The Middlebury galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1848-1850, 1849-02-27

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pale and thin she always looked when frs
they came down into the country. after
course of this rread-mill education. Her IA
Their would sometimes remark upon it, anc
express an anxious doubt whether the system
were not pushed 10 an extreme, injurious Il
his darIing's naturally fine constitution. Blu
Lady de Beauvoir smiled away his appre
hension, assuring him he should rather re
ioice with her, that the fruits of her materna
solicitude were every day becoming more
apparent, not only in the varied and numer
Gus accomplishments Of their beloved child
but in the gradual iempering down OF hel
exuherant spirits TO the calm level Of couven
tional uuietism. But Lady de Beauvoir's
hopes, and Sir EGmund's fears were sure 10
be waited 10 the winds within week or fort
night after their return TO Hardwood, where
in spite Of the French and German govern
ess, The homlies Of her lady mother, and the
moral obligation of practising six hours a
day at the piles of music selected for the MI
teggiatura by her London masters, and The
frighnul risks, so solemnly set before her, oil
freckles and sunburn; so many and irresista-
bic were the incentives 10 outdoor liberty
and enjoyment, that the schoolroom bounds
we're again repeatedly broken, and the re-
straints Of the bcudoir and drawingroom as
often evaded and the result of such inirac-
lions was soon manifest in The deepening rose
of her cheek, the brighter sparkle Of htr
laughing eyes, and in the total disappearance
of that elegant Iisilessness which had excited
such different feelings in Sir Edmund and
Lady de Beauvoir.
Never was truer decentralization than
that which subsisted between my uncle and
father, though differing essentially in some
characteristic points and their lot in life had
been so cast as to widen the moral variance,
though no circumstances had power TO draw
their hearts assunder, or to cause between
them The arrangement Of moment.
Brother, you know nothing of The world
and dear brother. you know 10 much Of it,,
was The augriest cOlloquy that ever ended
their fraternal differences and The courlly
haronet ard the quiet country parson parted
as affeciionately as they had met, though the
latter often returned to his peaceful rectory
with a shade of deeper seriousness on his be-
nevolent countenance. and heart full Cften-
der anxious thought, which sough! and found
its best relief in prayerlu, inlercesson for
the object of its soicitude He. too, my
good father, coated on his lovely neice, il
that could be called a dodting fondness
which, fervently desiring for her the best
temporal blessings. yet preferred before them
her eternal interests. And the dear Roso-
mond repaid HIM with such grateful love,
that il was doubtful which she most delighted
IN. a tete-a tete walk with uncle Faulkner,
his grave lectures, and sober companionship,
or the very different consorling have before
spoken OF, with sWildfire,' the Welsh pony,
and her attendant squire and cousin.
MY dear Sir Edmund Lady de Beau
voir would sometimes exclaim, your brother
will really make Methodist OF Rosomond
and though have the greatest regard in the
world for him, and he is an excellent crea-
ture. and all that sort of thing, what can he
know of the proper system of education foi
a Young lady. born, like Rosomond, 10 The
highest preIensiops i--f.aGinaIly shesd ~heE
singing al church The other day, and making
responses like the clerk; and when l spoke
10 her, pointing out the vulgariiy OF the thing
Just like The common peope-sh said uD-
her duty 10 join in vocal praise as in any 9TH
er part of the service, and that The respon-
SEES in our beautiful liturgy were to be softly
aud reyerentIy made--nor with the heart on
", but with the lips ALSO Do enIreat Mr..
L 0OIkIleT not ~ pun eoNh Sh ohSO ooeosO ii"
lions into the dear girls bead.
Blu; Sir Edmund only laughed as he re-
piled - No, indeed, my dear! | cannot
promise 10 interfere between the uncle and
niece. cannot find it in my hear! TO disturb
The good understanding which subsisis be-
tween them; and 10 tell you the truth
though Harry and differ occasionally on
some particular points, have sometimes
more than my doubts which Will prove right
in the end.-That good brother OF mine
would | were as goodwill do hosomond
no harm, depend upon 1t; and 1t she does
imbibe few of his obsolete noiions-never
iear-a London season will do wonders To-
wards modifying them
Lady de Beauvoir shook her head, but
couiented herself with privately lecturlng
her daughter; and as she really had an al
lectionate regard for my father, and too much
respect for his intellectual superiority to en-
ter the lists of argument with him, The fam
iIy intercourse continued with undisturbed
cordially, and that especially between The
uncle and niece flowed on in quietly lnfiu-
enial course, the result of which, not IN The
slightest degree justified Lady de Beanvoir's
apprehensions that her daughter would be
untitled for this world. though it may have
been blessedly instrumental in training her
for a teuer.'
Il have observed that Rosomond. though
in years and simplicity child. was forward
in person, and al fourteen, had shot up into
such womanly stature, that stranger might
have supposed her twenty at first sight,
though the mistake would have been recIi-
fed the moment she moved or spoke, by the
still childlike graces of her every action. and
The almost infantile sweetness Of expression
about her small dimpled mouth. In London
she was of course secluded from general So
ciety, according to The strictest rules and
Resolutions of the tr1-come-oit novieiaie; but
in the country, the system was not adhered
to la rigear, and besides the undesired and
unvaIued honor of passing formal hour
with her governess in the drawing room, on
the evenings of dinner parties TO country
neichbors, or when a small circle of the elite
were assembled at Hardwood. she was in
duleed occasionally with her ill of dancing
at rural iele in the Park, or a Christmas
ball, when half the country were brought to-
uether beneath Sir Edmund's hospilable
roof On the latter occasions. the handsome
a-