Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1852-06-09
A GOOD RULE,
nisrcllancous.
TlLlAL LOVE REWARDED.

You are too parsimonious, Henry said
MIR. ID to one of his clerks. as they were 70
gether In the counting house one morning.
give me leave to say, that you do not dress
sufficiently genteel to appear as clerk in
fashionable store Hcnry's face was suffus-
ed with a deep blush and in spite Of bis en-
deayors to suppress it, a tear trembled on bis
manly cheek. Did not know that your
salary was sufficient to provide more genteel
habiliments,' continued Mr.. d., L would in
crease it.
My salary is sufficient replied Henry in
voice choaked with emotion but with that
proud Independence of feeling which poverty
had not been able to divest him of. His en-
ployer noticed his agitation and immediately
changed the subject
MIR d. was man of wealth and bonevo-
lence, he was widower and had but one
child daughter, who was the pride Of his
declining years She was not as beautiful as
an angelnor perfect as Venus, but the good
ness. the innocence, the intelligence Of her
mind shonc in her countenance and you had
but to become rcqainted with, to love her =
Such was Caroline Delaney when Henry first
became an inmate in her fathers house. No
wonder he soon worsbipped at her shrine
no wonder he soon loved her with deep and
devoted attention--and. reader. had you
known him, you would not have wondered his
| love was soon returned, for their souls were
congenial; they were east in virtues purest
mould--and although thier tongues never
gave utterance to what their hearts felt, yet
the language of thier eyes was too plain to
be misunderstood Henry was the very soul
of honor; and although he perceived with
pleasure that be was not altogether indiffer
ent to Caroline be felt as though he must
control the passions that glowed in his bosom
| must not endeavor 10 win her young and
artless heart, thought he--I am pennylcss
and cannot expect that her father will consent
to our union--he has ever treated me with
kindness and will not be ungrateful. Thus
be reasoned, and thus heroically endeavored
to subdue what he considered an i'll fated
passion. Caroline had mauy suffers. and
some who were fully worthy Of her, but she
refused all their overtures with gentle and
decisive frmness Her father wondered at
her conduct yet could not thwart her inclina-
tiop.
He was in the decline of life and wished to
see Caroline happily settled ere he Quilted
the stage of existence. 1t was not long be-
fore he suspected that young Henry was the
cause of her Indifference to others the cyi-
dent pleasure she took in hearing him praised
the blush that overspread their checks when
ever their eyes met, all served to convince the
old gentleman, who had not forgotten that he
was once young himself, that they felt moro
| Al. Oh 81
He forebore making any remarks on the sub
ject, Blu. was not so much displeased as pen
nyIess Henry would have imagined.
| Henry had been about year IN his SER
vice. Delaney knew nothing of bis family
but his strict integrity, his irreproacbable
morals his pleasing manners, all conspired to
make him esteem him highly. He was proud
of Henry, and wished him to appear as re-
spectacle as any one. He bad often wonder
ed at the scantiness Of bis wardrobe, for al
! though he dressed with the most scrupulous
regard TO neatness, his clothes were almost
| threadbare, Mr. d. did not wish to think
that this proceeded from niggardy disposi-
ton, and he determined to breach the subject
and if possible, ascertain the real cause this
| be did in the manner before related.
Soon after this conversation took place,
/ Mr. D. left home on business. As he was
returning, and riding through beautiful vii
lage, he alighted at the door Of little cot
tage and requested G drink The mistress,
with an ease politeness which convinced him
that she had not always been the humble cot
] tager, invited him to enter. lie accepted her
invitation--and here a scene of poverty and
neatness presented itself such as he had never
before witnessed. The furniture, which con-
sisted of nothing more than was necessary,
was exquisitely clean, so that il gave a charm
to poverty, and cast an air of comfort On all
around. A venerable looking old man, who
had not seemed to notice the entrance of Mr..
d., sat leaning on his staff; his clothes were
| clean and whole, but patched that you could