Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-04-15

menSely more tflan Su1nclenC fOr all your future
wants. In regard to that, the investigation Mr.
Leavitt is now making will assure US. While
he is examining the records, sit you down here
where we can be undisturbed, and listen. You
are ignorant of the ways of the world the
uses to which II fortune may be applied; the
many temptations that will be offered you to ap-
ply it !; and the means of comfort OF discomfort
which its application brings. Were to be
with you | could afford your Judgment but little
aid in that matter. of experience in the man
agement Of property have none. But, as I
said, you are a novice, Billy. The paths Of the
world are devious and intricate; and all along
they are beset with an endless variety of kind
Like the beasts in the forests from which we
have lately como, there are the bad and the good,
the harmless and the hurtful, in infinite degree
and the latter much the most abounds. Like
the beasts too, among those who beset these
paths, they who have the most noble mien, and
the most graceful exterior, are oftentimes the
most dangerous to encounter, or to daily with
while they who are seemingly the most repulsive
in action and in feature, are the most ready with
aids to useful necessitiesand wants.
&C wouldn't belong to the upper classes,
Dick" said one of two vitiated specimens of
human nature, who had halted near where Clo-
Wis and William sat 80 wouldn't belong to the
upper classes, Dick, for any moderate income"
"How much, Tom?" the other enquired.
Well, not less than four or five Thousand
year."
Egad why not, Tom?"
g Oh, there's a deal of trouble attendin it.
Besides the wear and tear of conscience is no
small item, where they keep strict account.
They have to make 50 many genuhections and
false tokens, the symptoms being all wrong you
know, Dick, and contrary to natur, that it's
hard work-must be hard work; then it costs
good deal to be polite; over and above that
they we no independence. Some hain't got the
courage even to carry home the turtles they make
their dinners on, when they lack the funds to
pay for 'em Now the difference between us
and them is, we've got the courage, but we lack
the turtles. Agin, about their Dress they have
to beso anxious to see that the fashion hain't
changed. Then too grease spot, or the least
rent, scares them. These are things that don't
trouble us, you know. Then they envy us, Dick,
when they see us sitting down on the curb-stone
resting human nature, regardless of the outer
man. They are plagued too with the credit
system That's one of the great evils that our
position exempts us from. We don't have to
! be dunned So take my advice, and don't be
seduced to any false hopes of lettering your
condition by leaving the society of the lower
classes. Pride, too, is bad distemper they are
troubled with. Pride is just like a clock, Dick.
1t leads you all wrong, and many times puts
you off day for your dinner, lift it don't have
the right kind of pendulum to regulate it,"
"That man," Clovis continued, has given
you his views of that class to which your per-
son, your address, and your fortune if you OBJ
tain it, will open the way for you. He is neither
right nor wrong; and am perplexed, Billy,
with this conviction on my mind, that l can
not clearly, and in few words, show to you the
distinctions between the classes, that ennoble
the one and degrade the other; as well as the
views and errors that are alike disreputable to
both. There is no being in the world who can
see them more clearly, and approve or censure
them more sweetly and justly, than Alice. There
is none who would so delight to point them out
to you, or lead you along so peacefully and
gently, by the meek influence of a heavenly
spirit, as she. Your life may be one of perpetual
quiet and your hopes, for the present and the
future, may be safely anchored inner own fault
less heart. Promise me, then, =" he continued, in
tone of deep earnestness, " that when you
have acquired your fortune, you will go back to
Alice. For your own sake ask it, and for
hers who has made me what am. Promise me
then. that it may be some relief to my pains in
all the darkoning future, to know that through
any agency of mine, the last of wronged and
murdered fathers race, was happy here; and
heavenward bound hereafter "
, William was amazed at the deep solemnity Of
his tones, and the strong aDd unaffected earnest
: ness of his manner. &C promise, Clovis,'' he
said /" but you must go with me, and yourself
must share in Alice's affections. If possible you
love her more than -
81 love her, Billy, more than had supposed
, it in tho power of human being tolove. Hove
her as hope may hereafter love the angels
in Heaven; and when she joins them | shall
again love her the most The change, the
mighty change she has wrought in my heart at
tachos me to her thus. And feel as if were
making some atonement for the terrible wrongs
| have done, or suffered to be done, to our--your
parents in the past, by pedging for the present
and the eternal future the happiness, the peace,
and the safety of the son. But cannot 60
with you, Billy. | have an assurance. a strong
presentment before me, that to-day you and
must SEPARATE so far as this worlds intercourse
is concerned, forever. Take back this packet,
therefore and, if 50 be, open it, read it, and
| forgive. But, for your own sake, as well as
( that of your parents and mine, Blly-W illiam
forget not Alice and be not surprised by aught
5 you may learn to-day"
lie had not finished the sentence when a mess
D cnger announced to them the discovery Of the
papers, and among them Mr.. Belden's Will"
7 Tell Mr.. Leayitt we will be in directly, y
said William.
"No, no ; no delay added Clovis, rising tc
go. " The doubts and pangs feel must speed.
lily give way to the certainty of what fear, Oh
t hope, else ! cannot support them," and he
leaned on William i arm.