New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-20
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n too che learned, ~ her aunt baoe, all earning
suitsb,e for women's minds,
Books demonstrating
Their right Of CON pretending husb inds tax
when not too 6eep, and even OF ans genng
With pretty May il please you, OF SO II ia;
Their rapid insight and fine aptitude,
Particular worth and general missionaries
AZ long ss they keep quiet by the ire
And never say MOI when the world says 'Ayep
For that IN fatal; their angelic reach
or virtue, chiefly used to cit and darn,
And fatten household swine; their, in brief,
Potentisl faculty IN everything
OF abdicsiing power in 1t"
Meanwhile her soul, amid these tasks and lessons,
"Was singing at work apart
Behind the wall of seEse cafe from h arm
AZ nDgs the lark when sucked up out OF sight
In vorices of glory and blue air.
A "safe from HARM" indeed, but not so wholly
"out Of sight" For there was one who watched
this soaring singing soul with serious earnest eyes,
And this was Romney Leigh, Aurora's cousin' ana
BY her fathers fault made heir of Leigh AurofAs
proud, chafed spirit could not bear in this calm,
noble Romney something which seemed 10 ally him
With the conventional world about her. She could
not zee. Door child, the depth of his deep, proud
nature free as her own but with another freedom,
earnest az her own but with another earnestness
"He overfull
OF what IT, and she, haply, OVERLOAD
For what might be-"
For Romney's spirit was troubled with the
weight of possession as Auroras was fevered with
the desire of emancipation and achievement. He,
the lord of Leigh shuddered with the of that
world. wrong which ma1e him so rich and great,
while mil on, were chatting around him in want and
wreschedness and Elm. She, the waf OF love and
Italy, burned with longing for the beauty which
through her memory and her hopes alike woOed her
away from the grim, ungenial face of miscalled
duty. She would not understand hun-he could
not understand her, and yet il vexed her that Rom
pey would not rejoice with her when
"The ttrusbes sang
And shook her pulses and the ems new leaves"
and it saddened hun that Aurora held in all her
talk with him to this,
"He knew the world
And only missed bis cousin"
Very distinctly the clear GIFTED bystanders would
have said, "These two that so torment each other,
were born to love each other and are not likely to
fil of their vocation" But the fate of Aurora and
Ronney was like the fate Of many another two and
Heaven chose sweet June morning for the first
act of their lfe's drama. He asked her to be his
wife, misstatiDg rather than msconceivng his hopes
the man rather than misinterpreting his words.
And 90 they parted, he passing to his work in the
wide world-she turning to her art and poets life,
yet retaining always
1.-The very last word which she said that day,
Az you The creakiDg of the door, years past,
Which let upon you such disabling newe,
You ever after have been graver."
Fast upon this parting came the aunts death, and
then generous attempt of ROmney to fasten for
tune upon the proud Aurora, and Auroras putting
back of the cousinly hand stretched out to help herr
and she went up to London, there to work her own
work and soar as high her wings might bear her,
and win, if happily it might be so, the ivy.wreath
Of poets.
She is faithful to her purpose, and Romney,
meanwhile not less faithful to his. He becomes a
Socialist, Christian Socialist, throws himself into
the van of the war with Mammon, and becomes the
eynosure alike of all who hope and of all who SCOT,
Of the lovers and the hsters of their kind.
The cousins do not meet, till one day light, gilt
teripg Lady Waldemar comes to Aurora's study,
and beeeeches her to interpOse her codsinly hand
and save Romney from marriage with an outcast
girl whom be proposes to wed, in the face Of God
and man and fashion-to save him for the sake Of
pTouu uuuo vi Aoibn, AoA Mo VVu o"A03 ~"~ IVA
Lady Waldemar's! The light, glitterisg lady does
not much move AurorA's heart; but she goes to find
the chosen bride Of Romney, and fads her; and
finding her, SO loves her, that when ROmney co mes
N upon theirintervew, Aurora clasps his hand and
says:
/" I've safe q full hour with your Marian Erie,
And learnt the thing by heart-and from my heart
Am therefore competent to give you thanks
For such cousin.
The wedding day 10 appointed st. Gles and st.
James are hidden to meet beneath the sacred roof
Of Gods own house to witness there the boldest
protest Of bold, true man against the falsehoods
Of the world and all the masks of form and cireum-
stance.
The company are gathered, the strange, unpar'
alleled company Of the rich and the poor, Of the
1eeorous and the devilish, mixed and mngling BE-
fore Gods altar, as at the Judgment Day they must
before his throne. But no bride comes. Tho hour
wears on and no bride comes but at the last, when
the rich have begun TO smile with scorn, and the
poor 10 mutter with suspicion, mes news OF her
that abe has fed away to live life of shame! Then
follows terrible tumult, and once again the cousins
are parted. Romney returns to his work. sad
aened, but not cast down; Aurora to her ar,, more
saddened than he, and conscious of vague yearn-
ing after something which her art cannot supply.
After year she goes to France, and there in Paris
sAe meets with Marian Erie, . mother now, al.
though no wife, and more hopelessy an outcast
trl'a haap IN