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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 A WaaMy s ffi>rotaa to jPaMtaos, Hews, IMtaroitan ®, Agjraasmlltiimro/MaffllhMiiaa Arts, SsScms®, 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 ) NUMBER 35. 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