Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1854-06-24

first rudimenls of an education in Europe.
There is something ineffably winning in
the manners of the Mahommedan women
of the East. They possess timid gen
tleness and native grace which are en-
inen,y feminine. They are taught TO be-
lievc themselves as far inferior TO man
as creatures of clay that have no eXis-
tence bevond this world--and their man
ner, therefore, 10 our roagher sex, is one
that wooes protection. 1t is this feeling
of inferiority which gives to the face of
the Oriental girl, hen i'll. repose, that eX-
preston Vi dreamy sadness, and that in
ward look to herlustrous eye--for if she
is not beloved, the end and object Of her
life is not fulfilled.
Rose made rapid progress under Man
iy; and when, after some months, the
camp was broken up on the approach of
winter, and her father returned home, she
quite astonished the poor chief with her
Frankish learning.
The winter passed rapidly by; the snow
and the ice disappeared--the stream was
again babbling merriy before the door of
the Cncassian keep--the forest trees
were coming into leaf--and the wild
flowers and aromantc plants which GOV.
cred the hills filed the air with perfume.
The mountaineers began their prcpara-
tions for war; but Manly had found pal
liative for the sorrows of his brain, and
determined to return to England; but h@'
would not part from "rhe Rose" He
knew the fate for which the poor child
was destined, and therefore had no hesl-
tation in proposing TO the old chief to take
Rose with him 10 Frankistan, and to
adopt her as his daughter; for, he said, he
had grown to love her as his own child.
The chief said that his daughter was
beautiful, and that, thanks 10 Manly, she
had learned certain accom- pIIshments
which increased her value. She would
therefore, he said, fetch a very high
price at Constantinople, and that it was
his intention at once TO take her to the
slave market in that city, where she was
sure to be bought by one of the great pa
chas, or perhaps by the padishaw him
self. Manly offered 10 give any sum the
chief named-but it was useless. The
old man said he would never permit his
child TO live amongst Ghours-for she
would be much happier and better as an
odalisk at Stamboul, where she would ride
in gilded ARABIA, wear jewelled iez, land
have armed kisler 10 do her bidding.
Manly still persisted in his offers; and the
chief at length said he would give him a
final answer on the following morning.
At short distance from the house, Man
ly found Rose seated on the ground,
weeping. 1t was place at which they
had often sat together, talking of the
strange country from which Englishmen
came. Poor Rose had overheard Man
ly's proposal and her fathers refusal. She
was no longer child-she had passed
rapidly into budding womanhood. lfI
Manly loved her as daughter, her feel
ings for him had grown inlo timid but
passionate love. Manly said that her
father would be sure TO consent, and that
in little time they would both be happy
egother in Frankistan. So poor Rose
was comfor,ed. She driedher tears, and
returned TO the house confident and cheer
full.
The sun had risen for some time when
Manly awoke next morning. He was as
tunished 10 hear none of the usual sounds
about the house. There was something
ominous in the silence. He dressed has
tily, hurried into the principal apartment,
and found it empty. With beating
heart, he called Rose, but there was no
answer. He went out, and met an armed
Circassian coming from the stables where
his horse was kept. This man told him
that the chief and all his family had left
for Battoum in the middle of the night, al
which port they were 10 embark for Con-
stantinople. He was left behind, he
said, to wait on the Mousafeer, and 10 be
his guide wherever he wished 10 GO.
Some months afterwards, Manly arrived
at Constanlinople.
He made every inquiry amongst the
Circassians at Tophana, 10 try and discov-
er some clue TO the old chief and his
daughter--but all in vain.
One day he was coming down the ,
Bosphorus in caique, he was passing
close along The Asiatic shore, and had
reached the village Of Kandeljee, when /
an old woman, who was standing on the .
marble steps which led into the yalIy, or
summer residence of one of the great pa
chas, called to him to stop. She asked
him if he was a doctor. He answered
that he knew something of medicine; so
she made HIM sign TO follow her into
the house. She led him along silently in
,bo enolI roops of the harem /