The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1858-06-26

nor, he felt. lie SAID in his heart
rrodigal as he felt he was, will arts
and go unto Lizzie, and say to her, | an
no more worthy to be beloved of thee
But have never loved thee as ! do a
this moment. Set me some long anc
mighty task of sclf-sacrifce and pcnance
that ] may prove my love and recover
my name
! When William had cine to himself
he did not linger. He fught down the
cowardly shame of couessing himself
wrong. He found greatness enough to
be little. lie started or Nottingham
the very next day.
\ "
Meanwhile, had Lizzi Iost her love ?
She had lost the coloro' her check
She had lost her full, rend .ripeness of
face. She had lost hcrnerry and sud-
den quirks of speech. MI these were
signs she had kept love
Her father saw these igns, and was
full Of wrath and gre Like many
good and unthinking mephe gencraEsed
universal laws with one acidcnt. These
two laws he was ever prdaiming to his
neighbors -" Early engagements are
very bad p "young p, ought to kept
from knowing anything OF politics p
You may say hcse conclusion, are m
consequential. Ut is cutie tru, Rut
it is the disease of socity that yo, and
|. and every one pcnGalisc like la
day upon day. Biljr Sparcrind ha
kept his son Horace hort Of pocket
money all his boyhol. To-day the
Sparcrind family are ii i'll tears and
bushes Of shame, for lorace has been
expelled from school for robbinS the
boys lockers. Out ofhc midst of the
lamentation, the parens gencralise this
law -" Boys ought always to have
plenty to speed, or elration and covet-
business will make hem thieves. p
Young Edward Loeestring, on the
other hand, has nevG had an empty
pocket since he was svcn years old
At ten he was half po9ned with sweet
meats at fourteen hevas sallowcd with
smoking at seycntea he was often
drunk at nineteen diaascd for life
Sir Pctting Loosestng, broken with
rcmorse, has generalisel for the use OF
all fathers this law - Keep boy poor
as bcggar, if you want to have an
honest and strong nanfor your SON."
Men accept such laws according to
their respect for the lwgiver. Farmer
Wilson's neighbors sayhc was Il success
full man they though he must be wise
man. They thought fiat to adopt his
methods would be tonsure his issues.
In society, one mighty value put
upon a rich mans dvicc. More than
one neighbour adoptd Master Wilson'S
methods. They dido in farming they
made no fortune. hey did so in the
love matters of thcinhildrcn.
Ben Jones, of Bigham, broke off a
happy and trustful fellowship between
his obcdicnt John al an innocent and
loving girl. John ushed off to Not
tingham, recruitedinto the navy, and
was drowned at boukir. His Emma
sorl owed, &ickencdnd was cut off in a
decline. Widow thompson visited her
son Harry, aged tlrteen, with corporeal
punishment for gimg three cheers for
the King, three H. Admiral Warren,
and three for Oh England she sent
him to pillow Wiener she found him at
a book. Harry scw up II selfish sot,
ever in drink andout of work. Such
harm, unconscious, did William Scdlcy
by rash folly and Iidc, to these three,
and perhaps to mo-. So secret are the
atiinitics of your and mine, our most
private and peculr wickcdness wounds
we know not WHOM and may be destroy
ing souls we have ever seen nor heard
of. Such harm, to, do our hasty gen
cralisations, if wehave the awful re-
sponsibility of beg esteemed by any
one soul in the unerse.
Our Lizzie, beir a brave and Chris
tan girl, and havig daily as much hard
work as she couldgct through, though
she pined, did notlie. He father and
her work made lifworth keeping. Still
more did her faitlin William do So
The continual tax against him made
him dcarer to her 1t was reward tt
think her heart Us home for one te
whom the whole world she knew had
turned foe and1ersccutor. She felt
sure that he was,ut under cloud fol
while that head acted contrary tc
his nature, had ,ndered from himself,
and that he wo,d, like the prodigal
g come 10 himSey' again, and then te
her.
Partly in thi faith, and partly il
that mclancholypy we find in comparing
dull Now with bssed Then, she went
often to that oldyall where the violets
were pluckcd. here she could think Of
William as he w to her. Her father
could not intcrrpt her with angry ant
just denunciati0 of him.
Here she valid one cool April even
ing, two days AFR William had resolved
on penancc al amendment. Violet.
time had returid, bounding in a year:
ia year of whatorrow and conflict tc
this young girl since she and William
had plightcd tth. She brought ou
with her Horac Walpole's ",Castle Of
Otranto," in lax of the more human
and social stoes found for Englisl
maidcns in ouray. The most human
and social move, come down to her day
were not of n KID for maidenly reading