Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-06-06

leading topics Of the day with as much freedom
and pleasure as with any grovn.up person..
Next looms up before us Patrick Branwel, the
only son-the acknowledged genius of the family
his sisters'idol-to whose talents even bis father
"did proud homage" The only one OF the family
that was bandsome-the only Que that was bril-
liant in conversation. Too brilliant, unfortunate
ly; his precocious talent was the delight Of the vii
layers. IL a traveller lad a solitary evening be-
fore him in the village inn, the landlord Nonld cay:
"Do YOU want some one 10 help you with your
bottle: sir if you do, I'll send up tor Patr'ck,' $50
the villagers called him till the day Of his death0
aud while the messenger was gone, he would en-
terrain the guest with an account OF the wonder
full talents of the boy, and his great conversationai
powers. II
Branvell had a great talent for drawing. and
wished to 20 to London as a pupil to the Royal
Academy; but this conld not be as yet, and In we
meantime he became tutor in O family OF wealth
aud distinction. The mother OF his pupils-a vo'
man twenty years older than himselt--becomes
fascir ated by his beauty, his talents, his frank and
genial manners. Her bed. ridden husband is no re-
strnint upon her; and she gradually leads him into
!, crime, 1t is discovered. She proposes an elope-
ment but to this he will not consent. He returns
home disgraced and desperation he still loves
D the woman. lie becomes o drunkard, to drown
remorse. One CLEAN of hope he has. The bus
t band dies. Now he can marry her. But the for
g tune left to her is on condition that she never sees
him again. She prefers the fortune, and refuses
A to See him. lie lives some years after, on opium
!, | Chleny, ana tnen ules- MS pO1kttS uiiou Nlu 10
8 letters, which he had carried perpetually about his
t person, in order that he might read them as often
as he wished" OF the nameless woman, Mrs.
= Gaskell thus writes:
e THE case presents the reverse of the usual fea.
lures the man became the victim the mans life
7 was blighted, and crushed out of him by suffering
c entailed by guilt; the mans family were stung
+, by koenest shame. The woman-to think
] of their fathers pious name-the blood of honor
able families mixed in her veins-her early home,
' underneath whose %rooftree sat those whose names
: are held saint-liko for their good deeds; she goes
1 Haunting about to this day in respectable society;
J a snowy woman for her age kept ahoat by her
reputed wealth. / see her name in county papers,
3 as one of those who patronize the Christmas balls;
: and hear of her in London drawing-rooms."
\ y \
= 81 have heard, from one who attended Bran
we'll in his last illness, that he resolved on stand
ing up to die. lie had repeatedly said, that as
: long as there was life there was strength of will to
$ do what it chose and when the last agony came
l on, he insisted on assumed the position just men
n toned. 4 \ y He died she lives still-in
a May Fair. The Eumenides, l suppose, went out
n of existence at the time when the wall was heard,
Great Pan is dead l think we could better have
spared him than those awful Sisters who sting
If dead conscience into life."
Patrick is dead, and next we turn to Emily--the
p~rettiest of the sisters, with the soft name and the
:, shy and reserved manners, so strongly attached to
a her bleak and unhealthy home, that not even her
. desire for education can detain her from It,
Again and again she tries it, but the suffering
: from inconsistencies is too great so with all her
le love Of study, she returns to take the principal
T. part of the cooking upon herself, and do all the
household ironing, because Tabby, the servant, is
old and infrm. ANY one passing the kitchen
door might ha We seen her studying German out OF
an open book, propped up before her, as she knead-
ed the dough but no study, how ever interesting,
y interfered with the goodness of the bread, which
! was always light and excellent" Yet, during the
= short time they were at school together. the only
really superior teacher they had considered
Emily's talents superior to Charlotte's, and gave
c the preference to Emily's compositions" When
te three of the sisters, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne,
" published a volume Of their collected poems, the
critics gave the preference TO those OF Emily.
When the same three sent, each, a tale to the pub
W fishers. Emily's and Anne's also, were accepted,
and Charlotte's rejected. Under her reserved,
10 quiet exterior, there was concealed, too a resolute
will, and sternness of purpose, which 81 at times al
most fearful. An extract from the narrative will
best portray this feature of her character: -
Sc "The helplessness of an animal was its passport
IN to Charlotte's heart the fierce, wild, intractability
he of its nature was what often it to
ly Emily. Speaking Of her dead sister, the former
told me that from her many traits in Shirley's
RS character were taken her way of sitting on the
t, rug reading, with her arm round her rough bull
re dogs neck her calling to q strange dog running
past, with hanging head and lollink tongue, is
give it a merciful draught Of water, its maddened
snap at her, her nobly stern presence OF mind, 60
re ing right into the kitchen, and taking up one o.
lie Tabby's red hot Italian irons to scar the bitter
place. and telling no one, till the danger was well
nigh over, for fear of the ,errors that might bese
lie their weaker minds. All this. looked upon as
is well-invented fiction in Shirley was write
e, down oy Charlotte with streaming eyes 1t wa
t. the literal ,-true account Of what Emily had done
Oh The same tawney bulldog, with his 'strangle
WHISTLE called Tartar In Shirley, wa
Keeper in Haworth parsonage--a gilt to Emil
tie With the gift came a warning. Keeper was faitl
d, full to the depths Of his nature, as long as he wa
Is. with friends but he who struck him with a site
in or whip, reused the relentless nature of the brute
who flew at his throat forthwith, and held hir
there till one or the other was at the point {
,ot death. Now, Keepers household fault was thi
He loved to steal upstairs, and stretch his squar,
nv tawney limbs, on the comfortable beds, covcre
t 10 over with delicate white counterpanes. Bus tn