Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-05-20

WOru, see IL all. lou nave Deen CI1e1, !,
there is the evidence of it. | shall not
stay another instant in your house."
So saying, the infuriated and reckless
woman rushed from the dwelling of the
wonder-stricken pair. Jeanie, as already
mentioned, was timid and modest to a
fault. When her late mistress thus ad-
dressed her, she motioned to speak, but
could not, though the blood rushed to
her face, and her bosom heaved convul-
sively. When left alone with her hus-
band, she turned her eyes wildly towards
him, and food of tears gushed over her
cheeks. What thought William of all
this His emotion was scarcely less on
hearing the accusation than his wife's;
and recollectlng her saying that the how-
ers cost her nothing, alas! be feared that
the charge was but too true. The more,
than feminine delicacy and timidity of
his wife s nature was not fully known to
him, and her voiceless agitation appeared
too like an inability to confute the impu-
tatlon. tie rose, and while Jeanie, still
incapable Of utterance, could only hold
up her hands deprecatingly, he cast on
her glance of mingled sorrow and re-
buke, and left the room. His wife-his
bride-stricken in the first flush of her
matronly JOY and pride, sunk from her
chair on his departure-insensible
1t was rather late, from a cause that
has been alluded to, before William Aims
lie returned to his home that night. His
wife had retired to rest, but her sister-in-
law, who had been sent for bv Jeanie,
was in waiting for him, and revealed the
utter falsehood Of Mrs. Smiths accusa-.
ton, she having been an eyewitness of
the receipt of the flowers, as a present
from another lady.
the Slster-in-law: q she is lila charge
O. that kind is enough to kill her." This
prediction unhappily had truth in it. On
the ensuing morning, the young wife was
ravlng lncoherently, in a state between
slumber and waking. A deep flush re-
mained permanently upon her counten-
! ance, most unlike the usual fairness of
her complexion. Her muttered exclama-
tions shocked her husband to the soul.
"Oh, William, you believed it But
It's no tue-it's no true--it is falser'
was the language she continually mur-
mcred forth.
| necessary, and the surgeon who was
called in informed William, that in con-
sequence CT strong excitement, incipient
symptoms of brain fever had made their
appearance. The utmost quiet was pre-
scribed, and blood withdrawn from the
temples IN considerable quantity. For
time these and other remedies seemed to
give relief, and the poor husband never
LETT the bed of the sufferer. Indeed, it
seemed as if she could not bear him to be
absent: her mind always reverting, when
he was out of her sight, to the idea that
he believed the charge which had been
made against her, and had left her for
ever. The oft-repeatcd assurances to the
contrary, from lis own lips, seemed at
length 20 produce conviction, for size at
last was silent Oh the subject. But the
char%e-the blow-had struck too deep.
Jeanie Ainslie-if we may call her by
name she was destined so short tine to
bcar-fell after two or three days illness
into state Of stUpor, which continued
with short and rare intervals, and on the
eighth day after her nuptials, her pure
spirit departed.
William AinsEe has shown on MANY
occasions in life great frmness and self
command: and now, though deep suffer-
ing was written on his brow, he made at
least external composure, the requisite
preparations for laying in the grave the
remains of her whom he had loved so
long and SO truly. As to retribution
upon the head of the person who had been
instrumental, through inconsderate has
tiness only, it is to be hoped, in produc-
ing his misery, the bcreaved husband
though not of calling for it. Yet it did
come to certain extent : for our errors
seldom pass, even in this life, without a
pang of punishment and remorse.
Several days after charging the inno-
cent Jeanie with the abduction of her
flowers, Mrs. Smith of Drylaw found, by
discovery of her new servants, that ono
of her younger children, impatient for the
Towering of a rose-bush in the little gar
den nigh the farmhouse, had lighted
upon the artificial boquet in her mothers
dressing room, and had carried it out and
stuck it upon the bush. There the fow-
ers were accordingly found: and Mrs.