The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1876-01-20

t5u1u Chambers journal.
The Two Bachelors.


The Two Bachelors.
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5.,,,nl bachelors: in GOOD truth, bache-
,,rold ot the ualuc-hachelors who
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'nr motner III a manner ti'It "p'l" nave
dNue credit to the t"fsItan nroiherS.
IL was therefore, WIN "lil'l'li' ''''"!-
p4l-"uN oi tine dctShl we We're 10 eA PERI,
enee M earh oilefS society th"' we iotilo
ourselves me occupants ol i pleuS NliI'
"A the outskirts oi iI'lIe o'ti3holS"
place IN tie highlands lar removed rom
Al friends ana acqNaInl'nces' WIN j.
Ign oi relief ana II dehShtIu' leeili9 oi
l'eedom. we wheeled our chalfs lil'o Inc
open b"W-WindoW on me hi9hl OF our ar
}at and. Lighting cigars sal down |"
enjoy the really beautiful scene before us
I'm the foreground lay our own shoothiN
rut lawn anu RECTANGULAR hover ne1S'
with the moonlight falling IN pale bright
bars over the sleeping mowers ana pe-
'ond, the SILVER l"ch' whence we c"ulo
distinctly near the Iaugh OF some Iatc
pleasure seekers, us they roWed slowly
uomeward; while above the loch the NILS
-ose IN dark maIcstlc oulilhe against lhe
pale beauty OF the SKY. Jack, as apropos
'e the scene, had been repeating as best
Ac could, between the Whlils OF his cigar,
i.old Byron's Lake Leman, and an ami
mated discussion, which had aiterward
risen on the merits and dement's OF that
much maligned poet, was suddenly inter
rapted by burst OF the finest music l
4ad ever heard II was Il splendid sopra-
no voice accompanied 10y the guitar,
9Ingmg The oid pathetlc scotch song
Aud Robin Gray. Inc expression thrown
nto the voice was SIMPLY exquisite.
Ahrn the mourniul MINOR Key was
~llncK- JACK Snatchtd MS cigar from ms
-ia leaned forward III 4 hreatilIe9S' rs
lening attitude, as II aifAld 10 lose Il Slil-
GLE vibration, ana d'" hol move again
oAill the song had ceased / lel strange
F affected myself / hal often listened
' tine same song before hut never win
lay soui-ihnIIm@ OF tonight AS the last
a,dence died away, borne over the Sil,
Fern waters To the dark mIls, ii seemed
10 me Us II 1t was an angel ; Whisper over
Inc death bed OF a child.
The sounds proceeded from the open
drawing room windows OF the villa next
car own; and when at last they ceased,
Jack, resumlng his cigar IN the most pro-