Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1855-11-22

with difficulty that he induced the publisher to
disclose the secret confded to him by his cor
respondent; but he finally succeeded, and i'm
mediatey set off to the seminary, and arrived
there on the day of her examination. Our
readers have doubtless, ere this, guessed that
the parsonage last introduced was Cyrus Bor-
dale; if so, they need not guess again.
OF her circumstances, so far as poverty or
wealth was concerned, he knew nothing; and
he had seen too much of the blind alteration
paid to wealth, and the unhappy consequences
of giving it preference to real worth, to wish
to be made victim to selfshness. And he de-
termined that whoever shared his wealth,
should do so not for that, but for him.
Accordingly he passed in that village for an
itinerant artist, and was attired in Indifferent
apparel. In his assumed character he obtain
ed an introduction to, and acquaintance with
Emeline If, from perusing the productions
of her pen, he had been induced to respect the
talents of the author personal acquaintance
produced in him emotions of deeper, purer,
holier nature.
As he sat by her side, and listened to the
sublime sentiments that fell from her lips; as
with her he walked beneath the moonlight's
Lpale beams as her fingers swept skillfully
over the keys of the piano, and her well-culti-:
waited voice accomplished their music; and
above all, as he had evidence that she had CIV
en- her affections to her Redeemer, he felt that
she was, indeed, one with whom it would be
no ordinary blessing to journey through the
rugged lane of life. The fact (Which he learn
cd from herr that she had, by dint OF her own
perseverance, and toll, encountered difficulties
Of no small moment to achieve what she had,
in his view shed rich lustre over her charac-
ter. He woocd and won her. Months glided
by to the boundless ocean of eternity, and the
time when Emeline was to leave the friends of
her youth was at hand. None but those who
have been underthc necessity of tearing them
selves away from the home and friends of their
childhood, can appreciate her feelings. Emo.
tions strangc-painful and yet joyful-perva-
ded her bosom, and tears came unbidden to
her eyes, as she reflected that this was the last
night she would remain under the roof of her
endeared relatives; that on the morrow she
was to 60 with him, on whose arm she was
hitherto to lean, far, far away No wonder,
then, that she looked sad, no wonder that the
sadness of her countenance attracted the notice
of her afectionate aunt.
The morrow, the memorable morrow, came.
The king of day rose in all his loveliness and
grandeur, and shed rich lustrc over the va
ricd hues Of autumn, while the soft September
wind gently waved the forest trees. A few
among her many friends assembled to witness
the ceremony, and to give their parting bles-
sing to the young bride who was now about to
leave them, perhaps forever. The sun was
sinking behind the western hills, and threw
heightened shadows across the landscape, as
Mr. and Mrs. Bordale stepped into carriage
which was to convey them to steamboat some
half mile distant On the third day they az
rived in the far-famed Empire City; their car
riage stopped before an elegant mansion
"ThiS," said Cyrus to his bride, ''is your
future home When you consented to become
mine, you supposed you were uniting yourself
TO honest poverty; and this stratagem used,
that l might be sure of winning one uninfu-
enced by considerations of selfish nature.'
And here we will leave them, while we
learn the lesson that obstacles may be overcome
by fortitude and energy of character, and that
virtuous perseverance will be sure to meet with
Il reward.