The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-04-21
CHAP. Y.
Resale and her Lover.

| The forms that Hit her vision through
| Are like the shapes of DID,
| Where tales of prince and paladin
| On tapestry told
Man may not hope her heart to win,
| BE his of common mould.
| C. F. Hoffman.
In the mean time, the two young riders took
their way up narrow bride. path, leading up
long, crooked pass of the mountain.
The morning was glistening with brightness
and freshness and the mingled joyous sounds
of rural life made music in the air. They rode
along while in silence, strange enough in
pair so youthful. AT length the young man
broke the spell,
| "Rose!n
| DWELL, Roberto
81 cannot bear this suspense cannot in
deed Heart and frame are wearing out
with itn
| Rosale stole glance at his clear, bright,
blue eye, and round, fresh, rudy cheek, look
ing still brighter and fresher under the glossy,
| crisp, curling, auburn hair-and smile lighted
up her cOuntenance.
"Ah! you may laugh! You have the hard.
est, the most unimpressible heart | ever saw in
my life! But good and strong as my consttu-
| ton liz, il will break down-it will indeed, Ro-
salie--if you keep this up much longer. And
| | wish it ,could break down do 30 Then
perhaps you would pity me-"
"But Robert my pity would be very poor
compensation for lost health
81 don't know! If could make you feel
for me any way, or at any cost, | should be
glad"
Il do, Robert feel very sincere esteem
and friendship for you. Surely you cannot
doubt that
ooh! yes, you are good to me to certain
degree. Your heart is like peach"
Like peach!"
"Yes; it is specifically soft and impressible,
but the core of it is hard and rough-hard and
rough! Oh, Rosalie, can't you try to like me
little ~
81 like you very much, without trying"
sob, you know what mean you torment
ing girl! Can't you-you-can't you love me
well enough to be my own? Speak Answer!
Tell me- Rose"
ooh, Robert, how many times have told
you-no"
"I-but won't take no for an answer No,
indeed won't I All my affections and hopes
are freighted in you, and ,siH not resign you
mil not Rose. will 60 on hoping in spite
of you-hoping against hope! IL is impossi-
ble-mind say impossible-any one loving as
do should not win love in return IL does
seem to me as if it would be unjus. in Heaven
to permit it !"
He spoke with inpatient passionate vehe-
mence and earnestness
Rosalie watched and heard him with won
derng and Borrowing interest. She gravely
said
1T is impossible that one loving SO much
should not win love in return you say? Yes,
it does seem impossible, if we did not know il
to be often really possible. IL does seem I'M
Just ~
"You acknowledge it You own it to be
unjust that should give you so much-give
you all--my entire heart, with all its affections
and hopes-and get back nothing, nothing in
return or next to it only esteem for
sooth and friendship That provokes and
exasperates me beyond endurance! Resale,
don't want your esteem or friendship ! refuse
and repudiate it reject and repulse it |
will have none of it! Give me nothing, or
| give me your whole heart and hand'
III would to Heaven could do it, Robert
would to Heaven could give you my heart
| am ready to say that if could, should then
be happy and enviable girl because ] be-
| lieve you most excellent young man. whose
only weakness is your regard for me. But
cannot, Rsbert With all my friendship for
you"-
| "D0nt name II!
al must, Robert With all my friendship
for you, when you talk of love, my heart grows
| hard and cold as silent as a stone--it has no
response for you at ALL
"And you say that to drive me out Of my
senses-to make me Wild"
IL say it because it is the simple truth.
am sorry that such is the truth. ! think, with
you, it is strange strange almost unjust,
that so much priceless love should be thrown
| away
"How cool she is! Good Heaven, bow cool
she is!n
II have problem for YOU Robert; and |
want to see if with all your mathematics, you
can solve 1t, and satisfy me as to why there is
SO much lost love in the world
She can philosophize, too after her fashion.
She can do anything but loye!o
VIII you solve my problem 2"
1T belongs rather to metaphysics than
mathematics, one would Interchangeable
state it.
thus, then loves Dor rather. to be
clearer, Aaron loves Belinda with a perfect
passion and he thinks, by reason of it's great
power, 1t must win response from her But
belinda involuntarily turns from Aaron. and
fixes her affection upon Charles, who does not
in the least return it. Now, why should these
cross-purposes exist and how ought they to be
straighteneda rhey say that marriages arc
made in Heaven. wish the angel that has
charge of them would look into this matter a
littler
She spoke in q light, bantering manner, vet
her voice quivered slightly. She stole an arch
glance at her companion, and said
"There is my problem--solve It,"
He eyed her closely jealously
"Are you putting an imaginary caselo he
asked