Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1847-08-05
M Z s. DEL u a N = o
FROM MORRIS NATIONAL PRESS.
7 II f RE- RIB u 7 ION.
BY ELIZA S. PRATT

as all said ~ inquired Eugene Reyburn.
".3U" replied Margaret.
''Ihen adieu forever, and may heaven for.
give you, as dol" and the young man otter
ed these words, drew his hat over his eyes,
and with a flushed brow and burning cheek,
rushed from the apartment But his foot was
vet upon the Threshold and his hand upon
the door lock, when a low, scarcely heard
voice fell upon his ear, yet so deep and pas
sionate that he stopped as i. spell bound to The
! place.
"Stay! Eugene there is yet one condition
on which my hand is yours; on which have
not, aud burst not name TO you, yet-perhaps
/ you can bear it now;" and the blue eyes OF
the young girl were raised to his with an ex-
preston not easy to define, combining, as il
did, both, subtletY aud frankness, passion, and
perhaps Indifference.
The youth re.closed the door, and drew near
the beautiful speaker-beautifu she was, il
almost perfect features and iaultless form
combined, can constitute beauty listened
with parted lips, and dilating eye, as she went
on.
you do not know, perhaps, what it is to
| feel, as do, a thirst for potcer-a desire COM
bined with the very essence of your being.
and growing up, from day to day. ill it has
become mighty and unconquerable passion,
terrible thirst, TO which every thing else is
as nothing; you do not know, perhaps, what
4 it is to look upon your fellow men--those who
now in their miShtlook down upon you-and to
/ feel that you must, and wM have dominion
over them, TO kno,c that the day shall come,
I in which those who now tower above YOU,
shall cringean fawn atyour feet--fawn for the
least favors they dare deny you; do not know
/ this, perhaps" (and the color sank gradually
from the cheek of the girl, leaving it of an ashy
paeness as she went on "but have known
| il, and fell it from my earliest childhood Ev-
er since have known what il was TO think or
/ feel, | have thirsted for dominion over others,
I and have felt that the time would come, |
knew not when, or how, that this passion OF
my life would find its reality. The hopes
grew TO palpabilty and now, ask, mus,
tins passion | have so nurtured from infancy,
be crushed foreverW
The youth recoiled from her touch, as in
the eloquence Of the moment she approached
him, and laid her slender fingers upon his
arm. and his eyes, for perhaps the first time
IN his life, dropped beneath the almost burn
ing gaze Of her whom he had so loved. while
a Slight culver crept over his frame, as he re-
piled.
$50 OIL do not as yet perfectly compfe-
bend you"
MOI you cannot; but know you not that
,comGa seldom arrives at this power, unless
through another!"
"Hai" he exclaimed, drawing pace back
ward and shading his brow with his hand,
she whom you marry, then, must possess this
power--this talisman of might; is it so 2"
"You have rightly OWNED he must have
it, in some way or other, or he can never full
ly possess my heart"
''And you have called me, Margaret TO tell
me this. TO put new and unconquerable bar
rier between US. Why did you not suffer me
to leave the house and you forever, without
this new burden upon my heart"
IL called you, Eugene, to give you hope !;
the only hope could give you-and TO show
YOU the way 10 the realization ofyour dreams
Get possession of this talisman above 9th
ers and am yours, heart and hand. torever!"
and as she ceased speaking. she threw herself