Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1852-01-07

heaven, with all her passions working into
prayer in it, till it grew grand, and almost
beautiful I see her face now; I could
paint it at a dash, if We're painter; I
could stick it in tho mist here as plain and
palpable as life. Wherever look, see
it; it repeats itself, like masks in fancy
dance, wherever my eye turns. The pearly
tear that glistens so gracefully in her eye
was upon duty, looking like rain-drop
upon leaf with the sun blazing on it,
all but the innoceney. An impressive
momen. she stood, wrapt in seeming ag-
ony of supplication; then the face came
down again from its high pitch to the tone
Of pity. She hesitated ;-admirably the
hesitation was done;-she trembled the
saint sank in the woman she bent her
head upon my shoulders, and sobted out
till I shuddered. Then she reused her.
self, dashed the tears out of her eyes, and
spoke quick, and almost passionately:
"Brother Ashleigh, the Doctor urged
this engagement: he used all his art Of
persuasion, all his power, upon your noble
confidence and he abused your trust.
While he seemed only to answer your
wishes, he in fact started them in your
feelings. I know it must have been So or
you could not have been so horribly de-
ceived"
"Well?" said I, turning my horse
square across the road, and clutcLing him
by the name, "Well: 2"
"Well. then she dropped her head again,
and seemed really convulsed with grief.
Her tears rained upon my shoulder, and
my poor, poor, ruined cousin ny good
angel coGs;n ! ny hearts sister" seemed
to wrench her very life out in the utter
ance i moments silence, strong shud-
der, and 1t came. Turning quickly from
me, she stood droopingiy, while she said,
in the deepest tones of grief and shame ::
'Her beauty led him into sin, and he must
find some one to marry her, for he was
himself n gagged, and could not; : and, with
a bound, she dashed down the hillside, and
was hid from me in the thicket."
"Ashleigh"
"Doctorw
l believe did up as much hard swear
ing as might serve pirate for voyage,
in the next thirty seconds. | saw the
wretch's picture now as plainly as Ash
leigh did, awhile before, and there seemed
to me but one word in English rrofane
enough to name it hy,-that word was
Nancy. 1t Was an oath to NE for years
after
When looked round next my friend
was just in sight. waited for him, and
when he Joined me, be was humming
hymn tune, long metre, very solernnly.
"Have you any mora refreshing enter
tainment for me, Mr.. Ashlcigh!" said f;
"there is relish about that last tit-bit
that gives me an appetite, Why, what
gem of gipsy We have among US. That
girl ought not to be thrown away upon
trifes; she is fit to plot for a kingdom.
Am ong the fools and scoundrels of the
great world, she would make a figure.
But, tell me what you thought, and said,
and did about it. Your first thought, first /
Pm curious"
my thoughts l believe I did no
thinking of any kind for an hour My
saul stood still. liio frovan cn.o-oo. I
passed the night in very quiet sort OF
stupor. The mere mechanism of the
mind carries on ones life pretty well,
YOU know and, in the morning, l sim
ply told Elizabeth that Nancy must not
he invited to our wedding. That was all. |
And l never said a word about it to her
till last week, when she urged me for my
reason for the request"
"And what did Elizabeth say, ash
leigh, after you told her ?"
"She held her breath till my story was
finished, and sat sstonished and speech
less till l left her to recover herself An
hour after she came to me and said
- George, have poured out my thanks
10 Heaven, and come to bless you, that
you did not in any manner mention this to
ne before our marriage; for never could
lave fulfilled my engagement with you,
with that horrible pit opened up between
Is. Again the promise is fulfilled to me,
Upon all thy glory there shall be a
letence."
Thc solution is easy. Nancy had
vakeued up with surprise, to find the
iever ID Mr. Ashloigh, splendid prea-
her. d gentleman Of rank and fortune, in /
I'VE With Le. q.cr cousin poor in sense, a
, Nancy, that tggk al the pity out of it;
sairit. IS, AeeL beauty, unconscious Of o
or ava.i45.i..ez II he market, and stu r
ii.y der1tal to silence, sacrifice, AMI du- P
:. To Yo Undermined, and, in some sense, +
ef.auded, by so simple a sheep of the O
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