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BY MINNIE MARY LEE
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FROM ADELAIDE TO HENRY HOWARD. q
n l. will write as my heart dictates,
even should Iuneyer see you again, or
list to that voice that was ever the swee-
test to my ear. You say seemed near
] to you last eve-that my breath seemed
on your cheek my hand to touch
alyour own. How mysterious TOR IN
Imagination / was with you. ] could
not, would not on. that night deprive
myself Of the delightful dream Of being
with you, even in "our room !" So |
shut out the dreadful truth, the discov-
cry Of which, banished me from your
presence, and recalling the brief period
of our welded life, dreamed that was
again your bride. How pleasant that
waking dream How bright and beau
tiful lad been the reality Yes, | too
recalled, what you repeat of my conyer-
sation on that night. That expressed
forebodng was prompted by the creep
ling on of that cold shadow, that was to
shut me out from the rays Of the sun of
my life. Thencefcrtll have groped in
darkness-deep as the utter night
4 There was no morn 10 memo flowers
came with the spring time. The bright
ness of summer, that shone for others,
Knocked me, and the melancholy beauty
and sighs and decay of autumn, but told
me over how lonely | was Yes, IaOiH
tell this to you "There are times
when the charged heart must speak,"
and mine is overhowed with sadness and
remembrance, with love and disap-
pointment, and despair! / had another
dream Of you which was not a waking
one. We were reconciled at last. You
had not explained or excused your con-
duct, yet was with you again. TWAS
glorious summertime. We were in the
garden by the moss-rose tree. You
smoothed my hair on my brow, and
looking earnestly into my eyes, while
your own were filled with tears, told me
how unhappy you had been without me,
and how thankful you was for our reun-
ion. How real seemed in my dream
the delight of my heart, as was about
to reply with kindness-but the scene
changed. | was standing, lone and lost,
beneath black and angry sky, by the
wild ocean-shore, whose great waves
were lashed into fury. breaking against
the lowering blackness of the Heavens
Suddenly, amid those waves tiny boat
appeared. You only was its occupant.
A sad smile played upon your counte-
nance. cried to you to beware, for
you appeared unconscious Of danger.
You looked at me with that same sad
smile, and your lips moved, but could
not hear what they uttered. A great
:" wave was rolling from behind. You
was resting on your oar. Again /
shricked and stretched forth my hands
to you. In vain The mouutain-wave
rolled on-enveloped you-you was
lost! My great grief awoke me. My
Iplllow was wet with my tears. My
heart was softened l felt that could
= even forgive the great wrong l had en-
: dured, ifmy Henry could love me but
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your letter was brought me. 1t would
:, seem that some guardian spirit had been
2 uniting us. in thought, at least. May
: we not suppose it to have been. indeed,
the spirit Of th pure harted Lille,
whom could have loved so fondly, had
| known her in the flesh. % Had your
letter been received one day sooner, I
f should not have deemed it proper to re-
: Iceive it. My in dignation, my pride,
and my sense of wrong, were still pre-
dominate over my love- ! had been
i deceived where ! trusted, most-where /
rItrusted all--and 1 could never strictly
believe with the poetess, . ) 81 iasa 'st
Better trust all, and be deceived, p
And mourn the blight Of that de.eiving,, aa
Than doubt the heart. that. If believed,
II Would bless the soul with true believing
For l had learned how very bitter it
!. ..Iwas, to mourn ''the blight of that de-
a n|ceiving!' But one thing surprises me.
q You appear in your letter perfectly in
Is nocent, not having. apparently, one
!. : Thought ofthei occasion of my sudden
81 departure from your house. Had you
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