The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-05-02

and his bride; green arches were erected, and
wreaths OF flowers were hung on the spreading
branches beneath which the travellers road
lay. Ii was the season Of roses and mig htin.
gales, when Ambermead was in ita glory; and
neve had the rich red roses bloomed so pro-
iusely, and never had the chorus Of the groves
been more full and enchanting, than on the
summer evening when the old and young of
the hamlet, arrayed in their holiday attire,
waited to greet the new comers.
Mr.. Canute stood at his cottage door; the
bridge just beyond, over which the route con.
Quoted TO the Hall through avenues of green
erie, was festoOned with roses, and band of
maidens IN white, lined the picturesque ap.
proacs. The sun was setting, when a carriage
drove quickly up, slackening its pace as it
crossed the bridge, and stopping at Mr.. Ca.
nute's humble gate. Two Words himself,
bareheaded, stepped forwards on seeing lady
allght, who IN another moment threw herself
into his arms, exclaiming: Our first greeting
must be from you, dear, dear Mr.. Canuie.
need not introduce MIR. Seiby-he is known 10
you already Speechless from astonishment
and emotien, the old man could only say:
Miss Ciara'-as he gaZed from one to anoth-
er, recognising in the gentleman the wayfarng
guest who had departed SO abruptly on his
walking expedition over the moonlight hills
more than three years previously. SeiZing
| the hand which Mr.. Canuie silently extended,
MIR. Selby said with deep feeling:
III is to your instrumentality that | owe my
present happiness
How sof' was MIR. Canute's reply, looking
with pleased surprise into the open face,
| which, on former occasion, had won his con.
fidence and admiration.
'Ir0 cOrds spoken in season wrought a
change in me, which all the preaching of
friends and guardians had failed TO effect
returned Mr. Selby, 'and without which Clara
never would have blessed me with her hand.
These years of probation have proved my sin
cerity; and Lady Ponsonby "a severe and
scru,nising judge) pronounced my reformation
complete ere she permitted me to address Cla-
| ra. Those ts o little words, "And then? enig.
matcai TO the uninitated, convey a deep and
mystical meaning to my heart; and they are of
such significant import, that by inserting them
whenever paint the future, trust to become
u wiser and better man.
Clara gazed proudly and conidingly on her
husband; and the news of her arrival having
spread through the village, crowd collected,
whose JOY and surprise found vent in tears
and blessings, to say nothing of hume. Gus
assdes, purpoiting that Miss Clara never would
have espoused tad man; erg o, Mr.. Selby must
be worthy successor of the ancient racel
The prognoslication proved correct; an d
the pathway, strewn with bright summer
roses, over which Clara trod in bridal pomp
on her way 10 the ancestral home where she
was born; was indeed emblematical of the
fiowery path which marked her future desti-
ny.
The old Hall Of Ambermead is still extant-
fine specimen of venerable decay, surround
ed by ancestral groves, still famed for shelter.
ing innumerable nightingales when the Am.
bernead roses exhale their delicious fragrance.
In the old church.yard on the green hillside,
a white monument CLEANS in the sunshine,
whereon may be traced the name of John Ca.
mute, specifying the date oil his happy death,
while below is engraven this inscription of TWO
wOrds-'And them