The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1846-05-23

anXieties ofdear Maria's heart She placed the
whole affair in such a calm, warm and glow
Ing Claude-light, as apparently to supply an
en'endstion (no.doubt the rightreading) to the
well known aphorism,-
'The course ofTue love never did run
smoother
In fine, our warm and confiding Maria ran
up to her room quite elated after that inter-
view; g. she heartily thanked God that those
dreaded obstacles to her affection were so
easily got over and that her dear father, had
proved so kind. 9
l. II in quite work of supererogaton TO re-
port how speedily the welcome news were
made known, by bilet-doux, TO Henry Glenn
ents; but they rather snotey his conscience,
TOO, when he reflected that he had not vet
made formal petition to the Powers on his
own account. To be sure, they THE iovers,to
witt were engaged only yesterday, quite in
an unattended though delightful way; and
previously to that important tete-a-tete, how
ever much he may have thought ofonly denr
Maria-however frequently he found him
selfbesIde her in the circle oftheir many nu-
tual friends-however happily he hoped for
her love-however foolisnly he reverted about
her kindness in the solitude ofhs temple CUR
ret-still he never yet had seen occasion TO
screw his courage TO the sticking point, and
boldly place his bliss at hard Sir Thomas
disposal. Someday-not yet-perhaps next
week, at any rate not exactly TO day,-these
were his natural eXcusesand they availed him
even TO the other side of that social Rubicon,
engagement. Nevertheless, now at length
! sometIi ing must decidedly be done, and with
in half an hour, Finsbury's deserted Square
echoed to the heroic knock of Mr. Henry
Clements, fully determined upon claiming
his Maria at her fathers hands.
| Tho kI,i0bt X.,ns r,,t. t,rnhahlv mr. thpt-
Icertainly, not yet returned from his counting
room in St. Benet's Sherehog. So perforce,
our hero could only have an audience with
his lady. ...
The same CLOSING over of unpalatable
trlths-the same quiet breathing COUNSEL
the same tranquil sort of petulness,-tully
Satisfied the lover that his case WIS gained.
How could he think otherwse? In the faith
Ler's absence he had preached that mighty
topic to the mother, who even now hailed him
as her son, and promised him his fathers IA
Ivor. What could be more delicious than all
this? and what more honorable, while prudent
too, and fillal, than TO acquiesce in lady Dill
.Ilawys fears about her husbands nervous
ness at the sight Of one who was to take from
him an only and beloved daughter? II was
delicacy misunderstanding and Henry deter
mined TO make his presence for the first few
days, as scarce as possible in the sight of That
affectionatc father. d..
! And thus it came to poss that Two open
and most honorable minds, pledged to heart
/ lest love- could hot find one spcciS of sin i'm
loving on clandestinely. Nay, was it clan
destine at ALI? Is ii, then, merely u legal tic-
| ton, and not religious truth, that husband
and wife are one? and is il not quite us much
n matrimonial moral one that father and
mother are so too? Was il not decidedly e.
! to haVn SnpIypn m tho latter pSDpcinIlV
when she undertook 10 answer for tie for
IIner. Sir Thomas was man engrossed in
business, aud doubtless, left such affairs ofthe
| Heart to the kinder keeping oflady Dlllaway.
No; there wss nothing secret or clandestine
in the matter; and entirely absolye both
Henry and Maria. They could not well have
acted other wise; ifany harm should come TO
it, tie mother is 10 blame. : p "...f.'
Lady Dilaway without doubt, should have
known her husband better; but her tranquil
love of our dear Maria seemed 10 have intat-
uated her into simply believing-wbat she so
much wished--her happiness secure. She
needed not how little sympathy, Sir Thomas
felt with lovers; and only encouraged her in
nocent child TO plnythe dangerous game Of
unconscious disobedience. Accordingly con-
sslent with the same quiet ofcharacter which
had smoothed all difficulties hitherto, the iu-
| dulgent mother now allowed the loving pair
to meet alone, for the first time permissively
to tell each other all their happiness. Lady
Dllaway left the fdrawing-room, and sent
! Maria to the heart that beat with hers. .
! Who shall describe the beauty Of that in
tervew, the gush of first affections bursting
up unchecked, unchidden, hotsprings around
the Hecla ofthis icy world! They loved and
were beloved, openly, devotedly, sincerely,
disinterestedy Henry had never calculated
or
give his daughter; and as for, Maria, if she had
notnat,malIy been "A girl all heart, the home
wherein she was brought up had so Disguised
her of still repeated riches, that lit is easy of
belief the very name ofpoverty would be mu-
sic to her ears. Accordingly, how they flew,
into each others arms, and shed many happy
tears, and kissed many kindest kisses, and
looked many tenderest things, and said many
loving words, "et Petarch's spirit in heroics
sng;" as for our present proslcal Muse, she
delights i'm such affections too naturally and
simply to wish to cripple them with rhymes,
or confine them i'll sonnets, she despises dec
Grafton of simple and beautiful Nature---gild-
ing gold, and painting lilies; and she loves TO
throw d veil Of secret sanctity over all such
heaven blest attachments. "Hence. We pro-
fahe,"--these are no common lovers; believe
their spirits, still united in affections that in
crease with time will go down to the valley
of death uuchangeaby together: and will
thence emerge to brighter bliss hand in hand
throughout eterrity-a double Heart with
one pulse, loving God, and good, and one a.
mother. .. ,.,;,.fy Lt.,......, ,sa.r.ts.,.,l.,
0Ho, no! / suspected as much;--so this fell
low Clements has been hanging about us at
parties, and dropping in here 50 Often for ne
sake Of Miss Maria, ey7" For the door y! ma
noisy burst open to let in MIR John Dilla-
way, who under grumbled as above, i .a.,,
Dear John, am so .rejoiced to see you;