The Beaver radical. (Beaver, Pa.) 1868-1873, April 18, 1873, Image 2
2 THE SEASONS. Hay and corn, hnd tfuds and flowers, > Snow and ico, and Trait, and wine— Suns and seasons, sleets and- Bring, in turn, divine. , Spring blows, summer glows,; Autumn reaps, winter keeps. Spring prepares, summer provides, V Autumn hoards, winter hides. Come, then, friends, their praises sound; Summer,autumn, winter, spring, -As they run their yearly round, ' Each m turn with gladness sing! Time drops blessings as he flies— Time makes ripe, and time makes wise. ELECTIVE -AFFINITIES. TRANSLATED PROM TUB GERMAN OP OOETHB. PART I. CHAPTER I. Edward—so we shall call a wealthy no bleman in the prime of life—had been spending several hours of a fine April morning in his nursery garden budding the stems of some young trees with cut tings which had been recently sent to him. He bad finished what he was about, and having laid his tools together in their box, was complacently surveying his work, when the gardener came np and complimented bis master on his industry. “Have you seen my wife anywhere?” inquired Edward, as he moved to go away. "My lady is alone yonder in the new grounds,” said the man ; “the summer house which she has been making on the roek over against the cistle is finished to day, and really is, beautiful. It cannot fail to please your grace. The view from it is perfect -.—the village at your feet; a little to your right the church with .its tower, which you can just see over; and directly opposite you, the castle and the garden. “Quite true,” replied Edward; “I can see th? people at work a few steps from where I am standing.” “And then, to the right of the church again,” continued the gardener, “is the opening of the valley; and you look along over a range of wood and meadow far into the distance. The steps up the rock, too, are excellently arranged. My gracious iady understands these things; it is a pleasure to work under her.” ‘‘Go to her,” said E l ward, “and desire her to be so good as to wail for me there. Tell her I wish to see this new creation of hers, and enjoy it with her.” The gardener went rapidly off, and Ed ward soon followed. Descending the terrace, and stopping as he passed to look into the hot-houses and the forcing-pits, he came presently to the stream, and thence, over a narrow bridge, to a place where the walk leading to the summer house branched off in two directions. One path led across the churchyard, ini mediately up the face of the rook. The other, into which he struck, wound away to the left, with a more gradual'ascent, through a pretty shrubbery. Where the two paths joined again, a seat bad been made, where he stopped a few moments to rest; and then, following the now sin gle road, he found himself, after scramb ling among steps and slopes of ail sorts and kinds, conducted at last through a narrow more or less steep outlet to the summer house. Charlotte was standing at the door to receive her She made him sit down where, without moving, he could command.a vjew of the different land scapes through the door and window— these serving as frames, in which they were set like pictures. Spring was com ing on ; a rich, beautiful life would soon everywhere be bursting; and Edward spoke of it with delight. “There is only one thing which I should observe,” he added, “the summer house itself is rather small.” “It is large enough tor you and me, at any rate,” answered Charlotte. “Certainly,” said Edward; “there is fur a third, too, easily.” “Of course; and for a fourth also,” re plied Charlotte. “For larger parties we can contrive other places." “Now that we are here by ourselves, with no one to disturb us, and in such a pleasant mood,” said El ward, “it is a good opportunity for me to tell you that I have for some time had something on my mind; about which I have wished to speak to you, but have never been able to muster ud my bourage.” } “I hav£ observed that there has been something o£ the sort,” said Charlotte. “And even now,” EKvard went on, “if j it were not for a letter which the post j brought me this morning, and which 1 obliges mo to come some resdution to- I day, 1 should very likely have still kept it to myself.” "What is it, then ?” asked Charlotte, turning .affectionately towards him. “It concerns our friend the Captain,” answered Elward ; “you know the unfor tunate position in which he, like many others, is placed. Ills through no fault of his own ; but y«>u may imagine how painful it must be for a person with his knowledge and talents and accomplish ments, to find himself without employ- Client. I—l will not hesitate any longer with what I a n wishing for him. I should like to have him bete with us for a time.’” “We must think about that," replied Charlotte; ‘‘it should be considered on more sides thin one." "lam quite ready to tell yon what I have in view," returned Elward. “Through his la*»l letters there is a pre vailing tone ol ilerpondency ; not that he is re -lly in ar.v 'Aunt, He knows thor oughly well Low l i limit his expenses; A Novel. and I have taken care for everj thing nec easary. It is no distress to him to accept obligations from the; all ouj: lives we have -been in the habit of borrowing from and lending to each other ; and we could not tell if we Would, Mw opr debt or and <Wedi tort account stands. It is be ing without occupation which Is really fretting him: The many accomplish ments which he has cultivated in him self; lx Is his onlypleasure—indeed.it is his passion—to be daily and hourly exer cising for the benefit bf bthefs. Afid‘ now, to sit still, with bis arms folded ; or to go on studying, acquiring and acquir ing, when be can make no use of what be already is p painful situation; and alone as he is he feels it doubly >t trebly.” “But I thought,” said he had had offers from many different quarters. I myself wrote ,to numbers of my own friends, male and female, for him; and, as 1 have reason to believe, not without effect." ‘Tt is true," replied Edward; "but these very offers—these various proposals— have only caused him fresh embarrass ment. I{ot one is at all suited to-such a person as be is; He would have nothing to do; he would have to sacrifice him self, his lime, his purposes, his whole method of life; and to that be cannot bring himself. The more I think of it all, the more I feel about it, aod the more anxious I am to see him here with os." “It is very beautiful and amiable in you,” answered Charlotte, “to enter with so much sympathy into your friend’s po sition; only you must allow to me ask you to think of yourself and of me. as well." “I have done that,” replied Edward. “For ourselves, we can hive mottling to expect from his presence with us, except pleasure and advantage., I will say noth ing of the expense. In any case, if be, came to us, it would be but am til; and you know he will be of no .iuconvenfence to us at all. He can'have his own rooms in the right wing of the castle, and eve rytbiog else can be arranged as simply as possible. What shall we not be thus do ing for him I and how agreeable and bow profitable may not bis society prove to us. I have long been wishing for a plan of the property and the grounds. He will see to it, and get it made. You intend your self to take the management of the estate, as soon as our preseut steward’s term is expired; and that, you know is a serious thing. His various information will be of immense benefit to us; I feel only 100 acutely bow much I require a person of this kind. The country people have knowledge enough, but their way of im parting it is. confused, and not always honest. The students fron the towns and universities are sufficiently clever and or derly, but they are deficient in personal experience. From my friend, I can prom ise myself both knowledge and method, and hundreds of other circumstances I can ean easily perceive arising, affecting you as well as me, and from which I fore see innumerable advantages. Thank you for so patiently listening to. me. Now, do you say what you think* and say it out freely and fully i I will not interrupt you.” ‘‘Very well,” replied Charlotte, “I will begin at once with a general observation. Men think most of the immediate—the present: and rightly, their calling being to do and to work. Women, on the oth er hand, more of bow things bang togeth er in life; and that rightly, too, because their destiny—the destiny of their fami lies—is bound up in this independence, and it is exactly this this which it is their mission to promote. So now let us cast a glance at our present and our past life ; and you will acknowledge that the invi tation of the Captain does not fall in so entirely with our purposes, our plans and our arrangements. I will go back to those happy days of our earliest intercourse. We loved each other, young as we were, with all our hearts. We were parted— you from me—your father, from on insa tiable desire of wealth, choosing to mar ry you to an elderly and rich and l.dy; I j from you, having to give my hand, with j out any especial motive, to an excellent man, whom I respected, if I did not love. We became again free—you first, your poor mother at the same time leaving you in possession of your large fortune ; I la ter, just at the lime when you returned from aboad. S > we met once more. We spoke of the past ; we could enjoy and love the recollection ofit; we might have ! been contented in each other’s society, to j leave things as they were. You were ur- i gent for uur marriage. I at first hesita ted. We were about the same age; but I as a woman bad grown older than you as a man. At last I could not refuse you what you seemed to think the one thing : you cared for. All ihe discomfort which } you had ever experienced, at court, in the army, or in traveling, you were to cover from at my side ; you would settle down and enjoy lift; but only with me fur your j companion. I settled my daughter at a i school, where she could be more com pletely educated than would be possible in the retirement of the countrv ; and 1 placed ray niece Ollilie there with her as well, who.pjerhaps. would have grown up better at home with me, under my own care. This was dune with your con sent, merely that we might have Jour own lives—merely that we might enjoy undis turbed our so long-wished for, so long-de layed happiness. We came here and set tled ourselves. I undertook the do mestic part of the manage, you the out of-Jours, and the general control. My own 1 principle has bem to meet your wishes THE RADIOAL r lBl3. lii everything, to live only for you. At least, let tu give ourselves ft fair trial bow fur in jtois way we can be enough for one another.” . . “Since Ithe interdependence of as you call it, is your especial replied Edward, “one should either never listen to any of your trains of reasoning, or make up one’s mind to allow you lobe in the right; and, indeed, you have been in the rightup to the present-day. The foundation which we have hitherto been beeii laying for ourselves, ie of the true, sound sort; only, are we to build nothing upon it? is nothing,^developed out of it? v All the work JWc to; the garden, you inthe patkr-iait all Qply for apair o f hermits ?” ~ . “Well, Well," replied Charlotte, “very well. What we have to look to is, that We' introduce no alien element, nothing Which shall cross or obstruct ns. Remem ber, our plans, even those which* only concern our amusements, depend mainly on our being together. You" were tor read to me, in consecutive order, the journal which you made when you were abroad v You were to take the opportunity of ar ranging it, patting all the loose matter connected with it in its place; and with me to work with you and help you, put of these invaluable but chaotic leaves hud and sheets to pat together a complete thing, which should give pleasure to our selves and to others- I promised to assist' you in transcribing; and we thought It would be so pleasant, so delightful. So charming, to travel over in recollection the world which we we doable to see to*" gether. The beginning is already made. Then in the evenings, yon have taken dp your date again, accompanying me ott r the piano, while of visits backwards and and forwards among the neighborhood, there is abundance. For my part, I have been promising myself out of all this the first really happy sutnmer I have ever thought to spend in my life.” “Only I cannot see,” replied Edward, rubbing his forehead, “boW, through eye* ry bit of this which you have been so sweetly and so sensibly laying before me. the Captain's presence chn be any in* lerruplion; I should rather have thought it would give it all fresh zest and life. He was my companion during a part of my travels. He made many observations from a different point from mind. "We can put it all together, and* so match a ch>uraingly»complete work* of it.'* “Well, then, I will acknowledge open* !y,” answered Charlotte, with some impa tience, “my feeling is against this plan. l4uve an instinct which tells me no good will come of it,” “You women are invincible 0 in this way,” replied. “You are so sensible, that that there is no answering yon, so affectionate, that one is glad to give way you!£full of feelings, which one* cannot wound, and full of forebodings, which terrify one.” “l am not superstitious,’* said Charlotte; “and 1 care nothing tor these dim sensa tions, merely as such; butin general they are the result of unconscious recollec tions of happy or unhappy consequences, which we have experienced as followin g on our own or others’ actions. Nothing is of greater moment, in any state of things, than the intervention of a third person. I bare seen friends, brothers and sisters, lovers, husbands and wives, whose relation to each other, through the acci dental or intentional introduction of a third person, has been altogether changed —whose whole moral condition has been inverted by it,” “That may very well be,” replied Ed ward, “with people who live on without looking where they are going * but not, surely, with persons whom experince has taught to understand themselves.” “That understanding ourselves, my dearest husband,” insisted Charlotte, "is no such certain weapon. It is very often a most dangerous one for the person who bears it. And out of all this, at least so much seems to arise, that we should not be in too great a burry. Let me have a> few days to think; don’t decide.” “As the matter stands,” returned Ed war3,” “wait as many days as we will, we shall still be in too great a harry. The arguments for and against are all before us; all we want is the conclusion, and as things are, I think the best thing we can do is to draw lots.” “I know,” said Charlotte, “that in doubtful cases it is your way to leave them to chance. To me, in such a se ious m liter, this Siam* aim nt a crima. ’ ’ “Then what am I la write to the Cap lain?” cried Edward ; “for write I must at once.” “White him a kind, sensible, sympa thizing letter,” answered Cnarlotte. “That Is as good as none at all,” replied Edward. “And there are many cases,” answered she, “in which we are obliged, and in which it is the real kindness, rather to write nothing than not to write.” TO BE CONTINUED. Denver is to have a new hotel,and the public are assured that the walls will be bullet-proof, so that guests won’t run any risks on account of an affair in the other room. 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