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my excellent father
f AZ soon as arrived at Greendale, found
L there two other gentlemen quite as much in
II love, sud quite IS much enchanted BIZ the fas.
4 eirarng yeuRg lady. as was / pitiea the
Il aafortunate youths, because they haainfatu.
/; sted themselves with the hope Of happiness
I aAich ne enc, | believed, should asrire 10
II eet myself We were all old ac9aainthaees
land as It lssnet our habit to pat our light
urd der bushel, was Determined 10 give my
rivals little hint Of my advantageous. pros
poets.
III 1 raised, therefore, somewhat lie veil
(which had concealed my modest confidence
,5nt then came uskrevelatisns Nv RI.
ITals. animated. BY my example, lifted likewise
/ the veil from their respective prospects and
behold. We all thyee stood in precisely the
same position. Weall sighed; NE all hoped !.
! we all had so1tcellirs thai we kissed in secret
I and they all we're, as it were, serpents, and
Ibit their ownltaas
At thesehnexpeeted revelations we all ex-
claimed, @Ah p and left Greeadale together,
each going lis own way Ny father wasta
ilttle surprised to-ses me return so soon.
+ aMy dear Constantine, said he, Il thought
lyou intended to stay at Greendale much
longer time? n
Yes, replied, with peAsive air. taking
at the same moment, large mouthful of
| bread, aud butter eyes, but l altered my
/ taiha when L got there n
With this the conversations ended and the
charm was broken, once and forever. But
with il was also broken one link out Of the
rose time Of my life. | began to regard all
roses whether real or typifeJ, With angry
. aud suspicious looks, and to speak of the iii
iusips.s Of life," and Of ''giyiAg them up.
&c, &c | made a solemn vow with myself
thar the next object Of my affections. the
next choice ! would make fol- my wife.n
should, in all respects, lie lib very reverse
Of stae fascinating but traiterpus Rose /
had been deceived, as I imagined: BIZ the
poetfy Of life now I would kqe to tie So
her prose,
/ All in what noble form did my new
ideal present herself to my eyes, as oae eve
laiug | entered the hospitable saloon eff Mrs
a., tie wife Of the celebrated Judge Abba,
her daughter stood ready to olIiciate at the
tea table her features, her manners were
digpifod and full Of propriety. She locked
Ike personifed Truth, in contradistinctien
70 tie fantasticsl beWitching Rose. | in
stantly fell ia love with this beautiful image
Of Minerva, and thought Of my wife"
Abba, however, seemed only To th:Nk Of the
tea, and looked neither to the left nor the
right. When tea,was poured into all the
cups she slowly turned her splendid head,
and heard, at the same moment, a bass
| voice exelaim, " Sunholm p
Al, Heavens was that her voice. Was
i net rather that Of the Angel Of Judgment
who in thelnid<le of Mrs AS evening par
y, summoned the sinner Sunholm to hear
BIS final doom / could have believed any,
8F tY AttABsE thaH sHfe B E2jss oqpl& ss9a
beheld Sunholm advance to the teatable
and receive the tea-cups on his tray, | saw
that the resembling bassoon-yoice belonged
to no other than to the sweet lady whom
had Just adored, and whom I had in my
heart, already called { my wife. r.
1t required some little time before I rould
reconcile my mind Oh this point. 'Sunholmr
sounded awfully through my ears for many
long hour. | began to reason on the sub
iect If, said /, Nature has bestowed bass;
Voice. on this beautiful young lady, is it not
noble5and excellent of her not to try to con-
ceal or embollish it2 Does it not prove her
lave Of truth her strength Of character, and
her greatness Of soul2 How easy it would
hane been for her to cry Suaholm n in
falsetlo; but she would not be false, even
. ii this Not willing TO assume disguise,
egen for the sake of winning admiration, she
summons Sunholm in the voice which God
has given her Is there not something grand
in all this ? One who thus calls out Sun.
helm I will not deceive an honest fellow with
hollow words Of pretended feeling, but will
play an open game with him, and let him
understood the truth at ence.
I was introduced to the handsome Abba
There was no denying that the voice
was not fine; but, when yop we're &C
csistomcd to it, it ceased to be 50 very dis
agreeable; besides which her words were 50
simple and candid and her face SO beautiful,
| that by-and-byI was completely dazzled.-
Ny ears crept, as it were, into my eyes, and
gazing day after day, on Abla's faultless pro-
file, l was conveyed at once into the realms
Of love, and raYished by sense Of sight, asked
Abba II she would be - my wife She an
sMered g Yes with force Of utteranee that
nearly frightened me Wewere betrothed,
and the nearer / gazed on her fneprofle tho
mere / was satisfied. This, however, did not
| last very long.
3 = y
one 4 period Of halfness and incomplete.
! ness nevertheless il is a sensible institu-
| tien when it does not continue too long. 1t
+ i. tie prelude to union that nothing but
/ de4ta ought 10 dissolve and if it should APP
pear impossible to execute tremendously the
duet which has now commenced. there is yet
tinte to break it off calmly.
Il Tic first ,discord that disturbed the dust
! between my wife elect and myself vas
not her desp voice, but alas precisely that
/ ycry thing which, at first, had reconciled me
| to It. viz her lore of truth, or rather, !
! should say, her unnerciful mode Of uttering
IT.
That We are all sinners in thought, word
aua deed, is a matter of fact, and nobody
was msfe willing to admit it than myself !;
/ but To he reminded Of it every moment BY
euss best friend. is BY no means agreeable !;
| ner does it dc any good, especially when the
PLAZA speaking friend never fancres himself,
| erherself, capable Of SHINING, or being faulty
ia the slightest degree. And the worst Of
it Vas. that apparently, Abba had no faults
i. All if she had but one, or better still, if
/ sbcs would but have admitted the possibility
fyh! then should have bsen ready to throw
q ysglf at her feet. But she was in temper
ana In character as unim peachable, as regu-
laYs IS perfect. as she vas in figure; she was
sessrreet and proper, that, sinner as was,
ii drove me into rage ] felt that Abla'E
Righteousness, and especially her mode 81
| edacatiug me. would, in time, make me a
i prsairions sinner; more particularly, as she
/ woald never yield to my wishes ItdaHned
snsAs nae before long that her seif-riakteous