The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1854-04-21

| forward, she clasped her white, dimpled arm
about my waist, and pressing those rose.bu
| lips to mine, she whispered.
81 am going to love you dearly, Louis
Cleveland-will you please to let mel"
"Let you, angel" and | clasped her in m
arms--"why you are the fairest seraph out O
heaven. I'm only afraid you'll fly away, an,
leave me sometime, alone here, in this lionel,
room!"
wonder why said this--I do not know
Are there such things as unconscious pre-
sentiments! Who shall say!
Mrs. Carleton smiled quietly at my enthu
siasm, and saying, in a tone half sad, hal
merry, "Just like your mother, my child" she
left the room to ordstEu1uxnpsr.
My new friend took oz 'hy bonnet and pu
1t away, and then drawing me TO lounge
sat down beside me, AID laid her little, grace
ful head upon my bosom.
"Do you know, Louise" she exclaimed, al
am go glad you are come. 1t is pleasant here
but used to get lonely sometimes, with only
my books, and my bird, aud the faces in the
clouds, looking in at my west window"
My own temperament was so vague, dreamy
and enthusiastic, that it never struck me as
singular, until years afterwards, that she
should have enumerated the cloud-faces among
her companions. Folding my arms about her,
drew her nearer and nearer to my heart,
with such love as had never felt before.
loved them all at home very dearly, and my
beautiful mother seemed to me second self,
blen. with my every thought, but this love for
Lilly Dale was different. | think it was much
such love as mother feels for an only
child. The fair girl was scarcely younger
than myself, but she was SO ETHEREAL, that it
seemed to me had been sent there to pro-
tect her, and l took her into the inner temple
of my heart--a being to be cherished sacred
ly. -.. ..... =
In few moments, Mrs. Carleton returned
to take me to the refractory. | shall never
forget this, my first supper at Glenthorne. |
had made Lilly Dale 60 down with me, tor
could not bear to lose sight of her for a mo-
ment; and very seldom has my restless spirit
ever been so quietly happy, as sitting there,
at the upper end of that long, mahogany ta-
BILE, with the quiet figure of my mothers ear
ly friend at the head OF the table, and sweet
Lilly Dale opposite. ..
The supper was nice enough tohave tempt
ed the appetite of an epcure. Such delicious
C hocolate-such light and soft white rolls
such golden butter, and such rich-lookng
strawberries, shining through a veil Of cream
and white sugar.
sat there quietly happy, as / said. In
deed, to ordinary observers, it was my usual
habit to seem quiet, and yet never was there
a more restless, unsatisfied spirit. A thou
sand volcanoes were sumbering in my heart,
and had kind of terrible, exultant con-
sciousness, that sometime their fires would
cease to slumber--sometme an eruption
would make to itself channel, though it
should needs eat through my vitals. But a
sure instinct told me this time was far in the
future. 1t would not come at Glenlhorne,
and while there, there would be rest and
peace. ..
Days and weeks passed on, and every hour
my sweet Lilly crept more and more into my
very soul, until at last it was her home; and
she dwelt there singing songs to herself morn
ings and evenings.
Soon | learned that she was in love. Nay,
that is not the word or such as her; but she
loved, with all the ardor of her pure soul, one
whom she deemed more than worthy. Nor
was she wrong, If one could judge by the no.
BILE face pictured in the locket she wore next
her heart' ana the ietters SO oea"t,lu' III their
manly tenderness, which she received every
week Paul Cinora must nave peeh worthy
OF love IKE hers' .,.,
tie was thlrty years eio' she sa'u, ana on
SO 'aieh'edi ana 'hen hest'ihe ne, heau ~ my
oosom' she told me all ABOUT n--how al nrs'
ne seemed 10 her SO taii' ana "'Se' ana oia'
that she feared him' ana uSea 10 run ana niue
wheh ne came 10 her aunt uweii,hg' ior my
Liiiy was an orPhan' ana no" ne iiau 'oi'ow-
cd her' ana sought her' ana 'augh, her many
things, ana more 'hah all taugh' hcf now 10
love nm.
And love him she did' win an inc :ov' OF
her earnest heart' ] nave sa'a raui oiifordS
was noble lace. IL was such an one as you
seldom meet Inc prov was h'sh' cd''h' IN
teilectuaii almost severe, mao II not peeh lof
me large orlght, laughing haIei EYES, 'ha'
lay oeheath IT, Inc features were regular, /,