The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-10-18


'TiH the stars shook in the skies;
We spoke-we spoke OF common Things,
Yet the tears We're in our eyes:
And my hand know it trembfed
To each fight warm touch of thine;
But we were friends-and only friends
NY sweet friend, Leodne.
-OUeu Meredith
Yes. nv dears, l am an old bachelor.
am the thin, little, meagre, old
Eretch.' YOUR good mamma is pleased
say, who never had child to bless
4 With these words, the prim little old
&entleman who had prevented little
by from poking dirty stick in his
Zee, and SO provoked the anger of the
hild's mamma) rose from his seat on
be beach, and was walking away
rher one of the children, a graceful girl
laimed--
F" Dear mamma, this is the gentleman
Hho rushed into the sea the other day,
Then Charlie was drowning, and saved
him.
Mrs. Chaverduvat turned her gorgeous
mass of silks and bonnet toward the
title old gentleman, and in very alter
q tone, made a Thousand grateful apollo
lies, and offered a thousand fulsome
hanks to the preserver of her darling
ihild.
The gentleman replied
Madam, / can forgive your insolence,
but your compliments cannot endure
/ Then with one of those radiant smiles
EDWARDS the children, which had won
heir confidence, and caused him always
b be looked for in their early walks by
he seaside, with their governess and
kurse, the prim old gentleman walked
way. He had parted from his young
fiends forever,
/ It was no caprice or ill humor that
Sccasioned Mr.. de Pikelboie's departure.
BE had become interested in the chill
lren, but he was offended by the coarse
less of their mother, whom he had not
een until that morning; and as he could
hot teach them to respect that mother,
he would not remain with them to
hnnoy her. Yet Charlie, the boy whose
life he had saved, whilst his mother was
In bed for she was seldom visible before
boom, was his laughing, roguish play
mate; and Marian, the graceful girl,
pondered delightedly ever upon his dis
Courses Oh the wonders of creation as
Ind the stars in the sky; her young
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natures God.o
All was over; Charlie lost his play
mate; Marian her tender old friend and
Instructor; but both were too young to
feel their loss. What became of Mr..
Pik6elboie, it is unnecessary to state,
beyond the fact that he died, as he had
lived, a bachelor. 1t is for the purpose
bf narrating how he became q bachelor,
that took up my pen. We have seen
that he deserved to have wife. will
how show how it came to pass that he
Hid not have one.
There are some hearts over which love
passes, as the breath passes over the
mirror. They may believe in the death
Jess nature of their passion, land suddenly
lind it gone. They may deem it matter
bf impossibility for their love to cease
While life exists but it does not cease
! new love takes its place; it appears to
be strong as the first; and that new love
goes the way of the other. No sears
femain. The wound that was declared
TO be fatal one, heals; and the heart IS
rs sound as ever.
Such a heart was that of Emily Will
ehison, the bright star of the existence
George Augustus de Pikkelboie,
It was a strange name, that of the lover,
lnd no one laughed at it more than him
telf, Emily ridiculed it, and declared
5he could never consent to be called
\ Mrs. de Pikkelboie." "How could I
(ive," she frequently asked herself and
others, to hear myself called so oddly,
Els Mrs. de Pikkelboie at home? ~
Mrs. de Pikkelboie's carriage stops the
Fway?" No; could not endure that"
Well; George Augustus had faith in
|the Shakesperean doctrine, that rose
by any other name would smell as
Sweet; and he persevered. No one who
Saw the grim old bachelor, as we have
Seen him on the Margate sands, in COM
|pany with Mrs. Chaverduvat's children,
would have recognized the gay light
|hearted George Augustus, who loved
|the beautiful Emily Witchison, and with
|all loves best devotion, sought her
Inland.
Was it possible the bright, fairy-like
Emily could give, or promise her hand
Ito, gentleman named Mr.. Pikkelboie :?
Her Imagination ran through all the
varieties of which that name was sus-
|ceptible, until she heard the vulgar desig-
/ mate her " Pickles."
Mrs. Pickles!
Could the beautiful Emily reconcile
khprcalf tr that