The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1849-11-17
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link connecting him with Ada.
He daily three times traversed the val
ley, thrice he forded the deep and foam
ing river; he saw not his love, he received
no token from her; but if his eyes did moi
deceive him, he occasionally saw female
form on the summit of her fathers tower
and snow white scarf was sometimes
waved as he speeded rapidly through the
valley.
To Ada theyear passed slowly, anxious.
ly; often did she repent of her iniunctions
TO the Moor, when the sky was dark and
stormy, and when the torrents from the
mountains had rendered the Jumna i'm.
petuous and dangerous.i Then, on hel
knees, ON the rajah's tower,s'she would
watch for her lover, dreading at one mo-
ment, lest fear should make him abandon
her and the enterprise, and then praying
that he might indeed forsake both rather
than encounter the terrors of the foaming
flood! Soon she saw HIM speeding from
the dark forest; he plunged fearlessly into
the river; he butfeted with its waves; he
gained the opposite shore; again and again
she saw him brave the difficulty, again he
conquered it, and again it was to be en-
countered. AT length the annual festival
arrived, the gardens were adorned with
garlands, and surrounded with music and
gladness: once more, too, Selim stood be-
meath the wide spreading tree.
He saw crowds assemble, but he needed
them not; he heard the crash of cymbals,
and the measured beat of the kettle.drum.
The rajah passed near him, with his Off
GERS and armed attendants, and these were
followed by a troop of damsels; then came
Ada, the raiah's daughter She was no
longer the trembling and bashful girl he
had seen her at the last festival. Proudly
and selfpossessed she walked queen of
the procession, her form glittering with a
wealth of diamonds. Selim's
heart sunk within him.
"She is changed; she will think no more
of mel" he involuntarily exclaimed. But
at that moment her dark eye glanced to-
wards his hiding-place.
She spoke to her attendants. and the
procession paused as she approached the
tree alone, and affected to gather some of
its leaves.
''Are you faithful" said she, in low
tone: may. wrong you by the question;
| have seen that you are so; you have
courage, as well as constancy, you are
mine, and | am yours-hush!-where is
your steed?"
Selim held its bride rein.
"Then in pour hands | place my hap
piness," she added: ''these gems shall be
our wealth-and your truth my trust
away! awayl"
Selim in an instant bore Ada to the back
of his Arabian, and ere the rajah and his
attendants were aware, he had quilted the
as the wind he bore her
rom the gardens.
The pursuit'was instantaneous, and ut
ering curses and indignant reproaches,
he rajah and hundred armed followers
we're soon at the heels Of the fugitives.
"Follow! follow!" cried the foremost;
'we gain upon them-we will tear her
rom the grasp of the Mahomedan. They
lpproach the rivers bank! and turbulent
Is it now is, after the storm Of yesterday,
hey will either perish in its waters, or we
hall seize them on its brink"
They still gained upon them; the space
the pursuers and the pursued be-
ame smaller and smaller, and the recap
IRE of Ada seemed certain. When, 10!
, the astonishment of those who followed |
i'm, Selim's well-trained steed plunged |
1to the foaming torrent, battling bravely
nth its waves, bore his burden safely
trough them, and, bounding up the op-
osite bank, continued his flight. :.
The pursuels stood baflled on the riv-
RS bank; their horses having been train
d to no such feat as that they had just
it would have been madness to
ave plunged amid the eddying whirlpools
the swollen Jumna.
Every tale should have its moral
What then will be said of mine, which re-
ords the triumph of disobedient child
l secret, unauthorized attachment
triumph which SO rarely leads
, happiness! For this part of my story
have no apology to offer; but from this
tile history of Selim and Ada, this small
rain ofmoral inference may be extracted:
adies will do well to try the integrity and
rove the constancy of their lovers ere
ley marry, and lovers should endure l
ials and delays with fortitude, and thus {
rovethe unchangingtruth oftheir affection 7
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