The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1853-04-13

Corruption shakes, when Peril could not
part,
The Love, whose deadliest foe is human
artl'
we must not imagine every advantage is
reserved for our own times.
Rebecca watched the sun till it had |
sunk behind the western hills, and then
she watched its beams on the clouds till
the last faint tints had departed, and,
fixing her eyes steadfastly on that part
of the forest from which she expected to
see her husband emerge, she sat at her
door, with her child in her arms, watch
ing in vain for his appearance. The
room into which she occasionally CLAN
ccd looked so gloomy and desolate she
could not endure to enter it, Indeed,
as the evening waxed later and her
fears increased, she sometimes imagined
she saw strange figures, and faces with
cleaning eyes, such as she had beheld
in her dreams, moving around the dusky,
apartment. Ashamed of these fears
and knowing her husband, when he came,
would chide her for thus exposing her
self and her child to the evening dows,
she breathed prayer to Him who still
led the tempest-and entered the house.
Her first care, after placing her in
fant in his cradle, was to light a candle,
and then, more reassured, she took her
Bible. The Bible was the talisman of
our ancestors 1t guarded them from
evil, and guided them to good Its pa
ges were a direction in every difficulty,
and its promises resource in every
trial. Rebecca read and prayed, alter
nately, mingling the idea of Edward, his
safety and return, with every thought
and wish; but still he came not She
had no means of ascertaining the lapse
Of time, except by the length of candle
consumed, or the stars, as there was no
moon; but she conjectured it must be
past midnight. Again and again she
went forth and examined with searching
glance around, but nothing could she see
except the dark forest in the distance,
and close around her dwelling the black
stumps that stood like sentincls ON guard.
while nothing was heard save the soft
murmur of the water, and, at times, a
low rustling as the breeze stirred the
leaves of the chestnut-tree.
At leneth rs he stood at the corner of
bor Lorse bcnooth tbc shade of that
troo lookinc earnestly toward the woods
eho thougbf she nerceivod something
omorro from tboir shadow Tfit did f
vanished instantly. She kept her eyes
nnobloJ bcr td discern ob;Scts ouite dis.
t;nctly cvon ot \ distance cenociollv
vbcn bcr facnlties were roused and Slim.
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