Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1847-07-29
From the Dabhn University Magazine.
PHILIP ARMYTAGE:
Or, the Blind Cribs Leve.
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CHAPTER III.

aAmor che nullo amato perdona
Mi prese, del cosui placer 81 for te
Che come vedi, ANGER non m abbandona'-DAErE
Glove tina, to beloved to love again
RENTS, seized me with wish to please so strong
That as thou seent, even yet It doth remain"
The wise ones of the earth may ridicule lovers
mysterious sympathies. they do the stories Of
ghosts and sppar,ons but there mus. be some truth
in both, or so much pains need not aud would not
be taken TO prove them 10 be false. How was II,
then, that before Stella and Philip Armytage had
met half dozen times, they began 10 feel aud 10
talk like old friends ! What that strange sym
palhy which made the very words he uttered appear
l., her as If she had heard them benre 10 some dim
dreams II she had thought his thoughts long be-
fore? And what was il that caused Philip Army.
,age, who had basked all his life in the smile Of wo-
man, to feel nj irresistible charm in gazing the
sweet face of The poor blind girl who. yet uncon
scious of the nature Of the invisible tie between
them, treated him With the frank regard Of young
sister towards dear brother.
Most welcome is the society OF a couniryman to
those who are travelling abroad, aud Stella thought
il was this that made PhllipApresence so
grateful 10 her. Then. too, he WAS so gentle, and
talked To her Of his lost sister, blind like herself
Ill she felt that blindness 10 he less pain. Tie read
TO her, and thus opened new world 10 her view
his high aud cultivated intellect drawing oui the hid
den treasure Of hers aud his early rIpened Judge
menl guiding her until she awoke from the vague,
idle dreams of grlhood unto better, brighter life.
Yet all this while no words Of love passed between
them.
For weeks, months. their life long dream
of happiness, 50 sweet thai neither thought Of the
waking By slow degrees the truth dawued on
Philip Armyiage and he knew that he over whose
heart light fances before had swept like SUN mel
wind now leved, fur the first Time with his whole
heart and soul. And who was the object of thu
passionate love A blind girl, whose helplessnes
made her only the dearer for what is so sweet II
proud men as The sense Of protection! Ohen whei
Philip sal aud listened 10 her voice, or looked OF
| her fragile loneliness, as she chung 10 his gnldinI
| arm he felt that il he could only take her IN hi
hearts core aud shield her there from every bFea,
| of sorrow, what bliss il would be And then Ia
remembered hmself--poor, iriendlcss as he was
how dared he love her And so his lips were seal
| ed
| Had Philip Army,age guessed that Stella wonl
learn to lave him, he would have flown from IN
spot rather than thus have brought sorrow upon hel
| He WINS too honorable, knowing his own poyeriy, I
steal into girls heart, whose hand he hoped not
1 claim. Stella was so different from any woman h
had ever met her manner towards him was so frank
4 so open, with not shadow Of disguise in her sin
pie truthful soul, that Philip thought she regarde
1 him only as friend. and never by one word did
oyerstep the limits Of that friendship. Aud Stell
in her unworldly and innocent nature, had deceive
herself likewise. II was not until he came TO ie
4 her that he must soon depart with the noble loI
who hired his services that Ste knew how dear
! she loved Philip Armytsge.