Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1850-02-01

sorpton of Self-interest for another, could look
at him perfect statne, transfiXed in his steps
gazing IN very idolatry, in the direction where
the unconscious female had several minutes be-
fore disappeared, without a smile of mingled pity
and contempt. How sweet a thing were SYM
pathy muttered he. But It's vain to look for it
now might unbosom this unearthly torment
to the world and let it howl over my folly. |
might trust to my most intimate friend the I'M
feigned devotion of my heart, and hear him
chuckle over my fanaticsm, and my ignorance
OF facts and things. | might 90 to that bundle
of destinations which has bound my being by
a spell and uncover my holy passion to her emo
tlonless bosom; and hear her spurn me from her
as designing wretch. Oh! to find that heart
the corpse OF a sacred love! my God What
Is this scene of life to which we cling?' Here
his voice became audible, and he was startled by
coarse voice from the door besides him, which
he recognized as the Stage agent What do
yees want here slr?' This is a fine place to be
Jabberng solloquy all till yels IF mon. Yees
nd better 60 till the Theatre where yees 'ud be
clapped, sir There's not mon in the town
I'D be gyin' We the benefit of quarther, sir, for
all that spouten, mon
Edgar was again himsclf,-'Fare to s.
sir? If yees 'ud be goin there and back, it 'ud
be two dollars, sir. Call for yees at the Stage
Hotel at twelve, sir?' Edgar took his card for
s. and back, and staggered into the street
happy not to have been worse used by the pert
foreigner, who had caught him in his abstraction,
With scarcely enough sanity to observe that he
was being drenched by drizzling rain, he pro-
menaded Vignette street with a slow and heavy
step. The dense darkness was hardly relieved
by the struggling beams of the lamps from the
shops and stores. While without the sense of
feeling was his only guide, a mysterious pre-
sentiment had dspelled many cloud from with
in. A presentment that what was then an I'M
defined chmcra of fancy, should ere long, as
sumo form and deinitive existence From
Cleopatra, Cornna, aud Julia de Roubigne he
had formed his idea of tie genher sex-a single
disappointment could not disturb its delicate out
line. From Goethe Rousseau and Shelly he
had formed his litany of sentiments slight in
consistency could not rip up its deep laid Phil
Osophy. Though he had coined many smile
whose repercussion was sorrow, and had treas
ured in his heart many tender confession
whose flow and ebb kept nnwaverng pace with
despicabe setshness yet he had kept the
lamp OF hope dimmcd yet lingering in his soul.
'Lamenlable exceptions was the stay and an
Choir of his cheerfulncss. He had been early
the victim of an unreturned DEVOTION but the
study OF years and the expansion of his mind
had nearly washed away tie impression which
in its freshness had nearly aposatced him from
his species. His sensibiiity thus sharpened
rendered him at once too painfully susceptible
Thus trained, the aIl-absorbing topic of our
young hero's meditation was very naturally, the
success of his Valentine. He knew that TO
receive such thing was, in the cOtcriP, the most
unimportant thing imaginable. lie knew too
thatlt was most common thing 10 be decidedly
6odtng and that they presupposed insncerity
in the writer; butin spite of this he allowed his
suspense TO rise TO perfect agency.
The dazzling ASters of the Post Office had
already severed his train of thought, and a va
cant smile lit up hi face as he inquired,-
ANY thing in Box sol ??
NO, sir, was the prompt reply. Edgar laid
his hand upon his forehead, and stood a moment
in an attitude of deep thought. Must he 90
away that night in storm and darkness, with a
certainty that his DulCina had spurned his prof
iered devotion? Twas n maddening conception,
but it careered in his brain with an ungoverna-
bic power. 1t was not long before his judgment
relieved him from this pain. He bethought
himself that he had assumed name which of
course could not be known to the Post boy, and
stepping slyy behind the boxes, he inquired if
there was anything for The Student, $50 Wig
nette street, torturng his real anxiety to the
last, and wishing to detect first the trckery of
Linton, for the eagerness which Linton had
manifested to know the address of his note TO
Nloa had made him sure the same would be
speedily answered by him.
Accordingly neat billet was handed HIM by
the post man. Curious only to decide whether
the stratagem had its origin in simple sport, or
jealousy, he tore off the envelope and as he read
Kissed between his teath Cursed subterfuge.
bis tv-ith
a triumph, and called for the requisite stationary
and directed to 800 a valentine as consoling
as that he had just read was TO himself.
Is there anything here?' asked he, laying his
note in the proper boz.
Yes sir ec,' said the other, and noticing the
| change which his answer had produced in the
countenance of Edgar, he added, the neatest
thing we have had in the office this winter
Edgars hand trembled violently as he seized
the treasure and dartod from the office as lightly
as if it had been the news Of an inheritance
and was once more breathing the thick, damp
air Of that dark and dismal night. He threaded
along the pavement, occasionally brushed and
/ knocked aside by objects he supposed to be mer
| till he stopped in front of the Stage Hotel. Il
was large pile of building, venerable not for
its age but for its size, height, and the simplicity
of its architecture.
/ LuSaF entered ana Cdlleu LOT rooms I'LL l1e
stage left for S..
blouse very full-give you the best accom-
modatlons we have sir answered the landlord
and servant with light motoned him to follow
him. The hall, the stairs, the doors, all were
heavily constructed, and at that time everything
looked dreary and dead. The servant was 81
lent, and, as Edgar fanced, was afraid of some
thing. and still they were going up, up, up
around, across and again up, two, three, four
five, and ii may be six stories, and the servan
opened door and babe him good night.
Edgar heard him treading back anddown anl
felt almost supersttiousy solemn at being lei
alone He now examined closely the outline:
of his apartment. He saw by the slant of the
upper ceiling that it was next TO the roof, anC
heard with increased solemnity the rain patter
ing titfully upon the tin above him. Long din
gy curtains swept before the windows and the
! tlickering blaze of his lamp peopled the lonely
antique looking apartment with thousand fear
tul but unsteady shadows. Only one thing re-
Iieyed the dead gloom which seemed hanging
about the place. a cheerful fire behind a nea
CRATE dispelled the spectral forms, which hi:
lively Imagination was fast creating to fill NJ
the vacancies in his wandering conceptions. i
was nine o'clock. Still there arose the indis
tinct murmur of voices in the rooms below him
and in the one adjoining his he could hear &
steady and measured tramp, tramp, tramp, witt