Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1846-12-10

lie knew that before an hour she would have gone
aud although there was something he would fain
have said, he could not gather heart TO say it,
Aud yet he declared TO himself he was not ia love
-'iwere folly TO think that he, Charles Dunbar, a
nobleman by birth, could fall in love with country
maiden, and she a rebels daughter
But when the moment came that he must speak
f ever, for her father had brought ia word that
Col Hamilton would be ready TO start in a few
minutes, Dunbar reused himself from his lethargy
and joined the group around her. lie thought that
brighter color than usual suifIsed her cheek as
her eye me, his. But If his glance had worked
momentary confusion, it was but for q moment
for beckoning him to her side, she SAID, gently but
lervenilJ -"Coonel Dunbar, shall never forget
that to you owe my life. May God preserve you,
that mercy may always have a, least one advocate,
and suffering heplessness defender And II II
should be your fate ia the course Of this unhappy
war, to need friend in the continental camp, Mary
Ashton will do the little a weak maiden may 10
serve you"
Colonel Dunbar took the hand she frankly ex.
tended to him, aud pressed II to his lips; then,
drawing up bis manly form to iis full height, he
said IN couriy phrase, under which he yainly al
tempted to hide his deep emo,ion-"And for my
part while ! in simple justice to myself must say,
that take no praise TO myself IN this matter for
you all know that did nothing but what would be
mperatively required Of any gentleman aud soldier
i would appeal to every individual present,
whether il will not dampen his ardor in the field,
wheh 'he 'hou2m comes over MN, that ne IS hght-
ing against the friends and counirymen oil Mary
Ashton.
bravo, Dunbar, braso| cried dozen voices.
The eyes oil the gtl sank upon the hoor al the
applause which followed the aa,iering words oil
Dunbar. then, raising them sparkling as a sudden
though, lii up her face with glowing enthusiasm,
she took a glass Of wine from the table near her
aud said, galiy, "One glass ere part. gentlemen,
iof MARY Ash'ohs sake.
"A toast, toast. toast, cried the officers, en-
'huslasiically, as they hied Their glasses
Tod give the victory IN tins Struggle, TO fhe
rghF SAID she, solemnly, putting the glass to her
lips
And now adieu, gen,emeh," continued she, as
her father appeared at the entrance OF the room
"Adieu, Col. Dunbar said She IN genter tone,
as she passed him at the door aud mounting her
horse she rode off with her friends, amid the warm
exclamaiions OF the officers
we "i'l now, with our readers permission, skip
hgmly over whhout even SO much as touching
period oil seven years. The war Is ut an end. The
days OF desolailo" are past. and the song Of the
reaper. ana the laugh Of the haymaker' are heard
again ~ 'he iano' Oni'dren once more truoge dat
10 sehooi' "hhou' near ana ,he maiden nesia'es
not 10 lo',er ~ the silent woods, least the brutal
ton No more comes do,yu ,,non The derencelsss vii
I.os III. ,h;aS - ,hs IN, .,'S ~ IaasI. e.,
house no longer fears the tread of the n,arauder =
War no lonue, hangs like a suluburous cloud over
tue iand out TIE blue SKY oil peace aud It's golden
mon its hook and the sickle il ,aken down An
habiuaI frown rests no more upon the faces of
men--ba,red il no longer ,he;r du,v hu, love
Mary Ashton il no ionyer the yo,,ng slender o;rl
--"The rose of tho Jer.eys, h,: onened and The