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ME CORPORATIoNS ‘.1%,.: 1,:1•,11..111\1:.-i'l, . 'I. ,t• In. r, .1. I'. , .1 t v. 1:otlt• .; : .1 iitt ; Ut recto,,. R. M. Ilenllewon, John t.nad 11 lJta,,j, .1. Lt. I;nm., EI,iI i,\\nndlturn, j:, t' 11,•111:,• lan.ntil, 1111611 Stuart., and 1,11.•/ 1, itlll, 11010, COMPANV. — Pit,iIIPIIt, .1.11 crn l'1,11) 11°11' 1• Edwind :: • ; :X. t oil. 1. 11 ,‘,...nr., trniur t sv) 1,.1,11i.,...1`a..11 , 1L at 10.10 A. 'I. and - 2..41 IF el. I'. 11. nail, °very tl:ty I'.ll . li:ic at 9:27 o'clock A, .11., anal 3.30 I'. M. 2 ttLlni I: 0 IF A VI, W' Coil 'AN V.—President, Len, 1101 . A. 1.. .. , not sler; Supernitemlunt, 0c0r,40 It 0I 0,10cc0r,.. F. R, 11,a. M. Ilcotenl. 1 1 . M. . Ilen..y : , .ixt+ , ll, It. I'. 11'ido,IN, John 11. Brattolt, t r, ;Lt.ti ./,111t Calm - On:IL Cc:st 1..01 •,;.In 1' 11.11:r Dlsr..-I , reihitlonl, .101/n S. Ster rett; 11. A. it u1,,..0n; , Jut,. C. Huffer.— .1.,1111 S. :-.lo,rott„ 11'111. I:er, Melelndr ISeeue wan. ISoluird ituul,..lol.lu C. Uuulop, Iteht. U, Sterrett, A. t let 4000, mot Captain John Dunlop. SOC 1 ET IES Otianberino Star Lodge No. 157,. A. y. 11. meets at Marion hall 'on the 1:.n..1 ;mit 4th Tuesdays of every Moi.Llf, , St. Joints Lodi4o No 250 A. Y. M. Meets ad Thurs. MO , of eaeh.leenttili, at Marion Hall. earllslo Lodge No ul I. O. of U. V. cote Monday wioning, at Trouts FIRS COMPANIES The (lotion lire Comp Any was organized in' 11/10. l'4 -1 1 e at, 11. Corninau; Cien PreAdeut. Samuel IVet.4ll..eeet,:ley, .1. D. Ilainimpu; Trt1..1111.1 . ,. P. Alen C.,lll.tny ntouis the Vest Saturtley.in Marcli, June, Sepli•1111101 . 01141. D.:01111A, , V 1.11141 fort, (IOIIII,IIIyIV.ISIIISIRI3tI.4 144/1•11- 11ry In./. 0 , 1 . 1 . 1,14 , 11 t. The, Secretary Qui.iley; D. ()nigh., 'Vito crmpony m.,11 lite tilled P.O Willey et Jaliva - e'y, April, July, ale( o,embef. will was instituted in March, H 55 - President. 11. A. Sturi.;eoe; Vice President,o. I', I{nuuiiili; 1-1,0 - efetary, OpAepli W. 0411 by. 'rite company meets the Recent! I.l4, o ,isdpy.or Jot iluar,v, April, .Iply, and °amber. . Tito umpire 114,w; erid (,:ieuler'Coupany yeas Inutitut. fella 10511. Preside lit).' Wm. M.Povter; Vice President, John Jl Arun]; .1011 n Qnupbell; Secretary, John W. PArle. The ronneirly insets on the first I'd day iii January, April. July and October: RATES 0.1. 7 POSTAGE l'oetar:o on 1111 lettoreof one-half ounce 'weight or un der, 3 cents pro paid, encopt to Californlit or Oregruo, Welt lo 10 eunii, prepotd. Pokago on the"' {Loral d"—within the Coviity, from', Withie the Stetol.P.-cents per year. Teeny pare of lho United Stale{ 20 emits, Postage en all tranelinit Ipapero nunus_ln-Avidelit. 1 , con Limelield-or_two,:eento: pettlini.-71fliqrthiedluttiirif;tellirehitrged-wlth-the-coot celvertioine: jotirneyypan " yutuit by applylug - • 4'l'') Thitre . 9l a splendid country to A peopb• 11,ng. in 5 !..1 1 ,qt, Aud aniniAls miming sheet o 1 fe,i, For want of moans anti lalpirl 71) ,, ren:It bci,us Government„ ninth, with skill, By ft loatitnr who always lied mit.h a will, Some say in his grave he is Lying Still. Our most eantank,:rou, nvigilllot I I I. Th'rr 3 , 0 gins:: grown tie , atl 11,1 es, , port,, A t. lulls nut 01 ,•rt A ho , t ,5: rikeroh 1,11 1 .k.1 , ‘lth " short are elarty ware lo , I.r :12111 o ids, 1‘ ho t , r.O- 1.1 :0/1,1 .111 h •11'• •I I,i • k, 1101, t6ockPVI tlllll./l. I,l:ll.rupt. 11.0 A ni 11, tI I:tzt.t- To•IfOo or tor I.tri, Li , pj jo, Til..l•ah 1 It rnOnis , ill %I on , pnltn. 'lhert.. , a kt.t.,1.111211 And tot:6w A dAils t.t Ho, ”av,- 4.r pi., Now, Irt, u= i IS horF , lll‘..':: 1 , 1 11, 1, ith—,ll.l, A..t • 0., I ELVA!, I, II ail,. n.l \V, I tlnk• ,y , A it 4 In 3,1" : , 11.11! i r nily wave, MEI all .11 ry hn nflrela of 11,131".1 , strong t, tin.,la , tani \VI, Iran an.l eltan 11 1 1' \I n tI t.r —1 11.. nOlO An r.r.i.y N'••1"1 I• lac t \\bons tt^nt tv , l , ll':e n!, ✓ An array ofl"r.11 1 ,. • inn r 1:v I.rtv,. .1. 11. A trlti , , freo. Sll , lltiOd Im . A aiiil to-zentratt: toll ion gro, %I I 1,11,1 , 11 is ,„i,, = AI\rNABEIJ o\r IR E - S I) Pride, 1111(i Puttleirle ; Or, the ',lenge ttliee 01 sligl4tcd The first scene of our pre-,int story opens at. an old farm prettily situ ated in an hingit-It midland county, the namc of \\Adel' is not of mitch conse quence to hnow, Lot. it is fatuous_ fur its pai,tures, it, fat cattle, .onl its ricultu ral and for the lticlt state of its cultivation As it to show, however,. that there must be (as there always be) exception , to prose every rule, there was a utsr of die Lint! in Ilse preSUllt in stance; that is to say, that while farming matters WC) "1,1(1!:11i2 Ilp, " :Is the phrase thion ;! lt oi the locality' in general, yet a sot "Ws unforsecn mischances, and of unavoidable disaster.-i, had occurred to Adam Thornton, of " Broadlawis Farm,'' that,,, the day of utter ruin and humilia tion came to him, and beheld him bank -1 opt fu all his worldly goods and posses sions. No man was. able to account for the why or the wherefore; and the whole took the aspect of a fatality which noth ing could possibly avert. This sad Imality--this dreadful visita tion—which destroyed his harvests, browAt inurrain anningNie cattle, I rake the bank in which the of hi s capi tal wa. , lodged—which added a hopeless and a ruinous specidation to a previous ra,ll. and venture—MiS all the more deplorable that his eharacter for in dustry and integrity sioial high every where. Ills hos , ditality, his frank and winnin: , manliness, had made hifil num- Cl'oll, friends, but who, in the utterly des- Perate state of allairs, could not he justi fied, perhaps, in offering hint help and succor. if the universal sympathy which was thus awakened by t h e COllllll , misfor tune of the stricken nail could have been any alleviation to the blow which fell so heavily upon him, lie might have lain that "flattering unction" to his heart, and derivo.l, so liar, some benefit from it. But neither. slid his misfortune, nor the pity expressed by all for the calamity experi enced at Broadland-;, prevent his land lord—a hard, exacting "City' man"—from putting an exceution in• the house; from - selling the cherished treasures; from scat tering to the four winds the " household goods," which the family had hoarded with pride and reverence for at least three geuerations.past; nor he himself from dy ing of a broken heart on the very morn ing that the sale was an'tiounced to take place, and half- the country side was as sembling to take their purchased posses- • sion of the sheriff's spoil. It did not prevent him leaving it widow, with two children on her hands—one, a fine lad of sixlfe - de, then at school, and the last of hall-a-dozem -of which death had depri ved them—ii-golden-ringletted little,boy, barely two years old—each-and , all -utter ly unprovided liar. I know- of nothing more sad, disheart 011111;:c and bitter, hi tirir ' whelp course or the, hard "battle of life" every mat. must pass through, then a "distress'' in the house, and the hrul, , r, with a crafty cold bloodcduess which is this parasitic crea", Lure's character, making out his invdn -tory, and looking with ~calculating con tempt co- . -- tiiMpt on some cherished piece of ..forni turo. It may be the youngest child's toy; and oh I hew 'dear it is to these who know-what associations are awakened by it. Of all the cruel,- brutal institutions ' alloWed by the_law_pf_theland, we know of none - so hard, - so - u4etesS, Se Utterly nu r gatory as the'law which allows the selling of the leS.t piece of bed-linen and the last stick of .furnititre-that form the nucleus - .. - AT - thoun'and - tri - - we- knoW thatpeitfier creditor' noritind= lord will coincide arid- so, 'there fore, to our spiry . ,, The elder boy,-.Araohl-Thornton'iftele ver and promish g la i; itt this time about 11. S. RITTER. Ca 0163, Pa ~,cliv;tta ,caa):tl.'l3. "THE SITUATION." r.otttror r•dt•m ,r it h radon 11 Apia od. 11 I. Wit., 111111 =II And (I,•notal :•I:I'LrLI iN leads 1,11010! IMMI of a happier Fit Ita ti•al PV EDWIN E. ROItEIITS.,P' daym- - -m2, won' TEEM WAREEE47:r CIERSM. sixteen years of age, was at-school in a town some twenty tniles away, completing his education lie had here six months Anon:, tuition before hi, n, his father hav ing so far pa'd for his schooling in ad cc ; and as this had reference to tt cer- , tain course he was intended to pursue in life, Adam Thornton thuttdit, he would give his boy a chance which it had not been his lot to have. Our worthy farmer belonged to that stolid class of excellent and well-meaning men who are to he met whit at this very hour, dealing with roads and acres, and who will seriously ask you of what , rood Ipmks are Arnold, inheri :ing his mother's intellect and mental temperament, wAs 0110 1.) do credit to good :uitiun; and, whether for fainting or for t Idglter order of pursuit (as some think. 'here can exist such grade or tic: , reej. the :arent had intended to give hint the full olvantage Of all that the youth could 2,.lcan at the school in question, which, in Its way, too, was a really excellent one. Ills father h nl, at one time, some in tenti.et of bringing his favorite. Ley up to a commercial career, s thiukin- he 'night (010h;nc!:-.01110 of the gentility of file w:th a " itur , uit —a mi.-take :till vi . e.aktte- , .; Itc \\ ; , 111.!c in, rir wa , , not tho first man wilt) to.tle the itti.-tike in Ite!iovin that 10, ‘viliulillt111( 121 , i1 WiVei il;lti „NIT. " low ;`:ld val: 4 ar" be (..ttl-'(` I iii-y lie out-of the l'eniAl.:11111011 of I'ICW :ithl the v,-,11 i;:teriere 1 lVit..ll tho e k tre. , r thin out in the.ffy, failel in het. vroollyr o;`th, poor Nvitiow' , atane is too - vet slat Arrydd Thornton, fricipl o‘vn exertioh wuriu; hut; what, eoulti -he do with her litt.o in --Hie t,l the f twily —t!to no.,t:in. , that lert It i- not 11,. c:at , e. poverty :ind titre priv:tiwn arty fol low rittoel thene iN an (lac tieily in hunt.tit mit , tro which recovers the rect):l--4u,1 in2:enuitv, allied with I,, , , , evoranee, has I.)ecti .11riown to rise : i ll rwri., cirt•htill, lie hue fnl lifo which is to tho tir , t :teltievomorits that have ethle.l dere.tt, a, in the I.re 4litt inst woe, :on! ttt dice in ire la.-tine pronlise. Iliert %Id, Lite gr...ate,t weight upon the mind of the subbing mother, Who w:p: rime livin= in small lodgitn , :s in th:‘ to their old home at upon a rnrdl ri.iniant tlrit wis left her oat of the procei ds of their prop,•rty. The house was broken up— forever. The funeral was over. Sad and ,oleion poor widow looked Lop, Arnold, had comp to 1651 la, lit:r's funeral, haVile2: tle(I t out for himself' sqmetiiing to rho T.O re. —not very definito, perhaps, but sow Ilium he meant to do, for his lumber and his brother would Sono br depell:le , :lt him, and It w.ts a lad of spirit and of high prineipl-, and although - his own bareaN anent, hi: , mother's grief„and the los: of all their property, with not a little of the sti ; qua whieh attaches itself to broken ihrtiums and to ban ki.uptey, Weigh ed upon him, he teas not One to 60 dis armed by sorrow, and his youth and san guine disposition enabled him to bear up tad console his mother, whom he tender ly loved, against what s.eetned at fir:..t to he the great and clowning ..iprrow of' a lifetime. Mrs. Thornton was a mild-eyed,. intel fig , nt Ivonfzul, who had lu.en broTrltt up soule " expow.al pef Tie terw r hein„ and wlu).-c refinytnent —to speak ....!atc,loti,2.llly--nuty be said to 1/(11'0 been su ri,,r to the ruder routine of her bus- hau :'s prose :ion !Ind Avoy of life—that is to ,ay, if we take fl view of it Cron' that stand-point the y, 1 , 1 world would 10, ,k upon it. !ler lamily treated her pre:!ent distress with a cold indifferenee, ttihich revolted against her pride and senscrof justice, and exhihitod the 1110511 (min/us of those who as,erted she had married beneath her, and mi marred their fine spun marrituz:e schemes. She had "aO - such as they were, and these the without delay, bcgan to excl.- Cise; so. that very shortly, - while Arm.hl was yet at school, she hved in neat lod:r -iip.2s with her little son Albert, torte-ht musk., gave drawino•-lessors, and made lace-work for such of the riii,for th e little market town of 13roadhurst to: she could induce to p itrunise her; and the iudefs• tigalde little woman was thus enabled to Mahe both ends Mr. Gabriel .the "City man" spoken of, and the wealthy owner of Ilroadlands—which -- - of course had now another tenant—had dark and dusty offi ces in the city of London, and carried on a large and thriving mercantile concern there, the exact nature of which is of lit tic consequence. At the time of Adam Thornton's quitting his farm—and, in ad dition, his quitting this life—an appeal had been made to Mr. Blair's generosity, which, however, was ineffectual.. Whe ther he could not, or would not, extend his liberality and forbearance to the he- Teayed - family,- we cannot - 'What•be did, say, however, was some little satisfae : tien to the• poor widow: Having some knowledge of Arnold's age, acquirements, and schooling, lie offered - the youth a plUce at hig desk 'in his office, and a salary of thirty pounds a year to begin with, which may have been a liberal. offer, and job may not, just as the reader is enabled to look upon., it. To /Giiold himself-this Wits an opening to wealth and independence; and the hdoyant heart and sanguine temperament of the lad Conjured up before him the most brilliant vision of the future one can imagine.. - Ho beheld his mother in a mo dest home, head of the Small household, a nd„uolon ger under the neCessity.of wear ing her tingers,'-or of straining- her eyes aver 111-paid needlel.work. Heat once Kin 4 maginatititi)... placed.taytifffeE2lll.4elt. - school; and - hp. would have-such plen- - did library! A.passion for reading -had alretitly tatken , poistission of him while hd foiishing -his last few months of schooling gild devoting.his whole time to CARLISLE, PA., FRIDAY,' NOV the solving of the mysteries of commer cial education of " book-kuelking by sin glel and doulde entry," of whit 1 we know nothing, but all of which Ar. old easily mastered. We mtist take the read& by a leap over the next three years, c . N . .nf - 4 which Arnold has been punctual ei his desk, and given to his somewhat C; Acting em ployer the fullest sathactio which a thorough man of business rives front the attentive conduct of his' clerk, rind i Arnold was but one of severrif. His sal ary, too, had marehe 1 with thel . .itne—that is to say, by an advance of .11 pounds per annum! And the contE7lited young man—he is now itchis twiniti. , 'f.h year—is ileThzliteil with Phi .•'.40(11 nithr CT ! lli:4 mother and lir,their 11,,d; come to town when he came up, and, flking a Inc dest little shop in the nei4'aborhuod of i Knightsbridge, had begun it - r;1 little way !of business; and theiy wants sing easily ;satisfied, they 111{ , 1111 in 14:like "both cuds meet," to live in inodeune comfort, i awl to be clear of debt. - Alllert, too, was int a day school. Arnold's iliitle library was iiiioiviim alont. him. and his studies were close and ardent, as Emily were, to i his mother, in v.iferious. lie had a little loom of his n• 0111 —a a , rn - •trtr-srnloor ;12 the proud inotlier donoinin:ll ,, l " c.t:nl . d—and here v,,ini(l sit ;old write (iracious g,,,odne , s thoo:„_!1:t, ‘• ../;tat eau lie want «jta so ini0•11 pain - - But while ii e\-eni TV hones WITL! tlts 1/1:`:t!':011 :1•111 tl -- while every spare Inutnent thin tl r j t:p--tc , he -oeined to b,. se eaudid and huuo , s to pry into ct, ex•triiiie pa p.n., in :Lb-core. like to 1::now." "She know one day," he. said, in -cid; • :•.11:1, with a blush and ;! lockod co iris dc,-1;:. And so his ple•Katit labor. and their quiet daily. 'I/ t 011 11:Ippny 11; r. Ve Ilf 11V ccif some impormnec to Our -fury, to place before uur readers. . 1t iy an elc;l:antly furnished 'drawing room, the cumdned wied ,, ."s of which command IL VieW HI: a r•tyaf iatrk ; fur the Mansi...n lies in a choice ,inaeter of the methoooli4, anti thi`re i, :11l air rd' opulence, if not of ta , to aud milt are, tibtxtt thr mu ll:intent of the room witio . o I etul:QH the Lower and the mastery of wealth:" I this chawucr, grand pi ano, told in to :•mi dashing 1-1,1 with some ipipatici,rit i g is a very beauti:ul female, of about, .twenty-four years of ag.,; sh, it very fair;..and the Se vern fine , of fur beam *lnd deo, which so cold and hatuzlovi i;z Intensified by the l i c i t Grin , more than morcky " \c11 . ,.) orcailnit,; hair ;hat. in earif t i:., might have been the irC:•JCS ui ;1: Lulticu young holy it, mina—With much p 0 1;t,.. nt ...;:5, or course—we introduee our ia , a d..r s is Mis, Annabel O•vcrend, an or phan, a rich heiress, and at present the wart (.1 . "ir. Gabriel Ifl,tH. Mr. O ve r_ end, defunet, hall once been a partner in the firm of ()yeiv.nd and Company, and had been also a distant--or near— relative of 'ills. Thornton's family, and was, in fact_ one of those who turned their Lack, upon her mid her orplians,,iwhen the r ii , lay c'tlmp, iu etwip:my with ruin and de.ith, and overtook the little woman on her way. To Mrs. Thornton ~`dr. ev trend was dead ere this time, and fiwgot t, n by Hi , • g"piritcd mother ere life had eld-ell upo.l the wealthy, and, perhaps, the ,Atiewhat unfeeling man. Annabel Overentl knew n ,thin!; of her porn- r,lative , , nor (lid Mrs. Thornton in tend that she slmuld. ".I.`one who had turned their backs upon tier and her chil dren in the day- ot their adversity should* know her or of them," she had vowed; and the haughty, accomplished and beau tiful heiress, who now and then saw the handsome youth, who oecasioa. ally came On business to Mr. Blair's resi done() and who gazed upon her with so much open and unreid ij ediudmiratir an admiration which was hev:mhelessflat tering to liar self-love--- little thought that, lie was her cousin, once or twice removed. Though She accepted the Moons° of his fascinated eyes--tlicy were clear brown eyes, too,--yet the " creature" was but a clerk--something to run to.and fro, and do the great man's bidding, and look ill at ease iu the gilded i Ilg-room - -when, indeed, he did not stand waiting in the hall, treated with as much supercilious ness by the big footman as the lady her self could have sliown. On this particular day. then, when, dressed in a splendor which enhanced her extreme beauty—baring finished the " rondo" she was plo4pg with fierce , gathering chords, which, Jutd them sound with a ringing/clangor—she rose up, welt to the Ntindow and looked forth into, the park, and watched for ome minutes eagerly and intently for some person she scouted anxieus'to sing out from the thronging groups. alp p es trips she passed over a little supereil us -Iy- and - even 'those rolfing atiing,in the fine barouches received but little attention.— `I he. cavaliers on horseback were more eagerly scanned, and an impatient tapping of the foot showed that, as yet the expect ed 0.110 was not in sight. " V, by conies lie not ?" she murmured. ." \l' here can IM be ?--why tarries he ? Of all my admirers, I think that Sir I'hi lip likeliest-forhe is-young, rich and' handsome, but a little too earnest , —I fear, too exacting;. and might wish 'to control, as .a wife, the woman he now would. willingly adore as a suitor." And thmi she recrossed the floor, took up a book.full of engravings on the tahln,,titru ed a few of thein , ovd, then flung• theni together again, frovning in heavy dieplelt sure, \ • - _ At once a :violent tingin,, ,, and a sono -6:6 it her - ears: - 'Sifit fle‘ir , to the window; aid b'eleltt;••a-•,groom holding •a 'richly capari toned horse;-whose - proud bearing , and Military trapttingo indicatetl the rardcian4 the •proiessiou of the ridey. 4iiidently FIBER 29, 1861 silo was put into a flutter by this arrival, though he might be the wrong man. " Captain Topham, as live !" she mur mured, " and perhaps this may precipitate matters." So saying, she hastily reseat ed herself at the piano, and began to play over a low, soft, whispering melody, full of passion and of feeling, when the door opened, am., a tall, big personage entered with clanking spurs and clattering jack hoots, and otherwise wearing the gorgeous costume of the Horse Guarels. Ple . cing his plumed helmet on a chair, and stroking his tawny moustaches, and with a mingled air of boyish awkwardness and delight, he advanced with outstretch ed hands, saying, "Good morning, Miss Overenci.F I pun iny Rotor, lint you look lovely, tiuite radiant this morning "_end you, gallant Captain—you are the very flower of politeness and the pink of chivalry ?'' "Nay, now," he said, deprecatingly; "don't laugh at me, You are so full of wit and sparkling =Mire--that--" `• That you fear it, eh'?—you plumed Rolando! What!" she added, banter ingly, ‘" a sillier, and afeard quoting from "Macbeth." " ft, now, you know,'' began Cap tain l'ojihant, looking halt' seared ; " I—l hoped to find a warmer welcome, a.. I have ventured to bring you a small ofr,ri,tg." ." A pre: , :ent she cried, " I love present., (d . all thinAs!'— A ii d intl,yd sh e Hoke the truth. 1 hope it, will plet•-e you," he ;aid. "It nut noich--for you ; ptu know I slettild liky to hang the family dianwnds upoo you. '• Alit! cru , ll ?no to the earth with their weight: Oh, how vet.) 1,. autirtil !" she added, in a spenie:-; rapture, as taking rase out of his breast-pocket, lie opened it tool displayed a dazzling bracelet, gold and diautotok profusely int-rniixed. " Let the but have the pleasure of clasp in: it tilt your fair wrist, and—'' " And you a•di no lure !'' she answer ed, laug'..ing, as she held out her finely Ataped area. " Well, you ,ee, lam M the humor to be indui:•ent to-day, and )1.1 Play piare. Ilri,h trembling deli2hit, and feeling a deli - ei o us thrill at ,his heart, the youm-, l,ut awkward Ilars, attempted to clasp it on her wriA, but let it fall in the opera tion ; and just :is he had :meeeded, and the Captain was ;Ilium perpetrate an act of' de , peratiou by kissim , : hand, the c,otnln opened the dhiwing , room door, and announced, " tit Philip Single ton r' Cur:ing the interruption, and feeling caucht, as it were, inn guilty act, the soldier lookisl up intp the bcalltirill Fact. id the woman, and almost starte 1 back in terror at the e..;pre.siiin of annoy !•no•arras,inent. hate :out :.agsiOilitilz;- , Lined, which fliAortoditsloveli u ers By some Litt et instinct he saw the presence ~r dues new-cumer was Car Nom , desired than his own, and felt that his foolish, fond hope;, were destroyed in a nument. •• flood morning, Captain Topham," said sir Philip, with grave politeness. Miss Overdid, your servant. I fear I ant ch bop.- " Olt, dear me, Sir Philip, no:" began Overend, with a powerful effort. " 1001st compliment him, however, on his taste inieweley," continued Sir Phil ip, with his high bred air of irony, and eas(ing, as he spoke, a look upon the bracelet, now fastened on her arm. " happened to be Store's when lie purcha-ed it, that is all ;" as though lie wan reply ing to the look of surprise which the yumg and somewhat unsophisticated sol dier cast upon her, to which she answered by a significant glance. bracelet it not mine, Sir Philip," she said, unclasping it and banding it back to the dist:ollll . 'l—d Guarilsnian.— " Captain Tophani was trying an experi- _ meta," added she, with an emphasis which she meant the other to understand," and he has 'aided." And like one who bears a defeat with the best grace he can muster," whispered the soldier to her, as he put his bracelet into its case, while Sir Philip walked away Co the window. " I wish you a good day, Sir Philip :" and he stalked out of the room, humming an air from "Lu crecia Borgia." "He is lost," she said to herself, " and with him a place in the world, a probable title, and five thousand a year ! Well, Sir Philip," she continued, aloud, and turning to that gentleman with an aia.of charming frankness, "are you going to be so gallant this morning as to beg mo to accompany you to the horticultural show at Chiswick ?" " I am sorry to miss.so happy an cp portunity," was the grave reply, " as I, too, must take my leave, Since I am about to leave for Paris this evening." " For Paris !" she repeated, feeling her -heart sink, and a tremor seizing upon her, as she undergtood but to well the mean ing of this announcement. "Is not this resolution somewhat sudden ?" "Why, yes; it' has beeh made little caviler than I thinight it; but it hasbeen hastened:by a little ineident whieh— which has oceurred— T very recently." there- 7 a bracelet—in the affair ?" asked Miss Overeud, with one of .her half-haughty sneers. " Pardon we, 4.1 do not answer-a ques tion put co directly, and which would not becouee-auc to reply as frankly to." " I understand you; SirliP," she said,-withlaVoud toss of the.lread, - .." and wish you Lora yoga gc "I retire with regrbt,- madam, from competition in field where_ the oddS aro necessarily against me; and 'with a _pro found bow lie left the wilful and passion al() beatity.to weep tears of rage and-. of mortification. 111 r. Gabriel Blair iningl4but little in the.fashithiable society of the day, and mi t .. ry at heavy, solemn, and sumptuous din- _ner..parlies,Zeoilli,L.litiss_ itheietallineet those who constituted the most fashion - a- We society of London. -ISt was ono of the ruling' passions of an ardent iiiiPulsivo which•had ever been kept in - cheek, to mingle 'freely iu; the ;whirling pontes of fashionable life , but her condition as an I unmarried woman hindered this on ,the one hand, and her want of a dm perone forbade it on the other. Mrs. Blair was herself so confirmed an invalid, that her aid could not be counted upon. There was, indeed; no lack of siiitors fur Anna bers hand, and her fortune brought those about her whose pretentions were on a par with her own, and even more so. But there was an inherent coquetry in her disposition—there was a love of admira tion in her breast—no doubt in some measure justified by her charms—which was, however, fatal to her interests.— When men of the slightest spirit found tin at they were only encouraged to out rival one another, and to bedisinissed one after the other, they naturally took um brage at her capriciousness; and, on this very morning., when, after laying herself open fur at conquest, and when she had decided that Sir Philip wa.i the man of her choice, she timnd that she had defeat ed her own ends, and that the chances in her favor were more remote than ever, This mischief was not a little height tined front: tint flitit that she was thorough ly cognizant of owing her defeat entirely to herself. What evil fortune pursues me?" she muttered to herself. " I ani pimp:, lam beautiful, I :on rich —and tct I am cursed in I hose ,, ifts whirl' men prize, and which, if they pm , se'ss them. they are pmud of them--airl I---011;shaine !oh,vexation !" And mutinying thusa.;ainst what se , med to have been so remediable, she went into her own room, and shut herself up ler the remainder of the day, asking herself the (ptestion—" W hat was to he. done Not Inany weeks after—for time r o ust march on leaving le, without the chance of filling up it , details—she heard that, Captain 'Popham h;:d married a Miss Plummer--a mere ! 2firl, just home front boardin , school, and who soon be came famous for her brilliance, ton, and the splendid parties she gave. A little later, and Sir Philip Singleton t,,ok home a hadv SinHelon to Singleton Ilall, where :die was soon noted :Is the /,,//,' of the county. Jealously and raYO! took , pos,es-don of the unhappy Annabel ;' she, that was inure btthatiful, gifted, and aecouipli , hed than either of her more suc cessful rivals, to be left outside the pale —she, who should take her place among, the fureumit, doomed to stand Without: and tame:y looked on, while others passed her by' No'. She would not brook thi, dismal loneliness mid isolation. A d e , peratc step must be taken--and she took it. She had nut been quite blind to the almit.ttion expccssed by Arnold Thorn ton re- her beauty, ss we have said ; an 1 whether ke ,Duel or evil, it was lie She 11 , /w finally seleeted in order to le , nvel*ed. Whttitlr tliiv v-mr,eauee was to take place upon herself, or upon who„ :e: she her, was not so clear, but which c will he 50..011 in the One day, when Arnold, by this time a fine and manly youfh —h is face aglow with a fr,knk and healthy expression, and litee and ti,,;ure being the perfect type of the Angld-Saxioll—one day, when he came to the grand house by the park. from the crowded city, and was contrasting the splendor of the gilded drawing-roont with the dismal eitv ttlikee in which he burrow ed, lieboil himself alone with Annabel, and ddz:.leti by the overpowering radiance an hri2htncss of her pre , .enec. " You think mr beatitiful, do you not ?" she a:hed him, as turning full upon him, she abashed the modest young nem by the strangeulow in her wild lustrous eyes. " Beautiful !" lie stammered. "Oh, madam, more lovely than a sculptor's mat , terpiece, a painter's ideal, a poet . 43 dream ‘•U th ! and poetical, too—an enthusi ast, it may be! So much the worse 1" she murmured, apart. " But there roust be no shrinking back now." She was very beautiful ; but fair and gentle as she seemed, her haughty and imperious zispeet firm leok---t he so- Stn11:4111 of power and evil she had evidently summoned to her aid--renderA her fir the moment almost unlovely—almost terrible to him. " ant young, beautiful, and rich," she went on. " flow would you like to become toy husband—you, who arc poor, and a slave to an impetuous master'?" " Madam," said Arnold, very quietly, "1 ant a gentle titan, and to be poor is not a crime. Moreover, my' wife must ,be spotless, and without stain 1" - A burning blush suffused her neck, and face, and brow,' and her eyes grow troubled as her lips trembled. " I ant spotless and without stain," she said, after a pause, " and I offer myself io be your wife ' " Madam !" began Arnold. "Not for ltive,but . out of pique, jeal ousy, revenge—=what you will!" she broke out. " You will becomeony hus band,_but you Will not be my master.-- You shall enjoy my wealth, but, you inn t be bound down by . conditions, which, if broken, cast you abroad on .the world again, to find yourself more hopelessly sit uated than now. 1 have made inquiries about you, and am satisfied that you will obey me." "That I will obey yon?" he repeated "That you will obey me 1 " she replied And they were married. Then began a" year of .strange and unwonted-excitement-for Arnold _Thorn, ton. Mr Blair was at first fuiions when he knew that his clerk had married.-his rich ward, as in some respects it thwar ted a purpose of his own. Mrs. Thorn ton enteredintt the giddy round:of "life". and . fashionable levity with a zeal that. was almost frantic. lier balls were the most thronged, her parties the most crow ded, her fates the most .brilliant of 'dim Jrtetropeli4.antl_she- Made her husband -subservient. -to-,0very..4...9 os - e - .7.utitili _She had Satiated . her appetite for revengeitina found the. *hole world lo• ookin upon her, 7 t yith jealousy; admiration and spleen.. 1:116 Fiaocralie society is which Arnold 'Murton nis,w moved—although little of his, 5 CI 50 per annum in advance t $2 00 If not paid in advance antecedents were known save that he was the last scion of a decayed but good "old family" —101111(1 the cool, courteous, intellectual hus band of the most beautiful woman in the char_ ed circles of the metropolis, necxeeptionable in every way. The most supercilious were polite to him—the most captious could find no fault in hint. To his wife he was the most humble and devoted slave pos,il.tle, and he obeyed her most imperious cum mands, sub mitted to her insolence with is humility that at times might have commanded her con tempt, only that she felt there. v. as somthing in his iriner nature which der..(mtled respect. Piqued at last by the uncomplaining man ner in which the man fulfilled ties contract he had entered into, she becatim :mute exacting, in order to provolte him to rebellion. Ayear passed by, and she, was a miller—a proud and 11:lpfly 111,1111.1 ) but a sad, 3.,:T1M fill wire, whose hello. was breaking. Arnoid Thornton was with her no longer. Without "scene" era parting word, he on? morning left his splendid Mansion. and fora du): or ttt o all was surprke, con lusion and ansiu s. A t last , Annabel enterin (r his study, toned the fol. lowin , note addressed to her:— —" MAll.Ol— "I have loved yon, and I leave you. When I engaged myself to become V 1111' thrall and slave, I thought that under the twOrldliness too seemed to show exturnally, there still might linger a heart. When you' became a mullter, I thought that you might recollect that you had a husband, and that, as the father of sour chill, you might be induced to look upon him with a little iribNi womanly feeling. Rut it is not so, and I restore to you yottrliherty, ilyou will it. I surrender the property I cover coveted. llt m earning my own living , modittn, and the allowance yen im made me is icl't in the drawer a the tattle where y-m find this writing. I ask yi. i to con —de my mother, to he kind to toy votiog hrother, to love my child at least, ;outl fosse you:the prayers and blessing of our LusL.tnil. " AwsoLi, Tuoi:NTux." tirich was the letter which blinded Iv o' and struck her dumb--'soh sure the withering, words under which:die sank trembling to the hush:mil [pined Tle loved me—oh, 1 know lie loved mo ald 1, 111:1 , 1 and wretch ed cieatare, I loved him too deeply, now I find to Inv eternal sorrow; and I know, too, tha. 1 shall see him no more—no more. These. words blind too! Stop! mother, hit brother, I knew nolo!: them ! Stay, has hr left their aihlrets ? Yes, here it is I" and hastily lilting Up a hit of paper, she the Mumble addrosP, at Knightsbridge, written thereon. Arnold Thornton I" she continued ab• Nsiramkily murmuring the words. t Why 0009 that word strike me now as something novel or Ntrangii? :.sitity, is it not the 511.1110 of n crew and gilled author who has recently nimie s , t ;king a reputation, so brilliant a fain e. ;id. perchance a lorkine ? My wealth s ;1 -iksud and ri 6t that it Nhould be so I" And murmuring, thinking, and moaning fairly broke down,and fell into a revzsion ot But, Annabella Thornton wimiali of a..-; mtu It eileri„iy as she wa; oi Icing a woman of deep Mel ia- t. t, when her Letter fiat urn was awalien.- and lilt occasion it Was so. Neither did hu,ail r her:a:tit to let these long-dormant feedinnr.. till into slumber, or inteutne torpid any !Imre. She was nfl and away in her tlie next mornintr, and Oil a matter Of attito-t arath. She tnialeit. comfortable dwell in:f of Mrs. and ul her youngest hoy then at, hi school. Annabel made boown to the widow the relaiion itt which she stool lo her, and on farther inqui ry and reply, lonal that Arnold had a double claiin upon her affection, being her cousin as wolf as her husband. The; did nor, for the time, relieve the shock alter disappoirit. inunt : and 'then, when full confidence was cslaldished between them, they took council to : _reth. r, as to what should bring the truant home to her again. Such arrangements as they had to make were Fe,.n cedcluded by the two mothers, and the two children dwelt logeiher under one roof ii, a sweet and pretty country villa, with Adnaliel. in Devonshire. She ihspaddhed alter her builtand (throtdfrh his publishers, and to lollow him wherever he went) a letter lull or love aid penitence, confessing- her fault, anid-saving-, how they now lived, retired from the world in the sweet seclusion of ' home. She appoint the eve of his return— if he ever would return; and if he came not then she would expect Ihim no more, but in all humility confess her desefts, aud.that . it was but a just return for the-cruel apathy she hnd shown. It was evening, the evening appointed for his return, and the scene is a bed room, where Annabel is just putting her little charges In bell. Little Albert, a curly haired buy has said his prayers at her kilees, and her own darling, just beginning„ to lisp, is on her lap saying his prayers; those words, from those Ulltiullied infant lips,' which are like the breathings of angels—" Gad bless papa and mamma, and make me a good child! Amen." And she, too, whispers solemnly, "God blest papa, and bring him soon and safely house I" The winds are breathing low outside the gables g She is living in a pleasant country house, which is half farm—half villa. Ar• nold•s mother is asleep in the most conrfort• able chamber of the house, and she waits, and li.tens, and at last the rumbling of wheels is heard. "It is he—oh, it is become home to me at last I" and she flow down the stairs, just as a servant had opened the door, and let in a tall mall, handsome, radiant, girions in the ' gladness of heart that shone out of his noble face; and as his cloak fell from off Ws back, and was picked up by his obsequious atten dant, she flung herself with a cry of trenalp, ling joympon his breast, mthrtuttring ' "Ar• Rohl, Misband! welcome, wetcomehomel n "My wife, and my beautiful Annabel I thanks for the wo:d1 And our little one?" , "Itis an angel I Come and Fee it in its, Cherub -sleep I"—and t t hey with,,,a, step as snit and light as 11M fall of eider-down ; and when the man who has borne so much of heartache, nut doebt, and great trouble, beholds it, and the proud, lovely mother miling on him tl f iroogh her tears, - he sinks on his kfit tis on one side, and murmurs a deep heartfelt prayer of thanks, and she. does alike on the ethen and - thpir , Worcla:go vp heavenward together, above .thci little dinging head wrapped in its innocent slebp. ~"Onr bond Of love and hope, for the future, Arnold I" i3lie Said, lowly and humbly. " Add'also to it the principle - which con- - (piers pride, and oar happiness will be sealed and perfect I" remarked Arnold, in the same qniet - tone. And ninny La. day- ebecittered with light and shade - passed by, and many a plat rolled over their heads, but neither "forger thodildused - thre ll:1: - Whleenewedilie sanaitiel iel, - Immei and-made them - happy:in - each - other's , •society ever :more;' • • Tine proud have no' frjendti I net, in prooper.., ' ity for then they pobotly3 • . Lieu nuktud4t: knows thorn:, , NO. 1.
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