The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1846-01-20

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oiness. In this five years Catharine or Kate
Ewing. as we used 10 call her, has passed
from The awkward age of fourteenth 10 her
nineteenth year.
oh, now the love STORY is coming, cried
Clara Reyburn.
And reason versus love- said Anne.
Her mother smiled, and went on
'Kate was light-hearted, happy temper
ed young creature. She had been from the
beginning a prime favoriie OF Sheale's, but
for tie last two orthree years he had appear
ed rather more reserved coward her. While
she was a child he was Unlimited in his be
nefcence 10 her. Her room was filled with
his gifts, books and pictures. All her books
the prettiest of rosewood book-cases-all
were his gifts. All her expensive masters
had been employed by him. Now, he ceas-
ed to be her open benefactor, some good
earthly providence seemed still watching
over her, and showering iavUrs upon her
If a new book worth buying appeared, she
was the first TO possess 1t, and never had she
occasion for a boquet but boquet of the
choicest flowers appeared nj the door, Kate
was not very larsighted in such Matters
She did not see why ifMr. Sheate continued
to give, he could not give openly as he had
always done. Her simple hearted mother
was easily deluded.
Il know very well, Mr.. Sheafe,' she said
soon after these anonymous gifts began
where Hates presents come from. | may
thank the giver il she cannot
Mr.. Sheale looked grave and displeased
A rare look for him, for ofall the men | ever
knew, he was the most cheerful, the mos
Joyous, as he had n right to be, for he was
the best. He said. Il perceive you NEAR
your thanks for me, Mrs. Ewing You are
wasting them; whoever the giver OF lhesC
irifles 10 Kate may be, he should be allowed
the secrecy he chooses.
"'Well, | assure YOU replied Mrs Ewing
completely baifled, i have not the smalles
notion who il is. ] never once thought o.
anv one but YOU TO be sure | ought lC
have remembered that you never in years
past made any secret ol your gifts. A smile
that, in spite of him, played over Mr.
Sheaie's lips, and blush that deepened his
rather deep colored check, would have tolt
the truth TO a more suspicious person thar
dear Mrs. Ewing. But she, as you know
Mrs. -, always took the sense that me
the ear"
But, mammal interrupted Anne Rayburn
i trust Mr.. Sheafe was not rosy bachelor
can imagine Girl olMiss Ewing's age fall
ing desperately in love with man, even if h,
were tall, with pale, marble complexion
and fine large dark eyes and plenty blacI
hair
oh, Anne, nv DEAR replied her mother
laughing, nothing can be more unlike you
possible lover than my real one. Mr.. Sheaf
was not above the middle stature little in
clined TO the refund and the rudy; and as t
his hair, once, alas of the soltest brown,
had retreated so far from his forehead tina
he wore
oh, not a scratch, mamma; don't say h
wore scratchn
Not quite a scratch, Anne. but 4 sma
nicely fitted patch 10 hide the ravages {
time. Plenty OF black hair indeed! Yo
will hardly find that on mans head OF thirt
from Maine 10 Georgia.
But patch, mamma! Badness is bette
than that. My fathers head now is beaut
lul; rather bald 10 be sure, but the little hal
that he has is soft, bright, and curly
oh. fathers head is lovelyr cried Clar
Reyburn.
oh yes, | guess ii is y exclaimed in choru
half-a-dozen young voices.
Mrs. Reyburn and exchanged smile.
She procC eled:
AtiC itAANil, <hhiiN, hiA. bN% AOhNCtii "
delorm the fine classic shape of his heaC
which. with lis moral and intellectual. deve
opmenfs, would have charmed phrenco
gist, am sure no large dark eye ever :
expressed, as his beaming gray one did, tn
Sinding and discharging OF feeling. hi
| lips between humor, kindness, tenderness, &
sympathy, were always in sort OF graceful
movement; and in short, though he had non
Of your requisites of beauty, he was the mos
notwithstanding man ever saw
Agreeabe-looking Well, was Miss Kat
Ewing GgreedbIe-looking too
Till now had listened 10 what was 10 nj
an old story with as much interest as til
young people, but now l nierposed; AM
with enthusiasm, at of my charming coiepo
rary, described her in terms that made al
my young hearers exclaim:
oh, she must have been beautiful, and s.
Interestingly
Il nope that old bachelor didn't dare II
| fall in love with her?'
Not, perhaps, what you would quite cal
falling in love, resumed her mother, but thu
love he felt for her as child grew insensi
bly, into a strange sentiment, ard enc brIgh
day he was suddenly betrayed into disclos
| ure for which Kate was totally uDprepared
She burst into tears, and frankly told hin
she had never thought of him as lover, AM
never could but that she loved him so dear
ly she would rather have died than told hin
So A total change came over him; IN place
of his perpetual good humor and sunny
cheerfulness, there was an Immovabie grav
ity and occasional melancholy.
Poor Mrs Ewing could not divine what /
meant She first thought his affairs must b'
embarrassed and then she fancied IT was al
incipient fever, and begged him 10 take ad
vice. She told him all the house would be
wretched. if an evil overlook him, and callet
his observation 10 Kate. who, she said, hac
not smiled for week. He made no reply
10 her. but the next morning she was aston
ished by the information that he was going
abroad, and that he and his servant were
packing I'D his furniture 10 be removed I"
place Of storeage.
1T was wretched day at the Ewing's-
Poor Mrs. Ewing walked up and down her
room, wringing her hands and wiplng her
ewes. and wondering and wondering uil
Kate wished herself deaf that she might moi
hear) what could have happened 10 Mr..
Sheafe. Kate went 10 her worsted work;
but her eyes were so blinded by tears, that
she could not see it; she took up book. bu'
ha N ha IL lie