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q It VAS Jon only, think, sir, who desired
an sxplasasion; and pardon me if I say that
you have had il, and thst sm now about to
be otherwise engaged" - =. \. 4. -
And yoa ere dstsrminsd not even to hear
what l havs b say for nyseiff Oh, Con
stasce i-Aim AspsnwalI have been SO ut
tssly nisaahsaf Have only my own pre-.
sanpsioas - thank fnr nay hope that At some
fatnre 6ns--est b TIE mad precipitancy Of
last nigAs-fw tAa. can never forgive my
sslf-bst h - patisnt devotion of months
and pears, / might win--your shsction ~
"a common woman would answer, that you
had only your own presumption to thank for it,
and would hide by shameless falsehood her
shame at having allowed her preference to be
won by person incapable of rewarding and
retaining il. / am not common woman and
shall stoop TO no such meanness. 1t is no
shame TO me, to have been led on to--almost-
love the man you seemed"
he started mp: " You almost loved Then,
noblest, deaeest, sweetest being. love mel Love
nae, Constance! o, Constance, Constance,
don't know how to seem!
"Excuse me. You seemed, though North
ern man, perfectly liberal and unprecedented
man and you are an Abolitionist."
Constance's love of repartee was breaking
up the ice between them, almost as fast as
Hernan's love of her. Pride and affection
were fitting in the scales and the expressions
of delighted hope ct the instant in his face and
voics, tossed pride up almost to the beam; but
Satan, having been invited in to the conference,
stayed without urging, and stood by all the
time, ready at need to put in his foot, heavy as
the Indian fur-dealer found the white mans
hand. f#
So some of the newspapers say, know"
answered Herman and so are you an Orthodox
Christian, and /, too, hope; though one of us
goes TO St. Psups and the other to Kings
Chapel, and neither of Us to Park.street Church
or the Old South, with the so-called Orthodox
par fzcellence. What's in name? / have no
intention, assure you, of binding myself to
do tbs bidding of any political party; but this
name of Aboli,ionist is q very vague one, and
may be applied to q very great variety of PEG
pie. May ask what you know of them?"
"Quite as much as wish. l know that
they are set of wild and lawless people, who
are ready to drown their native country in
blood, in order to take away the rights and
property of their neighbors, and undo all that
their fathers bled and died to do-of Judges
that neither fear God nor regard man preach.
ers who preach sedition, schism, and skepsicism
and oonceited vixenish women, going out OF
their sphere to NEEDLE with what they know
nothing sbout, and dictate to men IN politics.
Constance vas getting upon the stump. which
is often, if not usually, in one of her sex,
equivalent to putting herself in q false position
Herman's good.breeding could always keep the
corners of his mouth in order but anything
comical which came in his way, even in bis
sadder moments, was invariably as flint to
steel to his eyes they would sparkle at il
without his knowledge. Besides, Constance's
evident thawing had raised his spirits their
disagreement was assuming the air of very
harmless sociabie lovers quarrel; and they were
chatting together, as if soon to be again on
their former terms or more. Constance saw
in an instant the weak point in her Grafton, and
in another mood she would have laughed out
right but Satan applied that innocent invol
untary little sparkle (why should spark not
sparkle y to her pride; and it exploded, and
blew him up at once. lid Herman mean tina,
her sdjectives conceitsd" and "vixenish y
applied to herself2 (He never dreamed of such
thing but it had oce urred to him, as she
spoke, for the first time, that she might not al
her age be so accomplished in craftsmanship az
she was in music and bellies letters, or as she
might be by and by, and yet that she had
shown some little disposition to regulate bis
public course) Such abominable impertinence
How could she ever have imagined that she
liked himP With sudden change of voice
and aspect that terrified him, she exclaimed
" 1t is time to put an end to oil this /"
"Good heavensl What have done q"
"Must say it againf" cried she, adroitly
shifting her ground, and in manner moving
the previous question You have lifted youI
voice against our country, against the nobles
part of it, and the part TO which belong, ant
against warning besides for had been NOR,
frank than you, and been at no pains to dis
guise my utter hatred and scorn of Abolition
ism I"
81 certainly knew that you disliked some o
the extreme doctrines Of some of those VII,
wish for the abolition of Slavery and you knew
that did. did not know that there was on,
word in my speech, from beginning to end, tina
could give offence to a magnanimous, patriotic
christian woman and must entreat, Miss AS
penwsll. that you will read it before you con
denim it.
Estreat sounded a little like demand for b.
was again beginning to feel that she was usin,
him very i'll F; but how authority became him
He vas really putting on the look of her idea
mani $3.50
"And if should read, and afterwards con
denim it 2" sns ssts a.
There was pause. BE rose, walked toward
the window, and again towards her, and thel
said, in deep though smothsred tones, Re
meubering the weakness of human nature,
should thank God that IL was anoken hefora