
= 1t was calm summers evening, and Hell
v en- was sitting at her window weaving awel
: of fancy, and silk purse commenced Ions
;. before for her now iaithless lover. A car
riage passed-in it Miss B. and the youns
Doctor This was her first knowledge oil m
: return; and her friend dropped in revealed
). MANY dark traits liz her lovers charactef,ant
}, fresh proofs oil his faithlesness.
The next evening the recreant lover call
ed, but he found on the brow Of Helen thu