The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1845-12-02

yer OF his child
Tneed no reward, lady, for service which
| am proud 10 have rendered; yet one re-
quest is in your power to grant; hereafter,
when he or others ofyour friends speak llghl
ly of the men who are devoting themselves
TO their country, lei me hope that your heart,
even if il does not thrill 10 the name oil iiber-
ty, NAV yet bear in il one warm remembrance
TO that OF Henry Rutledge.'
Rose Maclean felt the reproof conveyed n
those words, spoken though they were IN
tones of dignity and bland politeness, and
there was queenly majesty in the drawing
up OF her slight form and flash Of pride in
the glance Of her eye which told him more
than her words, that she al least did not mer-
il the name of loyalist 1T will be strange
lesson which will teach my heart even i'll the
midst OF my country's enemies, 10 forget her
wrongs or her brave defenders, but even
should that time come, it will kindle with
gratitude at the thought Of one who rjsked
his life ioT :Eine'
crimson flush passed over The sun-brown-
ed face of the youth. and with graceful a
pology for his unjust suspicion, he touched
his lip to her hand, bowed slightly, and turned
away, Just in time TO meet his soldiers who
had followed till they saw him safe from the
burning pile, and had now come in quest of
him. 1t was very bold in the stranger TO
press the lady's hand even rsverently as he
did, and when he was gone and she had mo-
ment for calm thought. she marvelled that
she had permitted such liberty. Because
he was so courtly and above all had saved
her life, il did not seem so very wrong
Foolish Rose! As though any one could
have been otherwise than courtly TO SO bright
and lovely being.
Many months passed, and though Gen.
Macean after having learned the name of the
gallant officer, had sent him passport with
a message requesting an interview, he never
came. Much did the loyalist wonder, for he
felt that one so base as TO be a rebel could
not dsdain the proffer ofmoney for service
which his own true nature told him untold
gold could not repay. Though he spoke Of
it often, strange enough, Rose never betrayed
any interest more than r,ight he read in the
sudden lighting up of cheek and brow. Nor
did she tell her parent how, after they had ia
ken new abode farther away from the city,
she had watched every manly figure that pas
sed. and every dropping plume. if perchance
it might shade the uountenance which haunt
ed her day and night dreams; till at last, af-
ter she had resigned the hope of ever seeing
her brave friend again, one evening while
wandering with her attendant in the gardens
there had come n sound as of a dipping oar
then little boat had glanced over the moon
lit water. and well remembered fsrnc had
spfang to the shore and up the winding path
which led from the river side 10 her favorite
seat under the laurel trees. Then, there had
been kindly greetings and words of common
courtesy which any one might have heard
then, very unwise questions to ask a young
and grateful girl: Had she ever thought Of
him. and might he come again? What
could Rose but answer that stolen meetings
we're very wrong, yetprobably giving consent
all the while, for after that he came again and
again, and never once asked permission
Rose never told her parent of this. With
her first lesson Of love she had learned a les
son Of deceit. She surely could not think il
wrong to love one to whom she owed so much,
one too who was as ardent and patriotic as
herself, and Of whose bravery she was often
receiving intelligence but the sentiments OF
that man on the agitatins subject of the time,
we're opposed 10 those of her father, and the
consciousness Of that gave her feeling OF
unhappiness.
Through all the cventful years of the Rev
oution. Gen. Maclean had strictly adhered
TO the cause Of the king; he had indeed be-
come well known in the South as one OF the
principal leaders around whom the loyalIsts
rallied and whose council they relied in form
ing their plans. But however tenacious he
was of his own opinions and severe against
the rebels, he was ever gentle and kind TO-
wards Rose, who though surrounded by her
fathers friends, had preserved unsulled the
pure and patriotic principl oil her own fami-
ly; for she was an orphan ard had been con- |
fided 10 his care in her childhood by her dy- |
ing father, W no was an early and valued friend |
Of Gen Maclean. Perhaps had the adopted |
parent devoted more of the time which had |
been occupied in business, TO directing her |
thoughts and tastes, he might have made her |
as loyal as himself; but left TO her own free |
will she was guided by her own intuiiive sense |
of right and all uDconscientiously TO him be-
came a woman in feeling while mere child
in years; and that feeling, partaking of her
enthusiasm, was enlisted in the
cause of the hated patriots. When he found |
now deeply she was interested in the struggle.
or liberty, and saw how her eye kindled al
he mention of her coUntry's wrongs, he felt
iisquieted, not only from sorrow at her erro
leous views. as he termed them, but from an
apprehension that there would now come
hill between their two hearts which bad al
yays been warm with the kindly affection Of
parent and child. But there was gentle for
,earance on the part of each; Rose rarely
lluding to the irksome company she was in
certain sense compelled to entertain as the
hostess other fathers house, and he passing
her stolen aid 10 her distressed
ountrymen.
So mutual kindness and delicacy had kept
ar off all shades of distrust and ill feeling
tut now Gen. Maclean saw that a trace Of
are was drawn upon her brow, and that her
We in gaining CLEAN of deeper light had
1st its happy glance. Rose was conscious
f the change, and found ii hard to smile
vhen deceit, which was an unwelcsme guest
here, was lurking in the heart which had al (
Ways before been 10 that dear parent as an ,
pen book. Sometimes fancying he could
ivine the cause of her altered mein, and
with some sagacity that love would {
e stronger than patriotism in womau's
cart, he would speak other future prospects
nd ask why she did not smile on the young :
obIes who rivaled each other in their atten- !
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