The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1856-12-04

CenuVe-1 am aiId'u you oic passing 3
away this season Of youth almost too Law
ishly, and that. by-and-by. when age
comes, you win have no resources against
! it,"
8 "What can do, Maggie ?"
.rRead-for one thing. Those vile
cigars stupify your brain, when you ought
to be storing it with knowledge. You
have talents, Aubrey, but you will not
use them and l believe the best wish
for you from those who love you. would
be that you should lose your property,
and your present situation in the bank,
and become dependent on your own in
yention for support" j ~ a.
"Thank you, dear! Your wish is
very benevolent; but cannot say that /
respond to it." a
"Very likely, and yet believe your
character would increase in value thou
sand-fold. Life has been too easy TO
you. Aubrey. You have never known
the uses ofadversity your spirit needs
uplifting, and it can never be uplifted,
while these indulgences Of life lie so thick
ly around you. You have never mas
tered dificulty-never earned an en-
Ijoymeut."
Margaret wes right. Aubrey Kinnard
needed discipline--the discipline Of sor-
row or of poverty, to bring out his inte-
rior resources. He had talents, but they
lay dormant, because there was no out
ward necessity for their use. He had
not genius-for that will always make
itself known-but he really had talents,
only that he did not see why he should
trouble himself with application to any
pursuit, when fortune had saved him the
anxiety of providing for the future.
He had benevolence-tbat transient,
sympathetic benevolence which cannot
bear to look upon apparent suffering
but he had not that deep and widespread
feeling which prompts to acts of self sac
ri6ce, and which seeks for objects on
which to expend its energies. That was
the benevolence which Margaret Ashton
would have encouraged. Aubrey had
seemed to her as a brother. His fathers
house had been her home from childhood,
and as he had no sister, he came to think
of Margaret in that light. She, too, was
rich in her own right. She was richer,
too, in strong and active mind, firm
will, steady, infixible sense of right,
and an active and self-denying benevo-
lence.
! Lille Holbrook was her dearest friend,
and she had often wished that Aubrey
could know her. She was just such a
woman as he ought to marry. and al
though averse to match making in gene
raj, she determined in this particular case,
to throw them if possible into eacR 9TH
er's society. @ 9r
Aubrey was out of town for few days,
and when he returned, it was to find Miss
Holbrook fairly installed for long visit.
She was all, and more than all, that Mar
garet had SO often painted to him, but
alas she had the obnoxious colored hair
True, it was long and soft and glossy,
and hung in rich curls ON her neck and
shoulders, and in all other respects she
was lovely and attractive girl but he
never-no never. could get over that OBJ
lection, he told Margaret. He begged
her not to talk of him to her friend, forhe
could fulfil no hopes that she mightraise.
Aubrey! Lille Hol5ook would new
er marry man who was so indolent and
purposeless as yourself. She told me so
| - 1 fIeu yuu nave arvaoy .,..-.,. -.
over. Was that kind or delicate, Mag.
gle? 2"
/" Don't be SO hasty, Aubrey. You
have never been mentioned in any way
but we often converse upon preferences,
and the very character which you pos
sess, was this morning unconsciously de
scribed by Lille, and her opinion given"
Aubrey was piqued and fretful-and
as it was rare mood for him to be in
Margaret rather enjoyed it. She did moi
irritate him by words. but she looked al
that she felt, and he saw that she was
thinking of his life, SO unworthy as he
knew she thought it. .eaaaa e@arozs
At that moment, it made him unius,
to both Margaret and her friend although
he could not but acknowledge, when his
temper cooled, that they were so different
to the common class of young ladies'
Those with whom he had been acquant
ed, had hattered, rather than found faul
with him, and he found pleasant varie
ty, from the sweets with which he had
been too often cloyed. in this independ
ent lady who dared pick flaws in charac
tiers which no doubt, she compared te
his. AT rny rate, it made him resolve
to cultivate her acquaintance more fully
But how should he do it Lolling in hi,
cousins room all the afternoon hours
while they sat at work, would not. i
seemed, recommend him to those utilita
lian ladies'. What exploit should he at
tempt? He applied to Margaret, but she
could not mark out. any rath for him.