The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1846-08-27
Fron DC Saturday E.snias Pa..
THE sTEP-DAUGHTER

are YOU going cut tilit evening" con-
sin George" asked Ella Green. with an
expression of painful anxiety.
= YES" was The reply Of Inc handsome
boy, for they were children OF fifieen and
seventeen years. . ! am going over 10 Mr..
Maynard's; viii you not he my company!
You and Lucy are % very intimate. I
thought you would ike 70 walk over"
Il had rather not go out This evening"
said Ella, deprecaiingly. ~ do not like
Lucy As well as ! used 10; II seems 10 me
that oar tastes are becoming more dlssimi.
lar every day. Besides, George, I have
GOT new book, and ! hoped that you
would read 10 me this evening. forf have
some work 10 do, which viii prevent me
from reading"
.NcEer mi I'd the new book. Ella--I
dare say il is some milk and wafer love
story. Come. take YOU work, and 90 with
me 10 Mr.. Maynard's."
@Nn. Cousin, | shall not go.'
"rery well. eoz, then must 60 with
out you." and The lighihearied boy was
soon threading the lille fooiPalIl, across
the green meadow. E#
Ella Green hurried 10 herown chamber.
and wepilong and passionately. She had
been adopted into The family Of Mr.. Star
shall on the death Of her mother. which
occurred almost before she could pro-
Eouncc her name; and although she had
no distinct recollection Of that mother, she
never ceased 10 remember. and 70 remind
others. that she was moiherless Mrs.
Green was Mr.. Marshall's only sister. and
he had loved her tenderly; and al her
death he had persuaded her disronsolalc
husband TO inuust The care Of the little Ell.
Ia TO Mrs. Marshall; and they had nnrsed
and reared her with The utmost tenderness,
loving her, apparently. quite as dearly as
their only child, the above mentioned cou-
sin George. But Ella was Of an unhap.
py temperament, and The undue indulgence
OF her iendcr-hear;ed aunt, only seemed 10
foster the NATURAL unamiability Of her ex-
acting disposition. If ever her will was
disputed. or her desires ihwarted in any
way, she always burst out into lamenia-
lions Of her molhcrless state. Always as
sorting that if her mother had been spared
TO her, she would have been good and hap
py. u was in vain that her pious aunt
represented 70 her, that in cherishIng such
feelings. she made herself unhappy, rebel.
led sgainst the providence Of her Heaven
ly Father, and wounded the hearts Of those
who had fos,cred her with parental tender
ness. That she owed debt Of gratitude
to those who had with earnest love assum.
ed the cares, and fulfilled towards her the
duties OF the mother. whom God, and moi
they, had seen fii to remove from her in.
FAINT charge. All such teachings seemed
to fall upon her spiriIlike vinegar upon nj.
tre-causing violent efieryescence ofun-
reoonciled feeling. @@ @es s
George Marshall, who was two years
her senior, had been taught to regard her
rs dear and only sister; and so he would
have, had she not always reminded him
Of the difference. by saying whenever she
chose to be tispleased at him, "Ah! my
own dear brother Edward, would not have
behaved So" Of course he was nerel
happy or at ease in her company; and ma
ny bitter tear and heart ache did she &C.
casion her kind and too indulgent aunt.
Il is obvious that the complaining and
selfish disposition which she INDUCED wa:
not calculated to win esteem among hel
companions, and so she spoke truly wher
she lamenied that she had no friend:
amongs,them but Lucy Maynard, who, be
ing girl Of superior mind, and gentle ma
ture, was able TO endure her faults, and pit,
her willul unhappiness. To her, therefore
she had always turned for sympathy, AM
Lucy generally succeeded, after a few sen
fences of coincidence. in diverling her me
lancholy thoughts. and inducing her to b
cheerful, in spite of herself. OF course
T.ucy was hcrconfidant, and dearestiriend
Blu, of late she had observed that George
her cousin George, was also an ardent adj
mirer of her dearest Lucy, and this disco
very awakened at once crowd OF cruel
i ttcCduSC uildllHdUlC SGiiodttutio. ttSA oaHk
heart now became acquainted with envy
] jealousy, and revenge--for she pursuadet
| herself that she had loved from infancy
and sill regarded cousin George with
deep, fervent, and irradicable passion; tina
he had won her heart by long series o
tender attention; that he was tickle. an'
about to sacrifice her 10 the rivalry Of +;
meacheroas friend. Under this pursuasiol
she became heasically miserable, and mop
ed in moody melancholy, until she mad
herself really i'll. Her friends with tende
solici,ude, sought TO divert her mind, an,
!! Mrs. Marshall procured medical advice
and adopted such regimen, as was judge,
most expedient for the restoration Of he
bodily health, so that her illness neve
amounted 10 more than an interesting de
licacy Of constitution. But this evening
when cousin George, regardless OF herex
pressed desire for his society, had gone L
pass the evening with I.ucy MAYNARD, 81,
resolved, in her heart, to die, if possible.
4 Lucy Maynard was now sixteen, ant
gave prcsaise cf great beauty both OF r,ia'