Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1860-03-07
AZ Weekly Family News paper.

= ~ Y VI my lOVerS-0a, ma, ma!
| nave not seen anything of Edwin Merton
since Monday evening. Wonder what has {
become of him? He is not i'll, | hope. Be-
acquainted with Monsieur Goldendrop;
"a French Count travelling in America incog.)
have seen him several times, and to-day was
introduced. He called this evening; he
speaks huently and with animation | am
quite charmed with his appearance he has
peautlinl soft black eyes, splendid teeth, red
ups ana jet black hair, and then to crown all,
the most magnificent moustache | have ever
seen. lie came to engage my company for
the coming ball. | declined going.
S CHRISTMAS DAY.
Frank, Gilbert and others called. 1 caught
4Tanks present; he sent me a handsome one.
They did not remain long.
NIGHT.
Frank and Gilbert again. We enjoyed
ourselves finely, laughing, talking and eating
Christmas ~nick.nacks, and so on. Roland
called to daysSle did not remain long.
JANUARY %, IS.
Well, old journal, it has been a long time
since parted Your leaves for the purpose of
making an addition to your contents. A
long interval truly What has been lone
since Christmas day? Why.a great deal
old acquaintance ksSe been Tropt, new ones
have taken their Woes. This great house
has been turned upside down, since the de-
parture of Christmas visitors I mean that it
has been subjected to a process of arrange
ment. Every thing looks changed. As for
myself, | have sighed, cried, laughed and
smiled alternately ; but nothing ofimportance
has taken place since Christmas day.
1t is a dull, gloomy day hosts of dark
clouds are trooping overhead, shooting the
earth with rain drops from their electric
charged cannon, whose report even now falls
sharply on my ear; and the harmless shot
fall against my window softly in countless
numbers, seeming to run races with each 9th
er, each striving to reach the sill first. Pat
ter, patter-they fall thick and fast, run down
exultingly, as though it were a gleesome
thing to be the first to fall down they come,
their airy feet makinga pleasant drowsy mu.
sic which sets me a dreaming. Patter, pat
teri The wind signs mournfully around the
corners and through the key-holes of this
grand ancient hall-and mournfully around
my heart, too-for it calls up from their graves
the phantoms of many mournful recol.ections
mournfully they rise, mournfully my mind
eye gazes upon them, mournfully they depart
crushing my heart beneath their leaden tread
mournfully they go, are gone, mournfully
Verify it is a mournful day.
JAN. 30, LATE AFTERNOON.
My cousin has arrived my dear cousi
Rudolph, the companion of my childhoo
days. | hardly knew him, and no wonder
| have not seen him for six years. Six year
he has spent in foreign Landslide is so muc
improved. He has married and is residin
in Paris. He married one of the noblesse
France. He looks so well, so handsome.
THURSDAY JAN. 81, 18-.
Can itbe that I am going, going away, an
in all probability never to return Yes, R
dolph says so. My guardian no longer has
: right to oppose me-, and | myself have mar
Tested a willingness to go; but aohat UiU R
land say aohat can he say?
/ THURSDAY NIGHT.
). Roland gone to --i must leave witho
seeing him ? without bidding him adieu ?
q Oh, Roland, it is hard! it is tryingt VIII
: saysst thou, hsarts a1 M1hfiSSgsrfes I'll thou +;
whispers 'stayF Cool calculating head ss
'gor
~ FRIDAY NIGHT.
s All alone | sit. The clock has tolled
J. midnight hour. Everything is still, deat
a still, painfully still. My dear good devor
old nurse has retired. We have had a 10
and last conversation. Although she tr
>. to appear cheerful, [ can see too plainly h
painful this separation will be-but enou.
,e of this | cannot write. Tomorrow st
j. for Europe. All of my friends who hi
heard of my intended departure have cal
to bid me farewell. Some have wept 6
, Ipon1o,so1 mn n c&o- DoIo-1 -
me. Poor dear Roland, he was perfec
ID shocked. He said he felt as if a thunder-t
lie had falleRat his feet. He used all the I
lie ~suasion he was master of to induce me
If stay he could not refrain from tears; he
w his lips until the blood gushed in the after
m to restrain himself. He says he cannot
ne without me that his life will be a blanl
worse than a blank. [ feel as if nv he
n will burst, but am still determined to 20
ng What as at urges me on ? what power inn
me? | know not. [ feel that | mast.
[ WILL go, even though | crush a heart
every football, and my own be among
Vn number. But | must pass over this, I {
Ter not write what I feel, and to attempt it is
do a mockery.
Ip- Sitting here in my quiet chamber for
nd last time how my heart sinks at the thou
a of to-morrow-to-morrow | go-leaye all '
lc- love and all who hate behind-and must /
nd Yes, for Fate hath decreed it and it must
ne so.
ry Tomorrow | go with Rodolph, my kind
noble protector. / leave ye all behind,
"a, friends. Blest scenes ofmY childhood, IL
lat ye; tombs of my fathers, l have gazed u
81 ye for the last time. 1 depart hence ar
ne return no more. A little while and the wi
10 of France will have kissed my cheeks and
no ally will have laid before my eyes her n
lat glorious scenes.
ny CONCLUSION NEXT WEEK.
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