Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1857-05-29

how beautiful was her beauty in its sunshine
| Her health and spirits daily improved yet i'm
the midst Of all this flowing tide IF new life,
/ llstcllo astonishod her frionds by suddenly,
in the height Of the London season, rotiring
/ 90 her fathers country scat, whore she rec
manned in strict scclnsion from the world for
eighteen months.
Atthc end of this period, Lord Montrossor,
who bad never loit England or lost trace of
4 na beloved Stella, and who was now staying
as his castle in Dorsctshirc, was one day scat
ed at breakfast when the morning mail was
brought him. Among score of letters the
FIRST that attracted his attention was dainty
white envelope superscribod in delicate
handwriting. He took that up first and
opened it--it contained but one word
/" CoME.'
The light of an incHablo Joy broke over his
face Oh he had waited. patiently. hope
fully. years, for that word, and at last he
received it Thanks 60 heaven in the first
instance end thcn pushing = Che other let
tors unopened aside he sprauy up rang for
his valet, and ordered his valiso packed and
horses pnt % the carriage.
In twenty more minutes he had rcuchod
the railway station just as the cars were about
to start. and in three hours he was az Hyde
Hall and standing iu the presence Of Estelle
-she looking So beautiful AM happy
With the ola chivalric enthusiasm of dcvo-
ton, De dropped. at once, upon his knee, and
raised her had to his. saying
For four years ] have hoped and waited
for one word from YOU. and 40 last. beloved.
YOU have writton-'Come and am at your
feet as ] said, with an unchanged heart
But I, She said, deeply blushins, while
she hold both hands to raise him. "I my
Lord. have not an unchanged heart for long
er chan four voars have loved YOU moro than
woman's t0nrue mav toll-aud noycr more.
tban af the ho1r in which ve babe farewell
|as tboogbt f,rerarl"
81 know it. beloved know It henl knew
'it qfr,ysl mover doi@ @R Could [ be-
leea;yol +, tb, lo,r b9,r. ny tho woman
Ipvoll Noi opd f.,t WAS ts, socr.t of ms
n,.;cnc, +, NJ ro,I,ol t,l,io., lis sost ON H.
soa by ber silo.
and vet Won mover cnauirel and do not
o,,, ,,.,,, o,o,,ir, vby without evplaratian
and ,,i,io,,f b,,. Z ,.-t Won from, ,o, nros-
ono, and ,,b, now ,yitto9t arparcut re5son
rsY,ono, vo1 baob r. sbe s,id nd n shade of
,bo iii s,i,.,s r.li ,,ro-, b,, l.,,utif,l r,cr
..yon mot.ycq loarost ,yero md are vour
,-., N,t,,rt1 ,.l,, s,,ir;t ,,,..s ,,.,, a., Ia
MI. .H|r- fIt mo |f NHf|
,.,.sl-.,., e.. ,,, Initial st.lia ~
.CoosI.,cct OL ,,,, Go3r, sbo exclaimed
i,l, d-., a,-;u;,,,. ,.,;o.
" WIN vbot is fbo 7o,ttor I,arost. :"
Sl,o l.,tod nm s,,5J.,l,. , s,,,ilo of ,,o,-
sbining lov, brsalin, iiko SUNLIGHT over her
d,ri, e,o, AMI so;d
nN,tlir- -,,tl,;~., ,n, iorl b,t ra4 an
voor f,or',Its onl G,lin.s ~, so elevated
,,o,,ld ,i,ro.+ c,,eso H. s,, Inv could .I,, bo
nm a,,,ol ebe ,,oula Wish yop a. he some
,bir,, l,r bi,,bor.-, ,,a ~
..erest 9fl.-s-.. .aoa go y.ar asoir,-
ton or the world and it's peonle will disap-
n,int von Re NOT an idolator: worship ONLY
God. INV Stella"
Such was their moctingi
Yet. occasionally. throughout the inter-
view. a sudden shadow like the recurrence off
a painful thourht. would fall upon her BRIGHT
hca and then pass as it came.
They were engaged. and within a fcw days
the marriage was announced to take place
on the first of Nav.
But it was observed by the nearest friends
of the bride. that from the day of her be-
trothal her spirits had been marked by the
stransost fluctuations. Sometimes with her
beautiful dark face illumined with deep,
still. almost religious iov, She moved about
as it were. ON winged feet, or sat broodng
in a happy trance. At other times. She fell
into doen gloom and anxiety, as iucxplicaplo
as it was alarming to her friends. who greatly
feared her RELAPSE into the deep melancholy
that had SO long ovorshadowod hor. and that
they had grown to dread as a serious constitu-
tional malsdv. But thew hoped everything
from her approaching marriage with the man
She loved. Lord Monuessor observed with
the deepest interest the uncertain moods of
his betrothcd but with the hirh-toncd sem
timouts that distinguished him, rciraincd from
inauiring. and awaited her voluntary revola-
lions.
At last the FIRST day of Nav. the marriage
day. upon which have presented the parties
20 the reader. arrived. and all the h1H ton, as
said. were gathered at the Hall or at the
Church TO do honor to the solomuitics.
And the expactant bride. ia her bridal robe
and veil. waited within her boudoir the arri-
val of the bridegroom, whom She had sum
moned TO private interview beforc thev
should proceed to the church. She had not
10 whit. Tie who quickly responded to her
SLIGHTEST inclination Immediately obeyed her