The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1849-12-19

leaden clouds. lis mouth firmly SCI. 81
yeiiuiirhlrg every now and ihcn " IN suT
pressed feeling. Was Il. perriance. HI
bitter disappointment. almost agnny. q
The nan WIN Ia. with pain and Toll bull
for himsell . ionsel,uid hearth. and find
u Irosldrn inl' nuns rs lhr ,eIy i,lol whom
he h"prd 10 place here forever! A fol
ish gIll. wishing q Try ynnr power. anI
Keep The hnHnred husband a iyiannize,
lover slill. DO yon think Mhai IL Is yol
DE-. When ,ou suiirr your own hands 1.
fear down tie fair adurnmenis III irlnlair,
with which his passion has decked yon
aud appear before him. nnl Is an ANGEL,
ideal. that selfish. sullen. or vain woman
little knnw yon that il may take Years III
devotion 10 rilaee the bitterness produce,
By thai one hunr--lhe irsi when ne sees
you as yon are,
The young husband glanred once only
~ his vile /: but that was enough. The
lower lip-ihal odions lower lip. which
had n FIRST awoke ms douhl,.-was the
image &c weak. poniing sullenness. Bul
rs weakness was lis safeguard against con.
iinued uhsiinary; and saw-lhougIi the
husband diil not see--ihai as she bent
over The siic. lear after tear dropped 81.
lenlly inlo the river. There WAS hope
still
She was leaning over the ganrway
door, place scarce dangerous. save 10
The walchful anxiety Of affection. How.
ever. The fact seemed 10 strike her hus-
band for he suddenly drew her away.
though formally. and without any sign 1T
wishing for reconciliation. But this one
slight aci shaved The lhoughlfnlness. the
love--oh. if she had only answered il by
one kind look, one word &c alnnemenl!
But no; there she sin0d-immoyable
Neither would yield. | would have gi.
ven the world could have whispered in
the Uife's ear, !. For the love nf Heaven
for The love of him--for The peace Of
y nr whole life, be The FIRST 10 say, for.
give me! Right or wrnng. never mind.
Whichever have erred. il is your place
rs weakest and most loving-io yie d first.
oh, did yon but know The joy, the bles-
sedness Of creeping close 10 your hus-
bands wounded. perchance angry heart.
and saying-'rake me in there again lei
Us not be divided more! And he would
take yon, ay, al once; and love you the
more for The forhearance which never even
asked 81 his pride The concession that he
was also wrong
Perhaps this long speech was partly
written in his ewes; for when, by chance,
they mpi he young wiCe's. she turned
away. coloring crimson and al that mo-
mcni up came the enemy once more, IN
the shape Of The intrusive elderly gentle
man but the husbands lecture, whatever
il was, had liz effect in the girls demea.
nor. She drew back with quiet woman.
IL reserve, strongly contrasied with her
former coqueliish iorwardness, and left
!. Mr.. Goodrich" in possession Of the field.
And liked The husband Ten times better
for the gentlemanly dignity with which he
shonk of al truce Of ill-humnr, and con.
versed with The intruder. The boyish To-
yer seemed changed into the firm, selI.de.
pendent man. And when the wife iimid-
" crept up, and put her arm through his,
he turned round and smiled upon her. Oh
how gladly, yet how shyly, she answer
ed the slight token Of peace! And said
10 myself, i" That man will have just and
firm, vet tender sway: he will make first.
rale head OF a family!
saw little more Of them until near the
journeys end. They were then sitting
in the halfempty cabin alone together;
for TO my delight. and perhaps theirs, The
obnoxious individual of middle age had
landed NJ Blackwell. Very quiet they
seemed: all the exuherant happiness
which al first had found vent in almost
childish frolic was passed away. The
girl no longer laughed and jested with her
young husband hui she drew close 10 his
side. her head bending toward his shout
der, as though, but for The preserve Of a
stranger, it would fain droop there, heavy
with its weight Of penilence and love.
Yet as watched The restless look in her
ewes, and the faint shadow that sill linger-
ed on the young mans face, thought
how much had ben perilled. and how
happy--ay, ten times happier-would
both have felt had the first quarrel never
been!
In The confusion Of departure | lost my
Young friends, as thought, forever; but
on penetrating The mysterious depths Of
an omnibus. heard a pleasant voice adj.
dressing me" So you are again our TEL
low-passengpr TO ~"
But will not say where, lest the Young
couple should "speer" for me, aud de-
mand why dared to put them in
print And yet they would scarce be
wroth did they know the many chords
they touched, and the warm interests they
awakened in poor, wilhered heart which
has so few.
Ii was the dreariest Of wet nights IN
I.ont!on-lIeaven knows how dreary that
ls,--but they did not seem 10 feel il al all.
They were quite happy-quite gay.
wondered whether Tor them was prepar.
ed the deepest bliss Of earlh-the first
j" coming hnmc;" aud felt almost sure ol