The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1854-01-25
Whole Number 1856

4 He was weary last night but this morning he s
7 himself again-only more mans-he has not lost
his boysh simplicity
I i"'Glsus isn't changed, no indeed" said Mary.
earessug her favorte; "he let my kitten climb his
shoulder, TO purr there rs long she pleased; you
told me, Harriet, he wouldn't care for kittens any
more, but he does, and Ilove him all the better for
4 it. know" rlI . rss hsss sg1ts sz4sa 20 .s.-fa
"Augustus is changed in looks, but not 10 heart,"
said Rose Somers to herself, as she sat at their
fresde the evening after his return. He is pa
Ter, and somewhat grayer too, but he is handsome,
withal-and what he has lost in aety. he has
gained in sensibility ofexpresson. / wonder il he
thinks me changed" continued she, lowering her
eyes before his vivid glance, she reads me very
closeIy." .asss -.G=a - lees e
i Rose, at atseventeenwas not the same as Rose al
fifteen, and yet the alteration was more in manner
than external appearance. She was not beautiful
or handsome, yet there was something about her
tperfecty bewitching, and this charm did not con-
sist in any graces or smles or in any thing that
could be defined. 1t was felt by all who saw her,
and yet few could describe the attraction that per-
vaded her countenance and hung upon her move
ments. ' wac
Il cannot for my life take my eyes offthat GIRL !"
| said an honest farmer, "she makes me think OF
every body ever saw before, and yet looks like
nobudy in the world but herself" et.e +. III
Before Augustus had left the village, Rose was
almost a fixture in her mothers household. OF
about the same age Harriet, she was her almost
IinseparabIe companion, and the avowed champion
of Augustus in all his difficulties and trials She
was the sharer, too, of his merry sports-whether
coasting on the snowy hill side, sliding over the
lice ia the bright moonlight, or rambling the green
fields in search ofsummer flowers. But now this
familiarity would never do-they must be polite
and Formal to each other, and Rose did try very
hard to call him Mr.. Norwood and to put on
show of womauy reserve, but after few days she
forgot to call him Mr., and to take seat far from
his SIDE. Familiar ccenes were renewed, the dear
socialitles of the winter ireside, the ride in the
moonlight, to the sound If the merry going bells,
the coasting down hill. and The sliding on the
ice, to the ecstacv of little Mary, who taking hold
of her brothers. coat he skated thought herself
quite an experienced traveller on ice. Mrs Nor
wood. when she saw her son the enlivener of their
domestic hearth, as he was wont to be- reading for
their amusement sope work of genius and feeling,
while they were plying their busy needles, and
winding up the evering with portion of Gods
holy word, felt happy once more, and with the all
hoping, all-beeving love of mother, gave herself
up to the conviction that all was right. True she
would have fetvery glad to have seen HIM established
in business, but then it natural after two years
confinement and hard study, thut he would wish a
little relaxation, and though mot possessed of an
ample fortune. he was assured of an Independence.
Harriet and Rose sat together one ght at a
later hour than usual, by the freside.s Mrs. Nor
wood and Mary had retired to bed. and they re-
maiued to watch for the return tf Augustus, who
had gone out with party of young men on moon
: light expedition on the water. The streams had
broken their chains, that boats could glide
their surface though the ground was still covered
with snow. The young for several nights
had been engaged in the amusement of fishing, and
Augustus was induced to jdin them. y-sssss.
81 wish Augustus had not gone" said Harriet,
as hour after hour waned away and he did not re-
turn. Il do net like this going on the water at
night; and there some very wild young men OF
the party" .--, e-. ....i-., .a,-.-r
Rose looked nt the clock, then at the window
then walking towards it, looked out upon the street
till her eyes were blinded with the intensity o.
their gaze. at s very strange" said she, .'very
strange indeed. He said he would be back
| at nine, and now it is almost twelve. Something
!, must have happened. He never staid out SO late
befure."
/, There young man drowned last winter
in the river, in just such frolic as this cried
Harriet, her fears gathering strength from the
ID 7 "a
forgotten it,
Harriet exclaimed Rose, taking up her CLOAK
and gathering it around her, 50 am not afraid Of
going such night this 1t as light as day
, Itis than quarter of mile to the river
the back way. Let go and see if we can cis
, cover any traces of them"
/ Harriet had some scruples about the propriety
of the step, notwithstanding her anxiety about hel
brother; but Rose, in her impetuosity bore them
, down, and in few moments they were running
along the f,ot- path that led through the fields,
closely mutffed in their dark cloaks and hoods, that
Augustus himself could not have recognized them.
Every thing around them still as if all ma
ture were sleeping in the cold moonlight They
heard nothing but the beating of their own hearts,
they glided swiftly on, till they reached the bank
} ofthe stream. There was slight decli"ty where
they stood, and the water rushed and gurgled over
the pebbles. and look ed so dark and fearful where
the moonbeams did not fall, that their imagina-
tons already excited, invested the scene with
something Wild gloomy, and peculiar, Unwilling
express to each other the extent of their fears
afraid of the sound of their own voices in that deep
stiffness. they remained silent aud trembling look
ing up and down the stream and listening to the
faintest sound, till thousand echoes seemed ring
ing their ears. At length they saw light gm-
meripg on the stream-it came nearer and nearer
growing brighter as it approached, while shouts
and mingled voices were Distinctly heard. lnspir-
ed with new alarm, the two girls sheltered tnein-
selves iu the shade of large rock, hoping TO es-
cape observation, till this noisy and seemingly
bacchanaliau crew had passed. They could see