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MY BROTHER AND 1
From the door where I stand I can see his fair land
Sloping np to a broad sunny height,
The meadows new shorn, and the green wavy corn,
The buckwheat all blossoming white :
There a gay garden blooms, there are cedars like
plumes,
And a rill from the mountain leaps up in a fountain,
And shakes its glad looks in the light.
He dwells in the hall where the long shadows fall
On the checkered and cool esplanade;
J. live in a cottage secluded and small,
By a gnarly old ripple•tree's shade :
Side by side in the glen, I and my brother Ben—
Just the river between us, with borders as green as
The banks where in childhood we played.
But now nevermore upon river or shore
He rune or he rows by my side;
For I am still poor, like our father before,
And he, full of riches and pride,
Leads a life of such show, there is' no roots, you
know,
In the very fine carriage he gained by his marriage,
For an old-fashioned brother to ride.
His wife, with her gold, gives him friends, I am told,
With whom she is rather too gay—
The senator's eon, who is ready to run
For her gloves and her fan, night or day,
And to gallop beside, when she wishes to ride:
Oh! no doubt, 'tis an honor to see smile upon her
Such world-famous fellows as they !
Ah ! brother of wine, while you vont_ while you
dine,
While you drink of your wine like a lord,
You might curse, one would say, and growjaundiced
and gray,
With such guests every day at your board'
But you sleek down your rage like a pard in a cage,
And blink in meek fashion through the bars of your
passion,
As husbands like you can afford.
For still you must think, as you eat, as you drink,
As yon hunt with your dogs and your guns,
How your pleasures are bought with the wealth that
she brought,
And you were once hunted by duns.
Oh! 1 envy you not your more fortunate lot;
I've a wife all my own in my own little cot,
And with happiness, which is the only true riches,
The cup of oar love overruns.
We have bright, rosy girls, fair as over an earl's,
And the wealth of their curls is our gold ;
Oh! their lisp and their laugh, they are sweeter by
half
Than the wine that you quaff red and old !
We have lore-lighted looks, we have work, we have
books,
Oar boys have grown manly and bold,
And they never shall blush, when their proud cous
ins brush
From the walls of their college such cobwebs of
knowledge
, As careless young fingers may hold.
Keep your pride and your cheer, for we need them
not here,
And for me far too dear they would prove;
Vor gold is but gloss, and possessions aro dross,
And gain is all loss, without love.
You severing tido is not fordless or wide—
The soul's blue abysses our homesteads divide
Down through the still river they deepen forever,
Like the skies it reflects from above.
Still my brother thou art, though our lives lie apart,
Path from path, heart from heart, more and more.
Oh! have not forgot—oh! remember you not
Our room in the cot by the shore?
And a night soon will come, when the murmur and
hum
Of our days shall be dumb evermore,
And again we shall lie side by side, you and 1,
Beneath the green cover you helped to lay over
Oar honest old father of yore.
A NIGHT IN A SNOW-DRIFT.
In the following narrative I have avoid
ed mentioning names, dates, or places. I
need not assign a reason; the incidents
of my story will supply one.
Several years ago—never mind how
many—l was in America, employed in
surveying, prior to the construction of one
of those vast lines of railway which are
now found of as great utility for warfare,
as they were then intended for peaceful
traffic.
I had gone out from England with very
few pounds in my pocket, but with a good
education, and, I may say, with some
ability.
I entered heartily into my work, and
found it highly remunerative.
Although 1 thoroughly enjoyed the oo
oupation, and the many rough and some
times romantic incidents inseparable from
it, I could never really assimilate myself
with the American character ; and, as I
was the only Englishman on that part of
the line, my loneliness was extreme—re
lieved, indeed, occasionally by violent
quarrels with men who sneered at the
sulky Britisher.'
One day, in the depth of as severe a
winter as I ever experienced, I had to
take a long journey, the greater part by
rail--then only a single line. At the
wretched shed dignified with the name of
station a somewhat curious party at
traoted my attention.
They were four :
An old and apparently totally paralyzed
gentleman, so swathed in shawls, comfort
ers, fur cap, and buffalo robe, that only a
small strip of his face was visible, and
that was of a death-like hue.
A young lady, thickly veiled, apparent
ly not the daughter of the invalid; for she
seemed to avoid looking at or approaching
him, as he half sat, half lay, propped up
by boxes and bags in a corner of the one
bench.
Two sallow, evil-looking men com
pleted the number. They were dressed in
a much inferior manner to the others, but
evidently had charge of both invalid and
lady.
• I got into the same oar with this strange
party; anything a little out of the com
mon being acceptable to me.
Whether I should have done so could I
have foreseen the tragic termination of our
journey I cannot tell.
1 he snow was lying very deep on the
groun‘d, and, occasionally, where a drift
d formed,aoras the line, we had much
to do to force our way through it:
theimily occupant of the oar be
sides the party I have described, and
amused myself by speculating on the con
necting links between such a strange
quartette.
The lady was a lady evidently. Though
I had not caught a glimpse of her face—
as she had not once lifted the heavy veil
she wore—yet every fold of her dress,
every movement of her figure, showed re
finement.
We had been plodding on at a miserable
rate for many hours, the snow becoming
thicker and thicker.
To look out of the windows was use
less ; for the ground was snow, and the
air seemed to be snow, so thickly was it
falling.
What could I do but watch my compan
ions
I had forgotten to say that in the early
part of the journey I had made some
casual remark to the two men about the
entire hopeless state of their charge ; but
I received such a short answer, accom
panied by such an evil look, that I resolved
to hold my tongue for the remainder of
the journey.
The young lady, when I spoke to the
men, gave a quick sort of half turn towards
me, as if she would have spoken ; but was
instantly checked by one of the men de
siring her, in a rough and peremptory
manner, to change her seat.
Still dragging along—and more snow,
Inc re snow 1
The men, having refreshed themselves
several times from a spirit flask, took a
bottle and a spoon, and prepared to feed
the paralyzed gentleman.
I could not see what they gave him, or
whether he ate ; for the men carefully
placed themselves and the young lady be
tween the sick man and me.
I should here say that the young lady
had absolutely refused to take any food
whatever, though several times pressed by
the men.
They are bending over the invalid ; the
young lady, by their direction, also stand
ing, with her side face towards me.
With a quick and silent movement she
raises her veil, and looks for an instant
with a questioning, agonized glance in my
face.
She must have seen honest pity there ;
for, slightly leaning towards me, pallid as
death, she formed a word with her lips—
but without sounding it—pointing to the
men ; then lowered her veil again.
Although the whole had taken place in
a second or two, the men had observed
some movement, and turned fiercely to
her, looking like devils at both of us.
I, however, was already sitting with
folded arms, and eyes half shut, as if
sleepy ; not so sleepy, though, but that I
caught a moment's view of that strip of
face I had seen at the station.
That second look satisfted,me of what I
had doubted—the word dumNy - spoken by
the young lady. The word was Murder."
I sat still and thought—
, Here I am with a couple of murderers
—probably armed—their victim apparent
ly the father of that lovely girl. Yes—
this is the explanation of her shunning
him at the station, and in lifting him into
the cars. I have my revolver—not loaded;
if it were, I couldn't shoot these men
down without more proof against them
than a word—only seen, not heard. It is
of no use giving them up at the end of our
journey, for, of course, they will say that,
half dead when he started, he died of the ,
cold in the cars. Cold ! Yes—bitterly,
piercingly cold ; and our stove does not
seem to give the heat that it should; and
there is no more fuel !'
Although 1 could not see through the
young lady's veil, site doubtless could see
me through it. I nodded slightly to her,
and fumbling in the folds of my cloak,
half exposed the barrel of my revolver.
The answer was a scarcely perceptible
shake of the head.
For the twentieth time we are pushing
and battering at a drift ; this time it must
be a deep one, for we are come to a dead
stop.
guess 1 must get some wood from that
darned conductor, or we shall be friz,'
said one of the men, the shorter and least
evil-looking of the two.
Do, said for it is awfully cold, even
for us who are strong ; what must it be for
your invalid charge !'
Oh ! he won't hurt,' replied the man.
You shut up, and fetch the wood !'
said the other.
He returned soon, and said the engineer
would not let him have a stick, declaring
it was not his business to supply the oars,
and that he had barely enough to keep
his own fire up.
On going out to see the state of affairs
for myself, I found the drift, in which we
were fast, was of a most formidable size 1
and saw at once that, without digging, the
engine could not possibly force its way
through.
I went to the engineer, whom I knew,
and asked if be could spare us a log or
two ; but even whilst asking I saw him
useless the request was, for he had no
wood !
Nine o'clock at night--still snowing—
no fire, and no fuel !
Fast buried in a snow-drift, on a single
line of rail—miles away from any house.
I must spend the night with a dead man
and his two murderers !
But the poor girl ! How can she bear
the cold ?
Ail the men set to work vigorously to
clear the line, whilst there was yet fire
enough and steam enough to carry us
through.
We were not many miles from our des
tination.
Dig ! Yes—but who can dig without a
spade ?
Small progress was made ; it soon be
came apparent to all that we were fast,
until two o'clock, when the night mail fol
lowed us.
Five mortal hours in that piercing cold!
The conductor, half frozen as he was,
walked a quarter of a mile, down the line,
and extemporized a danger signal, as best
he could ; I and the other passengers get
ting into the cars, and wrapping ourselves
up, grimly to bear the five hours of misery.
As I enter, I see only the shorter of the
two men ; on asking him for his friend, he
says :
Oh! he's crouching down by the fire
box of the engine to get warm.'
I mentally add ---g And will go to sleep,
and when the fire goes out will be frozen
to death !'
I now saw the young lady watching
her companion closely, seeing him become
sleepy from - copious' draughts of rum and
water.
•a THAT COUNTRY IS TUB MOST YROSPIRO I : " • 8 00 I • • . 13 T:3 G :
LANCASTER CITY, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 16, 1864.
A loud snoring soon proclaimed him fast
asleep.
The poor girl then with half frozen
fingers lifted her veil, and whispered with
trembling voice :
Can you help me ? You are English:"
are you not I think I can trust you!'
Sit perfectly still for an instant,' I
answered.
A happy thought had struck me.
I had for some time past suffered mach
from face and toothache, and was in the
habit of carrying a stoppered bottle of
chloroform.
I took out my bottle, and, signing to the
young lady to be silent, poured the whole
upon my handkerchief, and held it over
the face of the sleeping murderer !
In five minutes I knew he was safely
disposed of for some hours to come,
I called loudly in his ear, and shook him
roughly, but he did not stir.
I shall never forget the earnest joy with
which the poor girl clasped my hands and
thanked me.
I don't know whose heart beat faster
then—hers, or mine , I know that 1 forgot
all about the dreadful cold, and only felt
an instant longing to take her in my arms
and kiss her.
Taking the sleeping man's great buffalo
robe and wrapping it around her, I bade
her sit down, and asked her the cause of
her father's murder, and why she seemed
to be a prisoner.
As I spoke, I could not help an invol
untary shudder at the appearance of the
corpse.
administering the chloroform to the
man I had accidentally displaced the rug,
which the murderers had carefully ar
ranged so as to hide the face of the sup
posed paralytic.
The eyes were closed and blue, the nose
pinched, the mouth partly open, with
curled and strained lips, the teeth set,
and grinning horribly in the half light
reflected flora the snow in which we were
imbedded.
It had now ceased snowing.
In answer to my question, she said
I am alone in the world ; I can trust
you--I will tell you all. The—the body'
—here she turned paler than ever ehe was
before— , the body is not that of my father
—oh no ! I could not have borne it ! It
is my uncle. lam a Virginian ;my father
and mother both died when I was very
young, leaving me, a rich orphan, to the
care of my uncle.
All 1 know was that 1 was well educa
ted, and had whatever mom y I wanted ;
but when I left school, my uncle was
strangely altered ; my presence seemed to
irritate him.
6 He tried to make me marry that wretch
who has gone out ; he was my uncle's over
seer, and a wore cruel or wicked roan never
lived.'
Here I suddenly thought, What if he
should not fail asleep by the engine, but
should return I went out and found him
in what I knew would be his death sleep
—crouching completely under the fire-box
of the engine.
The engineer had left his cold and now
useless machine, and sought shelter in the
ears.
I returned, and my lovely charge con
tinued.
I was often talked to by some of our
old slaves, and in particular by our 'dear
old nurse, about this man. She said be
had come a few yoars ago, and in some
way had obtained an undue influence over
her massa—ordering everything and treat
ing the slaves, who had never experienced
anything but kindness from my father, and
uncle, with the greatest severity.
This villain persecuted me with his
odious attentions ; and one day—l. can't
tell you—but I rushed to my uncle, who,
when he heard, called him into the house,
and in a furious manner said :
Although you have by your hellish
cunning obtained my promise of my niece
as your wife, I will not tamely submit to
see her insulted ' Take that, you villain"
—firing a pistol full in his face.
' , Fortunately passion defeated itself, and
my uncle was not a murderer.
The overseer smiled an evil smile, and
said :
Never mind ! it was only a little mis
take ! We will settle affairs another
day !'
4 Not long after this, the fellow who is
asleep there, and who is the overseer's
brother, came and joined him. He is a
doctor. My uncle became daily more and
more miserable ; my old nurse, saying
it was remorse preying upon his mind;
because he bad appropriated my property.
4 A few weeks ago my uncle's health
began to fail seriously ; the Doctor,'
as he was milled, c:instantly expressed his
opinion that paralysis might be expected.
Last Monday I was awakened by my
old nurse in a dreadful fright, to tell me
that my unck was dying. I rose, and
found the Doctor ' and the overseer with
him.
The Doctor ' said that, as he had
predicted, my uncle had had a paralytic
attack, entirely lost the use of his limbs
and speech, and that he probably would
not be able to move for some time to come.
He felt the responsibility too great for his
brother and himself, and consequently,
should remove him to S—, where be
would be placed under the care of the cel
ebrated Dr. W—.
This was said intentionally in the hear
ing of several of the servants, and passed
for truth ; although I, in common with all,
protested against removing my uncle in
such a state.
Knowing the evil character of both the morning an express came from R—,
men, I resolved that I would not part expecting to find a breakdown ; they took
from my uncle, but would accompany him us up, and we arrived at R— about
to S— . eight o'clock.
I fancied E. saw a sinister smile on the I asked' Alice what she would wish to do ?
face of the overseer, as I said this ; but he In some confusion she said :
only remarked : I know not what to say ! ' But, put
'Oh, certainly ;no objection can be made ting her little hand in mine, she said :
to that.' Will you, who have watched over me
Yesterday we started. through that dreadful night, who have
My suspicions were roused by the saved me from the horrors of which I can
-4 Doctor' and overseer refusing to let me not think, see me safe back to my own
approach my uncle, either to dress him, or home—my own, indeed, now ; it will be
to help him into his carriage. very lonely, no one to welcome me but the
4ln spite of their caution, however, I servants ; but it is my right place ! Am
obtained a glimpse of his face, and knew I asking too much?'
in an instant he was dead. Need I tell the reader my answer I
I was too excited and horrified to I offered myself, a poor surveyor, as her
faint. husband as well as protector.
The overseer saw by my looks that I She did not say no. * *
now knew all. e gave up the plantation ; for I could
He at once said, in a brutal tone •• not reconcile myself to my owning slaves,
'Oh ! I guess you see it all now. You're although theirs was anything but bondage.
a sensible girl, so a few words will suffice. ' The ,railway accident was universally
There wasn't much love lost .between you belieied to be the cause of the death of
and `your uncle, so you need - not mate uncle, the overseer and the Doe
fusg•i' " - I for ; ' Alice, with - pardonable deeeptida,
4 The truth is, the Doctor there phys
icked him a leetle too strong, and it would
not do to bury him 'here, for the job would
have been blown! So we thought we
would take him where no one will be the
wiser ; the poor old gentleman has died
of cold and over-exertion, don't you
see ?'
I can't tell you what the wretch said
to ma ; only that he said he had got all the
old gentleman's plunder from the estate ;
that he meant to marry mewhether I would
or not ; and that if I so much as spoke or
looked at any one on the journey, he would
kill me at once.
I knew he would not hesitate to carry
out his threat, so dare not utter a word.
Oh ! how thankful I was to see you
enter our ear !
I felt a presentiment that you would
in some way save me from these horrid
men.'
Here the poor girl burst into tears.
I don't know what I did or said, only
that I comforted her, and vowed I would
never forsake her.
The time was now approaching when the
two o'clock train was due. There was a
death-like silence, broken only by the
mournful tones of occasional gusts of wind,
which, like evil spirits sporting round
us, rushed to and fro through the ill-made
oars, unseen, but painfully heard and felt.
Every one had huddled themselves in
whatever they could find as a proteotion
from the biting cold.
Although hardy and strong I began to
feel exhausted and benumbed, and proba
bly should have fallen into a dangerous
stupor but for my mind being racked with
thought.
How should I act?
If I gave these two men up to justice
t supposing the overseer survived) what
proof was there that they had poisoned the
6 paralytic ' ?
I asked Alice—so we will now call her
—whether the overseer had the spoils
with him or not 3
She said he had admitted to her that he
had gold, notes and securities to a very
large amount upon him.
I then searched the still sleeping Doc
tor ; ' he was so motionless and death-like
that I began to fear lest the chloroform
had had a fatal effect upon him.
I found nothing but a few dollars and a
revolver, which 1 took ; and, with his own
neckerchief, securely tied his hands behind
him.
It was now snowing heavily again ; but
I sallied forth once more into the snow,
and found the overseer still under the
engine, frozen as hard as the iron which
covered him, and doubtless quite dead.
With lingers almost lifeless as his own,
I searched him, and found, besides the ex
ected loaded revolver and bowie knife, a
large canvass belt fastened round his waist,
containing the stolen money.
I hastened back with it to Alice, fearing
she might be overcome with the cold, and
fall asleep.
Just as I had my hand on 'the door of
the ear, I heard a well-known sound ;
there was no need to think twice—the
driver of the expected train, blinded by
the snow, had not seen the danger signal
With criminal negligence they had not
telegraphed our non-arrival from 11—;
the train was rushing on us.
I shouted loudly to the occupants of the
cats to save themselves, and sprang into
ours for Alice.
Even in the short time I had been
absent she had nearly gone to sleep.
No wonder, poor girl ! She had experi
enced hunger, thirst (for she dare not take
food from the overseer, lest he should
poison her), excitement, and cold—bitter
cold, such as happily we don't know in
England.
I seized her iu my arms, and had scarce
ly leaped from the oar before the crash
came !
I will not dilate on the horrors of the
collision—we have too many such descrip
tions in our daily papers. Happily m
shouting had aroused most of the passen
gers, but some three or four never knew
how death came.
I laid the fainting body of Alice for a
few moments, carefully wrapped up, on
the snow, whilst I searched for our late
evil companions.
The murderers had met a milder fate
than they deserved.
The frozen overseer was completely
smashed beneath the engine.
Whether the ' Doctor' really died from
the effects of cold and the chloroform I
cannot tell, and do not like to think.
He, also, was a bruised and almost
shapeless mass ; both had died painless
deaths.
The engineer and stoker of the train
which ran into us- had jumped into the
snow, and were unhurt.
The passengers were very few, and,
surprising to say, only one was killed.
We made great fires of the debris, and
waited the morning, when help should
come.
Amid all the horrors of the scene I felt
a thrill of happiness in having Alice look
ing at me as her sole protector, and
through the night laying her head on my
shoulder, in sheer weariness and .exhaus
tion, suffering my arms to support her.
I felt as if I had known her for years.
Was the gentle girl who leaned unconsci
ously .on me whom I had met under such
strange circumstances—was she soon to be
severed from me ? No ! never ! And with
that thought I clasped her closer to my
heart.
At last help came ; about five o'clock in
MININIESEI
BUOHANLN
explaining that the Doctor,' not finding
Dr. W—at his own town, insisted on
going to the next to some other surgeon.
Alice and I have now lived happily in
England many years ; but we never see
the snow lying thickly on the ground
without shuddering at the recollection of
the night which we passed in the snow
drift.
NINA RAYMOND'S OFFER.
Golden curls and laughing eyes, bound
ing footfall and a voice fall of ringing
music, a laugh like the chiming of silver
bells, and a tiny figure, lithe and graceful
as the fairy Titania.
This was my love Nina Raymond.
Be your wife I never heard of such
nonsense in my life ! Your wife, indeed !
I should as soon think of marrying papa
or brother Will, or—or—
,Why, I can't
think of any other masculine so impossi-
This was the answer to my suit.
But, why V I persisted.
Why ? Why don't a girl marry her
grandmother ? I'll tell you. It is be
cause she gets tired of seeing the old lady
around. I can't remember a day when I
have not seen your phis the first thing in
the morning and the last thing in the eve-
ning. I never went to a party with any
other escort. I never was in a serape but
you were my companion in misvy, or my
shield from. punishment. I never did a
foolish thing but you were by to laugh and
rebuke. Oh ! Marston, dear, go and make
love to some foreign . lady ; but don't be
so absurd as to want to marry your cousin,
who has lived under the same roof with
you since she was a baby.'
'But all you say only goes to prove my
devotion.'
4 Devotion ! 'iron snub me quite as often
as you praise. Besides—'
She hesitated.
4 Well?'
I am only sixteen, and I am not going
to accept my very first offer. And then,
Marston, you don't come within a thous-
and miles of my bean ideal.'
Oh ! I don't. Pray, desoribe your
beau ideal.'
Tall.'
I stand six feet one inch.'
Handsome, with black whiskers and
he manners of a traveler. A man who
has not lived all his life in this miserable
cooped-up village, but has seen the world
and profited thereby. One who has mixed
in distinguished society, and learned re
finemelt of dress and manner, and who
can talk of soulething besides books with
a lady.'
6 Ah ! Well, if you won't have me you
won't. So there's an end of it.'
I got up lazily from the garden seat,
where we had been sitting, and strolled
towards the house. I saw her blue eyes
open with amazement at my coolness. I
did not enact despair for her benefit, but
laid my plans for her future edification.
Two days later I had left home and
gone into the city for a visit. Nina gave
me a merry farewell, and did not seem at
all heart-broken at the prospect of the
separation. if she felt any emotion,• she
was soon soothed, as the following letter
directed to my new address convinced me:
DEAR MARSTON : My hero has arrived.
Such lovely black whiskers, not at all like
your smooth face, cousin; such jetty curls,
not auburn ones like yours ; such black
eye-brows and lashes—yours are yellow.
He has been everywhere, has seen every
thing, speaks foreign languages, and has
the most polished manners. He brought
a letter of introduction •to Will, so, of
course, he is here quite often, and seems
very well pleased with a certain cousin of
yours.'
And so on the letter was filled up with
home gossip. I read it at the little inn of
my native village,
where all my letters,
re-directed to ' Mr. Alonzo Courtney,' fol
lowed me. The black whiskers lay on the
table by me, the wig hung from the look
ing-glass, while the dyed eye-brows and
lashes still adorned my face. My fine
broad-cloth suit, out in the latest city'
style, my patent-leather boots, kid gloves
and dandy cane lay on a chair, while I
lounged, in dressing gown and slippers,
before the window, conning my cousin's
letter. As I was engaged to drive her out
in an hour, 1 began my elaborate toilet.
Every curl was in position, and every fold
correct, as I rang the bell of my uncle's
house, to which my fellow ornspirator
Will had introduced me. No suspicion of
my identity crossed my aunt's mind as she
gave me a polite welcome, and Nina's
blinded eyes saw only in Mr. Courtney the
traveled dandy.
I trust I see the rose of Glendale in
full health,' I said, with a low bow. Ah !
those fair hands were destined for daintier
tasks than this ! ' and I deprived her of
her sewing. The soft air woos us.
Will you drive with me '1 '
With a bewitching little flat, and every
curl in glossy beauty, she was soon ready
for our excursion. I cannot tell all the
flattery I poured into her ears, half dis
gusted at her blushes, and half amused at
her innocent pleasure in my exaggerated
gallantry. It was the first time I had been
alone with her in my disguise, and I took
occasion to delicately hint at my entire
devotion to her charms, and grinding my
teeth at her coquettish acceptance of the
same.
I saw her every day fix a month, press
ing my suit on all occasions, and filling
her ears with drawling affectations and flat
descriptions of Italy and France, with
broad comparisons of the daughters of
Europe and America.
At last I proposed. To my amazement
she refused me flat ; to my delight she in
formed me that her cousin Marston was a
man, not a dressed-up idiot. Ido not
mean that these were her exact terms,
but her warm defence of her cousin, after
my sneering hints of jealousy, was fully
equivalent to such a declaration.
Of course, my proper self returned radi
ant and hopeful. Will you believe it?—
She was as offish as ever when I made any
1 advances. She was oousinly and sisterly
till I Was in a perfect fury over her cool
ease and matter-of-course affection, but
would only laugh at my proffered love, and
compare me slightingly to her recent ad
mirer, and actually -had the audacity to
hint that her heart walked out of the door
at his departure.
I was half inclined to quit the field ; but
I loved the gipsy heartily, and could not
give her up. Luckily, I had a snn-atroke.
Now, a sun-stroke is. generally not a for
tunate event, but for me it opened the
1 way ; -to my present -happiness. T was .in
the' garden, hatless and• bney about sane
/
fruit which was being gathered, when all
the face of nature turned dark, and I fell.
Marston ! Marston ! Only speak to
me ! It is Nina ! Oh ! Marston, do speak
to me !'
Hot tears fell fast on my face. I had
been carried into the housa, and it was the
second hour of my stupor when the words
struck my ear, muffled and dim ; but deli
ciously sweet the dear voice sounded in its
agony. 'Then Will said:
g.I feel his pulse now, Nina. He is
coming round. I will leave you here while
I go and find mother'
We were left alone. I could not move,
but I could feel her kisses rained on my
face, her sobbing regrets for past unkind
ness, and her low prayers whispered for
my safety. At last, I opened my eyes.
With my head resting on her arm, my
face raised to hers, and my hand clasping
hers, she could not escape. So she sur
rendered at discretion, and we were mar
ried nearly three months before Itold her
who made her her second offer.
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