American mechanic and home journal., 1849-12-22


 AIT" replied Margaret. "Then adieu forever, and may Heaven for give you as do P and the young man who ut tered these words, drew his hat over his eyes and with flushed brow and burning cheek rushed from the apartment. But his foo was yet upon the threshold, and his hand upor the door-lock, when low, scarcely-heart voice fell upon his ear. yet deep and pas sionate that he stopt as if spell-bound to the place.
 Stay. Eugene; there is yet one condition on which my hand is yours one which have not-durSt not name to you. Yet, pcrhap. you can bear it now"
 And the blue eyes of the young girl were raised 10 his. with an expression not easy te define. combining, as 1t did, both subtlety ano frankness, passion and perhaps indifference l The youth re-closed the door, and drew neal the beautiful speaker (beautiful she was, i almost perfect features and faultlcss form Icombined, can constitute beauty.) and listen ed, with parted lips and dilating eyes, she went on.
 You do not know, perhaps, what it is tc feel, as l do, thirst for power; a desire com. bined with the very essence of your being and growing up. from day to day, until it has become mighty and unconquerable passion Ia terrible thirst, to which every thing else is las nothing. lou do not know, perhaps, wha, lit is to look upon your fellow-men,-those who now in their might look down upon you and to feel that you must and UiH have do- minion over them to know that the day shall come, in which those who now tosser above you, shall cringe and lawn at your feet.- lawn for the very favors that now they dare deny you. You do not know this. sperhaps, (and the color sank gradually from the cheek of the girl, leaving,it of an ashy paleness as she went on) " but have known it and felt il from my earliest childhood; ever since have known what it was to think and feel, have thirstcd for dominion over others, and have felt that the time would come, knew not how or when, that this passion of my life would find its reality. These hopes grew to palpa- bilitv and now. l ask, must this passion that II have so nurtured from my infancy, be crush ed foreVer!"
 The youth recoiled from her touch, as in the leloquence of the moment she approached hin and laid her slender fingers upon his arm and his eyes, for perhaps the first time in his life, dropped beneath the almost burning gaze of her whom he had so loved, while slight Shivcr crept over his frame, as he replied, "Go on; do not perfectly comprehend you"
 "No! you cannot but know you not tha ,rondn seldom arrives at this power, unless through another 2"
 1 "Ha v he exclaimed, drawing pace back ward and shading his brow with his hand he whom you marry, then must possess thl power, this talisman of might Is it so 7"
 "You have rightly divined; he must hav it, in some way or other, or he can never ful lly possess my heart"
 "And you have recalled me, Margaret. t tell me this, to put a new and unconquerabl barrier between us. Why did you not suffe me to leave the house and you forever, with out this new burden upon my heart "
 -" rsnalled you. Eugene, to give you hope the only hope I could give you, and to sho1 you the way to the realization of your dream: Get this talisman, be above others, and ar yours, heart and hand, forever
 And as she ceased speaking, she threw hel self into fauteuit, and calmly watched tn effect of the dangerous revelation. !, There was a long pause, in which a strang variety of emotions were Huttering Tn tn breast of Eugene Reyburn. If ever man To, ed purely and deeply, he had loved the gil before him; but until now he had not pent trated her real character, nor would have bs lieved that an exterior so gentle conid conces passions of so deep a nature But the char had not been broken nor lessened, perhap though it was changed in character; thoug 2 he saw something to dread, he still worship t ped.
 "This power is rarely given to men, sai h he, at length. slowly raising his eyes, with deep sigh "the mighty of the earth are bV B few and far between Genius may clai dominion and talent and learning, honor b1 Margaret, have neither of these, you we
 know, and may never hope for either. WI 0 1tantalize me thuss"
 s q would not tantalize you, Eugene, but would give you hope. Is there then no tali