New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-11-05
NUMBER 2O9 .


loved him indeed only too well. as she had all along
confessed TO her own heart Still, even when brought
to half acknowledge that he had place in her heart
she would not promise to be his without condition
He argued long and earnestly, but her answer was
always the same.
We must part for year." she said 8: You think
now with the memory Of your illness fresh upon you,
that yon love me; but Lam of too naughty
blood, though poor now, to marry even where might
love, on 50 snGden and questionable an attachment.
You rich, fashionable and with influence am
the last of a line prescribed since Culloden.
Your place IS the gay world, where You will be sur
rounded by troops Of friends mine is the humble
cabin, where few more dependents have been nv
only companions, ever since my father died. II you
really love you will return at the end Of the year
and if you forget me, shall live here with heather
and muirfoul az have lived before
Her lover, therefore, compelled to submit.
There was prond independence in the hanishment
Of him. which became he said to himself the dangh.
ter of cheftains who had fought at Bannockbrn and
Flodden Field, and sacrificed their all at Cuiloden.
Two weeks from that time Donald and his friend
left the Highland cabin, and Hannah was left alone
Never Lefore had she known what it was to be alone
She never knew how much she loved ill her lover
was away.
But even year will pass, and lust twelve month
from Donald departure Hannah sat at the spring side,
which she had named for the trysting spot II her
lover proved faithful. She had been there already for
many hours watching with an eager heart half tremb-
ling at her own folly in expecting him. half angry
with herself for her doubts but now as the evening
came on yet no Donald appeared, her bosom sweied
nigh to bursting. She rose frequently and looked up
the bride path, but nobody was in sight. At last the
stars began to come out-the wind grew chiy-and,
with an almost broken heart she to to the
cabin
81 might have known this" she said sadly. "Do
not all my books tell me the same! Ever the old
story of trusting woman and deceiving man.
At this instant an thrown round her waist.
Now, Hannah, dear, of cruel sex, at least,
is falsied thought to steal on you nnawares and
surprise you and so went round by the cottage to
leave my horse there. Had you looked behind in
stead OF before you. you would have frustrated my
! little scheme by seeing me- have waited q whole
year impatienty for this day, and find you mine at
last.
a month from that time, Sir Donald Alleyne intro
| duccd his bride to his ample domains in England ;
and never had farer wife entered the splendid halls
! Of his ancestors. 7-.
In the great gallery of the castle is picture of a
young Scottish girl, with half pensve face. sitting
by a mountain spring; and the old housekeeper, as
she goes the rounds with VISITORS pauses before the
! portrait TO say:
"This is the likeness of the last Lady Alleyne and
lovely she was, and as good as lovely. By her hus-
band she was called the Lilly Of the Valley. Why, I
have never heard.
| R1CnNoSD IN BY.GoNE DAYs.-The National In.
telligencer says that Mr. Morleca an old citizen of
Richmond, Va, has written u volume replete with
personal anecdote relating to the old inhabitants OF
Richmond, well as with descriptions of its various
localities. The notabilties of the town. male and
female, white and black. in the good old times When
Judge Marshall trudged through the streets mar
lct morning" with pair of fowls basket of eggs
in his hand :: when the chief resource for winter
evenings paStimes among the tonish ladies was founG
in the game Of loo, and when Sy Giiat and Bob Coo
ley reigned supreme among the coored arstocracy o
: the day all pass before in these sketches
Apropos of the latter class is an old negro " who
) when asked by his young mistress why he did no
| attend church as formerly, replied 8 That when HI
could sit by Mr.. Wicham's Bob and Judge Marshall
JacL, he liked to join sety but now he never knev
who he $ot by so he stail at home. Such in the gre
gariouse quality OF ouldegenerate times has been h
J deterioration Of even colored siety!
- The large and ugly block Of brick buildings
erected by Col: Harvey, on Carey street, thu
head of the basin, have now anything but lterar,
aspect, but they were Hnller's -dcddemy, ant
the portion Of the block was doubled in size to accom-
molate that extensive establishment. Haler was
. Swiss or German adventurer, who had with littl
learning, address and impudence enough to impos
on the community: but he also had judgment enoug
to enable him to select good teachers. Among thes
was Monsieur Fremont the father of Col. Fremont
, Pacific and Worlike cp]ebritV,'