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Thellitidecape is a lonely one,
- Tlie granite peaks are dreary,
The low and narrow meado7s wear
A look so sad and weary.
Onward the bold, deep river flows,
To reach the pulsing ocean,
And pallid willows, wailing, watch
Its steady, pauseless motion.
Far to the North one mountain's head
Lifts high above all others . ;
A shining cap of granite gray
Its earth brown tresses coven ;
And maw , a lengthening mile this side
A grove' of pines is growing,
One almost bears from here the sound
Of wind streams through them flowing
O'er all the earth my heart has poured
. The loneness of November,
Though August's full oup must be drained
Before we fad September.
Sad home is that beneath those pines—
A mother kneels in tears,
A sister whispers words of hope
- From lips knit close with fears.
And I.—within my hand I hold
A letter edged with black,
Mailed with a post-mark far away,
Near old Potomac's track.
A cousin writes in sentence brief:
"Dear friends, lean hard on God,
Our noble-hearted Herbert fell
Upon Virginia's sod.
Tere was no time for parting words—
No time for clasping hands—
/Us glazed eyes followed not a step
Oar fast retreating bands."
Oh, God! my mother's heart will break
Above that short, sad letter—
How can I strike the cruel blow,
And snap life's crystal fetter?
How.full of toil the future seems !
How full of rest the water !
Father, in mercy hold me fast,
Thy sorely tempted daughter.
My brother for his country died—
That was God's work for him ;
Mine is to light the cottage home
He left so sadly dim.
Then,
aid me, God, with steady foot
To follow on thy leading,
Wearing like Christ a smile on lips
Wet with the forehead's bleeding.
[N. if. Patriot
THE LOVER'S WARNING-.
Away ! The moor is dark beneath the moon ;
. Rapid clouds have drunk the last pale beam of
even;
Away ! The gathering winds will call the darkness
soon; .
And obscurest midnight shroud the serene lights
of heaven.
Pause not! The time is past; every voice cries,
" Away !"
Tempt not with ono last glance thy friend's un
gentle mood;
Thy lover's eye, all glazed and cold, dares not en
treat thy stay—
Duty and dereliction call thee bock to solitude.
Away, away, to thy sad and silent home,
Pour bitter tears on its desolated hearth,
Watch the dim shadows as like ghosts they go and
come,
And complicate strange webs of melancholy mirth.
The leaves of wasted Autumn woods shall gleam
about thy head,
The blooms of dewy Spring shall lie beneath thy
feet,
But thy soul or this world must fade in the frost
that binds the dead,
Ere morning's smile and midnight's frown, ore
peace and thou may meet.
The cloud-shadows of midnight possess their own
repose,
For the weary winds are silent or the moon is in
the deep;
Some respite to its turbulence, unresting ocean
knows—
All things that move, and toil, and breathe, have
their appointed sleep.
E'en thou may'et in the grave find , rest, but till the
shadows flee,
Which that house, and heath, &nti garden, made
dear to thee ere while,
Thy remembrance, and repentance, and deep mus
ings are not free
From the music of two voices and the light of one
sweet smile.
THE YOUNG QUAKERESS.
They sat side by side in the summer
twilight—the young Quakeress maiden and
her student lover. Rachel Norman said
thee and thou,' wore odd looking bonnets,
and covered up her beautiful shoulders and
snowy throat almost to the ear-tips ; but
the sombre colors and strait garments could
not mar the beauty of a face fair as a pic
tured Madonna, nor take from the flexible
grace of her slender figure. As the twilight
deepened and the dusky shadows grew
troader, Rachel rose for lights, but her
lover laid his hand upon her arm, and said,
in persuasive tones—
' Nay, Rachel, the moon will soon be
here, and that will be much pleasanter.'
The young girl's face took a thoughtful,
somewhat troubled look for a moment, and
then yielding to his wish, she seated herself
by his side. She was passionately fond of
music, though it was forbidden to one of
luif faith to have a musical instrument in
the house ; but nature would not be crush
ed; though it might be subdued, and oc
casionally gushes of song that came to her
from a neighbor's window, or the young
foreigner that found his way to the Village
to-grind out his God save the King, and
'Marseilles Hymn,' kept alive a great nat
ural genius. And when in her monotonous
dove-colored sky there came a gleam of
sun-shine in the person of Paul Graham,
it was no small recommendation to her
favor that he possessed a fine and much
loved art.
Shall I sing to you, Rachel 1' he inquir
ed, after she had resumed her seat.
Ab, yes ! if thou wilt.'
And what shall it be ?'
Kathleen Mavourneen,' she answered,
with a half blush.
Paul smiled at her selection--it was so
like her—she always gave her choice to
something of this nature in preference to
anything else. She was guided by feeling,
not fashion, for that she knew nothing
about. So Paul sang that tender, touching
'ballad in his sweet, rich voice. When he
Inished the moon had risen,
and he could
see by its light the tears in Rachel's eyes.
-He said nothing, but bent his lips to the
- delicate little hand that lay upon the win
dqw-sill.
Paul,' she said at length, I had a
dieutn; such a strange dream about thee,
last night. Shall I tell it thee 1'
He signified his acquiescence, and Ra
chel began her relation.
el thought we were separated—thou in
_,thy city home, and I here, as I ani now,
with grandfather and Aunt Deborah. I
reereived'from thee, at intervala, lettere—
breathing unchanged' oonsianey,
but at last there was a tone about- them of
Aissutisfaction and unquiet, and then catptg
summons from thy friends for Rachel
Nathan to come to them. I, could see it
now, the restless, uneetiefied tones of
thy letter l Paul, were made clear- to me,
Qua.keF .fri9o:::o44}Akea,fint
poorifiiith- the - gay oityallanteft., Hen plain
..;
heitliet And Arab 'dreSit locked Ugly - beei'do
-thole bower: 663. 'and:: bright Ali&
Her g.thee and thou' 'jarred - with' their
sweeter world language.. Mid Wily sum
inoned,her to their bathe to unlearn her
faith and fashions.'
It was a ; sere trouble
to uie for hours andhears, bat love for thee
conquered; and - so I - went 'with my - close
bonnet and arid:L:Arias to Meet.,thy, kaki
folk. - And when I saw thee in , those , gay
rooms my _ heart ached. of the
world had breathed:upon thee ; thou wert
not the-Paul - Graham; - the student who
wandered in the green lanei• with Rachel
Norman,'and - gathered the' 'wild httoneY
suckle, and sang for 'her in their' simple
parlor. It was_ Mr. Graham ,now, and
thou wert dressed gaily: in the fashion of
the world. A glittering chain and:costly
seal hung from thy waistcoat, and a dia
mond sparkled on thy breafit.. There was
all about thee an inexplicable, change. I
could not make thee seem as in times past
again. I strove to be more like the women
about me. I even put off my. -obnoxious
bonnet and drab dress, and bared my neck
and arms according to their style. But it
would not do ; I could no more assimilate
to them than the field daisy with garden
roses. I was still the little grave Qua
keress throughout it all. Indeed, it only
served to show more distinctly than ever
the vast difference between us. I did not
fit the garb nor the garb me.
At last the truth dawned upon me.
Thou couldst not make me like them.
The contrast of my simple manners with
their graces and accomplishments was a
daily annoyance to me. There was a girl
of great beauty and thine own faith, who
detained thee at her side with her winning
smiles and pleasant converse.. ,It cut me
to the heart to see this, but I could not
marvel at it. She was far fairer and more
graceful than I, and of a kind, good heart,
which was more than all. Still, thou didst
treat the old love kindly, Paul, and spoke
gentle words to her, but thy heart was not
in it. It was yearning after the sweet
laughter and dark eyes of that young
maiden. When the discovery came to me,
I knew that my place was at the old for
saken fireside ; and there I determined to
return. I had done thy bidding and it
was ended. They did not oppose me when
I acquainted them with my wish. They
felt it was best ; and thou too, Paul, when
I said to thee, it is better that this parting
be forever, we are unsuited to each other,
thou to me and I to thee, thou didst not
gainsay it •, and so, resuming the old fa
miliar garb, home to her old grandfather
and aunt Deborah, amid the buttercups
and daisies, Rachel went. But the old
house looked lonelier and drearier, the old
walks had a shadow in them which the sun
shine could not dissipate. Thou went
back to the busy world with no connecting
link, with the distant dullness where a
student's leisure hours had passed, and a
Quakeress' lone life was wearing out.
After a while came tidings to me of a
bridal, and the wedded were Paul Graham
and the lovely, dark-eyed girl that stole
his heart away from Rachel Norman.--
The sun of love never dawned for me again.
Life went on the same, save that the
brightness had gone . that once made the
monotony` pleasant.'
Paul had been silent throughout this
simple recital, but the tears forced them
selve-, out more than once; and when she
finished, he drew her to his bosom.
6 My Rachel, (and his voice was tremu
lous with emotion,) do you doubt me in
your waking hours ?'
She lifted her head, and looking him
full in the face, answered—
' I would not pain thee Paul, but I have
had misgivings before this dream, that—
may be, thou wouldst find Rachel Norman
unsuited to thee when amid the influences
of city life.'
Rachel, dear Rachel, put away such
thoughts. 1 swear—'
Nay, nay, Paul, thou needst not take
a vow like that ! It might prove a fetter
and a bond to thee.'
Never, Rachel.'
Well, it is not, best ;
grant me this.'
He stroked her bright hair, that would
take an undulating wave to itself, despite
the efforts to make it lie in smooth, straight
bands, and sent an unspoken vow from the
depths of his heart, never to be false to
his sweet, trusting girl.
When doat thou leave us, Paul?'
Rachel inquired, after a few moments'
pause.
In a month, dear Rachel ; but be of
good cheer ; as soon as I am established in
my profession, I shall come to claim my
bride.'
The faint rose hue deepened upon her
cheek as she shrank back in the shadow of
the window, and soon after Paul bade her
good night.
- Rachel Norman was an orphan, whose
sole guardians in this world were her
grandfather and Aunt Deborah. Her
mother had been a gay, beautiful girl, the
daughter of a Mr. Elliot. She fell in love
with her husband while on a visit to one of
his father's neighbors. Henry Norman
gave little evidence, in speech or manner,
that he had been educated by Quaker
parents. He chose his profession from
the world, and dwelt in its 'midst with his
charming wife 'for a companion. But it
was for a short time—they both died while
Rachel was yet a child, and left their little
girl to the care of the good old grandfather
and Aunt Deborah. They brought her up
in their own faith, but with a generosity
which many might emulate, they bound her
to no society.
Rachel strove to be cheerful and con
tented after Paul's departure ; but, as in
her dreams, the sunshine had gone. She
read the books he left her with a keen
relish. It was a new field for the young
Quakeress. For the first time the beauties
of Shakespeare were opened to her imagina
tion. To Paul's infinite credit be it spoken,
his choice was as a f tther's might have
been for his daughter. At intervals, there
came with his welcome letters some new
book, or a choiee edition of an old one,
marked by his beloved hand. Raohel was
well educated, in ail bat what her father
termed the vanities and accomplishments
of the world. She .was well versed in his
tory, a Latin- scholar, and could solve a
problem in algebra which might puzzle
many a brilliantly.
.educated young lady.
Bu Ijer reading had never, been: extensive.
The Bible, a' volume of Cowper's poems,
and. Bernard Barton, the Quaker poet, and
a few others, had forrnedher library: And
with these she had been content, until this
pew:star broke - m Nippu her life;
Vireo *rover. Went, an old
wansina j aot-A, tstne!s , throw , from Friend
Normiin% whinEwqhsia nobl-been:udoesupieli
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LANCASTER CITY, PA., TITESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 29,.1861.
for some time, found an Owner and occu
pant in . the "person person of Richard Lorrimer;
and after a little repairing and furnishing,
there camel' Mrs. Lorrimer and four frolic
some children, _with quite a retinue of
servants. Rachel soon learned to love
this Mrs. Lorrliner like a sister, and hard
ly a day passed that the two . were not to
gether. To the gay and city bred woman
this young girl's simplicity and quiet
grace were a great charm ; and to Rachel,
Grace Lorrimer, witlt , her ardent affections
and brilliant 'conversation, was an oracle:
One thin g; . . top, more than any other,
brought this about She bad come from
the world of Paul - Grab*, and so redolent
of his atmosphere did she seem te Rachel,
with her graceful .ways, and ..sweet, harm-
less gossip, that she oame to regard - her
as something like a link between herself
and. him.
- One day, when Mrs. Lommer was wett
ing in the Norman's parlor for Rachel, to
while away the time, she took up a book
which-lay upon the table. She was some 4
what surprised to find it a copy of Moore's
Lalla Rookh. She turned to the fly-leaf
and read, written iti:a hold, manly hand,
Paul Graham to Rachel Norman.' An
exclamation of surprise escaped her lips,
coupled with his name, as Rachel entered
the room.
Where in the world did you ever know
Paul Graham, you sly little puss V elle ex
claimed to her.
The color mounted to Rachel's brow, as
she explained the circumstances of their
acquaintance.
And so it was here in this little wood
land dell that Paul spent his vacations !
I knew the doctor had ordered him to
breathe the country air for his health, but
I never thought it was in this vicinity.'
Grace Lorrimer was a woman -of quick
and delighful perceptions ; she understood
the blush, though she did not seem to heed
it, that suffused her young friend's face.
I hope he hasn't been flirting with her
to pass away the time,' she thought, but
it's a gay youth to fancy this little Mimo-
{ Post thou know Paul Graham much,
friend Grace V inquired Rachel, with a low,
tremulous voice.
Much, my sweet girl? Well, I don't
think anybody I know can lay claim to
that: I know him to be very entertaining,
yory intelligent, and a very fine singer,
but he does not open his heart to many, so
that I imagine few know him much.'
Rachel smiled a very little, and a feeling
of pride crept into her heart that she knew
him better than any. Mrs. Lorrimer went
on—
I must say, 1 like him exceedingly, and
so does everybody around him—he is the
life of the parties he attends. He can do
most anything. Play upon the piano and
guitar, sing ravishingly and dance divinely.
There, have not I made him out an Adonis?'
Poor Rachel ! He had never said a word
about this dancing. Probably a thought
of it' had never entered his head when
sitting or walking beside his demure little
betrothed.
After this conversation with Mrs. Lorri
mer, there seemed an immeasurable dis
tance and difference between herself and
Paul, and gradually her friend drew her
doubts and fears from her.
Does your grandfather and Aunt Debo
rah know of your engagement, Rachel
she questioned, one evening, after they
had been conversing about the absent
Paul.
Rachel looked up with some surprise.
4 I don't wonder Paul loves her,' thought
Mrs. Lorrimer, as she looked upon her in
her sweet dignity. Such truth, such sin
gleness of heart and purpose! Happy,
happy Paul ! I hope I can say years hence,
happy Rachel !'—but they are so differ
ent.'
The Lorrimers had an extensive library,
and with their intimate knowledge of it,
and fine taste to guide, Rachel soon became
conversant with its gems and beauties.
Her new friends, too, discovering what a
fine voice and decided genius she had
for music, gave her all the instruction in
their power, which was not limited, as both
Mr. and Mrs. Lorrimer were remarkably
proficient. Paul wrote as frequent if not
as lengthy letters as before. His studies,
he pleaded, were pressing, and claimed
much of his attention.
It was one bright autumn morning, when
Mrs. Lorrimcr was singing her youngest
pet to sleep, that Rachel presented herself
to her door with an unusual flush upon
her cheek, and a tearful dimness in her
eyes.
g What is the matter, Rachel, dear 1' ex
clainied Mrs. Lorrimer, laying the 'tow
slumbering child upon the cough, and pull
ing a low ohair for her friend at her side . .
Sit down, and open your heart to me, my
poor little dove.'
Dear Grace, it may be wrong for me
to say so much to thee, but my hdart is
full of gloomy fancies.'
Mrs. Lorrimer stroked her hair caress
ingly, while Rachel told her misgivings.
It was what Mrs. Lorrimer had thought
many a time before, and what Rachel had
felt, without uttering a word of complaint
against the objeot of her love. But now
she felt the need of sympathy, for
' The grave of anguish is a human ear.'
She told her dream—the dream that
had left such an impression on her own
mind, and called forth that unspoken vow
from Paul Graham's heart. She looked
up in her friend's face after she had finish,
ed, and instead of the.grave, sympathizing
countenance that had met her previous
glances, was a face full of tenderness and
gleeful meaning. Mrs. rorrimer smiled
still more brightly, isshe took the passive
hands of Rachel within her own, and said
My dear'little girl;-1 want to unfold a
romantic plan of. Mino to:you. Now 'nand
you slay 6 yea! to it. We,---that is,Riohard,
the children and myself—are going to tho
city next month to.spend the winter. We
cannot-Ao without you, ' nor, - we fatter
ourselves you without 'us', so all I want is
for you to accompany us, and you shall see
for yourself whether this lover, be true or
false.'
Nay, friend Cason, he cannot be false a
It is not his nature.'
Well, I did not mean that exactly, but
whether you two . are fittCd for, one another.
It_will be better: to learns the lesson now, if
there is one to be learned, than when it is
too late—and- what 'I want my Rachel to
de isio-let me disguise that lovely face
and figtiti in iinwOnted bend - Unfitting .
garmeptn."l will arrange thatTnul l
yil~reels ely. Teoignigtlllo.liolii
with; her_ denture .hOti net and:gray dress iu
thelyoung wilLpreserrt to bins under.
itAikidelkitifiketis
MMWIMMESMMMJ
1 Bot, friend Once; I shall be soling a
not thou tempt me to . this.'
I Nay, nay, Rachel, 'tis a simpL3, harm
less ruse , that I require of you—do not
refuse me.'
But, dear Grace, if I put on these gar
ments, and enter into society with the
world, for these few months, I cannot for
all time. And Paal may not relish the
return to`old faith and habits again;' she
added, blushingly.
Rachel,---,did it never strike you that
there was ifii minoli.bigotryiti 'the fashions
and out of a garment as in the much cen•
sured Catholic's counting of beads_!'
Rachel Ipoked up with a startled glance
at her friend. Not only was this dear friend
pleading with her for moderation and large
ness of heart, but the love of Paul Graham
was entreating her, with its silent yet
strong influence Co give way. And it , proved
not in vain. Before she left that morning,
Grace Lorrimer had obtained her consent
to play the part she had urged in her little
drama. To prevent all .detection, Mrs.
Lorrimer had arranged that the correspon
dence should go on as usual. Her own
mother, who stood behind in her absence ;
a delicate and - refined woman, was the
mediator, receiving the letters from Paul
to Rachel, and re-mailing them to her, and
Rachel's own epistles to her lover, being
enclosed to Mrs. Ashton ' when they
reached Paul, were dated from the old
familiar place. This was more easily acorn
plished as the correspondence was less
frequent than before.
Mrs. Lorrimer herself—sweet Grace
Lorrimer, as her friends called her—was
in ecstacies at the success of her plan.
With a heart as brimful of romance as a
girl of sixteen, yet with a good amount of
common sense, the project was full of in
terest to her.
Rachel's figure was nearly the same as
her friend's, perhaps a little more willowy
in its bend, which was not strange, as her
life had been passed amid the woods and
mountains, instead of the formalities of city
life. And so Mrs. Lorrimer, with infinite
tact, had decided that Rachel should use
her own newly ordered wardrobe, for she
was aware that her purse was not ample
enough for the demands a whim like this
would entail upon it.
You must begin at once, dear,' said
Mrs. Lorrimer, playfully, as she entered
the pretty little apartmentißachel occu
pied, after their arrival in town.
So with much pleasant talk and a great
deal of light hearted laughter, she prepar
ed her young friend for dinner. She was
a diplomatist, was this same bright-faced
little woman. She would not shock her
visitor with a too sudden change ; so for
the plain merino dress she substituted a
gray silk, with a few hair ornaments, and
some delicate lace and embroideries. She
smiled gaily to herslf as she caught
Rachel's unconscic us glance at the mirror,
of something very like pleasure. Mr.
Lorrimer, who was in his romantic wife's
whim, met them at the table with a quiet
smile, and said :
Why, Rachel, I hardly knew you.'
She had altered wonderfully since the
Lorrimers first saw her. Reading and
congenial society had expanded her mind,
and left its impress on her face. New and
deep emotions, excitement, and a thousand
hopes and fears, bad sent the warm blood,
which had slept around her heart, to blos
som on her cheek—a perpetual bloom of
roses, where only the lily had reigned be
fore. Her eye had gained a new lustre,
her voice a deeper melody.
''Tie two years now since Paul Graham
has seen her,' soliloquized Mrs. Lorrimer,
and with the decided change that has
taken place in her, to say nothing of dress,
there is no danger that he will recognize
her; for he will never suspect that the
prim little body in her close Quaker bon
net could be this bird of paradise.' Under
Mrs. Lorrimer's tutilage she had gradual
ly dropped the thee and thou,' which
of itself would have betrayed her. •
One evening there was a deal of bustle
and busy talking, a hurrying to and fro,
and exclamations of lovely, exquisite, etc.,
in Rachel's room. What can the matter
be I will whisper the secret to you,
dearest of readers, if yon will promise not
to tell, as the children say. 'Tie the night
of Raohel Norman's debut. She is to take
her mother's name of Elliot. Mrs. Lorri
mer uttered an exclamation of delight as
the last touches were put to Rachel's
dress, and our hercine herself blushed
and smiled as she saw reflected in the pier
glass a lovely figure clad in azure silk, '
with a soft drapery of, white lace floating
about it, and a neck and arms that Cleo
patra might have envied. The hair, that
beautiful dark brown hair that had always
been confined within the smallest compass,
was now displayed to advantage—twisted
in a Greoian knot at the back of her head,
and allowed to fall in its natural way
around her face—a cluster of curls beside
each glowing cheek. She looked no more
like the Rachel Norman that had first
captivated Paul Graham's fancy than a
little nun like a young princess. Her
heart throbbed wildly beneath her silken
bodice, as she entered the brilliantly light
ed rooms with her friends, for she had
been told that her lover was to be present.
It was fortunate for her self-possession she
did not see him when she entered ; and
when at last Mrs. Lorrimer directed her
attention to a young man in animated con
versation with their hostess,
she recognized
with tolerable calmness Paul Graham.
How changed he looks,' she thought.
How like the Paul in my dream ! But I
should have known him in Switzerland.
Will he recognize his Quaker brotherhood?'
As the thought glanced through her
mind, she caught the reflection of a beauti
ful and elegantly dressed young girl in
the mirror: She looked at her wonderingly,
for a moment, and then the blushes died on
her cheek as she recognized her own face
and figure. Paul himself had been re
garding her for the last few seconds with
a strange feeling of dreamy admiration
but with not an idea (though he remarked
at once her resemblance to Rachel) that he
had ever pressed that burning cheek• to
his, or kissed those small .fingers. And as
he saw her' blush at her own'reflection, he
I thought; No wonder she blushes at her
loveliness. I like that. It looks maidenly
and modest'
What new star hive you here, Mrs.
Cayenne Vhe inquired of hostess.
She folloWed his eye.
4.Ah, that is indeed a new star. Mrs:
Lorrimer's young friend, whom ihe
kirAtght from Baltimore . with her, r think.
Shall:-I.4titroduee—youl'.- •
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.vr• Ug3 c.czildi7 skde.l
B11011111(al:
in his, and calling her in coitrteouS terms
'Nos Elliot.' And our little Mikis Elliot
went tt4ugh the Ordeal with wonderful
self-possession.
g How.like her tones are to Rachel's,'
,Ike thought. A little more womanly, and
trained by fashion, perhaps, but exceeding
like.'
In one thing it bore no resemblance to
his betrothed—the characteristic ':thee'
and then' were wanting. He soon dis
covered, for he was moonseionsly compar
ing them all -the time,=that she had a more
extensive knowledge of books, and laughed
gayer and more frequently than Rachel.
I wonder if she's a Catholic,' he
thought, 'There are a great many in
Baltimore. I should not be at all sur
prised. Just emancipated from a nunnery
education, perhaps. There's tin atmosphere
about her that breathes of the cloister.'
Can I claim your hand for the coming
quadrille he inquired, as he observed her
eyes light up and her fan bearing time to
the music.
The eyes fell and the hand was motion
less.
I do not dance, Mr. Graham.'
She's a Roman Catholic, I'll be bound
—but you are fond of music, I know, Miss
Elliot.'
She looked up smilingly, and said
How did you know r
I read it in your eyes, I guess ; and
you were keeping time, too.'
Shortly afterwards, as they were pacing
the room, they came upon a little fairy
bower, furnished with several instruments
of music. It had but a few occupants,
and Paul, with his fair companion on his
arm, turned his steps within it.
You will sing for me, Miss Elliot, will
you not 1'
Not here,' she murmured anxiously,
and then added, innocently, and with rising
color, Sometime at Mrs. Lorrimer's. Do
not urge me now.'
Paul smiled involuntarily at this sim
plicity. (No one,' he argued, but a
young girl fresh from a convent would have
said that.' His previous conviction was
confirmed.
You must oome and Bee us Paul,' said
Mrs. Lorrimer ' pleasantly, as they parted
that night ; and he waited for no second
invitation.
A few evenings after,as Rachel was deep
in the mysteries of a new opera, thrilling,
warbling like a nightingale, the servant
brought in a card to the music room, bear
ing that magic name—Paul Graham. For
a moment her heart stood still, and a faint
ness like death bowed her slight figure to
the earth. She was to meet him alone,
and as a stranger, the man to whom she
had plighted her faith in the little lane
beneath the cedar shade. But there was
no time for emotions like these now. She
had undertaken this game, and it must be
played out. And so, with unsteady color
and uncertain footsteps, she went into his
presence. Paul noticed the shrinking
timidity, as he termed it, and exerted him
self to win her confidence as if she had
been a child.
I heard some one singing,' he said,
smiling, and lam going to claim the ful
fillment of a promise you made me at Mrs.
t3avenna's. Will yon conic You see I
know the way,' he added, as he preceded
her to the music-room she had just left.
4 I don't like tossing for you,' she said,
naively, resting her folded hands on the
piano ; for Mrs. Lorrimer says you are
an accomplished musician yourself.'
4 0, Mrs. Lorrimer flatters me too much.
I assure you it is not so, Miss Elliot.'
He turned to the pile of sheet-music
lying on the music -stand, and taking up
that noble poem, married to melody, ' I
know that my Redeemer liveth,' laid it
before her. Rachel's. whole frame changed
at sight of this ; she had sung it upon the
breezy bill tops, and in the beloved rooms
at Lorrimer place, till every note was as
familiar as household words to her. Paul
sat down, at her request, and played the
symphony. She had forgotten fear when
be struck in upon the accompaniment, and
her voice gushed ont freely and effortless,
and swelled sweetly up the bird-like com
pass.
Her auditor knew that it was the voice
of genius he was listening to, but it was
with no set phrase of courtesy that he
thanked her after the last accent of her
voice had died away. He only looked up
into her face with a something more than
admiration—a look of delight and pleasure
words could not express—and then he
said :
Miss Elliot, yon should go to Italy.'
She smiled _brightly for a moment, and
it was a smile Graham could not compre
hend. There was a great deal of gratified
affection in it. It could not be for him.—
Ah, Paul! Rachel bad not forgotten the
tones of that voice, whose depth and
sweetness had first opened to her a new
field of delight, and before he rose from
the piano she had begged him for a song.
I don't like to sing for you, Miss Elli
ott,' he said, laughingly, for my organ of
tune, tells me that you are a genius.'
Another bright smile, and a brighter
blush passed over her face.
Don't say any more ; do sing,' she
murmured, gently.
g What a strange, artless little thing
she is,' thought Paul, as he began Barry
Uornwall's beautiful Hunter's Song.
They met very frequently, at first by
accident, and then, as the aequaintance
progressed, by design. Their music was
a bond of companionship, and Graham im
agined that was all. One evening, when
he had joined her voice with his in an old
English ballad, the thought flashed through
his mind— , 0, that Rachel had this gift !'
but he banished it quickly and with some
rem orse.
Pleased though she was to be in his be
loved society so frequently, yet there was
a pang at her heart sometimes, after some
gentle meaning attention had been lavished
upon her, for was he not untrue to Rachel,
or at least bestowing the thought and ad
miration that should have been hers upon
another T The simple Quakeress is - in
peril,' she thought. But it was not Tong
before Paul Graham saw this peril. He
had rode with - her, sung with her, and
talked with her about their favorite au
thors", week after week, anti,yet wrote on
to Rachel.,:iith the same punotiality, if
not.interest. And Rachel herself replied
with the same tone of affectionate confi
dence.
At-last there came" tin :Wakening. He
ivae teaching her to ridO'horseboOk, and in
the excitement of the lesson they had gone
on farthetthan they intended, and VI they
tanned homeivardoi he •re marked. hcilv Weary
mid iiiiiiiiii i elOked.".,..it
. . l- wao - irideed 'too
- mush
f r her nnacChitoinediti she wits to
tlie,exercise; and:SS he : droveup ink the
court-yard and sprang-from his saddle to
assist her to alight i the small white hands
relaxed, and the head drooped- , ehe' was
fainting: - He took her aims, and
With his light burden rand steps,' and
puehing.the astonished foothiaO asides bore
her into the drawing-room. He removed'
her hat and bathed- her , brow with some
cologne he found upon -the table. The
OW, dashing, 'and :strong perfume noon
restored her. She'fargot Miss Elliott, as
conscience sIoWIY returned,and murmured
out ha low, tender tones, (yet pot so low
but they reached the sharpened hearing of
him who knelt beside her, Paul, dear
Pahl f' Fora moment the blood rushed
tumilltuously to his face, his heart throb
bed with irresistible tenderness, and upon
the impulse ; of a moment bef pressed' hie
lips to hers. And then the thought of Ra
chel rose up before. him like an accusing
angel. He sprang to his feet-and folded
his arms tightly across his breasts as if to
still its beatings, while big diops of per
spiration started to his brow.
Is it Dome to this l' he groaned inward
ly ; am I a traitor to the sweet trust that
is reposed in me
Rachel had felt the pressure of his lips
to hers with pairs and pleasure. ,It was
meant for other lipathan Rachel Norman's.
She marked too the sudden start, the se
vere chilling aspect, and fortunately read
aright the remorse and regret. But it
could not still the pang that thrilled her
heart at the conviction that he had proved
false to the vows of his troth—he the im
maculate, the noble hero of her dreams.—
There was an embarrassed pause when she
rose from the sofa ' • Paul dared not speak
lest the emotions he had striven to repress
should be made manifest; and so . . with a
few hurried words that sounded strangely
cold after such IL volcano of feeling he
took his leave. The next letter that Ra
chel received was written in a tone of re
morseful tenderness, and contained the
news that she might expect him next
month. It was April now. With all pos
sible haste Mrs. Lorrimer and Rachel
prepared for their departure for the coun
try. In a few days she was again estab
lished in her old home, the saber dress
was resumed, and the curls brushed back
into plain bands.
May came with its tender flowers and
fresh foliage—and with it Paul Graham.
It was nearly dark when he again set foot
on Nathan Norman's doorstep. The dusk
of a May twilight was brooding over the
landscape, settling in dim shadows within
the little parlor that two years ago had
witnessed the tender leave-taking between
himself and Rachel. He used to watch
impatiently for her footfall ; but now she
glided into the room, like a shadow her
self, and laid her head upon his shoulder
before he was aware of her presence.—
, Paul!' He turned, and stretched his
arms out to receive her ; but she only
placed her hand in his, and said, yet ear
nestly lam glad to see thee, Paul.'
As the candles were brought in, he
glanced at her face, and a thrill passed
through him as he observed how much she
resembled Miss Elliott. Days passed on,
and Paul would have been happy, but for
an angel vision of those pale lips murmur
ing Paul, dear Paul !'
,He was doubly a
traitor, for had he not now the love of this
fair girl, and been untrue to the old love ?
One afternoon as he was sitting by her
side, he took the work from her hands
and clasping them in his own, said, most
earnestly :
Rachel, I want you to be mine before
I leave—do not refuse me, my love. I
know this seems sudden ; but I want to
take my guardian angel back with me.—
Will she go ?'
Paul, thou hest deceived thyself—l
should not satisfy thee in thy city home.—
I should only be a mortification.'
Rachel! Rachel !'
Thou knowest it is as I tell thee ;
search thine own heart. Rave there not
been misgivings about the Quaker girl
and comparisons that have resulted unfa—
vorably?
Rachel do not make us both miserable
by those doubts and fears. Believe me,
I love you.'
And none other ?'
He paused a moment, and then replied :
And none other, Rachel.'
Thou hest spoken an untruth, Paul,'
said she, looking him searchingly in the
face.
He made no reply, but bowed his face
upon his hands, while Rachel glided noise
lessly from the room. It might have been
half an hoar that he sat thus ? without lift
ing his head, when a hand was laid upon
his shoulder, and a voice, like and yet un
like Rachel's, said ! Look up, and see
thine accuser, Paul Graham!'Was he
dreaming, or had reason left him There
stood Miss Elliott in her riding dress, with
the jaunty hat and sable plumes, and the
luxuriant brown-curls.
Paul, do you not know me V she said
at length. lam Rachel, only Rachel--:
Miss Elliott is only a_shadow. Can you
love her as well now, knowing she is, after
all, but a simple Quakeress V
Tenfold more, my beloved. Forgive
me for my faithlessness, though it was but
momentary.
As I hope to be forgiven, Paul.'
After she had explained, the whole of the
little romantic ruse to him, she looked up
with tearful eyes into his face, and said.;
Am I fitted to your station, Paul ?'
No, dearest, and that can never be, ;
you are above my station.
Tears fell from the bright eyes of RaL
ohel, but they were happier tears than she
had shed for many a weary month.
Mrs. Lorrimer was delighted at the suc
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that there was as much bigotry in the cut
of a garment as in counting beads. But
though she. mingled in the world as. Paul
Graham's wifo, • and graeed'his house, there
was always a certain grave simplicity, a
saint-like-parity, that set her apart' from
others, which' herlinsband would not have
had otherwise for, a.l the brill - ancy in the
world. And after all, I was not nrktrue3
love,' he would say. It was Rachel in
different phases that I loved' And Rachel
would answer by a-look of moll trusting
happiness;:that he would bless God that he
had won such an angel to :his
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