The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-04-14

dark ohesnut hair, by the softness Of
those loving eyes, and by the playful
expression Of the red lips and beau
tifuhy moulded chin. Though she is
pale tonight, and her breath comes
short, and quick, as. she PAGES down
towards the rivtlet,- her color is usu-
ally that of the moss-rose in its first
bloom; and, indeed, IT must be some
emotion Of more than ordinary
strength that can thus blanch her
cheek, or bate'one jot from the Gus
tomary dignity of her gait and bear
ing-for our archduchess is not with
out hf considerable share ! Of that
wornah-pride on which women so
pique themselves, and thinks she is
possessed of great deal moro than
she really has. Her dress-but here
we honestly confess ourselves at fault
With no feminine assistance at hand,
we dare not enter on the details of q
lady's toilette in the days of which
we write, az now, q matter of pro-
found science and elaborate art. It
is sufficient to observe that more than
one gallant about her fathers court
had, thatNafternoon, pronounced it
the most becoming he'had ever seen: !:
and that although it was o favorite
costume of her own, or she would
scarcely have worn it on the present
occasion, she had, this evening, for
the first time, certain misgivihgs as
to Its attractions and her general ap-
pearance. She must, however; have
been good deal pre-occupied, for
she scarce gave more than O. passing
thought to this uncomfortable con-
sideration.
Bright and fair as the evening star
above her, she walked down to the
murmuring rivulet, and her cheek
grew yet paler, and her head dropped
more and more, as she watched the
passing stream. Presently, she started
and the blood mounted to her brow,
for bunch of violets;; floating down
the eddying water, came ashore at her
very feet. She stopped to pick them
up, with bright smile, land, wiring
ing the wet away, hid them tenderly
in her bosomAthep, with qaickened
steps and.a9itated gestures, hurried
from the garden, and was soon across
the adjacent mHadows, and was lost
in the gloom ofsthe neighboring pine,
forest. s..Ssss.fss. ,s.s..1
It was not the frsE time that b run,
ming stream had been employed to
carry message, or a 7love-token.r 1t
was thhs, cqerdipg to the old roy
mapcArs, that Lancelot oorresponded
with GueneYeyes and that true Sir,
Tristrhm held converse, after, shs be-
came Queen Of; Cornwall, with. !. .F
r,sThe ioxeliess lady ih The rand. ! -
1seuit OF ire'and.".0 .a,s 50 .fef:-S ~
So our sweet arch duchess, fair Clo
thilde, so called after her ancestress
ChroetiIde of Burgundy wife of
Clovis, the first King of France, hied
heEawaN to a lone spot in the depths
of theI pine forest; where "a. certain
spfihgS being indeed the very source
and origin of the stream that flowed
by her garden, bubbled, up clear md
cold from its surrounding moss.
: 1t did not, however, appear that
the crystal water was the attraction
which drew her to this sylvan haunt.
She stopped indeed at the spring, but
it was to look and listen, rather. than
to stoop and drink; and she needed
not to look nor listen long. Il
There glides a step through the foliage
And her cheek grows pale and her heart
beats quick;
There whispers q voice through tho rus
tlihg leaves,
And her blush returns and her bosom
heaves. -l s't-' fV'''I
A moment more, and they shall meet
It's past-her lovers at her feet. g.
"My angel Clcthilde, how good of
your said fond, frank voice, and q
manly head bent down towards the
hand he had imprisoned in both his
own, whilst she, woman-like, must
needs exclaim, in the accents of the
greatest astonishment, "Count Karl!
and here! how, often have 1 told YOU
not to Gomez"
It would scarcely tend to elucidate
the thread Of our narrative were we
to detail circumstantially the succeed
ing conversation. Our own impress
sion is that much of it was carried on
in dumb show; and we are of opinion
that q dialogue between lady and
gentleman who met accidentally twice
or thrice week at fountain by star
light was not more likely in the fif-
teenth century than at present to be
of terse and sparkling character,
alive with point, rejoinder and re.
partee.
But it is necessary to account for