The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1850-06-04

matrimonial comforts Of his guests pros
pered, | have no intention of detailing.
| believe, however, he was right in his
predictions, and the minister was pres
sented with eight several setts Of tea>
things within three months. Many a
spinster at this moment looks back with
regret TO her absence from the snow party
of Slraih Lugas, and dates all misfor-
tunes from that unhappy circumstance.
On the fourth morning Of the imprison-
ment the Laird was presented with let
ter from Charles Melville. In it he in
formed him, that he dared not be absent
longer, in case Of his regiment being or
dered abroad and that he had taken his
chance 10 set off on his homeward-w in
spite of the snow. 1t ended with thanks
for his kindness, and All afreCtiona,o fure-
well.
-Four years after the event have re-
lated, young man presented himself for
the first time in the pump-room at Bath.
The gossips Of that busy city formed
many conjectures as TO who aud what he
could be-some thought him loreign-
er, some man Of consequence incog. !;
but all agreed that he was a soldier and
an invalid.
lie seemed to be about six and twen
ty, and was evidently perfect stranger.
After he had stayed in the room, and
listened for short time to the music, he
went out into the street, and just as he
made his exit by one door, the marvels
of the old beldames who congregaie I'M
der the orchestra, were called into activ-
ity by the entrance through the other of
a young lady leaning on the arm of an
old one. Even so simple an incident as
this is sufficient in place like Bath to
give rise TO various rumors and cOniec-
lures. She was tall, fair, aud very beau
Iiful, but she also seemed in bad health,
ana 10 be perfectly unknown.-Such an
event had not occurred at the pump-room
for ayes before. Even the master of the
ceremonies was at fault. 4" As near as
he could guess, to the best of his con-
lecture. he believed he had never seen
either the gentleman or the lady"
While surmises of all kinds were going
heir rounds in this manner, the gentle-
man pursued his walk up Nilsson Street
His pace was slow, and his strength did
not seem equal to so gentle an exerlion.
He leant for support upon his walking
stick, and heard, mingled with many
coughs, voice which he well knew,
calling, " Charlie Charlie Melville
say pull, ye dei's buckle-ugh--ugh!
sic a-conveyance for a Iieland
gentleman. All Charlie, lad, said our
old acquaintance. the Laird, who had
now got up TO where his friend was
sad times for bath o. us.
Here am | sent up here wi cough wad
shake kirk, ugh-ugh-an' the gout in
bath my feet-to be hurled about upon
a chair that gangs upon wheeIs.-ugh-
ugh-by lazy English vagabond that
Wilma understand a word | say till him.
An vou," and here the old man looked
up in the young soldiers face" Oh,
Charlie, Charlie, is this what the wars
hae brochtye To !-ugh-ugh-Yer YER
ra milhcr wadna ken ye-but come ava,
come, come AVA to my lodgings IN Pull
teny Street, and tell us a about what
yeve been doin'-u ugh-ugh-my fit,
my fit pu' AVA ye ne'er do well turn
about and be hanged to ye-do ye no
ken The road to Pulleny Street yet
Come ava Charlie, my mon, dinna hur>
ry. a" And thus minglng his commands
to his chairman, with complaints of the
gout and conversation to his friend, the
Laird led the way to his lodgings.
Charles story was soon told. lie had
shared in all the dangers and trlumphs
of the last three years of the war lie
had been severely wounded at Waterloo,
and had come TO Bath with a debilitaied
frame and Majors commission. But
though he spoke of past transactions as
gaiy as he could, the quick eyes Of the
Laird perceived that there was some Sc
cret sorrow that weighed down his spir
its. "An' did ye meet with nae love adj
veLture in your travelsl for ye maun'
tell me a bit wound in your shoulder
would make ye sac down.hearied as "
are. Is there nae Spanish or Frencl
lassie that gies ye sair heart 7 Tell i
"a to me, an If | can be O. any use il
bringin' it about, ye may depend I'll dc
al! in m, power to help ye.
mo, replied Charles, smiling at 'h'
continued matchmaking propensllles o
his friend;" shall scarcely require YOU
services on that score. | never saw
Frenchwoman or Spaniard that cost M
single sigh" Aud here, as if by ih'
force of the word itself, the young maj
sighed.