Tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1856, 1856-01-10
KEN0SHA, WIS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1856

her work and looked her cousin in the face--.you
SAID mat no one but an unmitigated rascal would
support Mr.. C., for Congress- and when You
knew that Grey favored him. was it very kind
Would You like il yourself?
did say that, Merwyn7r
Yes, cousin, thought you did not know how
1T would sound
Ei Grey was in such passion le
sss ies-but he will get over it, and he has been
trying so hard to conquer himself
You think it is allsmy fault returned John,
rather sullenly
! i. No, cousin-but couldn't you have been a lit
/ tie more careful, and, John. you don't know how
1t seems TO me when you doEso They are all de-
pendent ON YOU, you know and here are Lewis
and SoPiiy just growing up a5@eao4
John said no more, but soon after left the room
and went to his brothers chamber. The door was
/ locked he Knocked softly, But there was no an
swer--'eirey, he said, win You let me in 2
! What is il = from within, in no very amiable
/ tone.
! Il want tospeak to you
Grey opened thedoor aud stood haughtily silent,
looking very proud and particularly unhappy.
IS 4 am sorry offended you So, said John. i
was wrong A possibility which his brother had
never heard him admit before inthe whole cohrse
of his life. And pardon me, know am pro-
1 voking, very often gz VS. }s
4 No, returned Grey, his voice Trembling, sIt was
1 all my fanlt, but do try not 10 be so-and hy
I ont so--indeed Dc, but don't tempt me into it,
John, it is hard enough any way; am ashamed
ofmysef to think Iinsulte5 you so, / did not
/ think what was saying till Mcrwyn spoke to
me-; Presently the two came down into the par
I Tor together. Grey, quiet and s1ibdaed fer tho
rest of the evening, while Johns watchful-
ness over his looks and words showed plain
/ ly that the effort lie had made had not been
USELESS
The weeks went on, and still Merwyr, stayed
There was q little talk once or twice, of her GO
ing home, but Mrs. Burnett looked SO dismayed
when the idea was mentioned, and began to talk
about her health, and the difficulty of managing
the family. Lewis and Soply made such ener
getic protests against 1.-THE former heseeching
her not to go till lie had finished the algebra, be-
cause lie never could understands any one but
her when he was in puzzle and the latter, a
very frank little person, saying thst she wanted
Merwyn to stay, so that she, Sophy, could have
some enc to make her behave herself; and know
ing that there was particular necessity for her
Il to- return home, Acrwyn finally decided to spend
the winter with her Cousins. Ii she suffered now
and then from weary longing for 4 home faces
end voices mol one guessed it, except, perhaps,
4 the two elder brothers who, coming to under
stand how the fierce disputes and sneerng re-
4 examinations, to which they had been accuston-
ed all their lives, shocked and grieved her, were
nforc careful to control themselves in her pres
ence, and IS Aerwyn's presence in some way
seemed of late to peryade the whole household,
the habit grew upen them, and what they had
! undertaken at first fresn wish to keep up APP
pearances before a comparative stranger, they
! persisted in from consideration and love for her
as friend, and at last for the sake Of love for
! each other. Merwyn could not but see the
/ change, and she was very happy in it. Even
| Mrs Burnett perceived that her sons were no
! longer in one continued state Of contention, that
they loved each other and for each otheE t.y an
ny eli sIad
derrd what the car,sn 81 sho reform
One great cause was, that she herself was learn
ing to leave off fretting ct every little thing
that happened, and did nor say more than three
times week on an average, that she really
could not see what was to become Of thenl--an
epoch Which John had always particularly
dreaded; because when it came poor Grey was
| always sure to make some hasty answer. and he
himself IN trying to act right, was tolerablysure
to offend both parties, and bring about q very
undesirable state of home politics.
Before Merwyn's arrival, The two young men
had passed many Of their evenings AWAY from
home--where, their mother did not know
Johns tame,s on these occasions, being usually
spent at reading room with the papers, he was
in no very imminent danger; but Grey, with
his quick temper, his impulsive dispositions
sought amusement elsewhere and in spite of
himself had been becoming intimate with q set
of anything but desirable associates, John, one
day, suddenly discovering the danger to which
his brother was exposed, gave him a regular
lecture, which, however true and well intended
only served 20 provoke Grey by its dictatoral
tone tle result was downright squared and
the brothers did not speak 20 eaehi other for
week, during which Mrs. Burnett frptted at them
/ both, and complained of oneto the other-a lGode
| of family government always particularly inill-
dicious-and John began TO be seriously troubled
on his brothers. account. Since Merwyn GANG,
however, the young gentleman had taken Up
| spending his evenings at home. John the
change with Infinite relief and had the marvel +
lous torbearance not to say anything on the SUB
ject to Grey. One evening Grey ard Merwyn
were thrown upon each others society for en-
tertainment, 1t 50 happened that he told her
all bis troubles. as every one who knew her
usually did, came to a sudden resolution and
dropped at once a1d entirely The set Of young
men with whom he hHd been in Danger ofbecom-
ing far too intimate for his own good Bierwyn
never knew what her self forgetfuluess and gem
tie tact had accomplished, nor how in that two
hours quiet talk Grey formed the determination
| that saved him from future ruin, and those con-
nccted with him from sorrow and shame.
sour echoes roll from soul to soul, -
And gros fressF and forever"
And tie inguoree Of 1Eerwyn's winter from
home Iaay be felt long after she * forgotten.
That It's influence remained lorg after Merwyn
Hope vas 70 more, know very we'll, for fhe
household did not relapse into its old state hen
she went home late in the Spring, taking Sophy
with her for a visit-and you may be sure that
when six months after John followed his sister
and returned, not only with Sophy, but with
1Sephy's sister in law, the latter Young lady to
Iwhom Mrs Burnett committed all the household
affairs, did not suffer the old forlorn spirit to
enter the door. At Johns wedding, Grey and
Cadet, then Lieutenant Fred, were groomsmcn,
and the cards issued on that occasion were in
scribed-
Mr.. and Mrs. John Burnett,
bliss Merwgn Hope.
She had done what she could, and if those
who had hitherto lved at enmity with one an
other were united in the love of peace. it was
the work of her gentlenesss of spirit and sincere
endeaYor for the happiness Of others, and of that
charity which endureth all things, and hopeth
all things, and in that hope went quietly on in
the path of duty, which in that household
was the fulflment and continuance Of the spirit
of love, ~