The Westerly echo, & Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1854-1858, 1855-12-20

feat, and made tenfold more fierce when
young Cameron ran away with his
daughter, married her, and took her to
Washington as his bride.
She never went into her fathers
house again, nor was recogniz d by him,
or by any of bis family, when they met,
as they did daily in the streets. Six
teen years passed, during which neither
Cameron nor Bromley changed one jot
in their feelings towards each other =
and then death came into the house of
the former.
Death is terrible levelcr. He is
tremendous enemy to distinctions So
even are the bottoms and the surfaces
of graves, that men begin to feel that
level when death approaches them, and
are ready to forget all their differences.
Not so with John Bromley; he was not
like other men. Not so with Charles
Cameron he was like John Bromley
'Charles,' said Alice Cameron, L
am dying, and | would fain be reconcil-
ed to my father. VIII you ask him to
come and see me =
Tie consented willingly, and sent that
very hour.a. servant pSth a note asking
Mr.. Bromley TO do Mrs. Cameron the
honor to call and see her. Such Il for
NAL note seemed strange in such cir
cumstanccs; but all the town knew that
Mrs. Cameron was dying, and he could
not but understand it as a summons to
tho death bed of his daughter. He
paid not the slightest attention to it
She penciled with her own fee le hand
petition-a daughters earnest prayer
that she might be allowed to look
once moro on his face before she depart
ed to the dread assembly Of the dead -
He did not come. When Cameron saw
his wife lying dead, and the note re-
turned unopened, lying on the little
stand by her head, he vowed solemn
VOW, that he would never forgive The
man that last unkindness, not on earth,
not though he stood at heavens gate
and were excluded for that hatred -
He forgot that he would have done just
so himself. 'i.
She left him one daughter fifteen
years old Two years later she was
seventeen, and exceedingly beautiful -
All the strong mans heart was bound
up in the child; and she was one to
love. Her form was of the mould Of
Ewes. Her eye was of the blue of the
skies Of Eden. Her voice was perfect
music. For the first two years after
her mothers death, she was growing in
I to. complete womanhood, and then she
was splendid woman. .4.,
! I have some hesitation in attempting
to describe hor character. 1t was by
no means perfect. 1t was hardly posi-
bic that the child of such father should
be very mild and gentle; and, in fact
she was very much like him in her firm
ness and her determination of purpose
\ Withal she inherited from her mother
an amount of passion, warmth Of feeling,
and dcvotedness to any object of her af-
fection, which, coupled with hor fixed
ness of will, made her difficult subject
of management.
These were the prominent points OF
danger in her character. Everything
else was exceedingly winning aud lovely,
aad even these points rendered her
more attractive. If her horse refused
to leap a fence, she rode him at it stead
ily till he did it. Ifshe wished flower
that grew on tho edge of a precipice,
she walked boldly out and plucked IT.
If one she called friend were in need,
she never rested till aid was rendered.
She had even been known to 90 alone
at midnight for physician to sec. her
father iu severe attack Of illness, be-
cause she could not trust servant.
1t was not strange that the strong
mans heart wound itself around her,
He made her his idol. He was grad
ually devotiug himself more and mor,
vigorously to his profession, aud whel
he did permit himself to escape his libra
ry, it was his JOY to be welcomed by be
unrivaled smile and voice. She queen
cd it In his house, aud held gay rcvcl
lin the large drawing room while he