Juliet signal., 1848-05-02

feli before me like bark on the silver sea
of love. r.
Kissed her. Tom?"
I "Ned, you're vexaiious." sec
! '1'm sorry."l3 ~; 1esse hg jaatf
"The Temples, her parents were polite
to me. and had been known to cay that
was quite promising young man--only
. little too gay. and fond Of worldly varie
ties-such as dress, and girls, belize. OF
course | reciprocated their good feeling,
and exclaimed in all sincerity, Ten,pia
qudrre diiectG especially when they in
vited me to Tea, or offered me seat in
their pew. end so gave me chance of sit.
ting near Lizzy. Her father. Squire TEN.
pie. was Q clever old soul, with nose
nearly as long as his queue; the princi
pie business of which seemed to be to
support huge pair of ircn trimmed speo.
tacles. and keep the place. like 9 school.
boys finger. whenever he read the stat.
utes to bis litigious neighbors. 1, went
frequently to his house and spen, tho eve.
ming; drank his cider. praised his pippins,
discussed the weather, neighborhood
quarrels, and the last sermon, till he fell
asleep; and then talked, laughed, pulled
candy. and played Fox and Geese, with
Lizzy while
"Oh! Tom. you played the Fox in an.
other game while old Temple vas snor.
ing and Nored, Ell % aar8
"Ned. you're insufferable! BY the
immortal JOve /! ifyou interrupt me again,
I'm Otto our club. and you may iii up
the story at your leisure"
"I'm dumbw
~ was in a sad pickle, Ned. Nv pas
sion Tor Lizzy. fed by daily sigh. Of her
beauty. and girlish grace, sweIled like a
creek in January thaw, but it had 90
outlet. Il would not do be known as
Teacher and lover. bad nothing 70 do
but look and love, and long. and keep my
mouth shut. o OTan,alus said |. with y
tolerable accurate apprehension Of his
doom.-O Tsntalus. burn Of eternal thirs,!
looking forever. with parched mouth, and
burning eye ball, upon water-cool, invi.
ting /; bubbling up to thy very lips. which
thou must not taste, here's fellow to
match thee Thou ar. miserable. un.
questionably bot just let the gods take
| away that water, ard put Lizzy Temple
in its place, with like restrictions, and |
reckon you wouldn't make much by the
change! Hang ne, Ned. if | don't think
ne would have lost by it. Love is treub.
iesoms thing. when it gets into fellow
and can't get out. If those unfortunate
swine, into whom the devils entered Of
old, felt half as bad as did, ont won
der they cut for the sea. believe the
only thing that saved me from q straight
Jacket, was the certainty that few months
would close the Internal school and give
me chance to worship freely at the
shrine OF this beautiful Temple"
"The time came at last 20 said Tom.
, with most lugubrious expression, in
which the pathetic, the dismal, and the
reckless were curIOusly blended. "The
term closed, and | was as happy. Ned. as
French prisoner, breaking from the old
Bastile into sunlight and liberty. No
sOoner had the last scholar disappeared
through the door, with his green sstchel
slung over bis shoulder, than leaped 10
the middle of the floor, and broke into a
hornpiPe. that would have beaten the
witches in 'Allowsy's auId haunted Kirk
The sweetes. hope Of winning Lizzy, so
long repressed. acted upon me like draft
OF e1hilerating gas; and faith" said Tom.
sadly. "l'm inclined to think il was about
the same thing!
"Two evenings afterwards took
walk with Lizzy. We sauntered through
the village, and into the park and there,
henea,h the stars and The sweet moon.
light, ! told he. my earnesr-passionate
love. forgot exactly what said. but 10
was tender. | assure you, ,--and worse than
that. it was truthful; for ] loved her as
warmly as Aberland his Heloise. A,
that time never expected to smile again
if she said NO. Well, Ned, l told her
aIi-and then ventured the ugly ques.
| tiOn."
Here Toms voice grew husky, and
head OF persPiration began TO appear on
his toreaead. There Was a convuIsive
t"'i'ching too, about his eyes and the cor
ners OF bis mouth. when, after locking
minute OF SO, in profound silence. at his
boots, ne turred to me and asked,
What do YOU think her reply was.
Ned Z" '..f
| Couldn't guess, Tom; probably she
Intimated that she was too young 10 mar.
ry,--or perhaps, that she would like TO
Examine few more goods before she
made selection!" esd m M
mo, you could not guess Il Ned no
man could guess il 'rwas an outrage
piece Of unwomanly cruelt, She"-
Tom was becoming very much exc ted
"she said. with heariless laugh that
rings in my ears yet, tn, she never liked