Weekly Clarksville chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 185?-1857, 1857-05-22

all worry thoughts and feelings are so
elevated beyond your poor Estelle'sl And
yet sshc would almost choose ifso Cor
could she lie an angel, she would wish you
tobc something far higher4-a god i''s~7 4
"Sweet enthusiast moderate your as
pirations, or the world and its people will
disappoint you'll Be not an idolator; worship !
only God, my Stella"
Such was their meeting
Yet, occasionally, throughout the inter I
view, a Sudden shadow like the recurrence
of painful thought, would fall upon her
bright face and then pass as It came.
They were engaged, and within few days
the marriage was announced to take place
on the first of May. aNfl "F
But twas observed by the nearest friends
of the bride, that from the day Of her be-
.trothal, her spirits had been marked by The
strangest fluctuations Sometimes with
her beautiful dark face illumined with
deep, still. almost religious Joy, she moved
about, as Il were, on winged feet or sat
brooding in a happy trance At other
times, she fell into deep gloom and ankle
ty, as inexplicable as it was alarming to
her friends, who greatly feared her relapse
into the deep melancholy that hadsso long
overshadowed her and that they had grown
to dread as serious constitutional malady.
But they hoped everything from her APP
preaching marriage with the man she
loved Lord Montressor observed with
the deepest interest the uncertain moods
/ of his betrothed but with the heightened
sentiments that distinguished him. re-.
J Trained from inqniring,, and awaited her
voluntary revelations 81 III, =. -,bi
At last the first of, May, the marriage
day. upon which I have presented the
parties to the reader arrived, and all the
! hqm ton, as / said were gathered at the
! Hall or at the Church to do honor to the
solemnitics, 81 H.. l..ic 800
And the cxpcctant bride, in her bridal
robe and veil, waited within her boudoir
the arrival of the bridegroom, whom she
had summoned to a private interview be,
fore they should proceed to the church,
She had notlang to wait. He who quickly
responded to her slightest inclination I'M
mediately obeyed her call 4. -,
| Yet when she heard his firm elastic step
approaching
1'.Now God have mercy on me she
prayed, and covered her face with her
hands. - y. s
He entered, unannounced, and saying,
envy beautiful Stellal i am here. YOU
perceive. by your commands" - :
She dropped her hands, and revealing a
face pale with misery spoke in thrilling,
deep, impassioned tone
! "You are here by my supp1icqtion, my
lord! | have no right to command"
! "We will waive that What is your will,
my dearest Stellar" .'r n
tMy prayer, my lords first, for your
forgiveness, III.
"a Forgiveness 2-my Stella"
! "kyt nay dear lord you see before you
, a penitert aud supplicant, who may soon
) be- something Tar moro wretchedw
"My Stella! what mean you?'
"Come othe window, Lord Montressorl''
she said, rising and preceding him, "Iqok
out, she continued, putting aside the
, ro ear hanSlnss' ana revealing
We" ~ .no P,'' WV my WIN us reS,-
,oS; Z c. ~, "a az al 'NeSe peoPie
"N" aWS -, ~ ~. r ~
~, for I;oh r. 3 ~, ~ ~ - Ia
! much more impatiencer' he answered
! while deep flush of love and ioy. for ar
E instant supplanted the ANXIETY ON hi,
sIface.
''"The wait to see a bride pass. where
/, bride may. never gop' she said, in a soIemr
! voice ~
= uStellat great Heavent what soy We, =
! In. exclaimed GAZING on her with nroiount
: astonishment.
oThat the bride thew exnect is unworth
, 10 stand before Gods bolv alter bns;d.
! Lord Montressor p
6JJnworthy. Stellai Your
: aaAEsa ua,sorthv nv lordl" she said
! dronpirc her arms. and dropninc her heo,
! in an attitude Of the deenest misery q
. sbonld have made this confess;on long 400
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