2 ELECTIVE r THASSLATSD VBOX TSS OKMUN O? OQBTBB. . : x . l h £ - PART chapter.ix. % “How long have t hey* bee a stand ing there?” asked Ottilie. “Just about as long as you have beep in the wctrid T dear child, I planted them when you were still lying in your cradle*" The party : D7>w-be the castle. .After dinuerwaa-Qver they were invitedto walkthrough the village to take a .g|ance, at w|wt: hsd been Atme there as well. At a hiat,~from the. Cap tain, the inhabitants'had collected in front of the houses:' They were not stand ing in rows, but formed in natural family groups, partly occupied at their evening work, part on enjoying themselves on, the new benches. They had determined, as an agreeable duty which they imposed upon themselves, to have everything in its present order and cleanliness, at least every Sunday and holiday. A little party,. held together by such feelings .as had grown up among our friends, is always on pleasantly edbya large concourse of people. Ail four were delighted to find themselves again alone in the large drawing-room, but this sense of home was a little dis turbed by a letter which was brought to Edward, giving notice of fresh guests who were to arrive “the following day. “It is as we supposed," Edward cried to Charlotte. ‘‘The Countwill not stay away; he is coming to-morrow." “Then the Baroness, too. is not tar off," answered Charlotte. “Doubtless not," said Edward. “She is coming, 4ob, 'to-morrow, from another place. They only beg to be allowed io stay for a,night; the next day they will go on together." “We must prepare for themJn time, Ot tilie,” said Charlotte. ' “What arrangement shall I desire to be made ?” On i lie asked. Charlotte gave a general direction, and Ottilie left the room. The Captain inquired into the relation in which these two persons stood towards one another, and with which he was only very generally acquainted . They some time be fore; both being already married, fallen violently in love with one another; a double marriage was not to hie inter* ed with without atteactiog attention. A divorce whs proposed. On the Baroness’ side it could be effected, on that of the Count it could not. They w re obliged seemingly to separate, but their position towards one another remained unchans* ed, and though iu the winter at the Res idence they were unable to be together, they indemnified themselves in 1 the sum mer, while making tours and staying at the watering-places. They were both slightly older than Ed ward and Charlotte, and had been inti mate with them trom early times at court. The connection had never been absolute ly broken off, although it was impossible to approve ol their proceedings. On the present occasion their coming was most unwelcome to Charlotte; and if she bad looked closely into her reasons for feeling it so, she would have found it was on ac count of Ottilie. The poor innocent girl should not have been brought so early in contact with such an example. “It won Id have been more convenient i 1 they had not come til) a couple of days later,” E Iward was saying, as Ottilie re entered, “till we had finished with this business of the farm. The deed of sale Is complete. One copy of it Ibkve here, but we want a second, and our old clerk has fallen ill.” The Captain offered his sevices, and so did Charlotte, but there was something or other to object to both of them. :f “Give il to me, cried Ouilie.a little hastily. “You will never be able to famish it,” said Charlotte. k “And really I must have it early the day after to-morrow, and it is long," Ed ward added. “It shall be ready,” Ottilie cried ; and the paper was already in her bands. The next morning, as they were look ing out from their highest windows for their visitors, whom they intended to go some way ond meet, Edward said : “Who is that yonder riding slowly along the road.” The Captain described accurately the figure of the horeman. ‘‘Then it is he,” sa id Edward; “the pur licul ars, which you can better see than I, agree very well with the general figure, which I can see too. ft is Mittler ; but what is he doing, coming tiding at such a pace as that V' The figure came nearer, and Mittler it veritably was. They received him with warm greetings as he came slowly up the Steps. “Why did not come yesterday Ed ward cried, as he approached, “Ido not like your grand festivities,” answered he; “but I am come today to keep my friend’s birthday with you qui etly.” J “How are you able to find lime enough?” asked Edward, with a laugh. "My visit, jf you can value it, you owe to an observation which I made yester day. I was spend ing a right happy after noon in a house where I had established peace, and then I heard that a birthday whs h» ing kept here. Now tbiaaa-wbat I c I selfish, after all, said I to myself ; you affinities. A Novel. will only enjoy yourself with those whose, broken peace yon have mended. Why cannot yon for once go and be happy with friends who kejp the peace for tbomselvest. No soode-r said than done. *i#»r»« tha|l should; be." || ipT || «uld||sve oißaline small one,” said Charlotte; "you will meet the Coant and the Baroness, with whom yon have had enough to do al- re^yflbelTeve”p~ x;^: - Out of the middle of party v wbp bad all four come down to welcome him, -tbe strange man -dasbed- itr the keenest disgust, seizing at the same time his hat and whip. ' “Someo nl acky starts ahvxjrßnver pe cried, “directly I try to rest and enjoy myself. What business have I going out of my proper character? I ought never to have come, and now I am persecuted away. Under one roof with those two I will not remain, and yon take card of yourselves. They bring nothing but mis chief; their nature is like heaven, and propagates its own contagion.” They tried to pacify him, but it was in vain. "Whoever, strikes at marriage,” be cri ed .—“whoever, either by word dr act, un dermines this, the foundation of all moral society, that man has to settle with mej and if I cannot become his master, I take care to settle myself but of his way. Mar riage is the beginning and the end of all culture. It .make, the savage mild; and the moat cultivated has no better oppor- tunity for displaying ln* dissoluble it must be, bceanse it brings so much happiness that what small nqexcep-: tional unhappiness it may bring counts for nothing in the balance. And what do men mean by talking of unhappiness? Impatience it is which from time to time comes over them, and then they fancy, themselves unhappy. Let themwaittill the moment is gone by, then t|fcy will bless their good fortune that w|at has stood so long and continues standing. The condition of man is pitched so high, in its joys and in.its sorrows, that the sum which two married people owe . to one another defies calculation. It is an infi nite debt, which cannon ly be discharged through all eternity. “Its annoyances marriage may often have; I can believe that, and it is as it should be.. We are ail married to our con sciences, and there are times when we should be glad to be divorced from them; mine gives me more annoyance than ever a man or a woman can give." All this he ponred out with the great est vehemence; he would very likely have gone on speaking longer, bad not the sound of the postilions’ horns given notice of the arrival of the visitors, who, as if on a concerted arrangement, drove into the castle-court from opposite sides at the same moment. Mittler slipped away as their host hastened to receive them, and desiring that bis horse might be brought out immediately, rode angrily off. CHAPTEB X. The visitors were |we!comed and brought io. They were dellgbtedi to find themselves again in the same boose and in the same rooms where in early, times they had passed many, happy days, but which they had not seen tor a long time. Tbeir friends, too, were very glad to see them. The Count and the Baroness bad both those tall fine figures which please in middle life almost better than in youth. If something of the fresh blonm had fad ed off them, yet there was an air in tbeir appearance which was always resistibly attractive. Thyeir manners, too, were thoroughly charming. Their free way of taking bold of life and dealing with it, their happy humor, and apparent easy unembarrassment, communicated itself at once to the rest; and a lighter atmosphere hung about the whole party, without their having observed its stealing on them. The effect made itself felt immediately on the entrance of the new comers. They were fresh from the fashionable world, as was to be seen at once, in ther dress, in their equipment, and in everything about and they formed a contrast not a little striking with our friends, tbeir coun try style, and the vehement feelings were at work underneath among them. This, soon, however, vory soon disappear ed in the stream of past recoiled ion and present interests, and a rapid, lively con versation soon united them all. After a short time they again separated. The ladies withdrew to their own apartments, and there found amusement enough In the many things which they had to tell each.other, and in setting to work at the same time to examine the new fashions, the spring dresses, bonnets, and suchlike; while the gentlemen were employing themselves looking at the new traveling chariots, trotting out the horses, and be ginning at once to bargain and exchange. They did not meet again till dinner; in the meantime they had chanced their dress. And here, too, the newly-arrived pair showed to advantage. Every thing they wore was new, and in a style which their friends at the castie had nev er seen, and yet, being accustomed to it themselves, it appeared perfectly natural and graceful. The conversation was brilliant and well sustained, as, indeed, in the company of such persons everything and nothing ap pears to interest. They spoke In I’rehch that the attendants might not understand what they satd. and swept In happiest burner over all that was passing in lh6 THE RAD great orthe middle world )y eairfbte^lt wgHgpe f whom §hi|il|l!te aepa^d'^ber -■ ".yT^ ioly thing,” Charlotte are finally settled, when weheUere per* eons very dear to ns to be proyldcd for tnoes^e^^Q^onoe have to strike into a Ireah path of life. W and-rery likely vraosrtHßemroiie;" — “Indeed, my dear fir|ewlf |be answered; **!( id outijwar fanltirWafldw oaraetecato-be^MrpriiiKlatW^lfiCapf We pleaae onrselyes with imagining] mat-, ters of this earth, and particularly, jmatri* roonial connections, as yery enduring; and as concerns, this last .point,. the.playp which we We. oyer and oyer again help tp mislead usi being, as they arf,so untrue to the course 9! the world. In MoDaedy we see a marriage as the last.aim of adc sire which, is hindered and /.crossed through a number of acts, and at the ta* stant when it, is reached the;curtain finite, and the momentary.satisfaction continues so ring oh in pur ear/3. But in the.world it Is Very different. The play goes on still behind.the scenes, and when the cur- lain rises again we may eee andMwar, perhaps, little nough of the marriage." “It cannot be st) very, bad, however,” said Chaflqite.smUing, “We see people . who have gone offlhe boardaof the thea tre, ready enough to take a part upon them again." “There is nothing-to say against that,” said the Count. “In a new character, a. man may really venture on a seen ndt rial; and when we know the world we eee clearly that it is oply th is positive eternal duration of marriage in a world where in. motion, which has any thing unbecoming about it A certain friend of mine whole humor displays It self principally in suggestions f ■ The ChMput an 00000000000 l >OO 000 000000001 0000000000 004)0000 goods. i, 1813. gOOK AND JOB PRINTING. -^3-1 » ~ jt Bw* -ly • R ’ ■■ || l|| p THE “RADICAL BUILDING,” BJ]AVER,PA. 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