Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1858-05-01

in it, as she says she fears, we should neye
cease to reproach ourselves. never should
"She is not going 10 die under it," retortc
Ursula. "She was always full of tancies."
81 hope she is not. But you see by her lei
ter, how low spirited she Is how SIZE dread
it,"
Her conscience pvicks her" sni Ursula
"One with bad conscience is afraid Of every
thing"
Dear Ursula, you will 50 much oblige M
! oy never abiding in that way to the past
! III Is over aud gone, and ought to be burict
III oOli7ion. Surely, if | have forgotten i
/ you may"
| GU have not forgotten it, Susan"
Quite "a much go AS il ncrdul and neces
snry. or course, to entirely forget it, as d
, thing that haa never taken place, is an inpos
| slhiiity, but have forgotten them both iu NY
own beart:"
And retain tender remembrance of him ?
don't believe you, Scsan. You are not one
to forget SO easily"
Yes | am, where there is a necessity"
susan almost sternly said. IL could have
been true to him for my whole life, though he
must have passed it abroad, and | here, az
those lew years were passed but from the
very moment | knew he did not care for me.
| set to work to root him from my henrt and
l have well succeeded. How could you thinl;
it was otherwise. Ursula and he, the. Lus-
band Of Emma y
Nay. don't be put out. did not think
you were chershng the old love---o( course
not, but thought there would be sufficient
OF its remembrance left TO prevent your run
ming to see them the first year of their mar
riage."
Susan felt the words. Ursula was Of n
stern, unforgving nature, and her remarks
were often cutting. IL am not running to
see them for pleasure it will be anything
but pleasant TO me- although he is to NE
now no more than my sisters husband.
would rather 90 over the whole wide earth
than to Barbadoes; but the sense Of duty
compels me-"
You always did think so much about that
duty" pcevishly remarked Ursula. Your
cOnscientiousness must be very strong"
81 suppose it is believe it is. And there
is another thing which urges me TO GO" ad-
ded Susan; "mv love for Emma. Although
she acted as she did, cannot forget how fond
! was Of her. and since the arrival Of this let.
ter when Ihave thought of her as i'll, anxious
y, not (as it secms) too happy, all my old
dear love for he has come back to me-"
Hou would go sailing out, aud make your
self slave to the humors OF Mrs. Carnage,
and stop there Us uurse.maid TO her chldren!"
cried the veXed Ursula. In twenty years
from this we should not see you home again"
Not So" answered Susau. When once
Emma is safely over her illness, | shall come
back. shal! certainly not stop to make my
homo there in their house. But she does
seem so anxious for what she calls my forgive
ness, and so apprehensive that she shall not
live must 60, Ursula"
"Ilow could you goI Who is to take you ?"
Il can go alone-under the charge Of the
captain of the ship. have thought of my
plans"
"Oh ifyou have made up your mind IT,
nothing more to be said, for ii would not I,
yor," resentfully spoke Ursula shall w..
start to-day?' she ironically added.
NO" smiled Susan, but should like to
be away by this day fortnight-should yes
TO! b. sailing. Ny OWE preparations Will nc.
take long"
Susan you are not in earnes. ?"
"Now that have made up my mind, the
sooner am away the better. must be
there before Enma's Illness"
That's not going TO happen in week"
Neither eau | reach Barbadoes ia q week
| wish you could see this in the light that
DO, Ursula; you would not granlbe al ms
then"
1t was the loving spirit Q! charity. Of for.
givencss, that was urging Susan Chase to
take this long journey to visit her sister. \
season Of bitter dcsolation had passed Susan
during which her heart had becn purified to
wiser and better things than tho daily graft,
fcation of self Ursula had not yet found
this spirit her time for it was not come
she was proud and uniorgiving; never since
her sisters marriage had she called her by her
familiar Christian name, always Mrs. Car,
nnge;" and yet Emma had not snncd against
her, bpt against Susan. TO visit them-as
Ursula expressed 1.-THE fret year OF their
marriage, could not be pleasant TO her feelings
but Emma had written home long heart.
rending letter, every page Of which implied O
wish, though it was not expressed, that Su,
san was with her TO comfort and forgive her
and to take care OF her in al approaching time
Of peril. Susan asked herself how she could
refuse to go-she who had promised to THEN
mother, Oh her death he'd always to cherish
Emma.
When her resolution Lecame known, tl-
neighborhooJ troubled itself amazingly about
il, neighborhood fashion. Chiefly adopted
the views Of Ursula But Susan vas not tr
be dismayed, and with as little delay as ne
cessary, she started on her voyage.
10 be cOntig.sd