Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1854-06-22
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ELLEN, | coniure you pause and reflect.
Do not take this fatal step without further con-
sileralion. All poor, unhinking girl, you
know not the misery you arc about to bring
upon yourself.
"Mothcr, have considered have heard all
Your arguments and reflected upon thcm-liS
tened TO all your reasons and weighed them.
And now, once for all, let me assure you that
have decided upon my course and must pursue
il, come what will,
"Yrt hear me this once, my daughter, and
,hcn if You still persist, my lips are forever
sealed upon this subject. Just SO surely as YOU
take upon you the the unholy VOWS, which bind
YOU in marriage unhall0wed by love, your
whole future life must be one long unavaiing
regret The curse Of an offended Cod in whose
name YOU will swear al the altar 10 this hideOus
c will forever rest upon you. Ellen! Ellen !.
there is vet time 10 avoid this misery"
"Mothcr you torture me. Have not told
YOU it is vain. am pledged to Mr.. Morrison,
and tic pledge must be redeemed at What ever
sacrifice could not reiract if | would and !
would not if could. Think you would now.
voluntarily rcnounce the life Of luxury and opu-
cnce. which Mr. Morrison offers to me, for the
bcggary destiny from which see no way Of
escape. save through this marriage No mother,
poverty and privalion long since awokc me from
nv dreams Of romance. will not live and die
a bcggar."
And the girl swept from the room with the air
Of an empress. The mother gazed after her
beautiful daughter with 4 look of pride, but she
turned away and sighed Then she murmured,
ALAS my child how thou art installing life and
its lessOns.'
Ellen Lislc had been born to an inheritance Of
wealth, and reared in sp!cndor The only child
Of parents whose entire love was lavishcd upon
herself beautiful and highly endowed with intel
lcct. mos, adorcd by her parents, pettcd and ca
resscd by hcI friends and servants, breathing an
a;mosJ here of luxury, and surrounded from her
infancy with every thing most beautiful in nature
and in art, she seemed born to realize the fabu-
ious destiny of life without sorrow or care.
But even in the SUNNY horizon of this bright
aud JOYOUS existence arose, at length, 4 small,
dark cloud, which waxed larger and larger, and
gathered strength and burst al last, in hurricane
which swept away, III onc fell blast, fortune and
alas saddest stroke Of all, the noblc beloved
father.
Ellen was Just fourteen when the Storm of
sorrow fell. The graceful delicate child was
budding into wcmanhood which gave promise
of i glorious beauty-a beauty which shrined in
gold would be rcvcrcntly surrounded by odaring
| worshippcrs, but surrounded only by the adjuncts
of poverty might become mark for the vile aims
of the designing. This child of fortune was
wholly overwhelmed ior time and could only
weep and moan, and shut herself from the light
Of day, now suddenly become hateful to her.
But when the fierce paroxysms Of her stormy
grief had past and the fountain of her tears had
4 rl.,ps To- Loo. b,. f,,
with IN impatient and defiant air. Her spirit
unsuhdncd by sorrow, showed now an increased
haughlness; and it soon became certain that the
character which had seemed 50 lonely amid sur
roundings of luxury had darker side which
rcycloprd itself in the cold, grey light Of power
IT, Living only for herself, she endured, with a
! proud Sccril, the privations which her changed
State imposed upon her.
Mrs I.slc submitted with far different
spirit 10 her changed fortunes She had been
reared in comparative poverty and understood
well all the evils which follow in lis train. She
had been happy in her poverty, however, far
happier than when surrounded by wealth; and
now she did not shrink from a second encounter
She had been almos, forced by argument and de-
ccit. on The part Of her parents TO sacrifice love
upon the altar of Mammon. Mr.. Lisle was no.
DE anu generous, out Tic nau nol uec" t'ie in.
of her choice. She had been restrained by the
commands of her parents from coniiding to him
the secret of her attachment to another before
marriage, and afterwards she had deemed ii
better TO allow him to attribute her almost pnin.
ful aversion to constitutional coldness of tenl-
peramcnt than to the real cause by unfolding
the long train of dcceptous which had been
practicrd upon him. The happiness of both
lives hnd, however been sacrificed, and neither
were 10 be cnvcd the wealth which concealed a
continual sorrow. Gilded misery is quite as real
as that, which, stripped of all adornments, ap.
pcals TO the hand of charity, or the soothings OF
/ hrncYulcncc and some timrs far harder TO endure