The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1858-09-09

NAe was serious, almost sad. and she view
Ell the English hills with a pensveuess
which became her better than mirth.
So she sighed, all our little roman
ces come to an end.'
''Npt SO, | said or if one romance
ends. il is to give place 10 another, sill
truer and sweeter. Our lives may be ali
a succession Of romancss, Il We viii make
them so. l think now I will never doubt
the future; for fnd that, when | have
given up my dearest hopes, my best-ba-
loved friends, and accepted the gloomy
belief that all life besides is barren
then comes some new experience, filing
ny empty cup with a still more delicious
wine
"'Don't vex me with your philosophy"
said Flora. 4 don't know anything about
lit. All know is this prsseut,-this sky,
this earth, this sea, and the JOY between,
which can't give mp quite so easily as
you can, with your beautiful theory, that
something better awaits you
- have told you,' l replied, I
had been quite frank with her,-'now |
left America what a blank life was to
me then; and did [ not turn NY back up
on all that to meet face to face the great
est happiness which | have ever vet
known! Ought not this to give me faith
in the divinity that shapes our ends?
"'And so, she answered, when | have
lost you, shall have the satisfaction Of
thinking that you are enjoying some still
more exquisite consolation for the slight
pangs you have felt at parting from me .
Your philosophy will make it easy for you
to say Good bye. it was a pretty ro-
nance; l 90 to find prettiar ones still: ="
and then forget Inc altogether
And you, said, viii that be easy for
you?'
Yes she cried, with spirit.-'any-
thing IS easy TO proud, iupetuous wo-
man, who finds that the brief romance Of
ten-days' acquaintance has already be-
come tlresome to the second party. | am
glad | have enjoyed what | have; that IS
SO mach gain, of which you cannot rob
me; and now can say goodbye as eool-
~ as yen, or can die Of shame, OF | can
at once walk over this single rail into the
water, and quench this little candle, api
so an end.
"She spraBc upon bench, and I swear
to YOU, thought she WAS going down
7 vas 80 exalted by this passionate dem
onstr.tl5n, that | should certainly have
zone over win her. and ;elt perte..lv con
ten, 10 d. in her arns.-at least. until l
ba.an 70 realize what very di.aoreea5Ie
b.,a we had CHOSEN - drown II.
= drew her away: walked M and
down WIN that superb creature paut;r.
aud nslq;,at,ar almost unan NV heart; I
roured iato her ear l know not wnat ez.
sr3yaqsnt vogs: and before the slow
landed -aila,s had fastened their cable I,
"a. buoy in he channel. vs had kas,;sI
a more Subtitle ana dilacu,t Moose. not 10
b. . easily uadyae.
Now Sc what strange. variable fools
We s~e, Months Of tender intercourse
lad tailed to bring about ANYTHING ike =
u.>.tive cr.a-euent between Margaret
and a.lse.f. aud here behold .ae irreycca-
b'v n, 6-ai % Flora. after brief ten
dsys ac4ua;n-aace
Six mortal hours were exhausted in
maxim. the steamer f.st.-;n sending OH
her liaie,tv'> mails. o. w'.;..I. the cuc-.ev
speaks with toue cfre. .sD.e altoceta
er disgusting to u f-ee--n. ..5ad YaLGee..
and in entertaining the custglg-hou,e
inspectors. WHO paid a long and tediou.
visit to the saloon and on. lU-rs-e. Then
we were suffered to land. and enter the
noisy. solid streets Of Liverpool, amid the
d5nkeys and bcggars and quaint scenes
which strike the american 80 oddly upon
{ first visit. All this delay, the weari
ness and iupAtience. the contrss, between