The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1848-03-04

VI lduSitcI, lollOWeu ny Confession VI
the cause OF his vapours.--'Tut man.
said the other, one has to fear one mo-
ment you will cut your throat, and the
next, that you will hurst it. But trust
me, can cure YOU, if that is all: for it
was only yesterday, during a ride, that
an intimate friend OF hers told me, there
was no man out-ranked you in Miss Bar
don's estimatlon-and pretty plainly in.
timated, that you are front rank, No.
and that if you did not succeed, she
thought she knew whose fault it would
be-and that the rest might hang up
their fddles.-Now Hass, take my pre-
scriptlon, well shaken!-dcclare --wln
-Wear.'"
''He did so,-and plead not in vain:
for he found his passion reel procated IN
that ialrest Of bosoms, the pulses of whose
warm life current beat thencetorth for
him alone.-Ah strange, lnscrutable flu
turity,-that that mild breast was latcd
to become the seat of pangs that should
break so trusting a heart. But let me
not anticipate.-Atter many interviews
after many delicate but pointed atten-
tons after many to him, sometimes veX-
atious and embarrassing, sometimes hap
Ply moments-momcnt in which, on one
hand, he was the tortured victim of
cruel doubt, maddened almost to despair,
and on the other, the reel picnt of
HoPE's cheering and encouraging smiles
at length, ] say, rendered somewhat
more stable an. conident by his friend s
consoling intelligence, he proposed
was acceptcd-and brief engagement
terminated IN his becoming the sole and
happy depository OF the hand, the afe c.
tions, the honor and fortune Of the beau
tiiul, the lovely Amelia Bardon."
Happy. fortunate. enviable Haskins,
0, that you could but have appreciated
your singular fine prospects, But no
the canker of vice was soon to gnaw at
your yitals,-the blight and mildew of
unhallowcd walks and expensive dissi-
patton were soon, too soon alas. to lay
waste the far garden-briars and thorns
were to cover and blur the Eden that in
nocencc might still have possessed and
epioved. 1t would seem as though there
are some who are incapable of wisely
administering the high trust committed
to them by Providence IN the gift OF
wealth, by seeking out the poor (God's
peculiar people, and consollng and com
iorting them: proving chow hardly shall
they that have riches enter into the king
dom of hcavcn"-the gospel kingdom;
and, ''enter into life" by the pure heart
offerings Of right aims, &c.-But how
could it we'll be otherwise, in school Of
morals and under philosophy so cor
rupt asthose of France, at that period, and
indeed even now!
"Ycars rolled on, during which time
the child Celeste was born. As she grew,
her lovely mother educated, trained and
accomplished her uhis being her only
child) with great pains and rapid success.
Meanwhile wealthy and idle, for the
house in philadcI pima had revoked his
agencv,) ennui seized Haskins, and, to
seek relief in variety, he left his charm
ing wife and child, and proceeding to
Paris, there entered into profllgate and
abandoned habits, which it would be te-
dious to detail, } alike ruinous to his char
acter as a man, and detrimental to his
purity and happiness as husband and
! father. go that" men 'Ewould consider"
After nearly years absence, he return
ed to Trieste but his long association
with gamblers, libertines and other loose
characters, had so disqualified him for
the virtuous walks of life, that the very
purity Of his chaste companion, because
as 1t were serving as living and con-
slant rebukc to his dissoluteness, became
an intolerable, a htJol contrast, which
he could not long endure before his eyes.
She, poor soul in meek and uncom-
planning silence, wept bitter tears ofre-
greet, over, yet bore with, his lewdness,
arrangement and neglect"
cat length turning his thoughts
toward his native home, and yearning
for something, he scarce knew what, to
supply to him what he had lost through
career Of vice and folly, he even Grim
inally resolved on forsaking his wife and
child. Accordingly under pretence of
business of the most urgent necessity re-
curing his presence in the United States
fol- few months, and promising to re-
turn with all haste to France, as soon as
he could accomplish it,-and having
converted everything he could into
ready means, he took leave Of his much
injured wife and daughter, and set sail
for Philadelphia. Deluded man, as ifhe
could escape himself,-could elude the
constant corrcdings of guilty conscience
s.the worm Hat never dieth''
Some years passed without his return
to France-years traught with eventtul
consequences 10 him, as well as his ne
elected innocrnts.- had married an
other wife, Gas convenience widow,
below his station in life, (if, indeed such