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chap. xxii.
A HK.Ni >CEMENT.
I I '■wtinuol.')
, n.st evening Mrs. Eustace and Krn-
I -i called; Kiatua with a timid, fluttering;
1 'j,, Their presence lit up the face of
invalid with a urateful glow, and the
■Cl,;.' head was turred aside more than
,. e m hide the swelling tears.
Vi f Ja was alone with Mrs. Lavender,
"r'itn aid Winthrop, having rode to
■in. Hot run bright face heamed with
nsd time delight as she ushered, the la-
•ies in the cottage.
The simple muslin dtess of Emma was
aih in contrast with the gorgeous robes
-he wore when last she was there, but the
saatiful charms of the wearer were as ra-
| fat a; ever.
I aai clad to see Mrs. Lavender so
;-j.-h tetter,’ Mrs. Eustace said after a
n.ajent.
Ves she is much better, will soon be well
:t a^h to scold, and then won’t I catch
it.'plaafull." answered Viola, shruging her
gmv shoulders as if to avoid the anticipa-
si catch.
No bars Viola hut that you will catch
i>u deserve,’ kindly answered the sick
air reaching out her hand to the gentle
And that you know, I am loo great a
seer to want,’ she laughingly replied, and
I m turning to Emma she added, ‘and you
lies Emma are loooking well, I am glad
: you so strong.’
i.ma blushed as she comprehended the
of any solioitude that Viola may
entertained for her, but the blush
I u- momentary, and she sweetly replied:
'Thaukyou Viola I am quite well, and
aS:r aiy recent excitement I have reason
rely grateful for my good health and
ijirits. And 1 must also thank you Viola
jty nr kindness to me, you were very
n ':i Mi.-S Emma I was so glad you came,
: was so right, so brave, so noble in
■u to come. I know that I could not
-re done it.but then you arc not like me,
a area strong, bravo hearted lady, and I
■ r.'y a foolish little child,’ and the fool-
hide child had to play its role,by placing
: I rely head in thestrong. brave-hearted
hip. and looking up in her lace fox a
Is. And thcstroDg btavc hearted lady
s ' ! -1 her beautiful head and kissed her.
Mrs. Eustace gazed upon these two radi-
‘i: e.rls with a troubled heart, and as she
t'tiht the bewitching sweetness, and the
hijii face of Viola reflecting such a hap-
1 viug life within, she could not won-
it the love cf lliram Lavender reaeh-
ut and burying itself in its gladness,but
: n the hitter thought, why not bury it-
" there, content with its heaven of love,
till.nit seeking the communion of her own
■child’s, to wither its beauty and to
rush its life. And with this thought a
; il.led madness almost filled her soul.
Hut it could not long linger there. The
-glit gladness of Viola’s face soon exor-
Uii the bitter spirit, and the troubled
•blows disappeared from the kindly brow
There Viola,’ you are t. very sweet and
) very good little child anyway,’ carcssing-
•: said Emma, as she patted her golden
had, "and now tell me of your visit to Vir-
tioia.’ she added,to divert the conversation
:: a it- unpleasant subject.
Ob I enjoyed it so much, Norfolk is
- u -h a pleasant place, and the glitter of the
M* life was so dazzling that my poor silly
-'fie head was completely topsy-turvied;
do you know Miss Emma that I be-
Kaic quite vain, and would have made a
?utd little coquette if I had only had any
; ce to coquette with,’rattled the merry girl
*ith a 1 aughiug voice, altogether too inu-
!;(a ’i aud cherry for the repose of the sick
: inj,
Hudi Viola,'said Mrs. Lavender stretch
“s cut her hand to enforce silence, ‘you
a pertect little chatter box, and your
u sing disturbs me.
Oh it does, thou I am so sorry. There
■*1 will hush, no mouse with oneeye up-
the cheese and the other on puss, can
■ acre silent and demure than I,’ pleas-
answered Viola.’
‘Oh I cannot ask that, but yon must not
- sto h.ud,’ said the invalid,with a conva-
‘escent’s petuleney, ‘or what is better you
Emma go in the parlor, if Emma can
Scir Jour garrality.’
j Oti I am only too glad to hear her talk,
•ai glad of her merrincss,’ answered Em-
5n.
,‘Thcn we will go,’ said Viola, ‘and
■t-en I come hack I hope that you will be
15 a better humor. There now go to sleep
‘“ leave Mrs. Eustace to entertain her-
f'; added with a mock rebuke as she
■nsil the pale brow, and then hurried out
‘he room
n'? Retest little darlrng in all the
Jo d > -Mas. Lavender, following her
"•ha loving glance.
he kindest, best soul that
10 talkback at her.
], i' lic 15 a happy hearted creature certain-
■> answered Mrs. Eustace,
it. .,| Ce 1 Kll ' l0ut a thought of guile to stain
todf. "T’' lo 7 in S'y uuBwercd Mrs. Lav-
fret; 1 ’ ° n h 1 little mischievousness that
r,j ' Ule wllen I am ill but so charmingly
j ant when lam well.’ J
tnd°\" ol g0 ' n " to the parlor Emma
'tla wandered out into the garden.
during Mrs. Lavenders absence, and the
weeds and grass had smothered down some
of its sweetest flowers.
‘See Miss Emma,’ said Viola, ‘what a les
son for the moralist, here we find the sweet
est, purest flowers of all the garden crushed
out by horrid weeds while the worthless
ones hold np their heads high above the
rest, and laugh an impudent defiance to its
ravages.
‘And what are we to learn from the mor
alist?’ asked Emma with a half curious
earnestness.
Oh I do not know, unless it be that the
good, the sweet and the lovely are all too
good for earthly contact and they bloom
only for heaven,’ answered Viola drooping
her voice. ' '
‘And yet when loveingly cared for, they
brighten the life of many dark sorrows,
just as your tender flowers, when tenderly
cultivated, fills the sight with their beauty
and the air with their fragrance,’ said Em
ma.
‘Oh yes, I was not depreciating their
uses; only sorrowing that such beautbul
things are not able,of themselves,to endure
the contact with the world, to wrestle with
the choking thorns and thistles that spriu^
up everywhere,to crush them cut. Where
one sees how utterly hopeless, innoccnse,
and sweetness are te combat rude,red,hand
ed error, one is almost tempted to cast
them aside as chimeras of the fancy, and
not active, grateful life amenities.’ This
Viola said, in a tone wonderfully different
from the merry laughter that drove her
from Mrs. Lavender’s sick room.
Emma was surprised at her philosophy,
the more deeply impressed, because its
truth found an illustiation in her own bit
ter experience. The tendorest,sweetest,and
most innoc nt emotions of her life, were
those which were the most sadly crushed.
With an abseDt sigh, she answered.
‘And yet, it may be its very weakness
that makes it so sweet. Were it strong
enough to endure of itself, it would
fail to attract homage from others, and it is
the highest proof of its excellence, that it
requires the hand of outrage to test its
sweetest virtues, jnst as the bruised flower
exhales its sweete t perfume.
“O yes, and fading, leaves a gladness be
hind it. The memory of past joys will re
main a gladness alway,” said Viola.
Notalwry Viola; when contrasted with
a hopeless sorrowtheybecome a bitter mock
ery, haunting the mind with tantalising
longiugs, and unfitting the heart for its
cruel struggle ’ answered Emma, with such
a sadness in her voice, that Viola wastouch-
ed with sympathy, and in a soothing tone
she answered.
‘I had thought the essence of
a joy was perennial. I have known mo
ments of joy that it seems to me would
gladden a whole life of misery. The poet,
Keats, I believe, whose own pure life was
so cruelly withered, says, that
“A thing of beauty, ia a joy forever.”
And what more beautiful than the innocent
hopes of a bright young heart?’
‘Nothing more beautiful than your own
Viola, and may it, indeed, be to you a joy
forever,’ tenderly answered Emma.
' ‘And your own will be joyous too, Miss
Emma, for you are all too beautiful and
good, not lobe happy,’ replied the sympa
thetic Viola, as she drew Emma’s arm
around her waist.
The wild waste of the garden was too
repulsive to detain them long, and they re
turned to the parlor where they were sur
prised With the appearance of the gentle
men.
Viola presented Mr. Winthrop with a
charming grace, not ‘altogether unmixed
with a fond pride, as she caught the flush
cd expression that lit np the refined face of
Emma, as she modestly returned his bow.
Hiram’s salutation was somewhat restrained,
the repulse of the evening before flushing
his thoughts, with a mortifying uneasiness.
Emma received itwith an equally constrain
ed embarrassment, and a rather awkward
silence followed, a silence, broken at length
by the merry ripple of Viola’s voice as she
said,
‘You gentlemen must have found a
pleasing sport in town to have detained you
so long. Did you meet with a troop
of Mr. Hudson’s boys and banter
them for a game of marbles, or did you
run off together to some unlucky mellonl
patch?’
‘Oh uo,’ retorted Winthrop, ‘we were
fortunate enough to find a more refined
amuscmcDt than marbles, or exploiting
mellons; we spent the evening in tieing
sardine boxesto the tail of every dog that
we could catch. It was rare sport, Miss
Viola, and I know you would have eDjoyed
it.
‘I expected you were in some mischief,’
laughed Viola, ‘so busy, I suppose, that
you quite forgot the heavy cares of State
that rests so momentously upon your shoul
ders.’
‘O no. not at all, we launched them in a
lily-leaf boat upon the village stream, and
seat it out in search of the ‘golden fleece,’
he answered with mock earnestness.
‘Made an Argo of the ship of State; and
who played Jason, and who Hylas?’ she in
quired with an arch pertness.
OhlLavender,of course was Jason, andl was
Hylas, orly no cold armed Naiad could
tempt me.
“With lips ol humid coral ”
to venture in,
‘The mountain born Scamander,
To be a king beneath the dark green waters,”
he laughed,
‘Of course not, then your indifference to
the woobg,
‘Lore us Hylas
a * dissolved in liquid munner’s calling.
* • • Come with ns, Oh lollow,”
was not the least mal-appropos of your
fitness for the character,’ she said, with
such a pretty little nod ol the head that he
coaid hardly resist the temptation to chock
her nnder the chin.
‘You think not, what else was out of
character?, he asked.
What else forsooth;
A joy, indeed, a living Joy, waa Hylas;
and you a great awkward, lubberly mortal.
I am’astonished atyonr presumption. ‘Miss
Emma, did yon ever hear the like?’ and
the merry bright eyes were turned np
in the shockingliest horror.
This sodden appeal brought a crimson
blush to Emma’s cheek, and she lather
awkwardly replied.
‘I do not think that I am familiar
enough, either with the character, or the
artist, to venture an opinion.’
O it needs no critic to determine; Hylas
the original, the true, Hylto, was_ashy,
tender beautiful youth, while Hylas the
presumptuous is, well, b© is just as you
see him, as much like Hylas the true as*—
‘As Miss Viola is unlike the Naiad^ that
drowned him/ leplied Winthrop with a
laugh.
‘There now, your gallantry only equals
your presumption. I mnst turn you over
to Miss Emma, she, I hope will have charity
to bear with your impertinence’, she said,
calling into play one of her bewitchin
pouts.
Emma’s face flushed again but she could
not help but admire the playful charm of
Viola’s wit.
‘And if Miss Eustace will bear tho in
flictiou, I must thank you for the transfer;'
heanswered bowing to Emma.
‘I have no doubt but that we will be
friends,’ answered Emma, with a friendli
ness not altogether in keeping with her for
mer reserved pride.
Viola stepped to Hiram’s side and pla
cing her plump litile band on his arm she
led him to a window.
‘Your mother is much better, she said
in a voice of tender sympathy.
‘Yes, I am assured that she is. Dr.Pal-
mer says she is now ont of daDger.'
‘And when do you go back to Norfolk?’
she asked with a careless air, but not alto
gether free from a solicitous expression.
‘So soon as her health will allow me to
be easy, away from her, which if she con
tinues to improve, will be within a week.'
‘So soon,’ and a little sigh told that the
carelesness was all put on, and the solid-
tnde alone, was genuine
Emma caught the words and she caught
thesigh,and thewords and the sigh slightly
confused her reply to the remark of Air.
Winlirop.
‘Yes, certainly, that is, I believe so.’
Winthrop noticed the coDtiisioo, but,
with well bred dexterity he continued;
‘The witchery of its song, is really charm
ing, and-1 enjoy it as much as any of your
southern attractions,’ and with tl is ho en
tered into quite a rhapsodic dt-ser aiion
upon the melod ous throat of the mocking
bird, not from aDy peculiar fancy he had
for ornithological subjects, but simply to
relieve Emma of the necessity ol replying
to his remarks, when he perceived front her
blushes that she was vaiulv taxing her po
liteness to hear what he was saying.
‘Yes’ replied Hiram, to Viola’s little
sigh. ‘The sooner I go the better; 1 have
but a little while left of uiy vacation, my
business in Virginia needs attention and
I am longing to get back to my studies.
‘And we have not had a chance to ride
any yet, and Lilly mnst bs visited; and
there is Clio. It is too bad Hiram, aud
you mnst not go so soon,’ Viola plead with
a half pettish, half pathetic voice.
‘Oh I haven’t forgotten Lilly, nor Clio,
I am as foolish about little Belle, as you
possibly can be; but one must put back
ones foolishness, and steel the heart for
thesterner duties oflife,’he answered, with
a cloud of gloom lowering npon his brow.
‘Oh I don’t love to hear you talk so
lliram; you are not yourself at all. I
haven’t seen you smile since you came
home. I wonder wbat kind of meat they
have beeD feeding you oil at Harvard, that
yon have grown so melancholly. I really
do believe Hiram, that unless yon change
your diet, you will become a confirmed
hypocondraic. I know that it is not your
lucky fortune that has soured yonr nature,
and so it mnst be your diet,’ and Viola
tried very hard to be serious.
‘Yes I suppose it must be my diet,’ he
answered with a hard trial to command a
smile
‘Then we must chauge it, for you arc
ugly enough at best Hiram, without try
ing to frigthen people with the conviction
that you arc hunting for a rope to liaug
yourself with. I intend to tell Mr. Win
throp to havo his mother smuggle into
your mess all manner of sweet meats, an 1
see if they cannot sweeten your vinegar
countenance,’said Viola, encouraged by the
breaking light, that she saw gathering
around liis moutn. ‘Will you not do it
Mr. Winthrop,’ she added, turning to that
gentleman.
‘Do what Miss Viola,’he asked, glad of
the interruption, for he had about exhaust
ed his ornithological dcsertation, and
Emma was as absent as ever.
‘Have your mother to look after Hiram's
diet, and feed him on sugar plumbs, dough
nuts, and ginger snaps. He is getting so
awfully sour, that it will take a constant
stuffing of sweet things, to prevent him
spoiling,’ and Viola turned her sparkling
eyes full in the faco of Mr. Winthrop, and
Emma’s quick glance startled her heart
with the flash, that more than a glance of
merry curiosity was conveyed in its soften
ing light. She noted too. with an uneasy
shnnkin-j, that the light of a tender jny
sprung up in the eye of the handsome
stranger, as he caught that electric glance.
She turned a quick uneasy glance at
Hiram, as she wondered if he was too
blind to see it, but Hiram’s eyes were look
ing through the window; and then in Em
ma’s pure loving heart arose the earnest
prayer, that Hiram’s heart, bitterly as it
had wronged her, might never know the
crnel crushing blight of disappointed, sup
planted love, that was now almost bursting
her own. The wretched girl; little did she
think that upon the look that wandered so
sadly, so absently out of the window, as if
to hide from the presence of human kind,
was borne the silent wail of a heart, as
crashed as bleeding and braised as her
own. Little did she dream that on fiance
from her own burning eye, a word from
her own sorrowing heart, could have
recalled that absent weary look from its
wanderings, conld have bursted that bleed
ing heart with its very joy. But thus it
is, we arc often nearer Heaven than we
dream, if our poor weak mortality, could
only have the faith, the truth, and the
love, to reach out the band, and pierce the
veil that hides its beaming glories from our
human sight.
But we have it not, Hiram had it not,
neither did Emma, and Emma without dare-
ing to hope fur hciself, conld only pray
for him. Pray that the love which spark
led so kindly in Viola’s eyes, might never
be withdrawn from him, for whom she
herself would gladly die.
‘Oh I suspect, laughingly answered,
Winthrop, that it will require a more pun
gent conservator than sugar to preserve
him. Salt for instance is not so liable to
sour as sweet things
‘Very well then, salt, only be sure that"
she takes him in hand, for I protest he is
now a most uncomfortable pickle.’ Viola
said makings little wry face, as if she bad
taken a bite from the pickle. ‘I declare,
his very looks have set my teeth on edge.’
Hiram’s looks were sour, much too
sour to be thus lightly laaghed at, but the
laugh was a musical one, and Hiram was
glad to hear it, although the gladness
did not relieve the sadness from his brow
Emma caught the weary vacanacy of his
look, and she shuddered as her sympathetie
thoughts connected it with the conviction
that Viola’s smiling glance upon Winthrop
had flashed upon his mind. ‘Miserable
man’ she mentally cried, ‘is it possible that
the same crael measure you meted out to
me, is to be given back to you in return,’
and then as she turned to the bright inno
cent face of Viola, all haloed with its truth
aud its joy, she added. ‘But no it cannot be,
Bueh a beaming innocence can not conceal a
faithless heart.
‘Then I mast put off my sourness,' Hi-
Tam answercd with an effort, ‘for ifyour teeth
becomes as sharp as your tongue, not even
the roughness of the pickle wduld' insure niog,’ she added, driving hack. , the teats
its safety.’ . - ivji cat *>«_;
‘And my little kitty claws,' she laughed
as she held up her hands, dimpled, rosy
little hands.'
‘Oh then you would be dangerously
fierce, he answered.’
‘And I would need them all; yes tongue,
teeth, aud claws, to withstand the stolid
stupidity of a half fledged lawyer, hunger
ing for his second session at Harvard,’
she said, with a provokingly pretty toss of
her head, as if defying both of the half
fledged lawyers.
‘Yon forget Miss Viola’ interposed Win
throp, ‘that my own wings are beginning to
plume with legal feathers.’
‘Are they indeed, well wear them there,
vnu will never wear them in your cap,’ she
retorted with a more emphatic toss of the
head.
‘No not if yoa ent them that savagely,’
he laughed. ‘They will hardly he worth
placing in my wings.’
Now all of this was very pleasant to
Winthrop. It ticketed the sery bottom of
his heart, and it was very natural to Viola,
but to lliram it was sickening, and to Em
ma it was not grateful. A slight motion of
impatience caught her attentions, and her
eyes lookod up. His were resting with
a deep, almost reverential tenderness upon
her. Their glance met, and a thrill of
delicious joy was transfused in their souls,
fhc veil had liked to have been pierced
but the glance was too transient, Emma’s
glance drooped at his feet, end tho burning
blu.-h crimsoned face, and hands, and
neck. Hiram’s late interpreted the cause,
ami the delicious joy became a hitter sor
row.
Mrs. Eustace’s appearance relieved tleir
embarrassment, aud a moment after Ern-
ma.and her mother,were driving homeward.
CHAP. XXIII.
DRIFTING OFF AGAIN.
lliram havo I offended you?’ sofly
spoke Viola as she nestled her rosy cheek
against bis own, all flushed and levered
with his heart unrest.
Oh no Viola you have not offended me,
I am only sad. I want to get away from
here, this place is a prison house to my
slavish thoughts,’ Hiram answered, gently
jutting the peachy cheek aside, and taking
-ier hand in his, ‘it it were not cowardly, I
would almost wish to die.’
‘Oh Hiram you must not do so, you
must not wish to hurry away from us, much
to die; where else in the wide, wide
world will you find hearts that love you as
ours?’ replied Viola with tears filling her
eyes.
‘Nowhere Viola,I know that I am foolish
aud weak, hut yon cannot conceive of the
terrible agony that is gnawing at my heart.
You Viola, have a life full of jny, full of
hope, full of love. Such a love as any wo
man in Christendom may be proud of.
The purity of a human soul is breathing its
sweetest incense aronnd your life, and the
tenderest thoughts of a noble mind arc
clustering around your way, but for me, my
heart is desolate, my hopes are dead, a fate
unkind and inscrutable has crashed my
purest life and left but a wreck of my for
mer self, the brightness of the outer life is
dimed forever, and I can only turn to its
dark, its harsh, and its sterner duties for a
relief. With my books I can find a sym
pathy, for they teach me how to wrestle
with the world. Their subtle intelligence
fits me for the duty of grasping difficulties,
and overcoming eposition. I only lear
that a sordid selfishness^ a misanthropic
ambition may completely possess my Soul,
and in my despair 1 will loose my respect,
as I have almost lost my love, for my fellow
man,’ Hiram said this in a voice strangely
mingled with tenderness and distress.
Viola’s tears were streaming fast and
sobs choked her utterance as she replied:
‘Oh lliram, my poor brother, do nottalk
thus, there is hope still left for you. I
know how you loved. I do not wonder at
your love, for Emma Eustace is an object
to inspire such a love, but I do not believe
that she is false. I feel that she loves you
as truly as ever mortal loved an o'her, aye
as truly as I love Robert, but it is some
hatclul mistake that interposes. That hor
rid I’razce perhaps, but now he it gone yon
ought to ie her, to tell her of yourmisery,
aud to demand of her an explanation. Do
teis Hiram before you go, and I know that
a joy will again gladden you life.’
lliram shook his head sadly as lie an
swered:
•No Viola, I may not do that, she would
only despise me fur my weakness and spurn
my love, as she has already slighted my
friendship, even yesterday she crimsoned
with scorn because I saluted her, and re-
turned my courtesy with an angry gesture.
No Viola I must learn to lor. et her, and
te do this I must leave a place where, every
thing reminds me of her, and the sooner I
do this the better. If mother was only
well enough,I would leave to-morrow.’
‘And until she is well you must put
aside your sorrow Hiram and gather cour
age by the pleasure you are to us,’ said Vi
ola encouragingly.
"Yes I shall put it aside. It is selfish in
me to intrude ii upon others. I must hug
it to my own bleak heart,’ he answered, aDJ
with a convulsive struggle he did put it
aside, he hid it in his own bleak heart, and
noDe who saw him the next moment conld
hive dreamed of the misery his open youth
ful face concealed. Even Viola who knew
of his heart-misery, was cheered by the-
light of his smile, and felt a sweet relief
when in a new voice be said :
‘Viola if mother can spare us, let us.take
a ride to-morrow.’
‘Oh yes I would be so glad, aud Nan is
quite spoilt, she has been idle so long that
I expect I will have a nice little time in
taming her.
‘And can you dispense with Winthrop
one evening?’ Hiram smilingly asked.
‘Oh yes 1 am glad to get rid-of him. I
want to be a girl again, not quite so foolish
as we were before Hiram, when wc rode’ to
the mill, bnt a merry-hearted girl any way,’
laughed Viola.
•And do you think Winthrop can spare
you?’ Hiram again playfully asked.
‘Very easily, his devotions have wonder
fully subsided. I shouldn’t wonder if he
docs not, in the coarse of time become as
sedate as his puritan grandfathers,'the
witch burners were,’laughed Viola, 'knott
ing in her own fond heart that she was tel
ling a little lie.
‘Yon are each a contrary little tease that
I should not wonder myself if yon did not
drive kirn mad,’ said Hiram with a demure
shake of the head.
‘Would’nt you though; then I will be
more amiable in fotnre, for really Hiraroi
he is one of the dearest, best fellows in all
the world, and it_ would quite break my
heart to annoy him^sbeTinswered with tho
little lie hid away hack in her merry laugh
ter and the honest truth glittering in her
welling eye, ‘but yonder he comes now And
I will ask him if he can give nphis ehanheT;
his life, his soul, for one little short eve
ned ordering the laughter forward.
‘What do you tUink Mr. Winthrop, Hi
ram has been conspiring against the peace
‘ahd dignity 1 ,1 believe that is what yon law-
yers call it, cf your happiness add has per
suaded me to run a.way.with him to-morrow
evening.’
. ‘Ah he lias, then that is a most felonious
conspiracy,'and one that would most effec
tually outrage the pcrce and dignity of my
happiness,’ -Winthrop laughingly said.
‘And -you do not care?' Viola asked with
mock solicitnde.
‘Of coarse I care, what am I to dc, with
you and Hiram both gone?’
‘Oh we will come back again,' she said,
‘we only want to put off our grown np’ways
and be little chiMren-onee again.’
.‘And you think that, such a grown up
man as I, could not put off his grown up
ways and become a little ebild again too?’
he asked. - —
‘Oh. yes, .but then you know that little
children never could play together without
becoming naughty aud calling each other
names, and making months, so yon see that
yon con’t go,’she laaghed.
‘Very well then I will give you up to-
mo: row, if you will only promise to go with
me the next day.’
‘Yes I promise,’ and she held out her
hand, which he availed himself of Hiram’s
averted head to kiss. The little hand was
quickly withdrawn and the fingers places
up in her.lips, when the prptty head was
shook in,the demurest kind of a reproach
And now Viola your mama lias sent mo
to Carry you home, important domestic
matters have to be arranged and she wantd
you present. You ean come back alter
tea, aud I will come with you,’ Wmihro.
said. . i .
’Oh that will be charming all by moon
light; but pray what has been found so ter
rible at home; has a little chicken got the
gapes, or has Pa pa been stricken with an
other “idea”? gaiiy laughed the little pet.
•Not either, only the gloom of the house
is unbearable, and they want your presence
to give it a little glory,’ replied the loud
lover, with a world of sentiment in his
looks.
That is very pretty, and brilliant too; as
soft, and as bright as—as moonshine.’
She again Isughed, but hugging in her
heart, the music ol his voice, nevertheless
Then hurry up, and let us be gone, or
the moonlight will fall before we get start
ed.’
Well wait a moment until I tell Mrs.
Lavender,’ and Viola hurried to the sick
room
‘Mrs. Lavender, ma ma, has sent for
me. I must run over home for a few mo
ments. Can you spare me? Dolly can see
about supper, and I will get a string and
tie Hiram to your bed-post, and you can
keep him ont of mischief;’ and with the
tender feeling strangely lurking in the
very ripple of her voice, she smoothed back
the tresses from the widow’s forehead, and
kissed her.
‘Yes darling, I can let you go, only for
a little while though. Comeback to night.
I cannot spare you long,’ said the widow
with a lingering tenderness.
‘O yes, I will come back to night, and
new good bye; be a good child and don’t
cry till ma ma comes back,’*Viola merrily
cried, stooping over and kissing her again.
‘Come Bobcrt, whete is your cart?’ she
said, addressing Winthrop with a girlish
playfulness as she rejoined him, gloved and
hatted for the walk.
Winthrop thought the hoyden familiar
ly very pretty, and very sweet, and he
looked as if be wanted to smack the bnd-
diug little lipst hat laughed it. but he only
smiled the unutterable deliciousness* of is
gladness, as he answered:
‘Oh the cart is broken, and you will
have to foot it.’
‘And is that what you Yankees call
‘carrying ono home’, she replied with a
make believe pom.
•Oh I see you arc quite a critic Viola,
and one must be on his P’s and Q’s cr you
will catch him. Do ycu not know tbit I
abominate—
‘A snapper up of unconsidered trifles’ he
said, affectini' a censorious air.
I should think Dot, »lr. Winthrop, you
of all others ouuht to appreciate the office,
and bless the eoudesenston, else you. your
self, a very urcon-idcrcd trifle would
ucver be snapped up, hut would go down
to your grave,
“Unwept, nohonored, and unloved.”
They had now reached the path leading
across the wood to Stella Aukn and the
plump little ha id was resting confidingly
npon his arm, and as the bird like voice
improvised the local the plnmp little hand
clinched the emphasis upon his arm, and
the ‘unconsidered trifler,’ wts at that mo
ment the mnst considerable mortal that ever
soared upon the wings of a delicious neart,
fancy .high np to tho region of bliss.
‘And do you really istcem me an nncon-
sidered trifle’ he said with a tender
voice, all conscious that the answer would
bo ‘no, but the dearest and most precious
of all earthly treasures?
‘And do you really abominate‘a snapper
up’’of uhconsidered trifles?’
She answered in a voice equally tender,
and equally confident of a heart thrilling
negative.
And the answer was a negative and it
thrilled the sweet heart of the maiden
with a delicious music, and it flashed her
cheek with a maiden’s joy—a joy too fall
for utterance; and arm closely linked in
arm, heart closely linked in heart, soul in
soul, the noble man and the radient maiden
walked on in silence.
- Hiram'joined his mother. Let the heart
be ever so strong, let the heart be ever so
manly;'let the heart bn ever soprend, if the
heart bo true it will.torn to tho presence
of a mother as the sweetest sanctuary npon
tlic earth. In the presence of his tender
mother Hfram’s crashed heart fonnd a glad
rest, a sweetreposc, and to watch by her
bed side, to lean his aching head npon her
pillow, and to feel the tender lingers comb
ing through his hair, was now the most
soothing of all his amenities.
- -Yon are still anxions to return to Norfolk
and to college’, Mrs. Lavender asked as
she continued to comb with her fingors, the
soft brown hair of her son.
Yes Mother.it is best. I would like to
get more familiar with our business in
Virginia, and there is bnt little time left*
—the lectures are resumed, he answered.
‘I wish that I was strong enongh to re
turn with yon’ said the mother as she
shrank from the an ticipated separation.
1 ‘Yes, it would be a sweet relief to me to
have yon with me at, least, until you have
entirely recovered’ he said.
: ‘When do you think of going Hiram,’
she asked.’
! ‘As soon cs you get well mother.’
,1 aim well; now, Hiram, onij weak. I,
el that' 1 ought to begin to sit np. Fix
. y chkir Hiram, and help me lip,’ she said-
‘Do' yoa -fecl qiiit£ ttn>pg eDoogh for
le is mother?’ h; tenderly asked.
O Jce, the .effort will do me good’.
.Hiram softly arranged the chair, and
then tenderly lifted his mother io it-. Her
head was supported with pillows, ahd the
soft light of the setting snn was allowed to
beam into the room. Hiram felt very
grateful to his God for thus sparring his
dear mother, and tears of tender thankful
ness unconsciously side into hit eyes as
the looked npon her. sitting so comfortably
here.
‘Yes God is gracious aud merciful,’ he
mnrmeted to himself; it is only our hu
man passions that are so bitter, and so des
troy onr happiness.
The thoughts of- his mother were dwel
ling npon the tame grateful subject, and
she said alond.
‘lliram this is so pleasant, aud my heart
feels so thankful to my God for bis mercy
aud goodness.’
'Yes mother, and I too thank him for
his merciful goodness in preserving and
restoring yon,’ answered the son in a rev
erential voice, as he bowed his head upon
his mothers shonlder.
‘Get your books Hiram, and read the
psalm, and lessons for this evening. I feel
my son that it is a good thing to return
thanks nnto the Lord, said tho gratelnl
and devont woman.
Hiram readily obeyed, and his rich ele-
queDt voice was heard filling the room
w.th the melody of praise. Aid it was a
grateful sound, aod gratefully did its in-
sence float out upon the evouiug air, leav-
behind it a soothing halm, that no
earthly power could give.
The psalm aud lessons were fur the day-
lessons and selections peculiarly appropos
to the gratelnl occasion.
M rs. Lavenders eyes were moist with
the fouutaius o her thankfulness, and Hi
ram’s soul was breathed iu the rich
of his voice as ho read.
So absorbed were they, tho widow in
listeniug to the sweet voice of Hiram, and
the sou in his grateful earnestness, that
they heeded nut the appeiraccc of Mr.
Eustace who with a kindly iuteiestin ihc^vid-
ow's welfare had called as be was returniu:
from town, to cdquire abont her condition,
and was now standing in tbe door. The
sight struck him so forcibly; that of a
strong young man, bowing bis head
greailul prais to his God, that he could
not hive the courage to anounce himself,
aud stood wouderingiy contemplating the
scene. The wards that Hiram read were
strange words to him, for though he had
never thought enough upon the matter to
question the truth of the scriptures, be
had never once imagined that they were
fit subjects to be laid hold upon, by com
mon hands, as offices of household faith,
and consolation. A something like awe
touched bis heart, and wheD at length the
services were ended, and Hiram arose to
put by his Bible and bis Prayer book; he
advanced in the room with a reverential
respect.
lie was received with a fondly cordiality,
and when after his kindly enquiries had
been made, he arose to go, and Hiram ac
companied him to the gate be said.
Hiram I trust that there will remain no
unfriendly coldness between us. I desire
your friendship.
Hiram was surprised at the earnestness
of tho voice, and he as earnestly answered.
There is none on my part, I can assure
you. I have no unfriendly feeling against
any one.’
‘Then will you come to see me ?’
Hiram had rather not have promised,
but he remembered tbe promise he bad
made before, and he again repeated it.
Then come to-morrow.’
YYell to-morrow, in the morning,’ ni.-
ram answerd.
You have made me very glad,’ said Mr.
Kus'ace, as he shook his head, and turned
away.
The look of thoughtful earnestness, that
rested upon tbo countenance of Mr. Eus
tace had not disappeared wheu he reached
home, and at the sapper table, Mrs. Eus
tace ventured to enquire if he felt quite
well.’
I notice a look of care upon your face,
and I fear that you are not weil,’ she
said.
Yes I am quite well, I saw a sight this
evening, Matilda, that has seriously im
pressed me,’ he said looking up in a com
municative way.
Emma also looked up, while Mrs. Eus
tace quickly answered.
If tt be not too disagreeable, please tell
us what it was.’
Oh it was not disagreeable only sol
emn and impressive. I called for a mo
ment to inquire after Mrs. Lavenders con
dition, when I found her and Hiram alone
in her room, engaged in prayer,’ he answer
ed in a solemn tone.
Emma’s beantifnl lead slightly drooped
while Mrs. Eustace's eyes were swiDging
with a grateful moisture, Mr. Eustace con
tinued.
I could hardly credit my senses, the
voice did not hardly sound like the bold
strong voice of Hiram, bnt it was soft and
low, and earnest. I greatly fear that I
have done that young man a great injus
tice, and that be never was so bad as I took
him.’
NVe ought never to judge so harshly,'
was all that Mrs. Eustace could answer,
while Emma’s poor heart, felt a strange
gladness stealinginto it.’
That is so, neither for or against,’ re
plied the man with an unwelcome remem-
beranee, rising np in his mind.
Nothing more was said until after the
supper was concluded, and the accustomed
seats in the portico resumed. Then Mr.
Eustace said.
Matilda can we brush np life enonghd
in the house, to give Hiram Lavender,
a welcome in themornng.'
Oh yes we will be glad to see him any
time,’answered tbe lady with a pleasant
snrprise in her tone.
‘He has promised'to 'come, and 1 would
be glad to make his visit as pleasant as
possible,’ eaid Mr. Eustace, who felt as if
he conld repair, by kindness, the injury he
had already done.
‘I am glad that you are interested in
him,’ answered Mrs. Enstace, ‘and I am
glad that he has promised to call upon ns
before he leaves, as L understand he ex
pects to do in a few days.’
‘Does he expect to leave the State for
good? or will he return after he completes
bis education,’ asked Mr. Eustace.
■Mrs. Lavender told me, that they would
make Noriolk their future home,’ answered
Mrs. Eustace.
‘I was really surprised with hint at’ the
speaking last week, 1 never heard a finer
effort come from an old speaker/ said Mr.
Eustace, after a moments silence.
Emma could not longer withhold the
tribute of her voice, and she said!
•His effort ,was ' truly grand, andr his el
oquence was wonderful. It seemed to thrili
every heart, even father seemed moved
by it.’
•Yes if he had only been right; 1 r conld
havaJmgged him for very joy, but ah mo, I
lear that the red hot fire-eatera will ruin
the country/ answered Mr. Eustace.
1 ■• - < -
‘But father he was not intemperate, he
made no thrca‘s, urged no violence, only
pointed ont the danger; and they all come
from our enemies, and not from among
ourselves.’ Emma said with a southern
earnestness, that showed very plainly the
direction of her sympathies.
‘Yes Emma I know, but such gatherings
only aggravate the dangers. I can Dot
sympathise with Ms arguments, much as I
admired his eloquence.’
Tbe State Road Investigation.
The State Road investigation waxes lively.
The legal proceedings instituted against
the three highly respectable gentlemen,
Messrs. Redwine, llawson aad Hammock,
by Mr. McCalla for certain papers in their
possession, fouud among the State Road
documents, and alleged to be McCalla’s
private papers, forms a nice little episode,
that may amount to nothing or somethin".
Copies of the disputed papers will be found
in our local column, in the report of the
proceedings of the case.
These papers are important, chiefly a3
showing that Mr. MoCalla has been after
20 percent of the State Road funds, and
proposes a division with Major Hargrove;
and that Mr, Ben Cooley, cf the Board ol
Sute Read Commissioners, was willing for
the contract to be made, so far as he had
authority. Whether it is right fir the
State to pay this 20 per cent to salaried
men is a questioo. Whether the Bread of
Commissioners meant to give McCalla large
lees for invest gating aad unearthing ma
ters on the books, which bis < ffieial posi-
(ioa grve him knowledge of, is another
in tter. Whether this is a test question
over unimporiaut papers that may, if sue
ccssful, embolden an attempt to get other
aud more important p: pers in the Commit
tee’s bauds as private papers, is still another
question. Whether this movement of Me-
Calla was a big speculation to make a round
sum that the Stateis entitled to, and which
the State’s officers, if vigilant, could get
is still another matter.
One thing is very certain, and that is,
that co papers conected with the trans-
ction in aDy way aie private papers. The
public has a right to them all, and the
effort to withdraw them from the Commit
tee's possession creates a suspicion in the
minds of the impartial. The idea very
naturally arises that something is behind
that will not bear scrutiny.
We do not wish to prejudica anybody’s
case. But ail things show a complicated
state of rottenness in this whole State Road
matter,
The employment of good council by the
State authorities is in some respects ncces
sary. But of one thing we maybe certain.
The Legislature will immediately repeal
that india-rubber section of the appropria
tion act under which Governor Bullock has
thrown : w-y the public money in personal
services at his imperial pleasure, and as in
times past under the honest rule, these
worthy legal gentlemen will get paid by a
watchful Legislature only for services done
at a reasonable rate.
'.Ye arc glad to state that General
Toombs refuses all compensation, and says
that he will work io this matter for the
State for nothing. And we believe that
tbe able and respectable lawyers employed
will, iftheydonot follow his example, at'
least put a moderate value on their labor.
One thing more. The people are eager
for the big fish to be net ed, and we have
reason to state that there will be no escapes
jermitted. The track is followed with
Indian relentlessness and vigilance.—At
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On Friday, 1st September, Mr. James W.
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Sure and Perfect Remedy for all Diseases of tho
LIVEP. AN D SPLEEN, ENLARGEMENT OR
OBSTRUCTION OF INTESTINES, URI
NARY, UTERINE, OR ABDOMINAL
ORGANS. POVERTY OR A WANT
OF BLOOD, INTERMITTENT
OR REMITTENT FE
VERS, INFLAMA-
TION OF THE
LIVER, DROP
SY, SLUG
GISH
CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD, ABSCESSES,
TUMORS, JAUNDICE, SCROFULA. DYS-
PEFSIA, AGUE AND FEVER, OR THBIB
CON-COMITANTS.-
Dr. Wells’ Extract of Jorielia
is offered to the public as a great invigorator
and remedy for all imparities of tha blood, or
for organic weakness with their attendant evils.
For the foregoing complaints
JUBUBEBA
is confidently recommended to every family as
a household remedy, and should be freely taken
>n all derangement of the system. It fives
health, vigor and tone to all the vital ferces*ud
animates and fortifies sll weak and lympbatle
iperamenfs.
OIIN q. KELLOGG, IS Platt Street, If. Y;
. Sole Agent for tho United States,
Price One Dollar per Bottle. Seod for Circular.
Newspaper Presses for Sale.
W E OFFER A NO. 3 TAYLOR HAND
PRESS, good as new at low
price. Also a
GORDON JOBBER
Middle size, in perfect order, at^
two-third j price of anew one. The only‘rea
son for selling is that increasing bosincei re
quire? the largest and smallest size of Gordon's
Presses, and the middle size can bo dispensed
with. Wo offer also a
Montague Paper Cutter .
At $75 00—one half cost—in perfect order, hav
ing bought a “Mcnerva" to take its place.
Address Coubikh Orrua, Rome, Ga.
• Sept. 21. tw-w tf.
DES. 6 W. & J. B. S. HOLMES,
R ESPECTFULLY tender their services in the
• various branches of their profession to the
citizons of Rome and vicinity,
can be found at all hoars at their ol
Of them
No. 104 EMPIRE BLOCK,
when not professionally absent.
r.'dt
Calls loft «t
tho roiidenee of Dr. G. W. HOLMES, or npos
the slate at the office will receire
tion. Sept. 6, tw-wt