Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-12-11


for what it was in itself, than for its perfect
and beautiful harmony with all the coloring
and shading around it.
Other women have been talented, others
have been goCd-but no woman that ever |
knew possessed goodness and talent in union
with such an intuiliye PERCEPTION of feelings,
aud such a flculty Of instantaneous adapta-
ton to them. The most troublesome thing
in this world is to be condemned TO the soci-
ETY. of Il person who can never understand
any thing you say without you say the
whole Of it, making your commas and perl
DDS as you 90 a!ong-and the most desirable
tbinu i'm the world Is to live with a person
who saves YOU all the trouble Of talking, by
knowing just what you mean to say before
You begin.
Something of thisskind of talent | began TO
feel. to my great relief, when aunt Mary
came into the family. ! remember the very
first evening". as she sat by the hearth sur
rounded by all the family, her eye glanced
on me-, with an expression that let me know
she saw me, and when the clock struck
eight, and my mother proclaimed that 1t was
my bed time, my countcnance fell as | NOV
ed s~orrowlully from the back Of her rocking
ttlAlEa anu NibhAhh hD" A+AAhE NaN' ~
ries aunt Mary would tell after | was gone to
bed. She turned toward me with such a
look Of real understanding, such an evident
insight into the case, that went into ban
isAment with a lighter heart than over | did
before. How very contrary is the obstinate
estimate Of the heart, 10 the rational estimate
Of worldly wisdom. Ale there not some
who can remember when one word, one look,
or even the Withholding OF a word, has
drawn their heart more to u person than all
the substantial fdyors in the world BY or
binary accepldtlon, substantial Kindness res
poets the nccessaTles Of animal existence (;
while those wants which are peculiar TO the
mind. and will exist with 1t forever, by
equally correct Classification, are designated
as sentimental ones, the supply of which,
though it will excite more gratitude in fact,
ought not in theory. Before aunt Mary had
lived with US a month, | loved her beyond
any body in the world, and 4 utlliiaridn
would have beeu amused in cyphering out
the amount of flyors which produced this re-
sult. 1t was a look, a word, a smjle-it was
that she seemed pleased with my new kite
that reioiced with Inc when ! learned to spin
a top-that she alone seemed to estimate my
proficiency in playing ball, and marbles
that she never looked at all yeXed when ! up
set her work-boX upon the floor-that she re-
ceived all my awkward g~allantry and mala-
droit help.IilEess, as if 1t had been in the
best taste in the worid-that when she was
sick, she insisted on letting me wait on her,
though | made my customary havoc among
the pitchers and tuM5lerS OF her room, and
displayed, through my zeal to please, a more
than ordinary share Of insuticiency for the
station. She also was the only person that |
ever cJnversed with, and | used to wonder
how any body that could talk all about mat
ters and things with grown-uP persons,
could talk 50 sensibly about marbles, and
hoops, and skates, and all sorts of little-boy
matters; and | will say, by-the-by, shat the
same sort Of speculation has often occurred
to the minds Of older people in connection
with her. She knew the value Of varied in
formation in making a woman, not a pedant,
but Il sympathetic, cUmpdnlOndble being, and
such she was TO almost every class Of mind.
She had, too, the faculty Of drawing others
up TO her level in conversation, so that |
would often find myself going on in most
profound style, while talking with her, and
would wonder VIXEN ! was through, whether
| really was a little boy still.
When she had enlightened us many
months, the time came for her to take leave,
and she besought my mother to give me TO
her for company. All the family wondered
what she could fad to like in Henry but if
she did like me, it was no matter, and SO
was the case disposed Of.
From that time | lived with her-and there
are some persons who can make the word
lire signify much mora than it commonly
docs-and she wrought on my character all
those miracles which benevolent genius can
work. She quoted my heart, directed my
feelings, uuloidcd my mind, and educated
me, not harshly or by force, but as the bles-
sed sunshine educatcs the nower, into full
and perfect life; and when all that was NOR
tai OF her died, to this world, her words and
deeds of unuuerab,e love, shed a twilight
around her memory that will / de only in
the brightness Of heaven. II. Z. B.