The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1853-08-03
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indignant and excited, and drawing Eflie's tremb-
ling arm through his he led her towards the house,
with no tagging footsteps. Ashley througha
back path, they entered the room before Clara had
time to escape. When she met her uncle's stern
eye and frowning brow, she knew she was to be
raigned as criminal, in the presence oftho man
for whom she had bartered her integrity, and bar
tered it in vain.
4 have lost him forever whispered her sink
ing heaIt but will never recant what have said
-he never shall be hers
CLARA, said her uncle, approaching still nearer,
aud keeping his piercing eyes upon her, tell me
the truth, on your SOULS peril-has this young man
ever made professions o., love to you?'
Cara bowed her head slowly, till her ringlets
half viled her beautiful face.
i have revealed it to my sister, and car not deny
| it to you.
This is too much y exclaimed Dudley, his face
turned hueless as ashes Oh, if she were but o
man'
PLEASE Dudey!' cried Mr.. Horton IN a com
manding voice, Then again turning TO Clara.
L remember, years ago. little gul, who want
only broke the geranium her mother priced, and to
sister Of the fault she had herself committed
Have you forgotten it Tor the shame and sorrow
of that hour! Clara, you are still the samo-tase o,
false to the very hearts core.'
You always hated me- cried Clara, trying to
assume a bolder tone, in the desperation of her
situation; you always hated me, and took Efie's
part against me. wouldn't have told her what
T bava huff he ,f
had thought she would have cared any thing about
it. I'm sure she might be satisfied with her new
lover, Mr.. Delamere, without making such fuss
about cast-away, to whom condescend 10 show
some favor
Clara exclaimed Effie, raising her brow from
her unc!e's shoulder, where she had bent it in an
gush and shame during this disgraceful scence-
CLARA, you have betrayed YOURSELF by this double
faIsehood@ You know that l have refused Mr..
| Delamere as a lover, but that l honor him as a
| friend. l considered such a secret sacred, bat
you have forced me TO reveal it. Dudley, my
heart acquts you fully, freely, humby-for oh!
| how much have I erred in thus doubling thy
honor and thy truth
| There eyes met as they turned towards each
other. How they would have sealed their recon
citation cannot be known, for Mr.. Horton threw
his around them both closely, in the full
of his joy, that their hearts beat against each
other, while they found parental pillow his
own. Tears fell from the good mans eyes
| God bless you, my children, cried he, kissing
Eliie's climsoned cheek, 'and make you blessing
to each other. Let not the fasehood and guile al
others again shake your confidence apd love
Lot your love be founded on rock-even the rock
of ages-then the winds and waves may beat
against it in van.
During this scene, the guilty foiled, and conse-
quently wretched Clara, stole unnoticed from the
apartment, and in the solitude of her own cham
Der gave vent to the violent of long suppressed
passion.
'Oh! that had been born ugly!' she said,
stamping in the impotence of her rage: then run
ming to Mirror, and gazing her convulsed
featues-'I am ugly now-good Heavens! how
horrible are the effects ofpasson! Yes, mother,
continued she-for Mrs. Dushane, who had heard
the loud and angry voices below, without daring
to enter, fearing in some way that Clara was in
volved in the difficulty, softly opened the door o.
the chamber and looked anxousIy in yes, moth.
er, come and see your beauty now! See your
own work, and be proud! If you hadn't called
me your beauty, your pet, your darling till sick
ened at your lottery, and loathed the author of il
If you had cultivated in me moral virtue,
should never have been the detected, hated and
despised thing am now =
Poor Mrs. Dushane she had sown the wind
and reaped the whirldwind.
Eflie, who pitied her unhappy sister, would glad
" have shared her fortune with her, but this her
uncle forbide.
{ IF she should be in want and sorrow, you shall
relieve and comfort her. said he in answer tt
her prayers. If she marries, for your mothers
sake you may supply her wedding paraphernalia;
but will never make her the guardian of Heav-
ems bounty-never give her the means of admin
istering to her evil passions.
The UGLY EFrIE soon happy bride, became
her mothers pet and darling. The BEAUTIFUI
CLARA, still unmarried, continued to imbitte
her peace, and present fatal example Of the evils
of maternal fivortism.