Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1854-06-19
MISCEL I. A II EOUS
GIL Ed NJ IS Z r z i.
a TR; 2 STORY.

"Ellen, eoniura yoii pause and reflect !
DO not take dis fateI step withort further
consideration All poor. unthilkins girl.
you DO not know the misery you are
about 10 bring upon yourself.
Mother, | have considered. have
heard all your arguments and reflected
upon ti.eia--listcned to all your reasons
and weighed them. AMI now, once fer
ali let me assure you that have decided
upon my course, aud must pursue it. come
what viii"
ssYet hear me this once, my daughter,
and thea if you still persist, my lips are
forever sealed upon this subject Just so
sufety as you take Upon YOU the uahoiy
VOWS which bind You in a marriage I'M
Ealloeed by love, your whole future life
must &c one long unavaillng regret The
tftso Of an offending God, IN whose ramc
,ou Ill SWEEP al tic altar to this hideous
lie, VIII forever rest upon sou Ellen
Ellen there Is yet time % avoid this mis-
cry
a'Gother, YOU torture mr.. TIavc moi
told y8u il is sain am pledged 10 MI
Morrison, aud the pledge must be redeem
ed at whatever sacrifice eem1 mol r.
tract Il would, and would no, If could.
Think you | would now, Voluntarily ), re
uouncc the life Of luxury and opulrnee
which Mr.. Morrison oilers 10 me, Tor the
btggarly destiny from which see no way
to escape, save through this marriage =,
No, mother, poverty and privations long
since awakened me from my dreams of
romance. will no; live and die beg :
gar.
Aud The Girl swept f,oa The room with
an air Of an empress. The mother ga1cd
after her beautiful daughter with look
Of pride, but she turned away and sighed.
Then She murmured, "Alas, my child,
how art thou mistaking lie aud IFS les
sons p
Ellen i.isle lad been born 10 an inheri-
lance OF wealth and reared in splendor.-
The only child Of parents whose entire
love was !avishcd upon herself beautiful
and highly endowed with intellect, almost
adorcd by her parents petted and caressed
by their friends and servants. breathing
an atmosphere Of luxury, and surrounded
from her infancy will, eFerything most
beautiful in nature and art, She seemed to
realize The fabulous destiny Of a life with
out sorrow or care. But even in the sun
ny horizon, Of iils bright and Joyous exis-
tenee arose. al length a small, dark cloud
which waxed larger and larger, and gath
cred strength, aud burst at last in hur-
cane, which swept away, at one fell blast,
fortune and home, and alas, saddest stroke
of all, the noble, beloved father.
Ellen was Just fourteen when this storm
ofsorrow fell, The graceful delicate child
was budding into womanhood which gave
promise Of Il glorious beauty beauty
which enshsined in gold would be rcye-
renIy surrounded By ado:ng worshippels,
but surrounded only by the adjuncts Of
poverty might become a mark for The vile
aims Of the designing. This child of for
tune was wholly overwhelmed for a time
and cesald only weep and moan, and shut
herself from the light Of day, now suddenly
become hateful to her. Bul when the fierce
pafoXysn1s Of he: stormy grief had rast
and the fountain Of tears had exhausted
itself, she began 10 look upon her fate
with an impatient and defiant air. Hei
spirit linsuhdacd by sorrow, showed now
an increased haughliness; and il soon be
came certain that the character which had
seemed 50 lonely amid surroundings g,
luxury had darker side which developed
itself IN the cold grey light Of poverty
Living only for herself, she endured. will
a proud seorn, the priyations which hen
changed state imposed upon her.
Mrs Lisle submitted with a faf differ.
ent split to her changed fostenas sh,
had Been reared III comparative poverty
and understood wcll All the evils which
follow in It's train. She had been happ,
IN her poverty, howe, er, iar happier than
when surrounded with wealth; and nov
she did not shrink from a second encoun
ter. she had been almost forced by argu
ment and deceit, on the part of her pa
rents, to sacrifice love on the altar 0
Mamnon. MIR. Lisle was noble and gen
elous but he had not been the man Of hel
choice. She had been restrained by til,
commands of her parents from coniidins
to him the secrets of her attachments t,
another, before marriage and aiterward
she had deemed it better to allow him t,
attribute her almost painful aversion I,
constitutional GOODNESS Of Temperament