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different TO her. Their couriship was brief, and
three months before the battle, their marriage
had been only consummaled.
Thus circumstanced-a sirang,r-a very enc.
my in a foreign land-wilh a young, fond, con.
fding wife, and without the slighles, means Of
support, or gifted with any profession by which
he could procure the common necessaries ol
life, il may easily be imagined thai the heart oi
the young man fell prey TO dependency; add
ed TO all the mother Of Jeanette had died shortly
after their marriage, and the liulG effects which
belonged TO her, had been sold. to pay The ox.
penses Of her last illness and funeral. The cot.
Iage had also been rented by another party, and
thus William and his wife became the children
oCpoverty.
Desperate and penniless, he resolved once
more 10 seek the shores Of England TO visit his
wealthy father, TO present 10 him his wife, and
seek to be restored again to his favor. lie
doubted not but that the old mans heart would
melt at the sight ofthe pretty Jeanette, his duugh.
ter-n-law, aud that fhe did not altogether make
him his heir, he would, at least, supply him with
the means to live by, ill such time as he could
earn a substance by his own exerlions. His
intentions being impaired to jeanette, together
they bade farewell to the kind couple who had
sraitened themselves TO afford them u shelter
and with his knapsack scanlily filled with his
own and his wile's clothing, few francs in his
pocket, hoping heart, and Jeanette upon his
arm, he took the high road 10 Brussels.
We will not follow them through their jour.
ney; suffice II to say twas tedious one. vii.
liam was still weak from the effects Of his wound
,,l T.. ,bo. .k
come a mother. At length they reached the
coast, where, through the kindness of some fish.
ermcn, they were placed upon the shores ol
England. By slow Journey they passed on 10
London. To poor Jeanette's eye, every thing
appeared singularly strange. The preuy cot
tages embowered in their groves OF plumb and
apple bossoms--whole plains Of the luxuriant
and graceful hop vine, extending rs far as the
eye could reach--lhe noble "of the princes oI
the lands"-the substantial and comfortable
dwellings of the Kentish yeoman-lhe an,iquat
ed villages, with their still more anliquated
churches, overgrown with the dark green anC
never fading ivy, some with their spires towering
into a welkn, tipped with the golden fires Of hea
ven, others with the plain turrots in which might
be seen the dim and rus:y dial plate of the horo.
COLE. which, for ages, had measured the flight Of
lime-lhe heavy and numbering wagon, with its
team Of sialwart horses. slowly rumbling over
the firm and level road-the gay equipage ofthc
great-,he iovial post.boy with his chuise ant
pair, flying like Mercury along-lhe royal mai
with its four dashing bIoods, and its guard send
ing the blast Of his bugle over hill, dale, anC
pan--,hc halloo Of the huntsmen, and the bay
Of the beagle--the lark poised midway between
heaven and EARTH carolng his lay Of love anC
oy-lhe rivers flashing in the sun-lhe yellow
harvest bending in fulness over the fertile soil
ALL all giving tokens oGthe beauties and bountes
Of gracious Providence.
1t was on an autumnal evening when our ira
vpllers came in sight Of the British metropolis
The setting sun was gliding the spires, domes
towers, and turrets with its beams-old father
Thames was rolling along like river Of molten
gold to the ocean, laden with the wealth of eve
ry kingdom--the distant hum Of the city fell
soemnly upon the ear, while over all hung the
usual dense and murky exhalation. William
Kenton involunarily stood still, for every OBJ
ect was associated with some "reminiscences o
his boyhood, and spoke as household gods in hi:
bosom's sanctuary. The very wild flower;
which pronked the turf, seemed to welcome him
again 10 the land Of his fathers, reminding him
of those happy hours when the sunlight Of limo
cence shed its halo around him. and the darkcs
clouds that obscured it, were the TWO early ap'
proach of the shadows Of evening.
"Jeanette,' he at length said, "behold the enc
Of our journey. In that city resides my father
rich but q miserIy man, whose heart is shur
against me, because, like him, would not sacri
fee every principle and feeling to the accumua
ZION Of gold--for that, was compelled TO leave
my home, to seek living in the ranks Of nv
country, and my reward has been neglect and
poverty, yet repine not, for it was tho blessed
chance that led me to thee. We must now try
10 win our way TO his heart, und surely if the
smiles ofinnocencc, and the words virtue car
effect it, thou wilt be successful"
The young wife could not reply, but only fell
upon the bosom of her husband, while her feel
irgs were Ioosened in gush Of tears. William
kissed them from her sunburnt yet beautiful
checks. and continued their route, in short time
they were the streets ofLondon.
Onward they went; street a(tcr street appear
irg and diminishing, but alas nature could nc
lorgcr support the unhappy Jeanette; The pang'
Of labor seized upon her, and sinking upon the
portco ofa fashionable dwelling, the poor crea'
lure lay exhausted and nsenGibc.
Reader, were thou ever in that mighty Baby
lon where self reigns predominant, where The
riches of nations are gathered together by the
hands Of the poor, and the laborious, for lht
qualification of The proud, where wealth is para
mount 10 talent, where poverty is despised, ant
the supplication of wrechedness disregarded
hast though ever stood there stranger, in ,h
midst Of that ever busy throng, and found in no
one fuce, friend or friendly welcomed hast ,hol
experienced that loneliness of heart which is S,
singuarly felt in the crowded mart, and when
perhaps, prosperity hath Withdrawn her smile
from thee! Ifthou hast then mayst thou judgt
Of the pangs of William Kenlon's bosom. Ant
there he stood a stranger in the city Of his birth
dsbanded soldier, than whom in the eyes o
his counmymen (most singular) there is not
more despised or neglected being, weeping owe