Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1855-01-26

on a Bracelet pearl bracelet
Who would think of her INDUCING
in such fnery? Here are two sweet
pearl lilies set together in a golden
clasp, with golden leaves below them
Why, grandmother, you must be set
ting up for bride =
1T was bridal gift replied she,
sliding the bracelet on her shrunken
arm; a bridal Gift made long ago
II was foolish thought, child.
was looking over caskel, where !
have deposited the choicest treasures
Of my youth, and | clasped il on my
wrist, TO see how my arm had fallen
from its fair proportions. My mind
became so lost in thinking OF the
story Of this gem, that forget to re-
store it to the place where it had So
long lain, slumbcring with the hoard
cd memories Of other days
A story lwc all eagerly exclaimed
please tell it-you promised US one
tonight
All children, said my grand
mother, 1T is no fairy tale, about
bright genii, and enchanted palaces
aud ladies so beautiful that they fas-
clnato every one who comes within
the magic reach Of their charms. II
is true tale, and has some sad pas
sagcs IN il.
grandmother said /. 10 digni-
fed manner, ] hope you don't think
me so silly as not to like anything
because It is not true. read tho
ArdJian Nights long ago, and
would rather hear something to make
me feel sorry than glad always dc
feel sad when the moon shines on me
but | can't tell the reason why
Hush Nina, aud let grandm 9TH
CT tell her stoU-you ALWAYS talk Sc
much, said little NIFTY, who sat on
the other side Of our venerable rcla
tive.
The old lady paucd with one hand
the golden head If the child, but
The arm claspcd by the magic brace
let was still imprisoned 10y my fingers
and as she proceeded in lis hstor,
my grasp tightened and tightcnec
from the intensity Of my interest, Ill
she was compelled to beg me to re-
lease her.
Yes said she, in a musing tone
there is a story depending on this
which remember as windy as i
the events were of Yesterday. | ma,
forget what happened an hour ago
but the records OF my youth are writ
ten IN lines that grow deeper as time
flows over them.
She looked up steadily for few
moments, appearing to ms magma.
ton like al inspired sihyl; she thel
began as follows.
When | was a young Girl | ha,
no brothers or sisters, as YOU have
but was an only, nigh, say lionel,
child, for my father was dead and m,
mother an invalid. When returned
from school | obtained permission Il
invite a sweet young cousin of mine
whose name was Eslaniluc, to he M
companion. We were afiueuL sh,
was poor; and when my molhe
proposed 10 make our house her home
she accepted the offer with graliIudr
aud Joy. She was an interesting
creature OF peculiar Temperament
and exquisite senslbllily. She wa
subject 10 fits OF wonderful bouyancy
and OF equal desPondency sometime
she would MARBLE all day, gay am
un'lring as the bird pirched on yonde
spray, then a soft melancholy woul
SIT broodIng on her brow, as if sh
feared some impending misfortune
This was probably owing TO the pc
cuiIar circumstances Of her infancy
for She was born during her mother
tears. A poetical friend had give
her the name Byzantine; and we
did her beauty, sweetness, delicncy
and iargIlIty Justify the name. Il
our glrlhood we grew together, Liz,
the friends ofthc MIdsummcr's Night
almost insepcrable in body, and neye
divided IN heart by those lilllc cal
ousies which sometimes lnteTpos
their barriers 10 young maiden
friendships.
But see little NIFTY has falle
asleep already said my graudmoth
er. My story is too grave for III
light ears of childhood. | shall b
obliged, too, To say something abou
love and even you, Nina, are en-
tirely too young 10 know anything o
its influence
'Oh! but do know something
grandmother exclaimed /, impul
sively that is, have read hav
thought stammered,a and stopped
unable toexpress my own vague idea
You may not be too young t
sympalhise, but certainly too youn
to feel , said my grandmother, mildly
but ardent and sympalhising as you
nature is, it will be hard for you t
carry back your mind TO the tim
when all the warm passions and hope
of youth were glowing in my bosom
1t is enough to say that there wa
one who came and rivalIed EglaniIn
in my affections, one 10 whom | wa
to be shortly welded. |. was on sue
an eve as this, SO clear and brigh
that he gave me the pledge of OF
belrolhal, this bracelet Of pearl, an
clasped II on an arm which then file
I the yoldpn circlpf parhans va