New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-11-15

| turning. on leave between returns, ~ ia''o
| small sum Of money or. failing, TO sell out
| md he found his cousin Harfiette all alone, hVe
| nInntes after the - Chronicle had been re-
ceI,ed detailing, IN glowing language, the beauty
| of the bride, as being IN perfect keeping whn
that of the handsomes, man who, fer years, nad
sworn conJugal allegiance a! the altar Inc
| banpy couple the paper added, " had gone
10 - TO spend The honeymoon"
In such frames OF mind, and under such cir
! cums;auces the cousins met. Pemberton, IN
| right of his relationship, would have saluted MS
TAR kinswoman; but she drew her face away
and. looking contemporary at his snort anu
| shapeless person, coOlly Observed
palm 10 palm must do, George tor, / ialth
YOU are teo ugly even for a cousin TO KISS
| "As handsome and as insolent as ever why,
| Harrette, expected to have seen wilio"
wreath and pallid cheek. You bear your throw
over patiently"
The lady's brows contracted, and she haughtily
waved her hand.
| Enough no more Of this. know your busl-
ness here You want two hundred pounds
and my father will not advance as many pence,
were II to save your neck, and not your COM
| mission"
Then l mus, send in my papers, and leave
| the tn
Unless some fool is found who will lend
money to gentleman, who, on SIX shllllngs "a
| day. Keeps a pair of hunters observed the lady
Pemper,on looked sulky and dlspleased.
| NAY, George, on my conscience, thou art Ill
| favored enough without knitting those beetle
brows together. have the money. Would you
| earn II
IL would go TO the devil" was the reply,
rather than quit the TIL from sheer poverty.
| What shall do :"
| She turned her dark and lightning eyes on his,
and, after pause of halt minute, pointed with
her finger to the paragraph which announced
the hated marriage. Then, dropping her voice
to an emphatic whisper, she laid her lips close
| 10 her klnsmans ear
Read Spoil me that honeymoon the
moneys thine
And without waiting reply she hurried to
! her own apartment.
Never did the arch-enemy of man select a bet
ter agent than George Pemberson. To currlsh
temper, he united suficIency of animal courage
| TO make him dangerous and secret influences,
with which his reyengeful klnswoman was to-
tally unacquanted, fitted him for the task. lie
| knew that his retirement from a'reglment otfi-
cered by men of property, and to whom ne had
made himself obnoxious by the idle attempt OF
| yelling poverty under insolence, would be felt
triumph But deadlier feelings toward the hus-
| band of Lucy Meadows, urged him on 70 ven
| geance. He had secretly, but passonately, loved
her; and she had neither tact nor prudence TO
conceal a personal dislike, amounting 10 aver
SION Keeping in the background the real causes
| which induced him 10 attempt the lite OF one
against whom he could plead no injury, an
alleged slight TO his fair cousin would form " a
very pretty quarrel" and with congeAl spirit
as demoniac as his own, ne set oil, without de.
lay, to the retired watering-place, where the
handsomest and happiest pair that Connaught
| could produce, were, IN their own benei, enter
ing on an elyslan existence.
The barbarous punctifo OF the times-pro-
vided man could boast gentle lineage-alTnost
prohibited refusal to his call for satisfaction,
no matter how flnsy the pretext might be, un.
| der which he demanded hostile meeting, and
Pemberton availed himself of 1t.
1t was evening R had been engaged IN
answering congratuatory letters, and had pro.
ceeded with his billets to the post: Lucy watched
| him from the inn window and thought her hus-
| band never looked so handsome as when, IN
| turning the corner, he smiled and kissed MS
4 hand. She gazed at the sun, sinking glorlously
in the far west, and in flood OF gold hiding his
| broad disc in the boundless waters OF the At
lantic. Mas she little dreamed, poor girl, that
"The moon that rose
And promised rapture In the close"
! rr, f,,,d TO usher I'm n night ON whose dssP,
deep darkness, ray of hope should never break
| again.
Pemberton and his companion waylaid their
| intended victim but R felt himself too
blessed with Lucy to risk aught that could inter
rlpt his happiness. Against the imputed Of
| Tense he temporarily demonstrated, and repu-
| dated all intention of wounding the feelings OF
| the lady, whose imaginary wrongs were made
| the basis to rest quarrel on. A meeting ne
| declined at least until he could send Tor and
| consult friend. From insolence, femoeIton
proceeded to verbal, and at last TO personal IN
| suit Rs was brave and manly spirit.
| Good Heaven to feel the ruffian's whip upon
| his shoulders, and not resent the outrage. HIS
temper Welded he lOnged to wipe disgrace away
| in blood. He urged delay no longer; demanded
instant satisfaction hurried into the lnn garden,
and within ten minutes from the time he waved
passine-little did he fancy it last-adieu,
R. was stretched, in death, upon the bowling
green
What Lucy suffered may be readily conceived.
Human misery could not 60 farther: IN one
sheer plunge, TO reach, from the very pinnacle OF
mortal happiness, the darkest ABYSS OF despair.
The imagination must fill out what fancy cannot
pencil.
And how did she feel-she, that guilty woman,
"The ruin that her rashness wrought
was told her
Before her emissary had accomplished half his
Journey Harriette's better feelings had regalned
ascendency and, when too late, she would have
given thousands to have recalled her hlrellng
klnsman. In charity we will hope that her
wounded pride sought vengeance short OF de-
structIon Indeed the effect OF the sad intelll- |
eence when il arrived, would 60 far TO prove |
that such was the case. She was convulsed,
fevered delnous for two months alter, and re- |
covered strength only by the loss ol reason
and In few years alteI cIoseu hel "le'Cneu
existence in an asylum.
often called to memory the truth Of Father
Malachi's dueing deductions-for the finale to
the careers of Messieurs Andrews and Pember-
ton, proved them correct to the letter. Both
died violent bu, nglorous deaths.
Frank Andrews, some halfdozen years after
he had placed the house OF Shelyenagarrew IN
mourning. repaired to the metropolis on busl-
slness The evening he arrived IN Dublin he
contrived TO fasten a quarrel on llnendraper,
whose sister he had insulted al the theater, and
hurried the devoted tradesman By the first dawn
of day to 1.-The twelve acres The hour OF