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VOLUME 11. |
BY C. R. lIANLEITER.
IP © E T IS Y .
From the New Mirror.
OUR GIRLS.
Our girls they are pretty,
And gentle and witty,
As any the world ever knew j
Talk not about Spanish,
Circassian or Danish,
Or Greeks, ‘neatli their summer skies blue;
But give me our lassies,
As fresh as the grass is
When sprinkled with roses and dew!
Each lip is like blossom,
Each fair swelling bosom
As white us the high drilled snow j
Willi eyes softly flashing,
Like spring-bubbles dashing
O'er hill-rocks to valleys below :
All smiling with beauty,
All doing their duty,
Where shall we for lovelier go ?
O, ours are the fairest,
The sweetest, and rarest,
The purest and fondest 1 see:
Their hearts are the truest.
Their eyes are the bluest.
Their spirits so noble and free ;
O give me no other,
True love, sister, mother,
Our own are the chosen for me !
SELE<DTEOB>
THE ORPHAN TWINS OF DEUCE.
A TRUK TALE OP FRANCE.
Many arc tlie distinguished wtiters of
•our own day who have felt it alike their
duty, and their pleasure to hand down to
posterity traits of female self-devotion,
holding its unfaltering course undismayed
by the difficulties and trials with which
Providence (as it were to lend it sublimer
lustre) lias been met to surround its path;
following uncalc.ulatingly its high and lofty
impulses, with no other than the purest, and
therefore most irresistible of all motives,
the accomplishment of some generous pur
pose connected with the well-being of
another.
The heroic Elizabeth of Siberia, and the
devoted wife of Count Lavalette—those
bright examples of filial and conjugal self
sacrifices —may be thought to have owed to
noble birth and superior education the in
spitation of a lofty deed, and the courage
requisite for its accomplishment. But had
not our own Jeanie Deans proved that
magnanimity and fortitude are not the ex
clusive appendages of wealth or nobility,
an anecdote from a neighboring country will
show that, in a class almost lower still, w ith
instinct alone lor a guide, and natuie for an
instructress, traits of virtue may be gleaned,
deserving of tescuc from oblivion, that
looked for no other recompense than the
happiness which it was their object to pro
mote.
If Sir Walter's heroine may be imagined
to have iinhibed from the countty nt her
birth somewhat of its romantic elevation,
such could not have been the case of our
foreign heroine ; for the plains of Bence,
where she first saw the light, though styled,
from their fertility, the gardens of France,
are of the tamest and least picteresqim
character; nor was her vocation —that of
maid-of all-work in a farm house—better
calculated to inspire and foster a delicacy
of feeling, often wholly independent of ex
ternal circumstances.
It waa iu the thriving village of Artenay,
about fifteen miles from Orleans, that Geo
evieve Asselin and her twin brother Mau
rice came into the world, and displayed,
from their joint cradle, an intensity of love
for each other, which it was the joy of wor
thy parents to witness and cultivate. All
went well in the happy household, till the
father, a well-employed journeyman wheel
wright, fell a victim to accident in the exercise
of his'profession} bis neat, tidy helpmate
quickly followed him If* she grave; and the
twin children, then twelve y?avs old, were
taken home by their late fatnC!’ s m- Bler >
and treated as his own—a species of otu.p- ,
tion common enough in Fiance, to prove j
that the dwellers of their thatched roofs
consider themselves as the natural gunrdi- |
ana of the orphans left among them without
home or support.
Briefly must five happy years be passed
■over, during which the brother was instruct
•ed in liis father's trade, and the sister matte
herself useful in all possible ways to tlio
new parent, beneath whose eye they gtew
up lovingly together. But their protectoi .
too, was taken from tbem by death; and
the son who succeeded his father in the
.workshop, did not, alas! inherit with it lus
father's considerate tenderness for the poor
twins. The boy he tasked beyond his
strength, and exacted from the girl such hu
miliat:ng drudgery, that even gratitude to
their benefactor could not reconcile them to
slavery with his successor.
Abundance of employment could have
been found for the orphans separately; but
to live opart had become a thought more
formidable than any extent of privation to
gether. To work, for weeks perhaps, at
distant farms, and leave Genevieve to the
■mercy of strangers, seemed to Maurice de
porting both duty and happiness; while 1
Genevieve vied her mother’s skill with Ron J*
village semptress, the idea of who would
care for Maurice, make ready Ins simple
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meals, and keep in order his rustic ward
robe, would haunt her to such a degree as
made remaining asunder impossible.
i ogether, then, like two saplings front
one parent stem, which the force of the
blast but entwines more inseparably, did
the orphans struggle on through increasing
hardships, until a tich farmer, compassion
ating their condition, and moved by their
rare attachment, once more opened to them
a joint home, on terms which, since one
home was to shelter them, they were too
much overjoyed ever to inquire into.
Here, for five years more, the lad found
on the extensive farm ample employment
now in his original vocation, now as a will
ing sharer in the labors of the field; while
the care of the poultry, and all the miscel
laneous duties of a bassc-ewur in France,
lent robustness to the frame of his cheerful
sister. A passing smile, or shake of the
hand, during the day, sufficed to lighten the
toils to both; and to sit together over the
fire, or on some sunny bank at its close,
was an extent of happiness they never
dreampt of exchanging.
But the “ course of true love”—even
vvhen hallowed, as here, by the sweetest
ties of nature —seldom long “ run smooth.”
Harvest—in Beauce a season of peculiar
activity and importance—was progressing
amid the most strenuous exei lions of old
and young: and Maurice, always earliest
and latest in the field, and gifted* with un
common strength and agility, was eagerly
engaged one sultry afternoon in placing, be
fore an impending storm, the crowning sheaf
upon an immensely high stack, when one
more vivid flash of lightning than oidinary,
which had been playing along the unir.clos
cd corn-fields, struck the exposed pinnacle
lo which the poor lad clung, and hurled him
down, breathless and senseless, among the
pile of sheaves, collected for a ftesh stack,
below.
When the other workmen, many of them
stunned by the same shock, gathered round
their late fellow laboier, they at first con
cluded him to be dead. A faint sigh unde
ceived them; but his eyes, when they did
open, rolled vucuntly round, ond euinly diil
he atiernpt to uller a wotd. By feeble
signs, he pointed to his head as the seat of
some fatal injury of which no external
trace could, however be described ; but the
effects of which were manifest iu his limbs,
which, on their attempting to raise him,
bent utterly powerless beneath his weight,
and he again fainted away.
It was a sad and sobered group who fol
lowed to the farm the wagon containing the
neatly lifeless body of their light-heat ted
young comrade. But how powerless are
words to desetihe tlie slate of Lis sister,
when the btother on whom she doted was
brought to her mote dead than alive—how
she suppressed her first burst of uncontrol
lable agony,to sit on the bed to which she
had helped to lift him—his poor head rested
on her bosom, her eyes fixed on the darling
twin, in long and vain expectation of some
sign of returning life !
Faint tokens came at last to reward her;
but the glance of the slowly reviving one
lolled wildly around without resting on any
thing, till it met the fixed one of Genevieve,
vvhen a scarcely perceptible smile crossed
the pale lips of the sufferer. “He knows
me!” exclaimed the fond girl. “God has
spared him to me, and will yet grant me to
be the meat.s of restoring him by my care
and kindness. We vvete born together,
and together 1 feel we must live or die!”
The well-known voice found its way to
the inmost heatt of poor Maurice; fain
would he have spoken a word of love and
comfort in return, but lis paralysed tongue
refused its office. All lie could do was to
point, with a feeble hand, to his forehead,
and express by faint signs, that theie was the
seat of the malady. The most skilful phy
sician of the district, after an hour of unre
mitting attention, came to the conclusion,
that paralysis had, for the present, affected
both the head and lower limbs, but that the
favorable symptoms of his being able to
point to the former, gave hopes that con
sciousness and teason would sooti be fully
restored.
AnJ when, St the end of u week, the poor
fellow stammered forth a few broken
words, the first of which were 11 Genevieve
and *• sister,” who can tell her joy to he thus
called on by the companion of her biuh.
To think he would no longer be a breathing
mass, without the power of expressing a
thought or a feeling, seemed reward enough
for all her nights and days of anxious watch
ing by his side. Since he had begun to
speak, he would no doubt, soon regain the
use of his limbs. His aims got daily
stronger, and to the precious w ord, “ sister,”
he would by degrees odd the welcome ones,
“ dear girl’” “my help,” “my comfort,”
mid tlie yet more affecting request that she
would “ take pity on him.”
“Oh yes, yes!” she would eagerly an
swer; “God will take pity on us, and let
me make you well by dint of care end
kindness.” But if, as she thus spoke, she in
advertently kissed n little more fervently
than usual the poor sick head which rested
on her faithful bosom, the screams of the
poor sufferer, and convulsive fits on the
slightest pressure, revealed the unchanged
cause of his continued helplessness.
The doctor once more summoned, pro
nounced the debility of the lower limbs all
but hopeless; and the severe winter of 1823
was passed by the twins in a state more ea
MADISON, MORGAN COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 24, 1843.
sily to be imagined than described. Gene
vieve devoted all her long nights, and every
moment she could snatch from her vvotk
through the day, to the couch of the unfor
tunate cripple, w ho, though resigned to his
own condition, yet prayed to be teleased
by death from being a burden to all around
him—to the sister especially, whose youth
and strength he was wasting, and whose
every prospect in life he felt blighted by the
calamity which had overtaken his own ear
ly career.
“Do you wish me dead, vvhen you speak
so, Maurice I” she would sobbinglv reply
to the licait-rending lamentations.* “Do
you think 7 could stay upon earth if you
go and leave me? 1 sometimes think lam
going too, for my poor head throbs, and my
limbs bend under me at times, almost like
yours.”
” I “’ell believe it,” the poor cripple
would reply; “but it is all fatigue. You
lake no rest either by day or night.”
“ Oh, never mind that ; God has given
me strength to work, and the hope of see
ing you at work again at your old trade
keeps me up. Never lose heart, brother
dear? You ve seen the corn beat flat many
a time and oft by the wind and rain, yet
hall a day’s brisk breeze and sunshine set it
all up again finer than ever!”
These encouraging words, from the most
sensible as well as most loving of sisters,
bad the effect of making the poor lad at
times look fin ward to possible recovery;
and to keep up his industrious habits, and
neatness of hand, be amused himself ere
long in lus chair with bits of ingenious
workmanship; among others, a little mod
el of a four-wheeled wagon on springs, iri
which it was bis utmost ambition to be
drawn by some of his comrades to church
or the village green on the evening of a
holiday, to witness, since he could not
share, in the sports of his rustic neighbors.
His sister, who was in the secret, and
had furnished all that was required for tlie
construction of the pet model of a cam
age, had liet own view on the subject,
which was. that it should be drawn by no
one but lierseTT. And harnessed in what
was to her a complete car of triumph, she
was able, after repeated trials, to fulfill her
brothel’s darling wish, that he should at
tend, on Easter Sunday, the parish church
of Attenay, about a mile distant from the
futm. The only difficulty (at least in the
eyes of the delighted girl) was, liovv lo get
her brother, unable to endure, without ago
ny, the slightest jolt, over the roughly-paved
villago-stieet, leading to the church; but
so completely bad her devoted conduct won
on her fellow servants and their master,
that tlie whole distance (a considerable one)
was found by dawn, on the eventful day, so
thickly covered with straw, as to obviate
the slightest injury to the invalid. From
nine in the morning, the church path was
lined with inhabitants of the village, throng
ing to sympathies with the happy gill, who,
though declining to yield to any one the
honor of draw ing her brother—a task which
she accomplished with a skill and gentle
ness none other could have shown—was yet
astonished and bewildered by the admiting
looks and congratulations pressed on her by
her kind hearted neighbors.
The pait. however, of the whole scene
which went stiaight to her heart, and touch
ed it most deeply was the distinction pub
licly conferred oti her by the vvoitliy cure
himself, w ho, pointing her out to bis parish
ioners as a pattern of Christian charity and
sisletly affection, and bestowing on the in
teresting pair bis watmest benediction, said
to her in a voice of parental kindness,
“Take courage, my daughter, God ap
proves and protects you.”
YYhat a solace lay in the blessed words
for all the sister’s days and nights of toil and
anxiety, responded to as they were by the
teai fill glance of the brother, for w hom she
hud done and suffered so much ; and by his
fervent prayers, that she might be reward
ed by Him who had put it in her heart so
to befriend him ! One result only she felt
could fulfill such a petition, and something
whispered to her it would not he denied.—
But spring had passed away without any
marked amendment in the patient’s condi
tion. May had come and well-nigh gone,
and with it the hope that fine wcolliei might
do something for the invalid ; and resigned
at length to his fate, the young paralytic
bade adieu for life to all idea of teguiiiing
the use of his limbs.
One evening, when, ns usual, his indefati
gable sister had drawn him lo the scene of
lural festivity, beneath the old elms ut the
entinnee of the village* he was accosted by
an old soldier, lately come on n visit to a
relation in the place, who, after closely
questioning Maurice regarding his infirmity,
gave him in return the important infortna
tion, tlia\ in consequence of a splinter from
a shell at the battle of Eylau, lie bad him
self been two years entirely deprived of the
use of bis limbs, and subject to spasms in
the head, which had nearly bereft him of
reason. Os the various remedies prescribed,
none, lie added, bad tlie slightest success,
till sea-bathing persevered in for a whole
summer—plunging in lit ad-foremost, and al
lowing the natural douche afforded by the
successive waves to play freely, as long os
strength permitted, on the affected part —
bad at length effected a core, “ I was car
ried to the sea side in a half-dying state,”
said the old corporal, “in a litter lent me
by my colonel. At the end of a fortnight,
strength and apprtile began to return, and
with them my spirits and hopes of 11 com
plete recovery, which took place in the
course of three months uftcr. At first 1
could only walk on two crutches, then I
threw one away, and on the 2d of Septem
ber (a day I never shall forget.) I walked
w ith so much as a stick, a good half mile
f i cm the token, to visit a couple of old friends.
Br.ck I cnfne, still on foot, to finish mv
course of the baths; and within three weeks
after, I was on the top of a coach for mv
own coutijry, as hale and hearty as you see
me be ford you at this moment.”
“ And where, on earth, are these pre
cious butl/s to he had ?” askid thc iiipple
with eager interest.
“ At a place called Poulogue, on the Bri
tish channel, some 250 miles fiom hence.”
“Two hundred and fifty miles! If I
must go so far lobe ctited, I am pretty sure
of remaining ill to my dying day.”
“ Try and get conveyed tlrete, my good
ft How,” said the kindly veteran, “ and I’ll
be answerable for your entile recovery.”
“ W hat! to get back my poor legs and
return to my trade, and he able to gain my
own bread, and help my sister? No, no !
such happiness is not for me !” exclaimed
the desponding lad.
“ And why not ? If I was radically cur
ed at fifty, why should you, at five-and twen
tv, give way to despair ?”
“ But you don’t consider the impossibili
ty of my going in any sort of carriage—
even the smoothest voiture—when 1 faint
dead away, or go into fits, tt the slightest
jolt. No, no ! it is the will of God that I
should remain a ctipple to my life’s end,
and I only pray lie may be pleased to shor
ten it fur my own sake aid that of others,”
During this conversation Genevieve was
an attentive listener ; and had the speakers
been less engrossed, they must have read
on her countenance the lines of deep de
termination. She took aside the old soldier
to obtain fiom him ihe minutest paiticulars
about the wonderful winking batl s, the
proper season, the precise distance, and the
easiest and least expensive route by which
they might be readied ; arid no sooner was
her plan matured than she hastened to put
it in execution.
On the 3d of June, the hiith day of the
twins, they had, from childhood, never miss
ed making a pious pilgrimage to a little
ehappeldedicated to St. Genevieve, a league
from where they lived, on the road to
Tours; which, lined on each side with
trees, resembled at this early summer sea
son the shady valley of a park. It requir
ed all the poor girl’s persuasion, to induce,
over night, her brother to fulfil their never
before omitted vow. The idea of allow ing ]
her to drag him three long miles in sultry j
weather, was one which he could not easily
be brought to entertain ; but the mingled
voice of piety and sisterly affection at length
prevailed, and the sight of a paraphernalia
destined to mitigate the fatigues of a Jon- :
get pilgiimage tended to reconcile Maurice i
to the brief one which he had alone iu con
templation.
It was r.ot without such precautions as !
her simple wisdom could suggest, that the
most lational of heroines emboikcd on the
wildest of expeditions. A well stuffed
leathern strap, fiom the village saddler, w as
provided, to obviate the effects of so novel
a diaught animal. A change of light easy
shoes replaced the clumsy salat of the
country —r gleaner’s ample straw hat serv
ed to w ard off’ the scorching rays of the sun
—and furnished with these, the pious pil
grim. st tlie first peep of dawn, awoke her
still sleeping brother, who, on observing that
though attired in his Sunday suit, his sister
was iu her nrdinaiv opj are), was assured
lhat a bundle, the appearance of which,
might otherwise have told tales, contained
her holiday attire, to he assumed on the ar
rival at their destination. The excited feel
ings with which Genevieve harnessed her
self on the present occasion, found vent in I
ihe speed with which she crossed ihe fields !
leading to the public road ; and when Mau
rice exclaimed, “ not so fast! you’ll be out
of breath ere your journey is half over !”
there was more than met the ear in the ■
light heat ted answer : “Tine brother dear!
1 was forgetting lhat we have seme way to
8°”
Suiting her pace to the words, and look
ing ever round, to inquiie if her brother ;
fell the least inconvenience, the twins arriv- j
cd about 7 o’clock at the chapel, Mam ice
nowise fatigued, and Genevieve, heated and
tired us she w as, but too happy to find her
self thus fur oil the road. Having drawn
her brother’s vehicle under the porch of the
little rustic shrine, and listened devoutly to
the matin service peifoi mid by 11 gray-head
ed chaplain, Mauiiccol serving his sister to
remain prostrate, engaged in praying with
extiQOrdinary fervour, while big tears cours
ed each other down her cheeks.
“ How strangely moved you are, sister,”
said lie anxiously ; “ study you have some
thing more than usual upon your mind ?”
“ Why should I conceal it longer from you,
brother,” was the answer. “I have,l think,
discovered the means for your cure.”—
“ And how do you intend to effect this desi
rable object?” “By sea-bathing; and I
shall draw’ you myself to the sea-baths, two
bundled and fifty miles off.” “ You can
nevet have strength to do it. And where is
the money to come fiom for such a jour
ney 1” “ Oh, Pv® got in an old glove rouud
my neck five gold pieces saved out of my
wages, more than enough to carry us to nut
i journey’s end. And why not, what is there
j one cannot do for 9 twin brother?” “Ay,
i but then the getting Luck again ?” “By
- lhat time, please G< and you w ill be walking
; by my side, and that will shorten the way,
■ and lie will provide for us. Don’t you re
member the woids lie put into the good
J cure’s mouth, ‘ he of good cheer, God up
-1 proves and protects you !”’ “ Well, sis
ter, I commit myself to his hands and
yours. Fulfill his commission, for such it
surely is, since you are not daunted by the
length of the way.” “ Not in the least.”
“ Or the numberless difficulties you must
meet with.” “We’ll get over them.”—
“Or the dreadful fatigue, perhaps beyond
your strength.” “Have I not done a
league in less than two hours, and am
yet quite fresh to begin again ?” “ Ah !
but when you come to have to climb
those bills!” “Well, ’tis only taking lon
ger time.” “They will keep us back so;
peihaps a whole month on the road.”—
“Yes, at the very least; ’lis time we were
tiff.” “ And you really wish it ?” “Do 1
not?” Both hearts w< re full, and a long
embrace gave vent to feelings unutteiuble
ill words.
Fain would we follow in all its interest
ing details the itinerary (unexampled per
haps in the wot Id’s histoiy) of ihe twin
travelers, from the vety centre of France
to one of its fuithest extrenieties ; but n
few only of its leading incidents must suf
fice to give an idea of the whole.
Along the planted sides of the great high
roads and level plains, their progress, though
slow, was steady : h l ing for the hcift of the
day under the trees at the etitinnce of some
hamlet, which afforded the needful supplies;
while at nightfall, the humblest decent shel
ter their slender means could command,
was sought and generally obtained. To
avoid latge paved villages, arid yet more
formidable populous towns, was often a tux
on the maiden’s ingenuity; yet never, save
once, (at Etamper) w as she compelled—by
the impossibility of elsewhere crossing tw o
intersecting stieams —to c< nsign to stran
gers brands her precious charge, and have
her brother carried on a hand-barrow from
one end to the other of the tow ri.
From hence her forward path was beset
with new and unforeseen obstacles. The
whole route to Palis abounds in t.leep hills,
up which the strongest horses find difficulty
in (bagging their custnmaty loads. No
wonder, then, if Genevieve well nigh sunk
under hers. Her feet had become so blis
tered, that she was forced to leave off her
shoes ; and being constantly obliged to slop
and take breath, she made but little way ;
yet after every such halt, the agony of her
brother in witnessing her di.-.tiess, would
make lie! resume her task with a chteiful
smile.
It was not till after twelve days’ weary
march, dm ing which she had to climb the
hills of Atpajou, Long Jumcau, and Bouig
la Heine, that they arrived at the village of
petit Mo-rtf Rovgc, near Paris, where they
found in the hostess, the widow of an artil
lery officer killed at Waterloo, an almst ma
terial fiiend. The good woman bui.-t into
tears on witnessing one of her own sex so
dutifully yet painfully employed—lavished
on both novelets the kindest attentions—
procured for poor Genevieve (whose chest
the strap had begun ciuelly to luteiale) a
new and more comfortable one, and insist
ed on her taking a few day’s test ; while
the misgivings of her brother regarding a
delay (thecause of which was catefully con
cealed fiom him) were obviated by the kir and
landlady’s positive refusal to make the
slightest in load on their slender stock of
coin. On pniting.she cmbiaced, vv tli min
gled admiration and regard, the reciuited
wayfarer, and assuted her of the ultimate
success of her enterprise, w hich could only,
she said, have been dictated by cxpi ess sug
gestion from on high.
Cheered by this fiiendly farewell, Gene
vieve once more douned her harness—avoid
ed, as diiccted, the city of Paris, by keep
ing the line of the new boulevard and
Champ do Mats—crossed the Seine in a
boat, and, late at night, arrived at St. Denis,
where a less hospitable reception, alas!
awaited the poor tiavelets. A paity of
guy young sporting men fiom town, dining
in the hotel, chose to consider Genevieve as
an adventuress, and her brother as an im
pos’er, and to insult them accordingly; and
while the innocent girl, choking with indig
nant surprise, was equally unwilling and
unable to reply, Maurice, wiilliing on his
seat fiom inability tocliaslise such insolence,
exclaimed, “ Miscreants that you oie! the
best proof that I am 0 cripple is my not hav
ing power to punish you as you deserve.”
This burst of honest feeling only pro
. yoked fresh insult* from the giddy crew, to
escape fiom whom Genevieve, 111 spile of
her fatigue, insisted on removing her dear
invalid from the hospitable shelter of the
inn tonne beneath the canopy of heaven,
where the tired giillaid herself down at her
brother’s feet, her head rt sing on his knees,
and their hands twined together like the
branches of the old plane tree above them ;
and the fine seiene midsummer night was
passed by both in jnace ami safety.
The only other untoward incident which
marked the remaining journey, was a thun
der-storm in tho forest of L’lslu Adam,
which brought hack on the poor sufferer
from a similar visitation a return of his con
vulsion fits. During its continuance, the
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W. T. THOMPSON, EDITOR.
poor girl—holding her brother’s head on
her bosom, her hands fa-t held over his eye*
to shield them from the lightning.sheltering
him from the tain as best she might, with her
own body— put up the most piteous prayers
to heaven that she might not thus far have
led him only to fall a victim to a second ca
tastrophe—adding the natural, and in her
case, almost pardonable wish, that if tha
blow were again to fall, it might in death
unite them !
Her fears we happily not realised ; the
storm passed off, leaving the wayfar rs un
scathed. A thiee days’ fever, however, oc
casioned by ularm, and neglect of her own
snaked garments, detained them at their
evening's quarters; and Beauvais, the half
way house of their arduous journey, lay yet
a good way beyond.
It was reached at last after twenty-two
days’ match, during which three of the live
gold pieces so carefully husbanded had mel
ted sway. Fresh courage and economy
ih< n became necessary, to save the high
minded twins from the humiliation of ask
ing alms; aid volumes might hewiitten on
the haidshif s, anddifticuliies, and privations,
of the remaining half c f the | ilgrin.age, till,
weary, wny-vvotn. yet never for a moment
relinquishing her high vocation, Genevieve
caught sight, on the moiling of the forty-se
cond dav, of the goal of her long cherished
hopes—the steeple of Boulogne. Her sen
sations on beholding it mock description.
Matitice, though little less delighted at an
event which seemed to him scarce short of
miracle, would have urged on his sisters
halt; but, then to pause withir. reach of her
object was impossible, and with quickened
step she gained the gates of I lie* town. Her
first inquiry was how to reach the baths,
and the way by which she wbs directed to
them lay along the shore; when the grand
and novel spectacle of the gently undulating
i cean recalled to thetwii s the wide-waving
coin-fields of their native country.
Beneath the shade of an oveihangiug
rock they encountered a group of elegant
ladies of different nations, awaiting the piop
er time of tide for repairing to the baths.—
All gazed with inlertst at the ctipple aid
his conductress; and when in answer to
their inquiries from wliot village in tha
neighlxiihood the kind girl was bringing
him, lie took her by the hand, and with el
oquence of gratitude, told them w hence they
conic, and w hat she had done for him, tha
fui m giil appeared in their eyes as an angel
comedown sum heaven, whom they felt
half tempted to worship, and whom they
earned in triumph, sounding her piaises to
all they met, nAlie battling establishment.
Its wonhy proprietor received tlie o.
pilaus with all his native goodness of heart,
thanked heaven that they weie tlnnwfi up
on his benevolence, and immediately enter
ed upon its active excicise, by consigning
Maurice, with as many recommendations ss
if lie had been a soverign prince, to the skill
and attention of two of iiis most experienced
bathing-men.
The twins were established in commodi*
nus hidings nr.d loaded by the awakened
ir.tciest of the bathers with everything ne
cessary for tlipir comfort. After ten or
twelve dips, and degree of irritability began to
he felt in the fee t oft he patient, which quirk
ly ascending to the knees, called forth ilia
doctoi’s prognostics. And how did tha
heart of Genevieve leap responsive to tha
happy women ! —how thankful did she feel
for her ow n courage and perse vet mice!-
Ami how did her loud brother pour out to
her his mingled joy and gratitude when, by
degrees he could move this or that pot lion
of his crippled limbs, and at length—happy’
day for both !—was able to mount, like his
fiiend the old soldier, a couple of crutches.—
His fitst use of them, it may be believed,
was towards his sister; ami never did moth
er mote fondly hail the tottering efforts of
hot first hot n, than Genevieve, receding play
fully to litre him on, arid crying, ** Courage
brother! a few steps more !” received him
at length in her outstretched aims, ming
ling liars and caresses with fresh thanks
giving for so blissful a con sum in a tion.
We must hasten to the conclusion of a
tale, the winding up of which was alike bon
oruble to all concerned. The patient soon
became able, at first with a crutch, and then
with the sister’s arm (which site was not to
think could quite he dispensed with) to ex
tend his walks through the stieets of Bou
logne. The pair found themselves the ob
jects of respectful interest to the whole
town. The little children would point and
whisper, “Thne go the twins of Beauce!”
and for the little purchases they would
have made with a tiifle borrowed for their
immediate wants at the baths, not a shop
keeper in the place would receive a farih
ing. .
But, when, September bting past, and
the season for sea-bathing being over, and
the cute of Muuiice so vvondeifully com
pleted that he talked of taking the journey
on fool, the orphans began to think of re
turning homeward, and for that purpose
modestly tequested the worthy barkeeper
to advance them a small sum, to be faithful
ly repaid out of their vety 6rst earnings,
thev were little aware of the surprise pre
pared for them by those vvi.ose interest they
had so justly awakened.
The day before that fixed on for their de
partuie, n deputation fiom the youth of ev
ery rank in Boulogne waited on Genevieve
Asseline, inviting her to receive on the mor
row, at a civic foast, the tribute 90 richly
