The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-06-24

The 'ple here are vulgar, but they are kind !;
Ard 90 too indolens to make myself actively
niserf lie. live in q state of perpetual weari.
aess. am bored to death by them, bat should
do , tier by leaving them? $3.50. -
ct y love you much,' said Captain Morris,
still + king at that obstinate grain Of dust
~ T." Rosa answered, YEARLY. i" Vulgar
people always do love SO excessively never
knew aiii-bred person in my life who did not
overp yer something or gome one with their
love 4 IS .as-9 Ela = D ~
Is affection, then, mark Of in.breedipg
with u, Miss Arden ?" And the Captains
voice as rather less steady than usual si
an don't mean that" che said--was her
voice embling, too p" but NJ I'D Ash =
"B 1T wearies you to be lovedfn g
some people, and too much, yes" said
Rosa istinctly. 'f*' bas sr "a
Ca iin Morris turned az pale as the pallid
face tide him; then with forced laugh, he
said, Your frankness, Miss Arden, Is as beau
dful your sntipathy to being loved is dis.
tressi However, | fear you must live q
marty all your life, for no one can know you
witho loving you" But this was simply q
super ial compliment. There was not an &C.
cent truth or heart in these loving words /;
Rosa V quick enough to feel that. til-
TT n Mr.. Rawlinson has really no CHANGER
aslS ed, pc Captain, in a slightly mocking man.
nes., q Or short silence. an -
: Ce ,tain Norris said Rosa, with voice,
f evf'ry ound of which fell like an ivory ball,
sweot dead, and distinct, 81 scarcely expect
ed to ave heard such cruel insult from your
lips 20 you imagine, seriously, that IL
could ave entered the lists with such person
as MI : Doyeton, and for such prize as Mr.
Rswli ION? Do you think that, even if he had
NOT b engaged to Mics Devotion, could have
suffer the pretentions of such creature +?
Capts Morris, surely you do not confouud
want money with want of refinement, nor
belize that because am ruined in circum-
stanc must therefore have become depraved
Yin mi y. -
= "V y depraved, Miss Ardent" an
y ~ at question 4" said Rosa, angrily.
81 tell me--what sin, what depravity
4 woul there have been in your accepting the
love ; wealthy and, at all events, very
warm earted man? But forgot; you do no,
J like be loved 4" the Captain could not re-
prese hat sarcasm, we'll bred man as he was
81 fought Captain Morris considered me q,
least gentewoman," answered Rosa, Taught
lily. Nor can / understand by what action
/ have rfeted my claim on him to be still con
slder So" And Rosa-her usual mode oil
endit disagreeable conversation-rose slow
ly fro her place, and bowling to her compan.
ion, ised quietly from the room.
y VII, safely up stairs, she bolted her door
,thougt the bolt was worn, and did not shoot
Ishome! 1t satisfied the sentiment of security,
thonet And then she sat down by the side
of her ,ed, and, burying her face in her pillow
!, rennej cd there for some hours, cold, motion
= ioC3 atD L
self, . IN that l could live back that last hal
houtI
AS for Captain Morris, he stayed shor
time one in the renowned parsonage parlor
his Fl ,, too, concealed in his hands. Then
mute .pg aloud, Z" What fool / am, to love q
mere .eartless statue" he got up and walked
with IS military step through the room, and
30 Gu Il the house, and away down the paved
road
!, Tb night he rode away from Lone house
Dale together, leaving note for Miss Arden
-whic she burnt as soon as she had read it.
: CHAPTER THE SIXTH
s NJ .ths passed those strange, cold, gloomy
mon, which sap the life blood of the Young
more han any amount of excess, and wither
up Q heart and brain with deadly power
Mari q. had grown somewhat gaunt Rosa
SONS bat paler and more frail the boozy
your squire had shaken off his shame faced
ness and now rode through the Dale, and
halle at the Bag of Nails IS if nothing had
happ led to make him and t young LADY the
talk the village. And everything was 60
! ing in the lazy tracks of the past, even to
the yorite corner on that hard shining sofa
and rouud of buttered toast daily stripped
of 1T crust by motherly little Mrs. Devotion
/ actin policap of tho fco foh IL
but ! so, and Rosa was changed-not in face
nor in. bearing, but in mind.
J. 1t as the old story of Pygmalion and the
!, iststu OF Memnon and the dice, which the
.slivlni light OF heaven brought forth Rosa
|, had gun to feel, to suffer: to hope, to love
Z The tstue had warmed into life, the stone
!. imag had given forth q voice, answering tc
the g Eat light and glory of nature. Rosa was
/. trsns 'rmed, and the Devotion idolatry knew
no lnds at the change they felt but could
not ialyze. Still the same gentle, ladylike
" grac al girl. as in the days of her moral death
still unruttied and as self possessed, she ye
had atmosphere Of warmth, and life, anG
lovif sympathy, about her, which, though
strsni ste nm nothing more active than looks
land ndiy accents, yet made her another crea
tnre , what she used to be. 1t was literally
( that ow she was alive, if life means human
( feell aud human emotion, and that hitherto
sshef d been dead. And every one about he1
;felt Al change, though no one cav whence il
sprag', nor could trace it by any overt OF
palf lie manifestation.
b Captain Morris did not come to benef
> by las change; and Rosa was forced to gc
!, Though her dreary imitation into the true
knowledge of human life alone and uncom
forted 1t was better for her that it was 80
for all ohQ frotfad oaIl - Il -,
such o. Rosa-like tears. She little knew tina
rthose ears were dissolving the unlovely rock
work sithin which she had entrenched hel
heert, and that they were her baptism into a
world and faith which hitherto she had des
pised nd refused-the world of love, the faith
and ned of suffering and sympathy.
Nv years passed thus by the end of which
time, oor gaunt Marian's condition had sub
sided INTO species of chronic widowhood
which only made her more silent and les.
bashf shan before, but which had long ago
lost Il sharpness and bitterness of desolation
lndee At times she Was happy enough, trans
ferrin Ia Rosa all the idolatry which before
she 4 divided between her and her lover
and ling ample food for her heart in endless
small slf sacrifices and incessant acts Of devo
ton, tich Rosa, in her reformed character
! bore :. th wonderful patience, growing at las
70 tai like the girl who formerly had beer
her lily scourge. And giving practica
proofs, TOO, of her liking by teaching Marian
all ;hs she herself knew, and laboring hart
to ren sr her less ungainly and more con
ventios ]. For it soas hard task as littl,
/ prorais ,g of success as if she had under
taken teach elephant gymnastics, or
milch, ~ the FIVE positions" But it amused
her, e. her a living occupation, and exercis,
for hs patience, too; and after all, it dit
Maria. . little good how inappreciable soeve
in amo ut, still little. So that the Dovetol
family ,ad got into glorious moral condition