The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1860-06-15

garden, but he had trimmed those flowers 10
/ her music, but be had listened 10, and admired
her singing she would look upon the moon,
when last it shone, it bqamed upon two happy
hearts il might now shine upon them, but
they were separated.
William Hayward had returned TO town, but
bis thoughts wandered away 10 the country
bis heart was there also. Everything around
him seemed strange and oIious. He join-d his
classes, but with these he was equally dscon-
tented. He was indifferent 10 what was pas
sing, and totally lnattennve. His companions
rallied him on his fits OF absence for mefly ne
had stood first IN everything now be was far
behind. Fl was uncomfortable at it, and de-
termined TO conquer il. He felt that # be
would indulge such feelings, he could not al
tend 10 his studies. and be, therefore, drtprnl-
ned to check them. He mingled in society !;
and with his companions, ran into every excess !;
this he was more asly enabled to do, as his
fortune, which was large, was now nnder his
own control. While under the care of his
guardians, he had been sedulously debarred from
all indulgence, and the excesses into which he
now plunged were consequently, greater. The
stream, instead offering exhausted, las DAMNED
in, and suffered to accumulate, until, breaking
through every channel by which it could find
egress, it rushed along with maddening fu-
'ry.
Naturally of warm and ardent tempera-
ment, endowed with high and generous qaali-
ties, which under right guidance, would have
impellpd him forward TO every thing noble, be
he had been worse than neglected, by the idle
trammels, imposed upon him by narrow sight
ed, though we'll meaning friends. He soon be-
came not only reconcled TO, but absolutely de-
lighted with, his new course of life. He hur-
RED from one scene of dissipation and thought
lessness 10 another, and If, for moment, his
mind reverted to Alice Steel he thought that
his passion for her might lie dormant for the
present, and if convenient, be easily revived.
NOT did be, for a moment, consider this unjust.
He was aware with what ease he had mastered
affection for her and, he conceived that she
could forget him with as slight sacrifice
Thus by degrees, the ardor OF bis attachment
subsidized less of love was associated with the
recollections of her name ; in a short time, Il
was repeated with indifference, then entirely
forgotten. Her letters were answered with
cold and common place professions Of re-
Il - - h. o,,aCaJ
to answer them at all then, they were treated
with neg lect. Before many weeks had elapsed
Alice Steel was entirely banished from hls mem
ory and her claims were superseded by those OF
some one who had danced with hlm al a ball,
or smiled upon him, in promenade. Thus 1T
eper IS, ag1th men oftte Sanguine Temperament.
Their hearts are like sieve, through which al
lection filters; their pledges of fidelity, are
written n sand, and the last new face obileF-
aes from their minds every former impression
a new face is TO them refreshing sight. The
,Coman, who is tied fer iite to a husband soifA
this Temperament, Ind better be in HsaUen !
But Alice Steel had no such incentives 10 for
getfulness, nor dld she wish for them; for, she
delighted to indulge in the pure feelings which
filled her breas!.-She loved with the purity
and warmthof youth, with love which can be
felt but oncpin life. In his absence, her time
passed 10 worse than Greenland darkness but,
as in that deserted region, the bright moon al
most reCompenses the inhabitants for the loss ol
the sun, 50 the tecollectlons of the happy hours
she had spent with him, shed a moonlight Of
happiness over her heart. His present conducf,
however, Smote more severely, when compared
with the past. His correspondence was cold
and irregular, and soon, discontinued. Sle.was
ignorant OF The cause OF an alteration SO afpa-
rent. Her last letters were unanswered aud,
pride, invariably the first ally woman calls 10
her assistance, prevented her attempting 10 as
certain the occasion of il, aud, for while, bore
her up. How often, does pride veil from the
worlds eye the agonirs Of The heart, and when
you have trined with that heart, and seek TO
witness the evidences Of pain, of suffering, from
the wound which you have inflicted, you are
met by countenance as composed, as serene,
as if all was peace within-not muscle stirs,
or fibre quiveIs, to send its lelegraPhic signal
10 the cheek-not sign OF the volcano, slum-
beriug beneath. You so away without your
anticipated, your unaoly triumph, and say TO
yourself, or to your. friend, perhaps, ''what an
escape have made she is perfectly heartless."
Poor fool you will never know the value OF
The treasure you have thus, carelessly, thrown
away from you!
Week passed after week, and no letters arri-
wing, made il evident that, she was forgotten.