Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1846-10-08

scarcely suffered you to be taken from my sight
Your health declined, aud thought of the dreadful
words of my fathers curse May all you desire
be wthhed-may those you love be blasted ia YOU
sigh, and every hope Of happiness withered BY thai
God who is about TO Judge my soull"
"fhese were the narrowing words Of parent
aud as they were uttered felt as liza serpent had
twined itself around my heart in such tight folds as
to siiie every agouized ihroq aud with feeling oil
] suifocation ] turned and rushed from his room =
His curse had partly fallen and was blasted by il
effects. feared TO love you and left YOU TO the
care OF servants, and became wanderer Nv
father had LEFT INC without fortune, and those who
had extended the hand Of friendship to me in for
mer days now looked coldy on me- | cared not
Tor this, turned from them with loaihing, and I
fell savage joy in freeing myself from the re-
siraInts OF society. The only pleasure possessed
was occasionally seeing you, aud rejoicing in your
restored health aud improved appearance How I
have lived and supported you since | became an
ouicast from society cannot reveal had amas.
sed wealth, but recent revcrses have deprived me
Of all p ssessed. Enclosed is hundred dollars
All your school expenses are p1d This is all |
can do ior you and alas il must, for your welfare.
be the last time address you. My advice to YOU
Is 10 enter the school in which you have been ed
ucaied as an assistant teacher.
lyon will not hear from me, but shall still con.
ilnue 10 watch over your fate. De you remember
last evening, when you promenaded with your
friend IN the shaded walk, you heard footsiep be-
hind yon and turned! Geneviese, i, was your I'M
happy parent, who sought TO obtain view Of tina,
beloved face without being himself seen can
"erer CLAIM you. am unworthy TO call you my
child md could not bear that your innocent heart
should know what wretch you call father"
With sckeuing heart Geneyieve read the well
known characters, and in the agony of the moment
she though, that happiness was henceforih 10 be
stranger to her. She remembered Charles Melton
aud she shuddered as she felt that they were in a
probability. for ever separated Wond Melton
marry one over whose parentage so dreadful a
mystery hungl Or if he was generous, and loved
her well enough TO overlook that, would his proud
relatives consent to the union :
In truth there sufficient cause for her 10 dread
a separation from the object of her affections
Adams --'--
81 will tell him ALL" she exclaimed and then
oid nm leave me for ever. | must teach nv ba,,,
lie ' posse ssia r 81 his Ioss," A--- =;
She wrote to him. and gave him her history from
her earliest recollection. She told him that had
she known as much as she then did, she would
never have dared to love him and all that now re-
manned for them both TO do was to erase every
recollection Of past hopes and wishes from their
minds as, under existing circumstances, it was i'm.
possible for them ever 10 be realized. She c0nhd-
ed her letter 10 the OF Miss Adams and re-
turned TO Philadelphia. She revealed 10 Mrs Ben
than all it necessary for her TO know, respect
ing her situation, aud followed the advice Of her
father n seeking employment in her school,
The benevolent, lady wept over her altered pros
poets, but she pleased TO keep her with her, for
the affection she felt for the unprotected girl
like that Of a mother. Genevieve. in the exercise
of her duties, sought TO her tranquility but alas
the wounded heart is not easily schooed into for
geifuness She was no longer the Joyous creature
whose bthe laugh and gay song thrilled the pulses
Of the listener with feeling akin to their own
buoyancy. Her step was languid, and her eyes had
lost all their brilliancy.
In the meantime Miss Adams had seen her cousin
aud given him the letter. aud Mary bitterly upbraid,
ed her own heart when she felt that il rejoced in
the blow thai awaited him Geneyieve had refused
TO marry him. and now Melton might love her. aud
she CLOSED the sel6shness OF her feelings by
trying TO convince herself that, situated as things
were, il would be impossible for them TO be happy
even Il they were united. Her cousin, she knew,
was not in circumstances 10 marry without the con-
sent Of his uncle, and that consent. she well knew
would never be given To his uniting himself with
Genevieve Floyd. Mary's affection for him was too
devoted 20 be entirely dsinierested. She wished
aud prayed for his happiness, but il must enanaie
from herself; and, for the FIRST time, she suffered
feeling Of bitterness TO miugle with her affection
for her friend.
HAD he neyerseen her he would have loved me"
she exclaimed, "and Geneyieve would have been
saved from an unfortunate attachment II
She was not convinced Of the lulility Of her
hopes until she Witnessed the anguish Genesieye's
letter inflicted on Melton He did not attempt TO
conceal il, but consulted with her on the possibility
Of overcoming Geneveves too scruPulous decacY,
and prevailing on her TO become his wife, even
without the consent Of his relations
"But your situation, dear Charles, said Mary
"your pay will not support YOURSELF how then eau
you cucumber yourself with wiielD
"True, true" replied Melton, II wonder what
my uncle placed me in the army for, IL not 10 rem
der me more entirely dependent Of his bounty
Mary, mus, marry this girl-my happiness de-
ponds on IT, IL ruin and Geneveye were one
hand, and the most splendid destiny the world can
bestow on the other, would turn from il, and
claspng her 10 my heart endure without shrink
ing, all the bitterness OF penury. ! win see her,
at all events, and be guided by her in the course
shall pursue" -'H H
He did see her. and moved by his anguish, aud
blinded BY the misls Of passion she listened TO his
enireates for private marriage. He offered her
heart thai adored her, aud home hallowed by
love, and when she thought OF her lonely and desc.
late situation withoni the Ties Of kindred affection,
is il wonderful iha, her resolution wavered1
The inst beams OF the morning sdn were reflect
ed in the eastern windows Of one Of the princpal
churches in Philadelphia and partially illuminated
the altar, around which stood several persnns, even
at that unusual hour, clergyman in his long
black robes stood at the altar, with an open book
before him, His hands we're clasped, and his eyes
raised TO Heayen-his lips moved, but no sound
issued from them. as he invoked blessing on the
! two he was about to unite through veal OF wo.--