True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1856-09-24

Ellen Obeyed, and the queen was soon '
robed as she desired. Few objects could I
have been mole beautiful than this dan
gerous woman, when she arose from her
toilelte--the perfect yet almost vonptous {
proportion of her form betrayed by the
snowy robe, her tapering arms banded
with jewels. and her superb waist bound
with string Of immense pearls, clasped
in front by single diamond, and termi-
mating where the broidery of her robe
commenced in tassels of threaded pearls.
A tiara of small Scotch thistles. crowned
amethysts and rough emeralds, burned
with purple ligh! among her curls, and
the face beneath seemed scarcely human
so radiant was it's expression, and so
beautiful the perfect harmony Of its fea-
lures. Throwing a careless glance at the
mirror--for Mary was too confident of
her attractions to be fastidOuS--she took
up her per(umed handkerchief and left
the room.
} Ellen Craigh gazed after her sovereign
: till the last graceful wave of her drapery
, disappeared /; then drawing "a deep breath,
as if her heart had thrown off an oppres-
1 sion quite insupportable, she cast a glance
almost of loalhing around the sumptuous
apartment and entered the oratory.-
e Dropping upon her knees by the chair
j, which Boutwell, had occupied, she laid
: her cheek on the cushion and wept long
It and freely, as if the contact with some
thing he had touched had soflening in
/. fluence on her heart. AS she arose the
y CLEAN OF handkerchief lying on the
k floor attracted her atlen ion. Sine snatch
e ed 1t up with faint cry Of joy, for on one
o corner she found embroidered an earl's
/" coronet and the crest of Boutwell,. Ea-
Is gery thrus,ing the prize into hor "osom
r She left the oratory and passed INTO the
If, open street.
I'd 1t was midnight when Mary Stuart re-
es turned to her chamber. The lights wert
le burning dimly on The table and an air o
id gloomy grandeur filled the apartment -
tn The queen was evidently much disIres
en- sed /; deep glow was burning on heI
1t, cheek, and lier usually smiling eyes were
ok full of strange excitement. She snatch
"a ed up the little golden call as if to give
summons, and then flung it down again,
- exclaiming--
,e- mo, nO--I could mt brook their search
is, ing eyes," and with still more disturb
lot ed all she paced the chamber, now and
oh then stopped to divest herself Of the or
we naments she had worn at the ambassa
nd doris festival.
be Perhaps for the first time in her life tn
,ed agitated woman unrobed herself, an
flnging back the crimson draper
to which fell in heavy masses from tn
large square bedstead, threw herself up
,od on the gorgeous counterpane and burle
her herself IN the folds, as ii they could shu
ing ou. the evil thoughts that burned in he
own heart but it was in vain that sl
NO. srove for rest--that she gathered til
re- rich drapery over her head and presse
en- her burning head TO the pillow; h'
an thoughts were all alive and astray.
her 1t was mournful sight--that beaut
the full and brilliant woman yielding herself
on the lhraldom of wicked man, and RUS
ing heedlessly to that which was 10 lhro
nes STAN upon her memory, enduring
Her history ITSELF Sin is hdeous in ever
yer form--but when it darkens the bright al
nds beautiful of earth, like cloud over Il
ess, sun, we reproach it Tor its own bIac
S it ness and doubly Tor the brightness it CO
ped ceals.
fair AS the misguided woman lay, with
lash hand pressed over her eyes, and one al
ess. but half divesled Of its jewels, anng o
the with kind of desperate carelessness II
E of on the couuterpane. the murmer of
lac, infant voice reached ber from neighh,
for ing apartment. she started up and te;
ure. ga hered in her eyes.
I no ~" Woe is me !" she exclaimed "il
mad passion makes me iOrge'iul alike
Ma. prayer and child"
now Folding dressing gown about h
feet she entered the room whence the sou
the had come, and reappeared with
the infant boy pressed to her bosom. AT
At kissing him again and again with Xxi
ried of disparing londness she bore him II
/ in recess where small lamp of chased {
no, YER burned before cruciRx OF. the sa
the meat, and an embroidered hassock v
placed as if for devotion. Had she bt
does left alone in the holy stiffness Of the mig
with her lovely babe upon her bosom al
with the touching symbol of our Saviot
,rds death before her, the evil influence VIII
lant was hurrying her on to ruin might hi
her been connlerbalanced but as she kI
ewes with the smiling babe lying on the h
sock, her eyes fixed on the cruciix, I
ID the guilty glow ebbing from her chez
the the door slowly opened and the Earl
shall Boutwell, stole into the champer. Nj
sprang to her feet as if to reprove the
nino solent intruder, but the sense of mode
,les :: which in all her follies seemed never
ame have left her, succeeded 10 her indig
with tion, if indeed she felt any. She CLAN
d. at her dishabille with painful flush,
mock hastily seating herself, drew her unc
and cred feet, which had been hastily ihl
the into pair Of furred slippers. under
our folds of her dressing gown, and then
questsd him to withdraw, in v