I ELECTIVE AFFINITIES. TRANSLATED PBO* TSB OEBMAN OP OOBTHB. PART I. chapter n (Continued.) So saying, he sprang on his horse, with out wailing theiarrlval pt the coffees, “Here you see,” 'Charlotte,. **lhe small service a third person Icin he, when things are off their balancebetween Itfo persons closel^ponbare leftist possible, more confused and mote uncer tain tbafi we were.” They would hotly probably, have con linnedbesiiating^ome~timc-longer,had not a letter arrived from the Captain, in reply to Edward’s last. He had made up his”mind to aeceprone of the situations which had been offered him, although it was not in the least up to his mark. He was to share tbe*ennui of certain wealthy persons of rank, who depended on his ability to dissipate it. Edward’s keen glance saw into the whole thing, and he pictured it out in just, sharp lines. . “Can we endure to think of onr friend in such a position ?” he cried ; “you can not be so cruel, Charlotte.” “That strange Miltler is right after all,’’ replied Charlotte; all such undertakings are ventures; what will come of them it is impossible to foresee. New elements introduced among us any be fruitful in fortune or la misfortune, without oar having to take credit to ourselves for one or the other. Ido not feel myself firm enough to oppose you farther. Let us make the experiment; only one ‘thing I will entreat of yoo~that it be only for a short time. Ton must allow me to exert myself more than ever, to use alt my in fluetce among all my connections, to find him some position which wilt satisfy him in his own way.” Edward poured out the warmest ex pressions of gratitude. He hastened, with a light, happy heart, to write off bis proposals to his friend. Charlotte, in a postscript, was to signify her approbation with her own hand, and unite her en treaties with his. She wrote, with a rap id pen, pleasantly and affectionately, but yet with a sort' of baste which was not usual with her; and, most uujike herself, she disfigured the paper with a blot of ink, which put her out of temper, and which she only made worse by attempting to wipe it away. Edward laughed at her about it,'and, as there was .still room, added a second postscript, that bis friend was to see from this symptom the impatience with which he was expected, and measure the speed at which be came to them by the haste in which the letter was written. The messenger was gone; and Edward thought he could not give a more con vincing evidence of his gratitude, than by insisting again and again that Charlotte should at once send for Ottllie from the school. She said she would think about it; and, for that evening, induced Ed ward to join with her in the enjoyment of a little music. Charlotte played ex ceedingly well on the piano, Edward not quite so well on the flute. He had taken a great deal of pains with it |at times ; but he was without the patience, without the perseverance, which are requisite for the completely successful cultivation of such a talent; consequently, his part was done unequally, some pieces well, only perhaps too quickly—while with others he hesitated, not being quite familiar with them; so chat, for any one else, it would have been difficult to have gone through a duet with him. But Charlotte knew bow to manage it. She held in, or let herself be run away with, and fulfilled in this way the double part of a skilled conductor and a prudent housewife, who are able always to keep right on the whole, although particular passages will now and then fall out of order. CHAPTER in The Captain came, have previously written a most sensible letter, which had entirely quieted Charlotte’s apprehen bensions. S) much clearness about him self, so just an understanding of his own position and the position of his friends, promised everything which was best and happiest. The conversation of the first few hours, as is generally the cue with friends who have not met for a lung lime was eager, lively, almost exhausting. Towards even- ing, Charlotte proposed a walk to the I new grounds. The Captain was delight ' ed with the spot, and observed every t beauty which had first been brought into < sight and made enjoyable by the new i walks. He had a practised eye, and at | the same time one easily satisfied; and t although he knew very well what was re- i ally valuable, he never, as so many per sons do, made people who were showing him things of their own uncomfortable, j by requiring more than tbe circumstanres | admitted of, or by mentioning anything | more perfect, which he remembered hav | ing seen elsewhere. • When they arrived at the summer house, they dressed out for a holiday, on ly, indeed, with artificial flowers and ev i ergreens, but with some pretty bunches of j natural corn ears among them, and other field and garden fruit, so as to do credit to tbe taste which had arranged them. “Although my husband d >es not like in general lo have his birthday or christen ing day kept,” Charlotie said," “he will not object to- lay to these few ornaments being expended on a treble festival.” “Treble y” cried Edward. A Novel. “Yes, indeed,” she replied. “Our friend’s arrival here we are bound to keep as a festival; and have you never thought, either of yon, that this is the day on which you were both christened? Are you not both named Otto ?” The two friends shook hands across^the little table. ' “You to my mind," Edward link of-&ur boyish affect tiOlii AVfiMldren, call# soptat when we fcame tpjbe M itiwjas the cauisjLpf |nuch cowl sign,'and I-ieadily mk||r my right to the pretty laconic name.” you were not altogether so very Oaptain l “fori well remember that the name oi Edward bad then, begun to please l you better,- from its .attractive -soumLwhen spoken by certain pretty lips.” They were now sitting all three round the same little table where Charlotte bad spoken so Vehemently again st their guest’s coming them. Edward, happy as he was, did not wish to remind bis wife of that time ; but he could not help say ing; “There Is good room here for one .per son more.” At this moment the notds of a bogle were beard across from the castle. Full; of happy thoughts and feelings as the friends all were together, the sound fell - in among them with a strong force of an swering harmony. They listened silent ly, each for the moment-withdrawing in to himself, and feeling doubly happy in the fair circle of which he formed a part. The pause was first broken by Edward, who started up and walked out in front of the summer-house; “Our friend must not think," he said to Charlotte, “that this narrow little val ley forms the whole of, our domain and possessions. Let us take him up to the top ot the hill. Where he can see farther and breathe more freely." ‘‘For this once, then," answered Char lotte, “we must climb dp the old foot path, which is not easy. By the next time I hope walks and steps will have been carried right do.” A.nd so, among rocks, and shrubs, and bushes, they made their wayi-tothe sum mit, where they found themselves, not on a level flat, but on a sloping grassy ter race, running along the ridge ot the bill. The village with the castle behind it, was out of sight. A.t the bottom of the val ley, sheets of water were seen spreading out right and left, with wooded bills ris ing immediately from their opposite mar aud at the end of the upper water, a wall of sharp, precipitous rocks overhanging It, their huge forms reflected in Us level surface. In lhe J hollow of the ravine, where a considerable brook ran into the I lake, lay a mill, half hidden among the trees, a sweetly retired spot, most beauti fully surrounded ; and through the entire semicircle over which the view extended, ran an endless variety of bills and val leys, copse and forest, the early green of which promised the near approach of a luxuriant clothing of foliage. In many places particular groups of trees caught the eye; and especially a cluster of and poplars directly at the spectator’s feet, close to the edge of the centre o! the lake. They were at their full growth, and they stood tbsre, spreading out their boughs all arohod them, in f resh and lux uriant growth. To these Edward called bis friend’s at- tention “I myself planted them,” he cried, “when I was a boy. They were small trees which I rescued when my father was laying out the new part of the great castle garden, and in the middle of the summer bad rooted them out. This year you will no doubt see them show their gratitude in a fresh set of shoots.” They returned to the castle in h tgh spirits, and mutually pleased with each other. To the guest was allotted an agreeable and roomy set of apartments in the right wing of the castle ; and here be rapidly got bis books and papers and in struments in order, to go on with his us ual occupation. But Edward, for the first few days, gave him no rest. He took him about everywhere, now on foot, now on horseback, making him acquainted with the country and the estate; and he em braced the opportunity of imparling to him the wishes which he had been long entertaining, of getting some better ac quaintance with it, and learning to runn ing it more profitably. "The first thing we have to do,” said the Captain, "is to make a magnetic sur vey of the property. That a pleasant and easy matter; and if does not admit of entire exactness, it will be always useful, and will do, at any rate, for an agreeable beginning. It can be made, too, without any great staff of assistants, and one can be sure of getting it completed. If by and-by you come to require anything more exact, it will be easy then to find sirae plan to have it made.” The Captain was exceedingly skillful at work of this kind. He had brought with him whatever instruments be required, and commenced immediately. Edward provided him with a number of foresters and peasants, who, with bis instruction, were able to render bim all necessary as sistance. The weather was favorable. The evenings and the early mornings w t re devoted to the designing and draw ing, and in a short time it was all filled in and colored. Edward saw bis posses sions grow out like a new creation upon theptper; and it seemed as if now for the first time he knew what they were, as if they now first were properly his own THE* RADICAL: Thus therecscame occasion to. speak of the park, and of the ways of laying it out: a far better disposition of things tog! ing made possible after a survey of this kind, than could be arrived kt/by expefl* mentiogon nature, da partial end acci* denttljrapresslons.' > - make my wife understand Edward. ' ' do the kind,” rf • Captain, who did not like bring* ihgllis own notions In colltsolnwith tlbselbf others. He had learned by ex* 'beirience that the motives and ■ pnrjSoses by which men are inflaeheed,are far top various to be made to coalesce upon a sin gle point, even on the moslLtolld repre seutations. “We mast not do lij” he cri ed,* will only be conftiaed. With ber, nB tcithAii pcople-who^mploylhemgelrea on such matters merely as amateurs,the im portant that jre; shall'do something, than that something shall be Sudi persons feel ‘their way with nature. Theyhave fancies for this 'plan or that; they do not venture on removing oh* slacles; They are not bold enough to made a sacrifice. They do not know before hand in what their work is to result. They try an experiment—it succeeds—ll fails; they alter it; they alter, perhaps, ifrhat they ought to leave alone, and leave what they ought to alter ; and so, at last, there al ways remains but a patch work, which pleases and amuses, bat never satisfies.” “Acknowledge cfindidlyj” said Edward, “that you do not like this hew work of hers.” “The idea is excellent,” he replied ; “if the execution were equal te It, there would be no fault to find. But she has tormented herself to find her way up that rock; and she now torments every one, if you must have it, that she takes up after her. You cannot walk together —you cannot walk behind one another with any-freedom. Every moment your step is interrupted one way or another. There is no end to the mistakes which she has made.” "Would it have been easy to have done it otherwise?” asked Edward. “Perfectly," replied the Captain. “She had only to break away a corner of the rock, which is now but an unsightly ob ject, made up as it is of little nieces, and she would at once have a sweep* for her walk and stone in abundance for the roughi masonery work, to widen it in the bad places, and make it smooth. But this I tell you in strictest confidence. What is done must remain as it is. If any more money and labor Is to be spent there, there is abundance to do above the summer-house on the hill, which we can Settle our own way.” If the two friends found in their occu pation abundance of present employment, Ihere Was po lack either of entertaining reminiscences of early times, in which Charlotte took her part as well. 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