Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1847-06-30

SIS it to unmask, when the remembrance O
Lady Blanche is so recently engraved upol
your heartf'
81 protest have quite forgotten her in see
F ing you."
Lady Blanche became pale with rage ant
humbled vanity, and tears Of mortified prid,
rushed to her eyes.
care you quite sure of thatr' interrogatet
the lady with white camelia.
81 should be unworthy of you, if 1 could di
vide my affections any way"
well, Their 1 shall believe you, but frs
you must not retain the rosebud, taken from
the boquet of the beautiful Scotch girl, ant
this ring which she has allowed you to keep"
"You are perfect sybil."
"Do not speak the truth! Answer, and
give me these gifts"
"But what will you give me in exchanger
81 shall make no conditions, but shall i'm
pose these. You hesitate. Adeu thenr'
'No, no! l yield"
"Ungrateful monster" murmured the Lady
Blanche.
Sand nowr demanded Lord Charles.
"Let us take round of the Gardens, and
then we shall repair to my carriage"
'Oh! thanks, my beautiful conductressf' said
Lord Charles with enthusiasm.
Lady Blanche still followed, and passing
through the crowd, she perceived that Lord
Charles companion had disappeared, and that
he was seeking on all sides for the domino with
the white camelia.
Lady Blanche now moved towards the en-
trance door, in order to gain access to her car
rage, and turning round her head, she perceiv-
ed the green devil who had informed her of the
departure of Lord Charles Grecnlove at the
Duchess of BIS ball.
When Lady Blanche entered her chamber.
her husband was seated by the fire, awaiting
her return
"Well, Blanche said he, with tenderness,
shave you been much amused at the ballr'
Lady Blanche had stopped motionless at the
threshold ofthe apartment, her eyes fixed upon
the domino and costume of the green devil,
which was carelessly thrown upon an ann
chair.
A white camelia was placed upon the man.
tle-piece, snd.by its side was rosebud, and
the ring which she had allowed Lord Charles
to draw from her finger.
''Oh! pardon me, pardon me, now see that
you alone love me-" said she, with passionate
eagerness.
Lord Greenland pressed her tondly in his
arms, and said,
eff had given way to my natural feelings,
should certainly, upon discovering your inor-
dinate love of admiration, and total unconsci-
BUSINESS of the blessings you possessed, have
left you in disgust, but felt that / had no.
bier part to act, and that it was my duty to en-
deavour to draw your mind and heart from the
vain and sinful enjoyments in which it was re-
yelling. l remembered your education, and |
pited your weakness. thought of your youth,
and l determined to save you. You have had
bitter, but true lesion, of the ingredients
of which fashionable society is composed, the
hollowness of its flattery, and the deception of
its ways. Beauty at best is but dangerous
inheritance; and, if accompanied with vanity,
is generally fatal to the possessor, unless strong
religious principles are inculcated in youth, and
practised in maturer age. In this point, your
education was crminally deficient, and fearful
ly neglected, but it is not too late, my dearest
girl, to learn the object of your creation and to
fulfil it. shall aid you to the fullest extent
of my ability, and hand in hand we shall walk
through the world, giving edifcation where we
before gave scandal; and ever bearing in mind
that if we possess personal attributes, they
have been given to us by God, for his greater
glory, and to enable US to work out with more
security the great object of our sancitifca-
tion."
Lady Blanche was vanquished. Her vanity
died on the instant, and she afterwards became
model of female perfection and feminine mod
esty. BELINDA.