The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-02-24
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FORTUNES OF JULIET oLAYBURN.

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"And what did Karl say?''
",,Nor do I believe her guilty, Ru.
dolph; but you know my disposition
such things annoy and irritate me. AS
long as Julie wears the talismanic ring
I placed upon her finger-a preservative
against evil-she is mine-she shall be
mine, in spite Of everything. Nothing
can convince me that she is false, until
tiold thatiFfng, an emblem Of her perfldy,
IN my hand. ! canlot doubt win
notl .n jules lost, ais losti But. .Ru-
dolph my boy, never say again you
WQulan't do,' this or that, under the
pressure of an emergency in which YOU
hare never been placed. /. No man yet
nntried can put himself in an imaginary
position and say, with certainty, what
he would or would not do. Experience
is the only test Of action. It is easy
enough to do exactly the right thing in
theory; bnt when it comes to actual
reality, often-times, nothing is more
difficult. once heard minister of the
Gospel say he could imagine no condi-
tion of danger, however imminent,
which could shake his firm and calm
reliance in Providence. He said he felt
convinced he could stand upon the deck
OF o burning vessel-see the leaping
flames enclose around him-look beneath
him at the dark waters ready to swallow
up the life-freighted bark-hear the
creaking timbers, and know that death
and destruction were inevitable, and yet
feel as calmly serene, as placid. as if he
walked in his hower-garden on o sum-
mer's day. Not long after, we were out
at sea together. A storm arose. Our
situation was precarious in the extreme.
It was frightful-horror sat upon our
faces, and despair took possession of our
souls. Feeling very much agitated, I
looked for the minister. I found him,
not in state of Christian resignation, rs
! expected, but rushing about the cabin,
in o frantic state of excitement. "Oh,
my Godp were his first words to me,
'.and are we thus to be hurried into
eternity, with no helping hand to saver"
The moral I drew from this was, never
to say what I would or would not do, In
q suppositious case, but to remain quiet,
until knew what / i0ou'1 DO by what I
had done.'"
"a very good story" said Cornelia,
popping her head in at the window,
''andavery good moral. If you treasure
mp in your mind all those noble precepts,
and govern your life by all those wise
principles, which yonr uncle has appa-
you, you will doubtless be wonderful
man, Rudolph. But allow me, Juliet,
my dear, to make personal application
of this matter. If you do not speedily
change tho subject of your conversation,
or carry on your discourse in lower
tone, you will soon be able to say,
not as matter Of speculation, how
you would or would not act, if faced by
the wrathful visage of Halbert the Grim,
and an explanation demanded of some OF
your past deeds, but how you did and
haze acted in such direful emergency"
'Who's Halbert the Grim?" inquired
Rudolph.
''Poor little ignoramus!' said Cornelia;
81 commiserate you. Have you never
heard of Halbert the Grim?
THE hardest may soften,
The fercest repent
But the heart of Grim Halbert
May never relcnt.'"
"She means father" said Juliet.
"Where is he?"
Coming through the gate at this
moment" replied Cornelia. "Why
don't you carry on your private CONVEX
sations in German?" she continued,
changing, herself, to that language.
"How stupid" exclaimed Juliet; "and
after Karl's injunction, too, to practice
it as much as possible! It is. however,
SO natural to speak the language which
comes with most fuency to your
tonguel"
"For my part" said Rudolph, indig-
nantly, 81 didn't know there was an
eaves-dropper about, and don't see we
would have gained anything by speaking
the language we speak now!"
81 am no eaves-dropper,," said Corne-
nelia. "Juliet knew 1 was sitting out
here, reading, and could not help hear
ing what was said. Besides"
Besides" interrupted Juliet, "you
know oil my secrets, and are n good friend
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