Litchfield enquirer., 1856-03-06

1 | not strs-ge to suppose that our adventurer soon found an opportunity of paying his addresses in person to his sylvan princess, but, unable to understand each others language, their eomIn,,- ] nications had to be carried on principally by signs-though to lovers, even if they are dumb, the language of love has thousand ways of expression, more eloquent than words.
 Nematha was pleased with her new loyer.- The pale face was tall and handsome, and his words fell on her ear like the murmur of bubbling brooks in pleasant places. She could not inter- pret their literal meaning but she knew what he said was sweet, and her heart felt strange and hitherto unknown sensation, as he pressed her hand. and looked so tendesly upon her. Thes left the camp, and wandered in b3 paths she pointed out to him the plants and trees, and tried to explain to him the nature of various l plants. He placed on her finger fiuy of lus- l trons value, aid her eyes sparkled with infinite delight as she gazed upon it he raised her hand to his Fps, and timdy she would have withdrawn ] 1t, but her heart was so tremuc1s with mysteri- ous pleasure, that she let it finger passvely in his grasp, while he covered it with warm and [ passionate kisses.
 They wandered through groves of oak, chest nut and eve trees and she gathered him branches
 
 of the latest flowers of antumn-the purple aster; she sang to him in low and paintivc tones, the airs and songs of her native land. and he in ! turn sang to her the love romanunts of the olden troubadours What delicious dream did all this seem to Master Carlettm Certes, he had been transported, as if by magic, into land of wonderful beauty, and peopled by strange and peculiar people
 ] Onward they wandered through grove and dell, unmindful of the bird-music above them; and the glorious tints with which Autumn had painted the fo!iage-crmson and hanle-coored and orange, and purple. The squirrels were gathering in their winters store of nuts, and the ground was strewn with the brown coate,t chestnuts that came tapping down from the l trees as they walked under them Uumindiul of the passing m5mcnts, and peoplng world of their own imagining, they wandered on thoughtlcss of the past, and taking no heed of the future, till they came to silent and retired spot, low margined by the rivers side, and choosing a pleasant grove they seated them selves upon the trunk of u fallen tree and cx- changed the mutual worship of the heart What wonder if Master Carlcton's arm stole round the waist of the beautiful and yielding Nematha . What wonder if he imprinted the warincst kisses upon the lips of tlie luscious 1 beauty. What wonder if her head was pressed against his bosom, and tl,at in answer to his ferycnt declarations and his appealing looks of fondness she yielded to the rapture of the mo- ment, and lost herself in paradise of un- imagined bliss. Never had Ncmatha so dreamed before
 ! Among the young braves of the nation there were none braver or nobler than the chief Ot- Sawa. The poles of his wigwam were decora- ted with the scalps of an hundred enemies slain in d battlc-the flight of his arrow was unerring-in the the chase he was foremost thcre was no one to compete with him in ath- lctic sports. Yet his cabin was lonely without the presence of woman. He had for long time marked the budding beauty of Ncmatla ; l he lo1ged to call her his bride yet had he sued to her in vain--shc would not listen t1 his passion. He had invoked her fathers aid and still the old chief told him tllat he could ntt force his daughter to yield her charms to one she could not love- The heart of Otsawa was very sore he looked with jealous eye upon other braves, and made a VOW that hone ottr should possess her. On the arrival of the strangers he had marked the attentions paid 1 Nenatha by the handsome palc-face-he saw that his addresses were not unpleasng. Mad f dened with jealousy, he resolved to watch them, and when they left the village he dogged them with the step and watehful eye of the lynx-- and they were so absorbed in their own bliss, that they needed not the presence of danger.
 
 Still clasped in amorous embrace remained the lovers The sun was westerng in the sky, and rosy clouds drapcd the horizon. Gitldy with rapture, the lovers forgot the present in the new world which they had discovered for themselves. The atmosphere vas balrsv with the foliage, and seemed filled with supernatural music. The joy of fhe moment was ccstaey, and who could wonder that Master Carleton yielded to it's oblivion of all things else
 ! The Chief Otsawa lay co=ccaed in an ad- joining thicket. His prond heart beat with all the 6ereest passion of his turbulent nature |; his eyes gieamed with the ferocity of a tigers, and his firm teeth were set with a dreadful de- termination; his bow was bent in his hand, and the arrow was fixed and drawn to its head. Ah who could translate the bitter agony of the young braves heart aS he behcld in the iarms of the stranger, the listless languid form fof his Nematha: Who shall blame him, if he grew wild with the frenzy of distracted brain, while his ears were filled with the music of her low voice, as she murmured her fotdest tones to Master Carletonl Who shall de n6dncc the proud, untutored savage, if prompt. ed by rude impulses, he let fly the poisoned shaft. and thus ended forever the crime of her } he loved, and tho life of him he hated? It is done. His heart throbs with the most violent