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CLASSICAL & ENGLISH SCHOOL.
No. 159 Brotigh/on-St.
BERNARD MALLON, Principal.
J. 11. LUTHER, A. M., Classical Tkaciier.
MISS V. JONES, Assistant. nov 9
GEO. M. WILLETT & CO.,
DKALER9 IN
GROCERIES , WINES, LIQUORS,
TOBACCO, SEGARS, FRUIT, PICKLES,
Preferees, Confectionary, f Garden Seeds.
All k ind* of Fish and Oysters, when in season, i
No. 63 St. Julian and 101 Bryan Streets.
J P. A. Dupos, ? (Waring’s Building.)
Jrn R. Tr.BE At', £ nov 9
BOOK AND JOB ITiLNTLXG.
GEO. N. NICHOLS,
(Omens’ Building, opposite the Pulaski House,)
SAVANNAH, GA.
I* prepared to execute all work in his line, with
neatness and despatch, and in a style
not to be surpassed.
Price* as reasonable as any other establishment
In ihe city. ly sept 28
G-. BUTLER,
MAST E R B UILD ER,
DEALER IN WHITE PINE LUMBER,
York Street, Oglethorpe Square.
K. Li.—Ho is prepared to put in Iron fronts
in Store*, See. ly oct 1-1
T. R. CLARKE,
FASHIONABLE BOOT MAKER,
Next door to corner Bull and Broughton-sts.
•.t io ly
A. PONCE,
Importer and Manufacturer oj Segars,
No. 13 Whitaker Street,
K*ep* on hand a well sclectcil stock ol impoited
Srgars ; also Manufactured Tobacco, Snufi, |’q>*'s,
and all other articles usually kept in his line i
business, which he otters on the most reasonu >le
terms. ly
E. T. SHEFTALL,
ATTOR NE Y A T LA W,
may 25 Dublin, Georgia.
MEDICAL NOTICE.
DOCTOR MOREL. Office No. 157 Brough
ton Street. ts mar
J DE MARTIN,
DEALER IN
Fruits, Wines, Liquors, Segars.
I’ICKLES, PRESERVES and GARDEN SEEDS.
—: also:
APPLES, ONIONS A POTATOES,
When in season, received fresh by every vessel.
—: also: —
Oysters put up to order in from 1 to 10 gat lon kegs.
Gorner of Bay and W hitaker Streets,
JOHN OLIVER,
HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTER,
GILDER, GLAZIER, Ac.,
No. 121 Broughton Street, n few doors cast of
Whitaker Street, Savannah, (la.
rW All kinds of Paints- —Paint Oil, Turpentine,
*Varnish, Glass, Putty, &e., for sale. July ~0
EDWARD G. WILSON,
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE,
Conveyancer, Collector, Accountant A Copyist,
Office under J. M. Haywood s.
Return Day. Wednesday, February 19th.
COLLINS 8c BULKLEY.
Importers and Dealers in
CROCKERY CHINA & GLASS WARE,
V \MILY HsiTftwaie, Tablo Cutlery, Wood Jiud
Willow Wave, Lamps, Lanterns, Wicks, &e.,
Also, Camphine and Burning Fluid, Together
with n great variety of Fancy and House Fuinish
hing Goods, at Low Price*.
No. 100 Bryan St., Savannah, Ga.
jr. P. COLLINS, (
T. A. lIULKI.EV. y nov 2
MRS. SILBER,
MILLINER 4* DRESS MAKER
No. 157 CONGRESS STREET,
Has the pleasure of informing the
Ladies, that she has returned
from New Fork with a beautiful
assortment of Silk Pattern Bonnets, all colors,
Straw, Leghorn, and New Fashioned style ot Jens
ny Lind Bonnets. French Flovversand Ribbonos.
of thv latest styles, and a general assortment ot
fancy Goods and Trimmings. Also the Latest
Fashion of Silks Cassimere, Mousline de Lane,
&c., Stc.
Anntfii tii jCitmittm', fritiOT unit 31rt, tljtjgg nfjtgniinfranrf, (Dili jfplloiusijtip, AHnsmirq trail tljf liras sf tjjf Dntj.
P. JACOBS’
S E G A R M A N U F A C T OR Y,
No. 27 Bull Street.
THE SI BSCRIBER keeps on hand at all times
the best Brands of Havana Segars, and is ready
to nit orders for Country Merchants and others,
as low as any <*ther establishment in the City,
e also Manufactures Segars of various quali
ties, and has on hand the best of Chewing Tobac
co Snuffi Segar holders, Pipes—common
and fancy—Port Monies, Segar Cases, Tobacco,
ou< “ Ps ’ ‘^ c * Orders from the Country wiil he
punctually attended to. noV 2
McARTHOP. & MORSE,
Manufacturers and Dealers in
PLAIN, JAPANNED & BLOCK TIN WARE,
HOLLCHV & ENAMELLED WARE,
STOVES AND COOKING RANGES,
Lkad 1 ipic, buEET Lead. Copper and Zinc,
STORE, IJJ BARNARD STREET.
All kinds of Copper, Tin and Sheet Iron Work,
done in the best manner, at the shortest notice.
_ fp O 21 !y r
ALLEN & BALL,
FACTORS & COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
No. 112 BAY STREET,
SAVANNAH, GA.
J. M. EALL & CO.,
o m w t s-s t o n c v c h a it t a ,
MACON, GEORGIA.
ROBERT A. ALLEN, JANIES M. BALL,
sept 20 i v
N. ELLS,
FASHIONABLE BOOT MAKER,
No. 101 Broughton-st., near the corner of Bu!l-st.
oct 12 y
JONES & PAPOT,
Shipwrights, Spar Makers,
AND CAULKERS.
Yard opposite R & J. Lachlison’s Foundry.
R. H. DARBY,
’"SB'” M. m £3 32) JS3BL. _
Corner Broughton and Whitaker Streets,
SAVANNAH, CKORGIA.
R. H. D. is prepared to execute all orders for
Making or Cutting on reasonable terms.
mar 9 ]y
J. S. STURTEVANT,
MAS TE R BUILDER,
Corner Montgomery and Liberty Sts.
All orders in his line will be promptly attended
to, and faithfully executed. ly jime 1
JOHN V. TARVER,
FACTOR A COMMISSION MERCHANT
EXCHANGE WHARF, SAVANNAH, GA.
RABUN & FULTON,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
No. 207 Bay Street, Savannah, Ga.
S. XV. It A1! IT N, R. TANARUS,. FULTON, I. P. WHITEHEAD.
LANIER HOUSE,
BY LANIER & SON,
June 22 Macon, Georgia.
J. HASBROUOK & CO.,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
CHINA, GLASS AND EARTHENWARE,
sept 21 BROUGHTON STREET. SAVANNAH.
S. Y. LEVY,
ATTO RN E Y A T LAW,
Office, No. IS-5 Bay-Street.
FRANCIS WAVER,
IMPORTING & COMMISSION MERCHANT,
No 107 Bay Street, Savannah, Geo.
PHILIP KEAN,
Dlt A I’E It AND T AILOIt,
AND DEALER IIV
READY MADE CLOTHING.
Penfield’s Range, No. 98 Bryan Street,
Store formerly occupied by J. Southwell Sc Cos.
J. T. JONES,
MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN
Double & Single Guns,KiHes, &c.,
West Side of Monument Square.
A SHORT,
MASTE R BUIL D*E R,
Will take contracts for Building and Work in
Masonry of every description. Cornet of South
Broad and Whitaker streets. may 26
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER.
The subscriber is prepared to execute with
neatness and despatch all work in the above line.
142 Broughton St. Two Doors West of I. \V .
MORRELL’S Furniture Store,
june 1 Iy I. SOLOMONS, Agent.
CLOTHING,
I*l ERSON & II EI DT otter for sale CLOTHING,
Wholesale and Retail, at New York prices, No
10 Whitaker Street. apl 26
GAS PIPES AND FIXTURES.
STRATTON & DOBSON,
Having received an assortment of Chandeliers
Pendants, Brackets and Portable Gas Burners,
respectfully invite the citizens of Savannah to
call at their store, No. 72 St. Julian street, and
examine the same 4t june 1
DR. J. DENNIS,
BOTANIC DRUGGIST,
Next door above L. C. Wairen & Cos,
Augusta, Ga.
Keeps constantly on hand a choice assortment,
selected from the best establishments iu the United
States,consist ing of Emetics, Cathartics, Diapho
retics, Diuretics, Expectorants. Emmenagoeues,
Stimulants, Tonics, Astringents, Nervines, Alka
lies, Alteratives, Rubefacients, and Compounds
for family use. Composition Powder, No. Six,
Lobelia in its various preparations, See., also
Medical Books. may 4
ALFRED HAYWOOD,
CORNER BRYAN AND BARNARD STREETS,
Market Square, Savannah,
Dealer in Choice FRUITS, CANDIES, Nl TS,
ORANGES, LEMONS, APPLES, AND PO
TATOES, Wholesale and Retail.
First quality Thunderbolt Oysters, Fish. &c.
Newark refined Chantpaigne Cider, and Albany
Cream Ale, by the bid.
Orders from the Country, accompanied
bv the cash or City reference, punctually attended
to ’ fiug 9
G. M GRIFFEN,
fiL HAVING purchased the stock in trade of
thelate M. Eastman, would solicits the con
uued patronage of all tlie friend ot the
establishment. All customers shall be pleased
with goods an.l saiisliod with prices.
GEO. M. GRIFFEN-
N. B. 5\ atehes and Ghrometers will receive
the personal attention of Mr. G. as usual,
sept 12
DAG-U ERR E O TYP E &T
P. M. CARY would respectfully give notice to the
public that his Rooms, corner Bryan Street and
Market Square, are now open, where he will bo
happy to wait upon all persons who would have
their pictures well taken. dec 7
Irh'rti'ii pnrfnj.
CARE OF ANGELS OVER MEN.
And is there care in heaven ? And is there
love
In heavenly spirits to these creatures base,
I hat nitty compassion of their evils move ?
There is:—else much more wretched
were the case
Os men than beasts: But O! tip ex
ceeding grace
Os Highest God that loves his creatures
so,
And all his works with mercy doth em
brace,
That blessed Angels he sends to and fro,
To serve to wicked men, to serve his wicked
foe!
How oft do they their silver bowers leave
Io come to succor us that succor wunt!
llow oft do they with golden pinions
cleave
The flitting skies like flying pursuivant,
Agains foul fiends to aid us militant!
1 hey for us fight, they watch and duly
ward,
And their bright squadrons round about us
plant;
And all for love and nothing for reward :
O, why should Heavenly God to men have
such regard !
[Spenser.
INFANT SLEEPING IN A GARDEN.
Sleep on sweet babe ! the flowers that wake
Around thee, are not half so fair;
Thy dimpling smiles, unconscious break,
Like sunlight on the vernal air.
Sleep on ! no dreams of care are thine,
No noxious thoughts, that may not rest;
For angel arms around thee twine,
To make thy infant slumbers bless’d.
Perchance her spirit hovers near,
Whose name, thy infant beauty bears,
To guard thine eyelids, from the tear
That every child of sorrow shares.
O ! may thy life, like hers endure,
Unsullied to its spotless close ;
And bend to earth, as calm and pure
As ever bowed the summer rose.
[Dawes.
The Firemen of the land is thus
finely complimented by England’s best living
poet, Eliza Cook :
When the red sheet winds and whirls
In the coil of frightful death ;
When the bannered smoke unfurls,
And the hot walls drink our breath;
When the far off crowd appears
Choking in the demon glare.
And some helpless form appears
In that furnace of Despair;
Save! Oh, save ! the people cry,
But who plucks tho human brand ?
Who will do tho deed or die ?
Tis a Fireman of the land.
Then give them Honor, give them Fame,
A health to hands that fight the flames !
[7?° Juveniles will find it a pleasant recrea
tion to select lines of poetry from different
authors which will rhyme with each other,
and make new versos, which will sometimes
make curious sense. Such are called cento
verses ; here are a few ;
1 hear the dread note of the drum,
The silver moon is waning ;
The melancholy days are come,
To give our boys a caning.
“A mason’s daughter fair and young,
Cries, Boatman do not tarry ;
If you love me ns 1 love you,
When do you mean to marry ?
The moon has climbed the highest hill,
The country to see ;
Then with her starry courts she sung,
Oh, —Woodman spare that tree.”
fclerteii Cult.
[From Mrs. Ellis’ Morning Call.
SELF-DECEPTION;
OR, THE HISTORY OF A HUMAN HEART.
CHAPTER X.
On ihc morning after the melancho
ly accident which deprived the sol
itary widow of her last earthly
stay ; an event, which, as has al
ready been described, occupied
many of the idle loiterers in and
about the little town of C , two
young people—a brother and a sis
ter — sat dow’n to breakfast in one of
the lodging-houses near the sea;
and as they lingered over their
meal, they looked ocaasionally to
wards the dark and still unsettled
waves, and then talked again of
the boat, its crew’, of the poor wo
man on the cliff, and of the lost
sailor youth.
Nothing could be more cordial,
frank, and easy, than the conversa
tion of these two, recent comers as
they were; for they discused, in a
lively and amusing manner, all
those little incidents and traits ot
character which are apt to strike
the attention of persons just com
meucing anew and independent
life, in ?i place unknown to them
before ; especially when surround
ed, as in the present instance, by
Strangers from different parts of the
SAVANNAH, GA,, SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1851,
country some of whom might be
distinguished by rank, some by
fashion, and a few’ no doubt really
interesting in themselves. Names
they have chanced to hear, parties
they have accidentally met, and re
semblances they have imagined so
far as to furish surmises about iden
tity, are, under such circumstances,
the usual topics of conversation, and
the Jocelynes did not fail on the pres
ent occasion to be talked about by
the lady, at least, with considerable
interest and animation.
“Butcome, Willis,” said the sis
ter, after descanting upon this
theme for a long time, “you are
dreaming. 1 have alreadygiven you
sugar twice, and yo*u are helping
yourself again. ‘Besides which,
you have not spoken for the last five
minutes, and 1 ain telling you about
the Jocelynes, and that I expect
you to go with me to call on
them.
“ That remains to be consider
ed,” said the brother. “ You mav
call if you like, but for my part, 1
confess 1 have no fancy for the Joce
lynes.”
~ “ Why so, Willis
“ For no other reason, I dare say,
than because I hear them so much
talked about, and I have a sort of
perverse feeling, that if everybo
dy thinks one ought to call, I won’t
call at all. Very amiable, and very
manly, is it not ?”
“Very amiable, indeed; butyou
will think differently after a while;
or rather you w r i 11 act differently,
and that is of more consequence to
me. But see, what arc 3’oa doing ?
That is my cup, not yours. You
shall really tell me this time what
you are dreaming about for I must
know. Have you had an adven
ture since you came here? Have
you done any knight-errantry, 01
otherwise unsettled your intellect?
1 begin to think your brain has been
turned in the water, while stuggling
after those poor [Men.”
“ Ah, yes ; you are right there.
It was enough to turn any human
brain. And then not to save the
poor fellow’ after all l It was a
great horror, I assure you ; and
that w’relcbed woman’s anguish—l
never saw anything like it in my
life. I shall go and pay her a visit
again this morning,as soon as you
have finished your breakfast.”
“ I w’dl go wii h you.”
“ Well, as you like. But not to
day, perhaps. There will be ma
ny people there —rude kind of peo
ple —neighbours, and sailor men.
[don’t think you would like it. Be
sides which, the body will be there,
and the place is very small.”
“ You speak very shockingly,
Willis. I don’t think ] shall ;go,
then. But why should you ? I can
not understand why you should think
of going.”
“ Why ? Oh, I quite prefer
it—l wish—l quite intend to go.”
“ Now’ Willis, I will know’ what
has happened to you before you
leave this house. You look absent,
and smile to yourself, I don’t .know
what at —you smile, 100, wdien we
speak of the most dreadful things ;
and you speak in short snatches, as
if your mind was wandering after
something else. lam quite certain
you have had some adventure; or
met someone you knew before ;
or that something has happened to
you which you have not explained ;
and I tell you again, I will know it,
or you shall have no peace.”
The brother now laughed out,
although the lady looked anything
but pleased, and fixed upon him a
pair of sharp piercing eyes which
might.have made any other person
quail. But the brother was accus
tomed to them ; and besides this,
he possessed within himself such
an unfading fund of good humour
and good-w’ill, that it helped him to
bear without injury conflicts which
might otherwise have become both
sharp and bitter.
In the present instance there w r as
great apparent inequality in the
combatants, if indeed a battle bad
been likely to ensue ; for the lady
had all the fire, and all the passion
on her side, w'ith certain indications
of a capability for mischief, accom
panied with strength of energy',
and will; all which were in perfect
keeping with her strongly marked
features, black hair, and piercing
eyes. And yet the brother had the
best of it, he was so calm, and so
pleasantly good-natured, that he
seemed to turn offevery hostile wea
pon himself and even to toss them
each into the air as if it w’as a child’s
plaything, rather than a poisoned
arrow. And so it w’as to him,
when coming from his sister’s hand ;
for he knew that she would suffer
any privation or any pain, rather
than hurt a single hair ot his be
loved head. This belief once
settled in his mind, he cared
little about what she said or did,
in moments, ot irritation ; at least
so far as he was himself con
cerned ; but he did care when the
shafts of her spleen were directed
against any one whom he admired,
or pitied; and especially any one
whom he desired to screen from
itijury and suffering. Thus he was
sometimes slow to bring forward
subjects for her dissection, and still
more so for her castigation ; he him
self finding no pleasure in either of
these operations. He thought, too
—he must have been a very blind
young man had he not thought so—
that there was apt to awake a cer
tain kind of jealously on the part
of his sister towards any one about
her own age, of whom he spoke in
terms of admiration ; and therefore
it was, that on this morning he tried
to keep a little secret to himself;
over which, however, he could not
help smiling with a kind of half
concealed satisfaction which suf
ficiently betrayed, that even while
speaking on the most melancholy
and appalling subjects, he was in
wardly glancing back upon some
little picture of his own, not alto
gether repulsive to contemplate.
It wasjust this which his sister wan
ted so much to come at ; and hav
ing with her piercing eyes discov
ered that there really teas something
to conceal, she determined, as she
said, to know all before her brother
quitted the house. Could he have
trusted to her kindly feeling, it
would have been a great pleasure
to him to tell her all ; for young
and hopeful hearts will sometimes
grow full even to overflowing with
their own happiness, and then it be
comes not only a pleasure, but al
most a necessity to reveal and de
scribe every trifling incident which
stirs the smiling surface of their
lives; thus making the happiness
more bright and sparkling, as the
dash of the boatman’s oar upon a
summer sea breaks up the glassy
face of the water into glittering
foam, of which each separate par
ticle shines like a silver star in the
clear sunlight.
“ Don’t laugh, then,” said the
brother, “and 1 will tell you all.”
“What is it?” said the sister,
looking not at all likely to laugh;
for she felt very angry that her
brother should have attempted to
keep secret from her, what evident
ly filled no inconsiderable place in
his own thoughts. “Go on, if you
please, 1 am listening.”
“It is altogether 100 absurd to
make into so serious a matter,” said
the brother, and an undeniable
blush spread itself all over his face
—it was one of his weaknesses that
he could not help blushing—“it is
really too absurd to make a history
of in fact, it is nothing at all.”
“ I am all attention,” said his sis
ter.
“ That is the very reason why I
can’t tell you,” replied her brother:
“you look so dreadfully grave, and
make such a mountain of my little
affair, that I am absolutely ashamed
of the mere mouse which is about
to come.”
“Never mind— 2:0 on.”
“ Well, then, yesterday, as I was
rambling over the smuggler’s cliff
—1 think they call it—along a nar
row path upon which the wind
blew tremendously, I met a lady.
But now you are laughing ”
“Not at all, 1 am as grave as if
you had met a ghost, and perhaps it
was a ghost all the while : who
knows ?”
“Nothing of the kind. It was
the most beautiful, living, breathing,
creature, I ever beheld in my
life.”
“ Well, what then ? Was there
no room to pass on the narrow path
way ?”
“Scarcely, under any circum
stances; but the violence of the
wind so confused and terrified this
beautiful creature ”
“A trick, no doubt. But go
on.”
“I will not go on, if you say
so.”
“ Then I revoke my words, and
am of course very penitent.”
“ Well, I could not help compas
sionating the case of one so situa
ted. I should have felt the same
pity for a hideous old crone, but
the lady in this case was young and
a stranger, and evidently unaccus
tomed either to danger or difficul
ty.”
“So you took her gently by her
* lily-white hand.’ ”
“ I did, and led her along the path
tb the level ground, where she could
walk in safety.”
“ And she went down on her
knees, and thanked, and blessed
you for having saved her precious
life.”
“No; she laughed—indeed we
both laughed, and she tried in vain
to gather into her snug little bon
net the dishevelled ringlets that
floated around her brow, anti cheeks
—such ringlets! dark auburn, wavy,
and soft.”
“ Have you preserved a specimen
to show me ?”
“ Nonsence. 1 tell you this girl
—this lady—this angel—was really
the most exquisite creature lever be
held, or imagined. She was beau
tiful in her fright, but when she be
came more at ease, and spoke, and
smiled—l really cannot describe to
you how captivating she was.”
“So you walked home with
her?”
“ I did. But first a very absurd
thing happened. In order the bet
to adjust her hair, she untied her
bonnet, which escaped from her
fingers, and was blown away.”
“ A nicely contrived little incident
—very pretty indeed !”
“Not at all contrived; but yet
very pretty —not at all premedita
ted, I assure you. indeed she is al
together genuine—clear as the day,
and true as light.”
“ The light of the moon ?”
“ I will not goon if you interrupt
me in that way.”
“ Yes, do. lam all impatience
to hear more.”
“Listen, then, with mere res
pect.”
“My respect is unbounded,
amounting to absolute reverence,
only that ray curiosity gets the bel
ter of me; fordo you know, I fan
cy I have seen those auburn tresses
myself, somewhere. But go on,
I may be mistaken,”
“ I have very little more to say.”
The bonnet flew away, and I flew
after it, and brought it back, and
there stood the beautiful creature
half-way down the hill-side laugh
ing, and shaking her wild locks in
to a thousand tendrils of gold.”
“I thought you said her hair was
dark auburn.”
“ I did, but when the sunlight fell
upon it, as it did just at that mo
ment through the parted clouds, it
was all converted into gold.”
“ Yes, I always admired the gold
en tinting of that hair. To my fan
cy it was the best thing connected
with it.”
“What are you talking about,
Lillie? lam sure you don’t know
who my princess is.”
“ I will guess her name, however.
But how many guesses will you al
low me ?”
“ Only one.”
“I don’t mind ; I will venture all
upon one guess. Her name is
More.”
“ Right.”
“Yes, 1 knew I was right. But
you need not have staited so,
‘ What’s in a name ?’ ”
“ Nothing, certainly, in that
name.”
“And yet there is something—
their is money. So if you are in
search of a fortune, you had better
follow up this chance, It seems at
least to have begun auspiciously.”
“ Miss More is an heiress, then ?”
“I understand her father died
very rich.”
“ But how do 3 T ou happen to know
her.”
“Just because I was at school
with her at Mrs. Warder’s. Don’t
you recollect my telling you about
a little city girl—the daughter, I
fancy, of some London hosier, or
silk mercer. She was always
beautiful in her gloves and stock
in S s \
“ No bad thing in a lady.”
“ She was a pretty little child,
no doubt. You must remember my
talking about her,
“Perhaps I do; but it seems to
me that you can never have done
justice to her beauty.’^
“ l dare say she has improved
by this time, still she was pretty, as
[ said before; but a shocking
dunce. I dare say she has improv
ed in that respect too. It is quite
likely, as she seems to have made
great progress in the art of capti
vation.”
“ There was no art in the matter,
Lillie ; but the purest girlish sim
plicity ; aud it was precisely that
which made her beauty so charm
ing to me.”
“ Inde-ed !”
“You seetn surprised, Lillie.
Was this not one of the character
istics of Miss More when at
school ?”
“ I should like you to ask any of
her ompanions there. Finesse,
Willis, it is all finesse. Come,
don’t let yourself be taken in by an
actress, at all events.”
“ What can you mean, Lillie?”
“ I mean that a girl who, when
very young, could practise all soi ls
of little deceptions, is not very like
ly to be sincere as a woman.”
“ To what deceptions, do you al
lude?”
“ I am sure I must have told you
—studying in bed at night, for iu-
stance, by the light of a; lamp,
and—”
Willis now recollected all,
though he did not choose to say
that he did; but finding that the
bitterness of Miss Cawthorne’s look,
and manner—for it was she who*
held this conversation with her
brother—had reached that crisis at
which he usually deemed it best to’
leave her; after walking again to*
the window, and looking out upon
the sea, and the clouded sky, he
make some plea of an early engage
ment for the morning, and left the
house.
It was indeed but to true, while
Miss Cawthorne had endeavoured
to recal to the mind of her broth
er certain passages in the life of her
school-fellow, and certain traits of
character developed by this identi
cal Miss More, there were startling
facts connected with these reminis
cences which her brother would
now have been very glad never to
have known. It was more than
probable, he now thought, that these
had been exaggerated by his sister ;
but they could not nave been entire
ly without foundation, for Lillie’s
faults were not those which leaned
to the side of falsehood ; and the
impression.be had received at the
lime of listening to her school de
tails—an impression of something
artful and insincere, on the part of
the little beauty—now came back
to him with such force, that the
pleasant-dream he had a moment
before been dwelling upon in all
its vividness, became clouded over
by a king of mist, which hid its fair
est features from his view.
“And this is the girl,” said he to
himself, as he wandered again over
the high cliff', “ who used to study by
lamp-light, at night under the pre
tence of working for her father, and
who bribed her companions to se
crecy by oranges and sweets; while
she, whom 1 met upon this very
spot, might have been a cherub in her
childhood, nursed in a sunbeam,
she looked so pure, so lovely, and so
true.”
Poor Ella ! It was hard that her
girlish artifice should come hack to
slain lier fair character in this way ;
but so it always is, even with a
little of that acting upon double
motives —that making the best ap
pear, while keeping the other back,
to which Ella was so often temp
ted ; so it is, that some views of a
character thus twisted out of pro
portion will ever be darker and
more deformed than the case really
deserves, because this twofold in
tricate character is never clearly
understood, and never can be; and
thus, while some take the fair
seeming side of it for the only
true one, others, with equal par
tiality, take the dark side alone,
and believe with equal pertinacity
in that, and that alone. It is a ne
cessary conseqence of this want of
integrity of purpose, and of motive,
that characters so constituted, or
rather so distorted, fall under the
charge of hypocrisy, whenever they
pretend to anything great or good.
And yet they may all the while be
perfectly sincere—they may really
feel what they profess to feel with as
much warmth as others; but they
also feel something of a widely dif
ferent nature, and the world is not
able to believe that they feel both.
Willis Cawthorne, the brother of
Lillie, was a remarkably clear and
open character. In his very soul he
abhorred falsehood and artifice of
every kind. His sister’s violent
and capricious temper no one knew
or regretted more than himself; but
to him it was, in a great measure,
redeemed by her straightforward,
fearless truthfulness. Perhaps ho
overrated the merit of this sinceri
ty, which owed something of its
integrity to a constitutional care
lessness about offending or giving
pain—we will not say to a pleasure
derived, in some instances, from the
very actof giving pain, but certain it
is, that the most unwelcome truths
were occasionally exploded form
her lip, without the slightest ap
parent feeling of remorse as to
where they might fall, or what mis
chief they might do. This was re
garded by Willis Cawthorne, who
could not think evil of any one
whom he loved, as the sincerity ol
principle. In all probabity he had
never yet examined the difference
between that, and the sincerity of
passion. But the summing up of
the whole matter was, that he lov
ed his sister, and had the most im
plicit confidence in her love for him ;
that they were left witfiput parents ;
alone in the world ; and that she
had no other protector than himself:
and these tender thoughts would,
under any circumstances, have cov
ered from his eyes a multitude ot
faults in the being whom he thus
felt bound, by the most sacred ties.,
to love and to care for.
NUMBER 51.