The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1850-05-02

Hath all the energy that would have made
goodly frame of glorious elements,
Had they been wisely minged-as 1t is,
An awful chaos light and darkness,
Aud mind and dust, and passions and pure thoughts,
Mixed and contending without end or order
All dormant or destructive; she will perish
And vet she must not such are worth redemption.
Byron.
Il wasa queer place-the chamber where young
Erob;sher lay at the Lair The house being near
the top of the mountain peak, and the room near
the top of the house, it looked down dizzy
height.
The side of his bed was placed against one Of
the front windows, so that the patient had only
to turn over towards ii to enjoy sublime pros
pect frou.ihrtSp 0s sS.s.,-.ss..1eee To I'll
dow had been so obscured by cobwebs and fly
stains as to make curtain superfuous, until the
arrival of the neat little housewife, Zoe, who ct
once washed it off, and sent to the Dovecote for
clean white muslin curtain, which was always
looped back, to permit the invalid to look out.
This, with Zoe's new bue-and-white quilt made
the chamber look neat and comfortable enough,
considering"
Imagine an eephantess in poultry yard, trip
ping it lightly and softly about, for Fear Of tread
ing on the young chickens, and you will have
some little notion of how our amazon stepped
about the sick room Of her patient upon the morn
ing after Brutus had left home for the metropolis
1t was very difficult for Gertrude to step softly
or speak low. She was in the habit of shouting,
roaring, leaping, running, aud demOlishing every
thing she happened to touch, and otherwise ex-
pending her excess of vital energy; and now she
tripped about the room as awkwardly as o condor
in quadrille might do. Zoe was in the room,
too, but gliding so spirit-like about, that you
would scarcely have known her presence. Their
patient was supposed to be asleep
"Hush-s h-sh-sh Gertrudep whispered Zoe
as the former brought down vial on the table,
with the bang Of hammer on the anvil, SILVER
ing the vial In the act.
"Sh-sh-sh amt | sh-sh-ing all | ean2 l do
wonders! Something win happen to me yet, with
all this sh-sh sh-ing. Didn't like to fall down
stairs, by coming softly up2 And shall break
blood-vessel, too, by trying to talk low, know
shall keeping in so much breath will explode
my ribs, know it will y
"Hush- sh-sh, Gertrude! don't whisper; whis-
per in a sick room is more annoying thar talk,o
murmured Zoe, moved from the chamber, as the
most eifectual way Of preventing conversation.
Left alone, Gertrude stepped up to the side of
the bed, and tossing back her heavy fall Of yellow
hair, stopped over the sleeping patient He was
lying with his face towards the window, his eyes
closed, his black silky hair dropping soft shadows
over his temple and throat Gertrude looked over
him as one might look at very charming picture
or beautiful sleeping child, and smile dimpled
her mouth and halfclosed her eyes, as she
looked-then the fair amazon cautiously put out
one finger and softly touched black curl that
coied upon the transparent temple-then sud-
denly drew back her hand, as though she feared
that at a touch this Adonis might blow up, or
melt away. Still she looked at the sleeping face,
as a child looks at something very charming and
curious, but which it is forbidden to NEEDLE with.
Oh, he is so beautiful so beautiful she muir
INJURED to herself still curiously fascinated by the
exquisitely delicate features and complexion. At
last, however, as she looked, che saw the black
eyelashes of the youth begin to tremble on his
white cheeks, and the corner Of his chiseled lips
began to culver with suppressed humor. Her
sangune blood rushed to her brow just as he lost
command of his countensnce, and opened his
eyes with an angelic smile.
"a was not asleep, dear Gertrude p
"Oh! thank you for confession Immediately
following detection said the Ger-Falcon, moving
from the bedside.
Come back, dear Gertrude, want to talk to
you"
"No-you must Sleep
81 cannot, Gertrude; have had sleep enough"
"But you haven't said Gertrude, returning,
"you have not. Come, shut your eyes, and 20
to sleep-that's q good boy-do-thats a dear
boy-think what your mamma would say IL she
knew how you triaed with your precious health.
Come, now, shut your eyes, and go to sleep, while
draw these curtains-thats a sweet boy n and
STOPPING down, Gertrude placed her two hands
each side Of his head, patted him, and ran away
"What q strange girl and how singular that
she talks to me as though were child But,
perhaps it is not so strange since every Ameri-
can youth have met looks older at fourteenth
the face, at least-than do at twenty-six that
is the reason she takes me for boy. Well!
IN NV upPVoooh' III noaho VI us ci-
fects. What magnificent girl the largest wo-
man ever saw, yet the most elegantly proper
TONED, ana the most delicately finished There
Is nothing coarse in her vast beauty. why, her
hnger-ends, her eye-lids, her nostrils, have that
exquisite transparency, that fueness of fibre be.
longing to the highest order of Caucssi.n bean.
~ But where are my thoughts wandering to
now began by thinking how should delight
my friend Lawrence, by giving him sketch ~
TINS amazonian beauty found in the wild. 30
America have ended with We,,,Irn.,
not have those soft fingers clasp my face-ricb Inns
mover over my lips so often! ~ And the vouth
raised himself on his elbow, shook his pillow ".
nementiy, turned il, and dropped again o. h.us.sd
WINE looking through the window, hi, eve rovsd
over mountain, wood, and water. aOh how
wish my friend Turner we're only here, 70 pain,
TINS scene Singular, they roam all over Europe-
ground that has been travelled, painted, and
described, until every part Of it is familiar 70
Ill while these unknown scenes Of widest
beauty OF the most terrible sublimity. remain
ansousht,' he nurmursd; then, "Pshswi / talk
OF one thing and tAiak Of smother. That peer
less girl She 10 usiqssi there u but one Of bar
speoss' The slsarsst, psrsss eyes the cl.sr.us,
pureSs soul that ever any one looked ShrousA ana
through! That woudrous erll an. A..