Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1859-05-06
rERMs oF ApvERrlsING.
BY oRIoLE
CHAPTER TX.


'in vain trusted that the flowing bowl
Would Danish sorrow and enlarge the soul"
Prior.
Through many a cline tbs mine to go,
With many retrospection curst, eF
And all my solace is to know,
Whnte er betides I've known the worst"
Byron.
"Miss Lily, here is letter found up
on your desk this morning when l went
to the school house for my Arithmetic
thought you forgot it yesterday so I
brought it with me. Did do Drigbt?P
asked Minnie Barker.
1t was the morning after Walters de-
parture; evening had wept itself to sleep
the night previous and the morning sun
eagerly kissed away the tears that fingered
on the fowerets check and trembled upon
the quivering leaflets. Lily was seated
with her sewing beneath the old pear tree
in the arbor whose site she had selected
for Minnie. A blue bird trimmed its
feathers on the bough near luscious
looking pear, bearing with philosophic in
difference the playful mimicry of a mock
ingbird that sang in neighboring Azalia
Trilling, whirring, piping and warbing
until every little 4nadcap songster in the
grove caught his infectious ecstacy and
burst into rival melody, filing the little
heart of the successful ventriloquist with
such triumphant JOY that he leaped into the
air, wild, with delight. A basket filed with
summer fruits stood before Lily on the
rustic table around which Minnie had
twined the myrtle-vine. It's bright crimson
blossoms alluring the coquettish butterfly
and gay.colored hummiug- bird to its
fragrant home and claiming them there
with the nectar presented in its ruby COB
lets, Downy peaches laid their glowing
cheeks, crimsoned by the suns ardent
glances, close to cooling bunehes of malaga
grapes, and summer apples, rosy with
ripeness supported luscious yellow pears,
while the purple damsou, scarlet chick
asaw, and green cages filed the interstices;
around the frosted margin of the silver
basket were wreathed clusters of late
strawberries interviewer with green leaves
The whole, surmounted by a magnolia
blossom of rare loveliness upon one Of
whose pure white petals was inscribed
"For Miss Aymer with the compliments
Of General Leroy"
"Oh how beautiful! how delicious, -
exclaimed Minnie clapping her tiny hands
"When get to be young lady, Miss
Lily, intend to have just such beaux who
will send me- nice baskets of fruit and
boquots of pretty flowers. Aunt Rueta
says Mr. Willis Acton sent you pair Of
dear, white rabbits with pink eyes, yestcr
day; where are they Miss Lily? ] must
see them" Teacher and pupil ran off to
gethcr to the warren where the rabbit,
were captured, fed, and caressed to Min,
MES hearts-eontcnt, And then followed
the romp with Frsk, educated Frisk, who
could put out his paw for Minnie to shake
when she bid him, good morning, anC
bow with such demure gravity to Lily
that he was sure to set every body tC
laughing, when he would jump and bark
as if he, too enjoyed the sport.
Aunt Hannah put an end to the froliC
by calling Minnie to help gather cucum
bers and squoshes for dinner, and Lily re-
turned to the arbor. Lily's conscience
smote her for inattention to the parson'.
request as her eye rested upon the neglec
ted letter, she broke the seal and read -
Miss AYLMER
Ere you receive this letter shall be many
miles upon the road to Brooklyn and although i
may be pcruscd beneath my own roof my presence
will not cmhauass your consideration of its con
tents aud ere my return you will have gone 4
gladden. with your cheering smiles another home
How dcsolate win my own appear when your sun
NY face no longer irradiutcs its gloom llcayel
grant your absence be only for a season, that yo
may return to take away the mourning badge whicl
each heart in the family circle will wear for You
departure. donot oaer you, young Lady the frs
rapturous emotions of boyish fancy, SO calculate
to lead captive the ardent imagination of the youth
ful, but the deeper more abiding funess of man
hoods lave, lregard you, Lady, with pure ferveu
devotion and d'Ph Of affection that my heart ha
never known 'till now You will perhaps feel IN
clined to smile at the romantic Gily of love at fin
sight in widowrr Of thiry-two, nevertheless m
heart went forever from my keeping ON that men
orable eve when You became Que In my home eircl
WIN !9u net l2,oa to my Pleading, LadyG Wi