The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1867-03-26

n lcW ualS hIleT lie NCTtuTCu HS ucll
caicly as he could to return to the subject
by referring TO the little girl he had lost
and Of how her mother had followed her
but short time before, TO the better
land.
"You seem very cheerful, SIR" sale
Agnes Wayland, in a quick, impctuou'
way, ''and yet you have had trouble, il
seems"
"Ics, madam, have had some very
severe and dreadful trials but am very
happy and hopeful in spite OF them all,
for | know that now they will soon be end
ed, and that / shall recover all that have
lost when | reach the heavenly land"
GLOW do you know that don,
know it. When buried my only child
down in the garden there, thought had
lost him forever. That was why, in my
stony grief no tear ever fell upon hi:
grave. | have been trying thcs, fifteen
years to believe what you say you believe
but has no consolation for me. God took
my child away from me in my bilieresi
need, and he took him forever. Was il
gOOd GOd who du that y
Her voice was cold and rigid, and II
palIor as of death WAS upon her face as
she paused for reply.
"a good God, madam and whom he
loveth he cha>tencth !"
"No, indeed, sir, | don't believe that.
He didt love me, and didt love him,
and don't love him now,-hate him
rather lie has tried me too eortly."
''AIy dear friend, you know not what
you say. bcsecch you, do not bias.
phemr your God"
81 have only said, sir, for once, what |
have been thinking all these dreadful
years. When buried my child down
there, | did not believe III any God for
years. l thought some vile AMI fienIish
Fate was pursuing me. Then you min
listers were always saying to me, Pray !
and prayed. They said TO me, Study
the word of God:' and studied it. 1t
has been my only study for fifteen years
and it has brought me no consolation yet"
"But you have found God in it.-have
you not You do not deny a God p
81 have found God in it certainly,
but only God who has separated me
eternally from all love"
"My dear friend, | assure you, you
have not yet found the true God, if you
believe this"
81 have founl verify believe the God
OF the Bible, and he has said the wickc d
shall 60 away into everlasting punishment;
and | am the most wicked of all Gods
creatures"
Here Mrs. Wayland left him stan ling
upon the colonnade, and hurried rapidly
from him down the patch which led TO
the sea. Her conversation had revived in
her heart all the strong passions which
slumbered there, and which she usually
held in close repression. AS she paced
wildly up and down the beach, feeling in
her nearncsS to the sea sort of comfort
as though the great ocean were her friend,
she thought over her whole lonely life.
She thought OF her happy and brilliant
youth. OF lis gayeties, It's triumplis, and
It's great hops; she bcheld herself the
peited darling of ii joyous circle of com
panions and friends, She thought of her
journeys in distant lands. whittier a loving
father had taken her, and of all the de-
lights of those years when they had wan
dcred through all the sunny climcs of
southern Europe, and so away on the
Orient, where she had trodden with pil
grim feet all the sacred places of that
Holy Land. 1t was there she had first
met her husband; an she dwet with
tondness upon every little incident which
memory recalled Of her intercourse with
him there, and of how they had sailed
together upou their return to their native
land. II was then she had learned to
love the ocean. In those long days, when
they were out upon the tracklcss deep,
they had learned together the sweet mys.
terry of loving Night after night they
had paced the deck together, gazing out
upon the moonlight expanse, and watch
ing the breakers rise and fall. The long
voyage had been season of enchanlment.
Ii had passed into her being, and become
part OF her inmost life forever. She
had one OF those natures to whom such
things come but once in a lifetime.
When they had reached home, they had
been married, and, after year or two
OF pleasant married lifc, they had built
the old gray house Of which have told
you, designing 10 pass their summers down
there within hearing Of the grand, eternal
anthem of the sea. How we'll she remem.
bered the hurrJ they were TO get down
here, great a hurry they could NOT
stop TO have the house entirely finished,
and so in early May they had furnished
two or three rooms and lived there in a
wild trance OF what seems TO her now as
she looks back upon it, perfect bliss.
Here they wandered up and down the
beach together hand in hand for hours
AMI beheld the waters glowing in the
early tints Of snnrise, and rcfecting the
gorgeous splendors of sunset, and ripping
and shimmerng in the bewldering moon
light. Then she thinks of how gayeties
began up at the village yonder, and how
they began TO see much company and t.
minge in all the excitements OF watering
place lle. Here they had met the beau
tiful syren who had stolen her husband
from her. With what Angry hate she