Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-09-14
MONTPELIER, VERMONT, THURSDAY,

| he death of my husband, that happened the
year after, as you may have heard, the liberal
pay you authorized me to draw on your trading
house has been very great help to me; and I
hope you will allow me still to keep your little
Mary for you many years longer"
% Certainly and with many thanks to you
for the manner in which you have discharged
your duty to me and to humanity
During Captain Lotions stay in the city, he
almost daily visited the child, and soon became
so much attached to her, that he took more
pleasure then ever in recalling the incident which
gave him, as he now hesitatcd not to call her,
his adopted daughter.
During the following twelve years, the cap
tain, once or oftener in each year, returned to
Havana, and always provided literally for the
support and education of his charge. And al
though it required, with his own expenses,
nearly all his earnings, yet this was done with
out any of that regret, that drawback Of feel
! ing, which ton often attfnds asllsasivc bencvo-
lence, and makes charity little less than an
abomination in the sight Of Heaven. For his
heart was ever warm with generous impulses,
and never paused, while within the bounds of
ordinary prudence, to call in the aid of arth-
metical calculation to measure its nun6ccnce
and he continued to manifest toward the child
of his voluntary adoption the affection and ten
derness of parent, and took parent interest
in her welfare.
She had now arrived at the age of fifteen
an age which in that soft and quickening eli
mate, confers the maturity of womanhood, and
more pcrleetly, perhaps than any other period,
opens the blossom of female beauty. And she
was esteemed as possessing an uncommon share
of that more cnvied than enviabe gift, unless
united, as was happily the case in the present
instance, with good sense and intelligence.
Captain Lotion, as may be supposed, was not
little proud at the development of such quail
ties in one whom he sacrificed 50 much to rear.
And such was his attachment, that the rumor
before mentioned, that she was his natural
daughter, gave place to another, that his must
be other than parental affection, and that he
soon was to make her the partner of his life.
:. The rumor at length reached the ears of both,
and on both it produced the same efrct,-that
of aversion to the thought, at first, Of beginning
to look upon each other in connection with 30
= dif4renta relation fromwhat they had accustom
, cd themselves. But il was beginning to start
new train of reflections in the bosom of each.
Theywere beginning to ask themselves, "Why
, not And, though nothing on the subject
had passed between them, yet it is hard telling
what might have been the result, but for the
unexpected incident which brings us to the de-
aoueo.em of our little romance in high life.
The voyage of Capt Lotion, to which this
portion of our tale refers, was commenced about
the time of the setting in Of the nJrthern win
ter, in new ship, with remarkable fine accom-
modations, which having become part owner,
i, he had contrived to have called the s. Mary" iu
, compliment to his fair protege, and not without
the half-tormed, secret expectation, perhaps,
that the latter mig It grace her fair rooms, on
her homeward passage, under a new and more
endearing title.
On his arrival at Havana he found the city
!, unusually gay and lively, on account of the re-
:, turn Of the wealthy from their summer tour to
Bermuda, or the American coast, together with
;. the influx of northern strangers, resorting
!, hther at this season, like birds of passage, to
escape the rgors of their frosty cline during
the dreary months of winter. With the COM
!, pany thus brought together, came the usual
rounds of popular amasements; among which,
the one of greatest resort by the higher classes,
at this time, was the theatre, in which popu.
!, lar English actor, then on short soonrn ON the
: island, was performing. And to witness one Of
his representations, Captain Lotion, one evening,
was induced to listen to tho solicitations of q
friend belonging to the city, and attend the
theatre with him.
Here, Loton,' said the friend, after they
had been seated few moments, and were glanc-
:, ing over the fas lionable asssmblAge, while wait
=, ing for the rising of the curtain do you see that
lady in the sky-colored dress, in the box nearly
. opposite. thele, by the eolrmn!"
o The lady that is now rising to adjust her
shawl Yes, do now and fnely-turned
If figure, very, she can boast don't you call it
re so! y" replied the other, gancing with interest
on the subject thus pointed out to him.
,t "Aye, and no less finely y-lormed set of
g. features, which, a moment since, were turned
q. full upon us; bnt as Jogg,d you, she dropped
her veil over them.
A. :" Who is shs!"
GA young widow Grayson. recently from the
interior Of the island, as an acquaintance, fa-
nous for finding out the historyof new comors,
a. informed me night or two ago, after pointing
her out to me; and her history is very singu.
- lar one."
~ "Ipdeed ,--how SO !"
- "Why, having become acquainted with .
young man Of our Glass; trader of this city
nv -sho privately married him, which coming Il
the ears of her wealthy and aristocratic father
N he disinherited her, though an only child, ant
to drove her from home. She then came here, an,
- joined her husband, who, dying soon after, lef
wv her, in consequence. of the fraud of rartne
in wholly destitute, and she has been dependen
on some family in Bermuda, who picked her u
here, and in pity took her home with them b
on that island, where she has remained in exil
if ever since,- dozen years or more,-till fe,
We months ago. when ahe was recalled to take pos
ma session of her fortune, left her by the meret
ter accident, on the sudden death of her father.
er. " His will disi nheriting her, and giving hi
ere property to collateral relations, remained ur