The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1850-02-19

,Thc following clat between two young
nills, Caroline Wclslonc and Shirley Keel.
dsr. On men and marriage, is from "Shirley,'
by the author oil "Janc Eyre" and is TO our
notions exquisite. The girls are discussing
projected days journey to ncishboring
wood Ed, Sat. Ere Post.
I'VE will go-you and |, alone, Caroline,
TO that wood, carly some fine summer morn
ing. and spend long day there. We can
take pencils and sketch books, and any in
tercsting reading book welikc and OF course
VIC shall take something to eat | have two
little baskets, in which Mrs Mill, my house
kccrer, minht pack our provisions, and we
could each carry our own. II would not tire
YOU too much to walk so far :"
% no, especially il We rested the whole
dav in the wood, and know all the pleas
;mtest spots; know where we could get nuts
in nuiing time know where wild straw
berries abound know certain lonely, un-
trolden eadcs, carpctcd with strange moses,
some yellow as if gilded, some sober gray,
some gem green. know groups Of trees
that ravish the eye with their perfect, pic
turc like effects; rude oak, delicate birch,
glossy beach, clustered in contrast; and ash
trccs stately rs Saul, standing isolated and
superannuated wood giants, clad in bright
shrouds Of ivy Miss Kecldar, could guide
YOU"
You would be dull with me alone -
" ! should not. think we should suit
and what third person is there whose pres
encc would not spoil our pleasure Z"
Indeed, know Of none about our own
ages no lady at least, as to gentlemen"
80 An excursion becomes quite different
thing when .herc are gentlemen OF the par
~" interrupted Caroline.
4" agree with you, quite II different thing
to what We were proposing"
"W We were going simply to see the old
trees, the old ruins TO pass day in old
times, surrounded by olden silence, and a
boye all by quietude.'
" You are right, and the presence of gen
tlemen dispels the last charm, ! think. II
they are OF The wrong sort, ike your Ma
lones and your Young Sykes, and Wynns,
irritation takes Tie place Of serenity. If
they are of the right sort, there is still a
change can hardly tell what change,
one easy to feel difficult to describe"
"We forget nature, imprimis"
And then nature forgeis us; covers heI
vast, calm brow with a dim veil, conceals hei
face, and witbdraws the peaceful joy will
which, if we had been content to worship hci
OnlN eIc hbNih nave lliltu OAi iNshA0s
What does she give us instead 2"
More elation and more anxiety; an eX'
element that steals the hours away fast, and
a trouble that ruilles their course"
Our power Of being happy lies good
deal in ourselves, believe, remarked Caro-
line, sagely. 81 have gone to Nunnwood
with large party, all the curates and some
other gentry of these parts, together with
sundry ladies and found the affair insult
ferably tedious and absurd and have gone
quite alone, or accompanied but by Fanny
who sat in the woodman's hut and sewed, oi
talked to the good wife, while | roamed a
bout and made sketches, or read and have
enjoyed much happiness, of a quiet kind, al
day long. But that was when 1 was young
two years ago."
" Did youever go with your cousin, Thorn
as Moore p
" Yes, once"
" What sort OF companion is he on these
occasions 2"
"A cousin, you know, is different 10 &
stranger"
81 am aware Of that but cousins, if the,
are stupid, are still more insuflerable thar
strangers, because you cannot SO easily keer
them at distance. But your cousin is no
stupid 2"
No but -"
swell %
"If the company OF fools irritates, as yo
say, the society of clever men leaves ii
own peculiar pain also. Where the goodnes
or talent Of your friend is beyond or abov
all doubt your own worihness to be his as
soclate often becomes matter Of question.
30, there cannot follow you; that crotch
Cd Is not one | should choose TO entertain 10