Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1852-12-08
Brilliant Gkettll,
OUR FIRST BORN.
By A. j. PRIME, ". d.

born just one year after her marriage. But
must Introduce her formally to my readers,
and for this purpose let me take theln'to
her fathers house. viii yoa let me choose
the time! Then let it be in May, one
month before she was married.
The house is large, antique-lo ooking
building, near the centre Of the village OF
-, few miles out OF New ork
Ample grounds surround it, and 4 fine green
lawn spreads out before the door. In many
places large forest trees stand in thick
Jumps, planted by the hand Of man to be
sure, vet not in symmetrical rows, but as
near like nature as they could be scattered.
Here and there !. bunch Of .evergreens
cluster together with their sonbre shadow,
and two or three ancient pines whistle their
doleful music in the gentle wind. Oldivy
has crept up one end Of the house, and
covered it completely, and around and
over tue old-tashoaed portico is dense
and tangled growth Of climbing plants that
almost incose it. The lawn is .sprinklcd
here aud there with flower beds cut into the
neat and close shaven sod. Over all the
place there is an air of age, and display
of taste and luxury The present posses
sor is the third in the line from the original
owner and he would not alter its appear
ance on any account
Let us enter the house This is the
sittins-room. take it,. reader, you are
something Of Il clairvoyant, and can see lis
| do. That stern and naughty looking
man of about fifty years, is Mr.. Anderson
-J;,mcs .Anderson-am iicorrap;!ble reruh-
licaa by profession, but at heart us sturdy
and uncompronsing !; despot rs ever
breathed. Ills very loob, his eye, his posi-
ton, every movement speaks an ind"niita
bic pride, and speaks the truth. lie is
proud of his anccstry--a thing in his case
worth being proud Of, ii it is III any; OF his
rich old grandfather, who built these old
walls, anaaeft cxhaustless riches to his
dssccrxSSls; OF his father, who had done
deeds y make lis descendants glory in his
memory; and he is proud Of his wealtli--a
naughty old aristocrat, seeking to disguise
his true heart under the title OF :. republican.
But in this he is honest. He thinks he is
one, though he would willingly crush with
his heel amy man in the village who aspires
TO be his equal. Scc-his stern dark eye is
fixed upon us as we enter the door, as it he
would drive us back. Shall we venture in /!
Certainly we will. We arc republicans
too, and have sterling blood running IN orr
veins-bood that came down to us from
the Pilgrims, who faced s!crncr frowns than
mans. Who has better! Besides, ! prom
ised to Introduce you to Marion. She rises
to welcome us. She has her mothers look
the same mild blue eye and aubucn l'air
the same graceful form and the same
gentle heart Her mother has been dead
for. some years, but she lived lonT enough
toleave, when she died, a holy inhucnceon
the mind of her daughter did l. say her
heart was her mothers! Soft is, but there
is in it strength of determination and
tirmness of purpose that came from the
fathers side; and though she is gentle, and
aftectionate, and kind, yet to follow the die:
tates of her trustful woman's love, she is
ready this moment to sacrifice father, home,
wealth, all, to be the wife Of Harry Lee.
Her father fears this, and hates him with all
his heart, and rather than see Marion his
wife, he would see her in her grave. Sweet
Marion! | love her as Il sister ii. spite OF her
stern old father aud his aris!ocr;tic pride.
Now let go.
\
"Narion," said her father.
She calmly turned her face towards him,
as she laid her work il her lap to listen 10
him.
Marion, do you still continue TO receive
this Harry Lee with iavor.'
+" Father, you know
"Nay, answer me. Would you stoop so
low as to marry this beggar!!"
"He is no bcggar, father" she said firm
ly; and he saw his own spirit rising in his
daughter "Ict would have you give
your sanction to what is for my happiness"
"Never, never Sooner would see yon
dead, than disgracing your family BY sach
III alliance"
They were unfortunate words to speak to
a girl with Marions spirit, and Niariou's
love, and most unfortunate just at that tine,
for they were hardly spoken before the sub
icct Of them entered. He was met at his
entrance by torrent of wrath. Marion
intcrposed, but all in vain. The young man
was driven from the house with curses.
He was no begyar. 4 few years before,
his father had been a man Of immense
wealth, and friend OF Alr. .tndcrsons. It
WAS under such circumstances that their
children first knew each other, and had
affairs continued to stand as then, there
would have been no hndrance in the way Of
their union. Indeed, the highest wish oil!
the proud man would have been gratieG.
But by Il series of miSiortuncs, Mr.. Lee saw
Il large part of his wealth swept away, and
under the accommodating sorrow consequent
upon it, he sunk aud died The remaining
property divided amongst the children
n,ade but Il small portion for each. Harry
had already commenced business as Il
lawyer, and in distant part of the State,
stimulated by his reduced circumstances,
was pressing on to emincnce- \ strong
love, in the mean time, had grown UP ilr his
heart for Marion, and he knew that she re-
turned it. But with her father there was
great difference between Harry Lee the sou
of u rich man, and Harry Lee the poor
lawyer, a distinction which resulted as we
have already seen.
Marion did not weep. She returned to
her seat, and calmly rcsuncd her work.
That night, when she retired to her room, Il
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