The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1848-06-24

CONC Wnnt would IL required nut n lew
minutes TO make all the preparation she re-
CURED, and then she sat down by the open
window to wait the hour. Her heart did NOT
even beat out of its natural course. She
was calm aud resolute. True TO The time,
he WINS there, aud in one moment she stood
10y his side. The next morning, the happy
wife of Harry Lee,she was with him OIL their
way TO her new home.
Disappointed affection, the betrayed con-
fidence of kind and affectionate parents, may
break the heart. But the disappointed pride
ofsuch father as Mr. Anderson sustains its
own defeat; and when that same morning il
was announced to him that Marion was not
in her room and had not probably been there
through the night, he understood at once all
that had taken place, and though a torrent of
fury rolled in his heart, and almost rose TO
his lip, he subdued it, and sat down TO his SOL
itary breakfast MS if nothing had happened.
And from that time, for years, the name of
Marion was never oil his tongue. Yet can
not believe, that proud, and stern, and I'M
forgiving as he was, that name was not often
-nlways-in his heart, and dearer than it had
ever been before; for pride cannot quell the
voice of conscience, and he knew he had
done wrong. A month after she went away,
she wrote 10 him, and told him she was hap
ply, though sorry she had 10 find happiness
in filial disobedience; aud long time after,
that letter was seen worn and faded, as if il
had been read over and over. Yet let us be-.
lieve, if she was suffering from want or the
treachery of him she had trusted, he would
have called her hastily back to his house and
his heart do believe it, though he never
had reason for doing so.
would not seem to be the apologist of clan
destne marriages, for believe they general
ly turn out badly. But it WINS not so in this
case. Marion was happy in her new and
comparatively humble home-far happier
than she had been in her fathers house, for
she was united to the man she loved, and all
his care was to make her SO.
lie was respected in the place where they
lived, and she found herself received with
great Joy and kindness by his friends; and if
She ever looked back to the home she had left,
il was not with one thought of regret. The
house in which she lived was on an eminence
sloping gradually down the river that flowed
below, and here she sought in her leisure
hours 10 revive the beauties and ornaments
she had deserted. Flowers sprung up here
and there vines were planted to run over
the house and the little porch, aud during the
hours in which Harry was absent from home,
she employed her time in conriving some
new object TO surprise him when he return
ed. 1t was the first and pure gushing out of
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heart, and called her his own beloved Mari
ON, and exhibited his delight in all she did,
she felt that it would be foolish and migrate
ful, should she suffer herself TO regret even
for one moment the change she had made
when she left all for him.
Months rolled on, and the anniversary of
their marriage came, and with il came the
birth ola hoy-their infant Harry. 1t was a
new object of Affection new tie between
the hearts, the two hearts that loved so tondly.
Marion had often heard indirectly from her
father, and now wrote to him again. The
letter was full other own OVERLOOKING hap
piress and Joy, but she said nothing of recon-
Citation, though now she felt an indiscriba-
bic longing to lay her boy in her fathers
arms, and proud as he was, and hear him
call him his boy. But no.answer came, and
she yielded without sigh. She had still her
husband an her child aud what more did
she want? ....
Let me now pass over the next two years
years of unaloyed happiness, during which
time their boy grew and became the idol of
their hearts. lie was beautiful and noble
looking boy. The house was filled with
guests, for il was the anniversary of their
marriage agan-the third, and the second
birth day Of little Harry, and they had pre-
pared to celebrate the two events in ONE
All was Joy. Ino GNU, III TlCH uIesSS WIS
sporting among the flower-beds in the lawn
with his nurse by his side. She left him but
a moment, to enter the house at his moth
ers call, and when she returned he was gone.
Wildly the poor woman ran through the
place. Ii was but moment she was absent?
he must be near: he cannot have gone far
IL was i'm vain. He could not be found
Poor Marion-how the news fell upon her,
She could not believe it at first, but when it
became certain, after all efforts to find him
proved fruitless, and day passed after day and
no tdings of her darling boy, she gave her.
self up 10 the widest grief. They concluded
that he must have fallen into the river, swol-
len and rapid from recent rains, & had been
washed down to.the lake
1t is terrible thing to watch over the grad
ual inroads of disease, sapping day by day
the foundations of life in q darling child, an
only one; TO see consuming sickness drink up
its life's blood; TO watch the wasting away of
its beautiful limbs with slow emaciation,and
see the light in its bright eye fade, and grow
darker, darker and more dim till it goes out
in death. 1t is terrible thing for young
and happy mother. But, oh! how far more
terrible to Marion Lee, thus in the very hour
other hearts highest happiness and joy, thus
surrounded by her friends, rejoicing with her
on the birth day of her hoy, to have him
snatched away by an unseen hand; one mo-
ment by her side and the next, gone, and her
eye never again to behold him. 1t would
have been lighter,if even then she could have
found his body, that she might fold il once
more to her agonized heart in one last yearn-
ing caress, to prepare her to let him go. Bat
even this was denied her. 1t would have
crazed the brain of many woman But not
so with Marion. She had a portion of her
fathers spirit, and though smitten down with
bereavement, she endured it. Yet she was
notthe same she had been, and though, after
days had passed. and she became more calm.
she gathered back TO her memory the teacll-