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lulling the understanding with strains of hea- the prudent friend, and the faithful wife. Colours London. Three plain carriages, each withven, when you totter upon the precipice of ruin. artfully spread upon canvass, may entertain the out coronet or show, accompanied the poet's "Believe not the voice of the deceiver," they eye, but not affect the heart; and she who bier, and even of these one was occupied by exclaim," she will lead you away into ponds takes no care to add to the natural graces of the undertaker; and a small band of literary and quagmires, and there suffer you to perish. the person any excellent qualities, may be al- men, Moore, Campbell, and two or three others, Have no faith in her counsel, place no reliance lowed still to amuse as a picture, but not to tri- with the addition of Mr. Hobhouse, were the upon her word. We are among those who umph as a beauty. only mourners.

took her to our bosoms in worship, and she When Adam was introduced by Milton de- "Their celebrity, however, compensated for wrecked us upon the rocks of disappointment scribing Eve in Paradise, and relating to the an- the smallness of their numbers; and I said to and despair." Ask them of love, and they will gel the impression he felt upon seeing her at myself, these at least are worthy to accompatell you it is but a phantom, a dream that dis-her first creation, he does not represent her ny Byron on his last journey; but what was solves in the lapse of years, when the fire of like a Grecian Venus, by her shape or features, my surprise to find that at the first inn on the childhood shall become extinguished, and the but by the lustre of her mind, which shone in new road, where you change horses, the poets charms of youth shall be withered by time. them, and gave them the power of charming. "But not upon an altar," say they, "so frail and Grace was in all her steps, heav'n in her eye, mutable as does your tenement of happiness, In all her gestures dignity and love. for when disease shall steal over the features of your idol, and deformity usurp the place of Without this irradiating power, the proudest beauty, the dream will dissolve like mists of fair one ought to know, whatever her glass the morning, and the heart turn away sick at may tell her to the contrary, that her most perthe change, and sick at the weakness of human fect features are uninformed and dead. nature and its own inconsistency. Or if the Ben Johnson gives an epitaph with a spirit bloom on the cheeks of the charmer ripens, if that nothing could inspire but such an object the bud of her loveliness continues to expand as into richer bloom, if the dream still continues to kindle and afford bliss, death shall step in and rifle love of its companion, or treachery or change steal away the heart of its idolater, and the joy from his soul.

"Whilst yet you may, oh, youth! clasp fleeting bliss;
For soon, too soon, its glories will depart,-
For where we once in rapture found a kiss,
Despair may find the ruins of a heart."

abandoned the remains of their illustrious brother, to go to dine and regale comfortably in town. From London to Newstead, the remains of Byron travelled, without a friend, save his faithful valet; they were abandoned to the mercenary care of those who had been hired for such ceremonies. Hobhouse alone came to Nottingham by the coach; he arrived in time to see the remains of his friend united to those of his ancestors. The day was warm, the roads suffocating with dust; the peasantry crowded to see the last of their feudal lords; but the Byron's vassals showed no sign of gratitude or attachment. His Lordship's father was a harsh, capricious, unamiable man; Byron himself enjoyed his income far indicted at York assizes for feloniously taking out stranger. No voice, accordingly, saluted him, A probable case!-George Beal, labourer, was from his chateau, and sold his domains to a of a stable at Upton, a bay mare, the property of no one cried God bless him (as Shakspeare says Joseph Clarkson. When called upon for his de- of Richard III.) One of the greatest geniuses fence, he delivered the following curious narrative:

we have been describing:

Underneath this stone doth lie,
As much virtue as could die;
Which when alive did vigour give,
To as much beauty as could live.

The changes of life, as they pass before our He said "I had a glass of beer, a pennoth of tobac- of modern times went to his grave almost withgaze, should be immensely productive of pre-co, and four pennoth of gin and warter, and haveing out a friend, or a single tear. cept. However inscrutable may be the will of nothing to eat all day I was very tired, haveing tra- "The vault was opened; the coffin was lowered the Deity, there is a natural course of events, get any, and was very hungry indeed, and very ill-last narrow burying place of the Byrons; he velled a great way, an scarce of work and could not in. There was no place left unoccupied in the over which the moral and considerate may ex-tired, and very sleepy, and foot sore, and I did not himself had remarked that the circumstance ercise somewhat of control. We should en-know where to lig down; I wantered about, at last I deavour to exercise the faculties of our mind, came to a stable, it was very dark, and I very drunk, was prophetic, and presaged the extinction of not only for the purpose of rendering the pre- the stable door I fell ower upon something which I place the remains of the poet above the cofnot haveing any thing to eat all day, and on opening his race. They were accordingly obliged to sent moment subservient to our felicities and pleasures, but that the future should also myself very comfortable and fell fast asleep, for I this last had become rotten from time, and felt was very warm; it was a very cold night, I felt fin which contained those of his mother; but be fruitful of satisfaction, and that life might wanted sleep very much, and to my very great sur

glide away in one unruffled stream. In nothing prise did not wake till the mare had carried me to a was unable to support the heavy leaden coffin A crash was heard, can wisdom effect more benefit than in re-very great distance, I did not wake until I came to which was laid above it. straining the redundance of our passions, and the toll-gate, and the man asked me for the toll: but one coffin smashed the other, and the remains sweep and a woman, and when I awoke I did not while on the mare, and asleep, I think I passed by a of Byron were united to those of his mother." know where I was, I therefore naterfully thought the mare was my own, haveing carried me so far without my knowledge or consent. Gentlemen of the Jury and my Lord Judge that is all I know about sultation, found the prisoner guilty. the matter." The jury, after a few minutes'

LORD BYRON'S OBSEQUIES.

LONDON POLICE. LAMBETH-STREET.-An Irishman, known by the last 10 years has been hebdominally presented to the familiar cognomen of "Jerry," whose visage for the con-notice of the Magistrates, either at this or the Thames

Police Office, was charged with an assault. Jerry is a perfect specimen of that compound of bone and muscle, an Irish labourer. Broad and brawny as an ox, with a mixture of knavery and simplicity in his

in plucking out the tares of disposition, which have grown up either by nature or education. The change that a man may effect in his own character and habits, by exercising over them all the powers of his judgment, is not less remarkable than the manifold changes of life. The bitterest and most intractable dispositions can be sweetened and curbed, and the most disgusting and debasing habits may ultimately be counteracted. The world is perpetually In the Moniteur of the 19th, we find the fol- countenance which invariably brings him through changing in forms and customs; the hopes, pas-lowing. We do not remember to have seen the manifold scrapes he gets into from an irresisti sions, and affections of men are constantly new the circumstances it relates recorded else-ble propensity to a "drap of wheskey." objects of excitement and devotion; it is his na- where; but if correct, they will, no doubt, be The policeman's case was this:-coming off duty ture to change, and it is vain that he struggle duly noted in Mr. Moore's forthcoming work. upon treating him. The policeman refused, and he met Jerry, who being a countryman, insisted against the propensities of that nature. Meanwhile we lay them before our readers, Jerry, who construed the refusal into an affront, gave trusting, at a time when the Life of Byron is him a push, which was returned. This was suffi TRUE BEAUTY.—It is, methinks, a low and in hand, they may prove acceptable. The cient for Jerry, who, seizing his countryman with degrading idea of that sex which was created letter, it will be observed, contains some mis- the grip of a blacksmith's vice, laid him, although a strong man, on the broad of his back in a twinkto refine the joys and soften the cares of hu- takes respecting Lord Byron's family, into manity, by the most agreeable participation, to which a foreigner might have easily fallen: his truncheon, which he was about to apply with consider them merely as objects of sight. This characteristic energy to his head and shoulders, when assistance arrived, and by the help of two or is abridging them of their natural extent of "Lawrence, you are aware, has died, leav-three others he was hauled to the office. power, to put them upon a level with their pic-ing his affairs in an embarrassed state, not- "Let me spake," said Jerry, who was bursting tures. How much nobler is the contemplation withstanding his immense gains. I have just with impatience; "look plase yer Wertship, there's of beauty, heightened by virtue, and command-seen his funeral procession pass, which con-a jintleman who'll give me a good karackter, Ax ing our esteem and love, while it draws our ob-sisted of thousands of equipages. The whole him for my karackter; ony ax him, that's all." servation?-How faint and spiritless are the elite of England was present. Now, in wit-bench with Mr. Walker. Jerry pointed to Mr. Hardwick, who was on the charms of a coquette when compared with the nessing this sight, a token as it was of a be- Mr. Hardwick smiled at this unexpected refer real loveliness of Honoria's innocence, piety, coming gratitude on the part of the nobility, to ence, and shook his head. good humour and truth; virtues which add a that genius which has been consecrated to "There now," said Jerry, triumphantly, "that new softness to her sex, and even beautify her them, I will avow to you that I could not pre-means I'm an honest man, any how; and I've got beauty! That agreeableness which must have vent my thoughts from straying back to the plinty of wetnesses who knows I whident bemane meself to do any thing wrang." otherwise appeared no longer in the modest miserable convoy which attended the remains Well," said Mr. Walker, "what do you say virgin, is now preserved in the tender mother, of the immortal Byron through the streets of for assaulting the policeman?"

"LONDON, JANUARY.

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"Och! plase yer honour don't be mintioning that the colony, and the design of this society, as cannot river, valley and mountain, and the various mental same at all at all. Bind him over to keep the pace but enlist the charitable sympathies of all good men. tension necessary to diversify their meditations, acwid me. Ony think whin I was full sarjeant in the cording to their range and object, gave them the in66th Futt, this man here was my brevet sarjeant; and now the Duke of Wellington-bad luck to him "The Backwoodsman" is the title of an intelli-tellectual superiority, in comparison with the more stationary Indians, of travellers capable of a certain has made him an inspector, and forgot ould Jerry." gent weekly sheet which has regularly reached us, amount of reasoning, comparison and abstraction." Mr. Walker, who had consulted with Mr. Hard- for a week or two past, from Xenia, Greene county,

Jerry made a leg, and withdrew.

wick, turned round and observed that, as he had be-Ohio. It is edited and published by F. & W. D. LITERARY.-We find the following works an haved on many occasions, he understood, with great Gallagher, the latter a writer of much promise.nounced, as forthcoming, in the London papers: gallantry, he should let him off this time. The last number, which lies before us, contains a Walter Coylton, a new novel by Horace Smith, the author of Brambletree House. The principal This man possesses a most extraordinary degree notice of Mr. Flint's new novel, the "Shoshone characters in this work consist of the Prince of of unreflecting and ready courage, of which he has Valley," with an extract from that work, which is Orange; Mary, the daughter of James; one of the given proof on many occasions. It was owing to his now in press. We have not space, or we should Sydneys; Sir Charles Sedley, and his daughter, the intrepidity that many of the unfortunate sufferers at Countess of Dorchester; Judge Jeffreys, and other the Brunswick Theatre were rescued, having set the quote the entire extract. The following passage, of the ruling spirits of that day, in which the license example by clearing away the rubbish, under cir- however, will explain whence the name of this work of Charles the Second's time, and the growing cumstances of impending destruction. On a later oc- is derived, and also afford the reader a specimen of strictness in matters of religion and morality which casion, a stable, containing six valuable horses, being the style of the forthcoming volumes. in flames, and no one daring to attempt the rescue

ended in the Revolution, were striving for mastery. The author of "Kussilbash" has a new work in preparation, entitled the Persian Adventurer. It is principally descriptive of Persian life and manners. "Tales of the Colonies" by the author of Sketches of Canada, will soon appear.

The author of "Flirtation" will speedily pro duce a tale of fashionable life, under the title of The Separation."

The third and fourth volumes of Mr. D'Israeli's Commentaries on the Life and Reign of Charles I. are nearly ready for publication.

of the animals, Jerry, who had just arrived at the "The Shoshonee are a numerous and powerful scene, dashed into the stable, in the midst of the tribe of Indians, who dwell in a long and narrow vale flames, and succeeded in leading out four horses; of unparalleled wildness and beauty of scenery, bebut this was at the loss of his hair, eye-brows, and tween the two most western ridges of the Rocky total destruction of his toggery. The liberal propri- Mountains, on the south side of the Oregon, or as the etor, for this service, presented Jerry with five shil- inhabitants of the United States choose to call it, the lings. Columbia. They are a tall, finely formed, and comparatively fair-haired race, more mild in manners, more polished and advanced in civilization, and more LITERARY PORT FOLIO. conversant with the arts of municipal life, than the contiguous northern tribes. Vague accounts of them The author of the "Naval Sketch Book" is en THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1830. by wandering savages, hunters, and coureurs du bois, gaged upon a new work, entitled Tales of a Tar. have been the sources, most probably, whence have The Rev. H. Lloyd, A. M., has in the press the been formed the western fables, touching the exist-first volume of a Treatise on Optics, containing the We a few days since received the thirteenth an-ence of a nation in this region, descended from the theory of impolarized light. Welsh. In fact many of the females, unexposed by nual report of the American Colonization Society. their condition to the sun and inclemencies of the of Christ; On the Nature of that Faith which secures Four Discourses:-On the extent of the Sacrifice It presents a most cheering picture of the comforts seasons, are almost as fair as the whites. The con- the blessing of Redemption, &c. are nearly ready. and prosperity of the emigrants to Monrovia, and tributions, which the nation has often levied from for publication. gives happy earnest that this society will ultimately their neighbours the Spaniards, have introduced mo- In the press, The Family Cabinet Atlas, conwork incalculable benefits to the cause of universal to build after the fashions, to dress in the clothes, to exceed twelve, of the same size only as The Faney and factitious wants, and a consequent impulse structed upon an original plan, in monthly parts, not emancipation. Whether we consider the grandeur and to live after the modes of civilized people, among mily Library, The Cabinet Cyclopædia, and the of the object or the liberal philanthropy called into them. From them they have obtained either by bar-Family Classical Library. action by this association, it is one of the most mag-mestic animals in abundance. Maize, squashes, ter or war, cattle, horses, mules, and the other donificent plans for promoting the happiness of human melons and beans they supposed they had received kind, washing from our national character the stain as direct gifts from the Wahcondah, or Master of Spirit of beauty! lighting like the sun of slavery, and benefitting the miserable beings who Life. The cultivation of these, and their various exare suffering under its horrors, that has ever fallen surveying the modes of Spanish industry and sub- Minstrel of nature, with the harp that thrills otic exuberant vegetables, they had acquired from The order of this glorious universe:sistence. Other approximations to civilization they Undying pleasure o'er the pensive soul, had unconsciously adopted from numerous Spanish

under our notice.

The report represents the trade of the colony located on western Africa, as increasing. The spot

For the Literary Port Folio. CHANGE.

to the red people, and intermediate between citizen-Young May, all blushing in her roseate joy, captives, residing among them, in a relation peculiar How the heart swells to meet thee-when thou leadst in which the town is situated, is represented as par- ship and slavery. But the creole Spanish, from To fill her sister's abdicated throne! ticularly healthy. The exports now made amount to whom they had these incipient germs of civilized Then is thy morning bright with joyful tears, seventy thousand dollars per annum, and are constant-life, were themselves a simple and pastoral people, a century behind the Anglo Americans in modern Which turn to diamonds in Aurora's smilely on the advance. We have never been so favour-advancement. The Shoshonee were, therefore, in a Thy path is then amidst a world of flowers, ably disposed towards this association, until having most interesting stage of existence, just emerging Various as are the beating hearts which own read this report, which affords so gratifying a picture from their own comparative advancements to a new condition modelled to the fashion of their Spanish Thine influence; some are like the opening rose, as to win attention from every man in whose bosom neighbours. Others like roses only in decay! lives a spark of philanthropy. It appears that the great Their common hunting grounds are on the wide Some like ephemeral plants too quickly perishdifficulty of the society is, to obtain funds sufficient grass plains, stretching from their native mountains Others still lengthen out the brilliant hours, to the western sea. Elk, antelopes, mountain sheep, to transmit to the colony those free blacks and ma-deer and water fowls are their most abundant game And die alone with summer's setting sun; numitted slaves who are ready and willing to emi-on their own side of the mountains. Along their A few still lingering round the icy throne grate, of which there are now upwards of two thou-smaller streams and mountain torrents they trap the Of surly winter, beautiful they aresand. Many persons in the Carolinas have volun-beaver, otter and muskrat. Ermine, sables, and four

teered to free their slaves as soon as a conveyance for species of foxes, constituted the chief material of As diamonds in the desert ocean's bosom, their peltries. They had often descended the Ore-Glittering within some peri's coral cell; them to Monrovia should be provided. With this fact gon to pursue seals and the other hairy dwellers in Thou mutable, yet eternal spirit, all impressed upon his mind, a gentleman of this city the depths of the sea. The traces of their footsteps, Those images of beauty spring from thee, has offered to contribute one hundred dollars towards the dark hemlock forests on the Pacific shore. These Which flash like morning sun-beams o'er the stream, and their temporary huts were frequently seen amidst chartering a vessel, provided twenty-five others in free rangers of the deserts, as they saw the immense Thro' the bright medium of the poet's soul;this city will exercise the same liberality. We fronts, range behind range, of the ocean surf rolling We hail thy presence in the thunder cloud, trust that this design will be successful, as there are onward, to whiten, and burst on the sand at their When fancy paints the crimson of its brow, feet, had their own wild conceptions of the illimitamany men in Philadelphia who would scarcely feel ble grandeur, and the mysterious and resistless Like bloodstain'd hero in the battle front, such a contribution-and no expenditure of money power of the ever-heaving element. They nerved And in its echoing thunder hears the gun, can be so gratifying as that which contributes to the their Herculean frames by bathing in the pure wa- While faint and distant peals like dying groans happiness of our fellow creatures. "Variety and change are indispensables in the Come murm'ring on the ear.--'Tis silent nowIt is proposed by the Colonization Society to de- sum of their wants. To diversify their range and What purity is in the blue of heaven, spatch a ship to Africa, with two hundred and fifty their monotonous thoughts, they set their faces to- What balmy freshness breathes from every leaf, slaves, by the first of September, provided the requiwards the rising sun, and marched gaily along the grass plains, to scale the cold summits and breast A brighter hue runs o'er the waving grass, site funds can be obtained. Here, then, is an ad- the keen air of the mountains interposing between The silence how luxurious-while the heart mirable opportunity for the exercise of genuine phi- them and the hundred branches of the long Missouri, Sleeps for a moment in a calm more sweet lanthropy. To all those who feel lukewarm upon along whose valleys they purposed to course the Than the wild tumults of delirious joy! buffalo. Hence their wide range of survey, the va this subject, we would commend the report to which riegated modes of their existence, their different ob- Now the sun leaves the lonely heaven;-the moon we have just referred. It will afford such views of jects of pursuit, their alternate converse with ocean, Silvers the stream-while, like a dream of death,

ters.

A horrid darkness reigns along the wood,
Where the lone mock-bird pours his soul in song.
Then morning comes, and the deep forest fills
With mellow light-the orient blush comes down
In burning brilliancy along the wave;
Beauty comes smiling from the cave of night,
And eloquent tongues make vocal the glad air.
Thus Nature's glorious minstrel loves to change
The harmony of her external charms,
And gives an eloquence to the thunder's voice,
Calling on Terror in his mountain cave—
Fearful, yet not less musical to me,
Than fountains whispering to the moonlit rocks.
Art cannot, sweet enchantress, rival thee,
Nature, in all thy changes-ever true
To our heart's best affections:-they may worship
Who will, the ideal semblance of all beauty,
In that still changeless, yet eternal statue,
The far famed Venus:-yet who would not tire
With that calm look, and unvarying aspect.
Where is the grace of motion? The bright change
Of feelings, which, from their deep fountains stirr'd,
Mingle the smile and tear in woman's eye,
Like iris blending with the tears of morn.
Where is the ringing voice in laughter, thrilling
Even the dull sense of age, and the sweet sigh
That makes a throb in youth's ungovern'd pulse
Of exquisite feeling? In female loveliness
Centres all beauty, when the cultured mind
In bright reflection glows in the young eye,

fher own wilful cogitations; and that she meant and sit down on that seat over the way, and tell
to pass the whole of her pretty life in solitude me what you have been doing these three days."
and meditation. People conjectured that she "I will, as you desire, take both hands and
was in love, and too proud to show it; and Sibyl the other half of your chair, and tell you, as you
surmised that they were vastly impertinent, and surmise, that I have been thinking of you till the
by no means worth satisfying.
thought became exceedingly troublesome; and
There was a small grotto by the lake that wound now oblige me by telling me whether you are
before the old arched windows of the hall: alas proud as ever since you lost your beauty, or
world of fine foliage was matted fantastically whether you have ever mustered humility to
above and around it, so as to include every in-drop a tear for the mad blood which I have
truder but the kingfisher, who plunged, meteor-shed in toiling to be worthy such a mighty lady."
like, on his golden prey, and vanished in the Sibyl laughed, and snatched her hand away
shade before he was well seen; and an endless from him to draw it across her eyes.
variety of woodbines leaped from branch to "Dear Sibyl," he continued in a gentler tone,
branch, swinging their dewy tendrils in the air," and has not that wild heart changed in three
and showering fragrance upon the green moss long years? And has not such an age of experi
beneath, or stealing round the rustic pinnacles, ence made our boy and girl flirtation a folly to be
like garlands twined by Cupid for his favourite amended? And do I find you the same, except-
hiding place. It was in this choice retreat that ing far more lovely, the same perverse being
the Lady Sibyl chose to forget the world in who would not have given her wayward prodigal
which she was born, and imagined that for for the most dismally sensible lord of the crea
which she seemed to have been created; and in tion? Often as I have feared, I have had a little
symptoms of exhaustion, except she had grown See, Sibyl, your miniature, half given, half stolen,
this mood, without manifesting any particular comforter which told me you could not change.
a little paler and more slender, she continued at our last parting; it has been my shield in a
for three whole years.
dozen fights, has healed, with its smile, as many

On the third anniversary of her resolution, she wounds; it has asked me if this was a brow
knew it was the third, because the said resolu- whereon to register deceit, if these were the lips
tion happened to have been made on the same to speak it, if these were the eyes, as I live, they
day that her wild cousin, who had earned for are weeping even now!"
himself the title of Childe Wilful, chose for his She did not raise them from her bosom, but
departure to the wars, on the third anniversa- answered, with a smile of feigned mortification,
ry, as on all other days, Sibyl again tripped down that she thought it very impertinent to make such
the chase to live in paradise till tea-time, hut. minute observations. "I too have had my com-

Like stars in trembling streams:-and mark the not as on other days; the noble summer sunset forters," she said, drawing the fellow miniature change!

Lo! how the orient blush of love will pale
When others' griefs awake her sympathies,
Then the brow cools, as when a shadow rests
On toil worn pilgrim o'er the arid sands.
Lo! the mood changes--and new graces play
In dimpling cheek, sweet lip, and laughing eye;
Now passionate thought will dash lighthearted mirth
Like a deep cloud in the blue smiling heaven-
Or trembling shade some pendent willow casts
Deep in the bosom of a sportive stream;
Spirit! how canst thou joy in such a change
As time and thou do bring? Behold the brow
And cheek and bosom where the blue veins run
Like azure skies inlaying ivory clouds,
Or streams of light among celestial flowers;
And must they sink to ruin? Even so-
For them no renovating spring returns;
But the mind dies not so-and often glows
More beauteous on the faded brow of age,
Like golden sunlight o'er autumnal leaves.

SELECTIONS.

T. A. C.

"And do you indeed think that your old rival, Sir Lubin of the Golden Dell, would have given me a farthing for it?"

seemed to have stained her cheek with a kin- from her bosom, and holding it playfully before
dred hue. Ere she reached her wilderness, she his eyes; it has been my shield against a dozen
looked back, again and again, at the hall, slack-follies; it has warned me to benefit by sad expe-
ing her pace that it might not appear hurried, rience; it has asked me if this was the brow
and gazed as long upon the swans and water- whereon to register any thing good, if these
lilies as though they really occupied her were the lips to speak it, if these were the eyes,
thoughts. Meanwhile, the flower of the fox- as I live, they are conceited even now!"
hunting chivalry were carousing with her father "But have you indeed kept my picture so
in the banquetting room, and flourishing their close to your heart?"
glasses to her health. The most mighty and
censorious dames of the land were seen stalking
up and down the terrace, as stately and as stiff
as the peacocks clipped out of the yew trees at "Did you ever try him?"
either end of it. Sibyl seemed to have lost the "Oh, Childe Wilful! can you change counte-
faculty of despising them, and was half afraid nance at such a name even now! No, I did not
that her desertion would be thought strange. try him and (for you are a stranger and must be
As she stood irresolute whether to go or turn indulged,) I will tell you therefore. I would not
back, she was startled by a voice close by, and have given it to him for his head; nor for as many
the blood leaped in a deeper crimson to her of them as would have built a tower to yonder
cheek.
moon; and so now you see if you can contrive
"Sibyl!-dear Sibyl!" it exclaimed, "wilt to be jealous of him: nay, you shall not touch it.
thou come, or must I fetch thee, before the Do you remember how often, when it pleased
whole posse of them?"
you to be moody, you threatened to take it from
me?"

Sibyl tossed her head and laughed; and with an agitated look, which was meant to be indifferent, strolled carelessly into the shade, just in time to prevent the intruder from putting his threat in execution. He was a light, well-made cavalier, with black moustaches and ringlets, and a high born eye and forehead, which could have I wish I could describe the young lady Sibyl. looked almost as proud as Sibyl's. As for his acShe was rather tall than otherwise, and her complishments, the fine Frenchified slashing of his head was carried with a toss of the prettiest pride costume, and the courage and manner in which I ever saw: in truth, there was a supernatural he assaulted a lady's hand, bespoke him a wongrace in her figure by which she was in duty der.

THE LOVERS' QUARREL.

"No more of that, sweet Sibyl."

"And will you never counterfeit a head-ache, to hide your displeasure, when I dance with Sir Dunce, or gallop with Sir Gosling?" "No, never, Sibyl."

"And will you never take leave of me forever, and return five minutes afterwards to see how I bear it?"

"Never, whilst I live."

"Why then, I give you leave to ask my father's leave to stay a whole week at the hall, for I have bound to be more lofty in her demeanour than "And so, my gallant cousin," said Sibyl, with a great deal to say to you-when I can think of other people. Her eyes were of a pure dark a voice which was a little out of breath, with a it." hazel, and seemed to wander from the earth as feeble effort to extricate her fingers, "and so "I will ask him for yourself, Sibyl." though they were surprised how they happened you have brought your valour back to besiege "No, no, Sir Childe, you will not do any such to drop out of the skies; and the sweet, high and my citadel again."" thing. When you went from hence, it was with mighty witchery that sported round her threat- "Sweet arrogance! is it not the day three a college character, which was by no means ening lips, inspired one with a wonderful dispo- thousand years on which we parted; and did I sition to fall down and worship her. It was, of not promise to be here at sunset?" course, not to be expected that such a strangely "I believe you threatened me that you would. gifted lady should be quite so easily contented Pray, have you run away from battle to be as with her cavaliers as those who were not gifted good as your word?”

likely to ingratiate you with reasonable people, whatever it may have done with other folks; and you must not talk to my father of the treasured Sibyl till you are better acquainted with him. Talk of ploughs and politics as much as you please; at all; and Sibyl, very properly, allowed it to be "And pray did you always consider it a threat, make it appear that now the wars are over, there understood that she despised the whole race. or did you tell me that this grotto should be your is some chance of your turning your sword into She likewise allowed it to be understood that, hermitage till my return?" a pruning hook, and yourself into an accomplishthe world being by no means good enough for "And pray, for the third time, do not be in-ed squire; and then, and then, alas! for the highher, she conceived the society it afforded to be quisitive; and trouble yourself to let go my hand, minded Siby!!"

It was not long afterwards that Childe Wilful, against the finest glebe in the country; but then

"Then why not teach them the presumption to the great surprise of Sibyl, arrived at the hall, could she not appear sufficiently careless about of their hopes, and tell them that you despise in hot haste, from foreign parts! He had always him without being so unusually complaisant to them!"

been a favourite from his liveliness, and was, in- such a set of louts? If his presence made her "Because they are my father's friends, and deed, almost as much liked as abused. The old happy, there was no necessity to give them because, whatever their hopes may be, they will lord took him by the hand, with a comical ex- license to presume to be happy likewise; and, probably wait for encouragement before they pression of countenance which seemed to in- besides, she might surely find some moments afford me an opportunity of giving my opinion quire how much mischief he had done, and the for revisiting her grotto, instead of uniformly thereupon.”

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old ladies thought him vastly improved by travel, turning from his hasty whisper, with-"it is bet- "But has there been any necessity to give and awfully like a great warrior. The only per-ter not. It was not so formerly, and it was them so much more of your time,-so many sons to whom his presence was not likely to be very reasonable to suppose that her three years' more of your smiles than you have bestowed strikingly agreeable, were a few round-shoulder-constancy had been sustained by some ideal pic- upon me?"

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ed suitors of Sibyl, who, in common with country ture of what he might turn out, in which she "And is it you who ask me this question?squires in general, were largely gifted with the was now disappointed. He could not sleep. Oh!--is it possible to mete our attentions to blessings of fleet horses, and tardy wits. Among His restless fancy continually beheld her bright those we love with the same indifference which these stood, pre-eminent, Sir Lubin of the Golden eyes looking tenderness upon the wooden face we use towards the rest of the world?-Would Dell. He was a tall man, with not a bad figure, of Sir Lubin. He turned to the other side, and nothing, do you think,-no tell-tale countenance, and really handsome face; though the dangerous was haunted by a legion of young Lubins, who-no treacherous accent betray the secret which tendency of the first was somewhat marred by smiled upon him with Sibyl's looks till he almost it is our interest to maintain? Unkind to make peculiar ideas of the graces, and the latter was groaned aloud. In the morning he came down poor Sibyl's pride confess so much!" perfectly innocuous from an undue economy of with a hag-ridden countenance, which made peo- The cavalier did not know whether he ought expression. Altogether Sir Lubin was a very ple wonder what was the matter with him, and to feel quite convinced. He counted the rings fine camel: he was a man of much dignity, always Sibyl asked him with her look of ineffable arch-upon the fingers, which were still locked in his preserving a haughty silence when he did not ness, whether he was experiencing a return of own, three times over. exactly know what to say, and very properly his head-ache. Sibyl," he at last said, "I cannot bear them despising those whom he could not hope to out- Time rolled on very disagreeable. The Childe to triumph over me even in their own bright shine. Thus it was, that the meeting between grew every day paler and more popular; the old fancies. If you are sincere with me, let us anSir Lubin and Childe Wilful was very similar to ladies gave him more advice, and the old lord ticipate the slow events of time,-let us seek that between Ulysses and the ghost of Ajax. gave him more wine, and Sibyl grew mortified happiness by the readiest means, and, trust me, Had this been all the mortification to which at his mistrust, and Sir Lubin grew afraid of his if it is difficult to obtain consent to our wishes, the Childe was doomed to undergo, he might frown, and one half of the hall could not help you are too dear to despair of pardon for having perhaps have contrived to bear it with fortitude; being sorry, and the other half were obliged acted without it." but Sibyl had subjected him to the task of ob-to be civil. Ajax and Ulysses had stepped into "And you would have me fly with you?" taining a good character, and his trials were in-each other's shoes, and Sibyl, to keep the peace, Sibyl shrank from the idea;-her pride was no supportable. was obliged to accede to an interview in her lit- longer assumed in sport. "You do well," she In the first place he had to tell stories of tle boudoir. resumed, "to reproach me with the duplicity sacked cities and distressed virgins, at the tea It was a fine honey-dropping afternoon. The which I have practised. It is but just to suptable, till he became popular enough with the sweet south was murmuring through the lattice pose that she who has gone so far, would not maiden aunts to be three parts out of his mind; amongst the strings of the guitar, and the golden scruple to make the love which has been lavishfor Sibyl was all the time compelled to endure fish were sporting till they almost flung them- ed upon her the inducement for her disobedi the homage of her other lovers. It is true that selves out of their crystal globe: it was just the ence; that the pride which has yielded so much, her keen wit could no more enter their double hour for every thing to be sweet and harmoni- would be content to be pursued as a fugitive blocked sculls than the point of her needle ous, but Sibyl was somewhat vexed, and the and to return as a penitent." could have entered the Macedonian phalanx; Childe was somewhat angry. He was much but then each villain fixed his eye upon her, obliged to her for meeting him, but he feared with all the abstracted expression of the bull's that he was taking her from more agreeable oceye in a target, and seemed so abominably hap-cupations: and he was, moreover, alarmed, lest py, that the sight was excruciating. Sometimes her other visiters wanted some one to amuse "Methinks, Lady Sibyl," he replied with sometoo, Sir Lubin would muster brains enough to them. He merely wished to ask if she had any what of bitterness, "you very easily take offence perceive that he was giving pain, and would do commands to his family, for whom it was time to-night. It certainly is better to be free from his best to increase it by whispering in her ear, that he should think of setting out: and when one engagement before we enter upon another." with a confidential smile, some terrible nothing, he had obtained them, he would no longer tres- Sibyl's heart beat high, but she did not speak. for which he deserved to be exterminated; whilst, pass upon her condescension. Sibyl leant her "It is possible you may have mistaken your to mend the matter, the old ladies would remark cheek upon her hand, and regarded him pa- reasons for enjoining me to silence: for it is, no upon the elegance of his manner, and hint that tiently till he had done. doubt, advisable that your more eligible friends Sibyl was evidently coming to, because she "My commands,” she gravely said, "are of should have the opportunity of speaking first." seemed too happy to be scornful; and had lost all confidential nature, and I cannot speak them if Sibyl's heart beat higher, and the tears sprang her taste for solitude. They would undoubtedly you sit so far off." to her eyes, but her head was turned away. make a very handsome couple; and the Childe "We have staid too long," she said, with an was appealed to whether he did not think that effort at composure. they would have a very fine family.

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As she tendered her little hand, her features broke through their mock ceremony into a half smile, and there was an enchantment about her which could not be withstood.

"Then, Sibyl, you do not love me?" "I am not used to make assurances of that kind, any more than I am inclined to submit to the charge of deceit."

In the second place, his opinion of ploughs and politics, which had taught him to discourse but too successfully, made him a fixture at the punch-bowl; while Sir Lubin and his tribe profaned Sibyl's hand in country dances, as long as they had breath for a plunge. It, moreover, left "And now," she interrupted him, relapsing them ample opportunity to negociate with the ed to be agreeable till my head is turned topsy-into her loveliest look of raillery, "Childe Wil aunt upon the arrangement of her plans for the turvy!" ful would be glad of his picture again?" "You certainly will oblige me by restoring

"I than you, Lady Sibyl," he replied, rising haughtily to depart, "for allowing me to come "Sibyl," he exclaimed, "why have you taken to a right understanding. And now-" such pains to torment me?" Her anger never had been more than a flash, "And why have you so ill attended to the-she could hardly believe him serious, and if injunctions which I gave you?" he was, he would soon repent. "Ill!-Heaven and earth! Have I not labour

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next day, when he was still condemned to ad- "Oh yes; and hind side before as well, for it mire some new farm, or ride ten miles to rejoice is any thing but right. But did I tell you to with his host over a wonderful prize bullock.-pursue this laudable work with fuming and "Why do you not ask Sir Lubin for it?" Sometimes, too, the old lord would apologize frowning, and doubting and desperation, till I "Lady Sibyl, I am serious; and I must beg to for taking him away, by observing, that it was was in an agony lest you die of your exertions, remark that it can be but an unworthy satisfacbetter to leave Sibyl to her lovers, for it was time and leave me to wear the willow?" tion to retain it for a boast to your new loves." that she should take up with some one of them, The cavalier stated his provocation with much "I do not see that there is any thing to boast and the presence of third parties might abash eloquence. of in it. The face is a particularly handsome her. "Dear Sibyl," he continued, “I have passed one, and as for him for whom it is meant, he In the third place, when he retired to bed to a sufficient ordeal. If I really possess your love, has never made a figure in any history exceptsum up all the pleasures of the day, it was never let me declare at once, and send these barbari-ing his own letters.-Here is one in my dressingquite clear to him that Sibyl did not expose him ans about their business." case,-I pray you stand still now while I read

to more disquietude than was absolutely neces- "Or rather be sent about your own, if you over the wondrous exploits which you performsary. It might indeed be proper that her attach- have any; for you cannot suppose that the speed in your last battle, for I think you must have ment to him should not be too apparent till he was cimen which you have given of your patient dis- looked just as you do now." firmly established in grace, seeing that his merit position, is likely to have told very much in your There is no saying whether his resolution was the only thing that could be put in the scale favour." would have been firm enough to persist in his

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dire demand, had not the Lady Sibyl's attendant the sole companion of my bosom,-the witness minded; but it was not the sweet pride that fasat that moment entered with Sir Lubin's com- of all the tears I have shed for him, the comfort- cinated while it awed,-it was the aspiring wopliments, and it was past the hour when she had er of all my doubts of his fidelity,-is gone for- man, and not the playful and condescending seengaged to ride with him. Childe Wilful's ever, I can never stoop to receive it back,-Iraph. She was accomplished; but they were heart was armed with a thicker coat of mail than never will forgive him,-no, never,-that is, if the accomplishments approved. by the underever, and his lips writhed into a bitter smile. he be really gone." standing rather than the heart,-the methodical "Do not let me detain you, Lady Sibyl," he| And really, when she returned, he was work of education, and stored up for display. said, "perhaps your gentlewoman will be good gone. Sibyl, however, would not persuade her- But Sibyl was accomplished by Heaven; her enough to find me the picture amongst your self that it was not his intention to return; and gifts were like the summer breezes which sportevery night had to take her pride to task for ed around him,--wild, exquisite, and mysterious, This was rather too much, to be exposed in having looked out upon the road all the day. which were the same whether wasted on the deher weakest point to the impertinent surprise Perhaps he would write; and she stole away, as sert, or wafting delight to the multitude. She was of her servant. heretofore, alone, to meet the tardy post a mile a lovely line of poetry in a world of prose,--she "Nay-nay," she replied in confusion, "have off. There were letters for my lord,-for Sir was a blossom dropped from Paradise to shame done for the present;--if you ask me for it to- Lubin,-for the Lady Jemima. all the flowers of the earth. Oh, but Sibyl was morrow I will return it." "No-no!-I want not them. For the Lady false! and oh, again, it was just possible he "I shall not be here to-morrow, and it is hard- Sibyl-what for the Lady Sibyl!" might be mistaken. He was sadly bewildered, ly compatible with Lady Sibyl's pride to detain The letters were turned over and over, and had another bad head-ache, and was strongly of presents which the donor would resume." still the same deadening sound fell like a knell opinion that it was not the way to forget Sibyl Her answer was a little indignant,-his re- upon her heart-"Nothing for the Lady Sibyl." to put her in competition with other people. He Joinder was a little more provoking,-the maid Lady Sibyl returned unwillingly to her com- hardly liked to confess it to himself, but he was began to laugh in her sleeve,-and Sibyl herself pany after her disappointment with respect to not quite sure that, if he had any excuse which humiliated. It is but a short step, in mighty the arrival of a letter, and retired at the first op- would not compromise his dignity, he would turn spirits, from humiliation to discord; and Sibyl portunity, to wonder if her cousin was really in his horse's head towards the hall, and suffer the soon called in the whole force of her dignity, earnest,-if he had really deserted her, and fiends which were tormenting him to drive him and conjured up a smile of as much asperity as whether she had ever given him cause so to do. at their own pace. the Childe's. Her pride would seldom suffer her to weep, and "No!" she exclaimed, "it is not amongst my the tears seemed swelling at her heart till each It happened that such excuse was not far distant. He had no sooner alighted at home than cast-off ornaments. I mistook it for the simili-throb was a throb of pain. Sometimes she tude of true affection, of generosity and manli- would bewilder herself with suggesting other he was presented with a hasty note, which had been some days awaiting him, from Sibyl's father, ness, and have worn it where those qualities de-reasons than want of inclination for his absence, serve to be treasured up." and for his silence. Might he not wish to reinviting him,--a film came over his eyes, and the The picture was produced from its pretty hid- turn, and be prevented by his family, who had pulsation of his heart was paralysed,-inviting him to what he knew would give him great pleaing place, and carelessly tendered to him. not seen him for so long, and would naturally "You will, perhaps, remember," she contin- be importunate? Might he not be fearful of writ-sure, to Sibyl's wedding! Should he send an ded, "that there was a fellow to this picture, ing, lest the letter should fall into hands for excuse, and stay at home, and prove that he did and that the original of it has as little inclination which it was not intended, and betray the se- into their revelry, and spare neither age nor sex not care about it; or should he plunge headlong as other people to be made a boast of." cret which she had desired him to keep? It of the whole party? No matter, he would con"Undoubtedly, Lady Sibyl,-it was my inten- surely might be her own overweening caution sider it on his way. He gave his steed the spur, tion to make you perfectly easy on that point." that was afflicting her, and he might be as impa

The little jewel was removed coldly from his tient as herself. Her imagination would begin himself, and set out to cool his blood, and shake as though the good animal had been Sir Lubin breast, and seemed to reproach him as it parted, to occupy itself in ideal scenes, until she forgot his wits into their places, by a moonlight gallop for it had the same mournful smile with which those which had really occurred, and her hand

Sibyl sat for it when he was preparing for the would rise fondly to her bosom to draw forth the of a hundred miles.

wars. He gave it to her, and received his own semblance of her suffering cavalier. Alas! it The morning was far advanced when he came in return. It was yet warm from its sweet de- was then that the poor Sibyl's deceptive dreams within sight of the hall. He was almost exhaustpository, and the touch of it thrilled to his soul; were dispersed. The picture was gone,-was ed; and the preparations for festivity upon the but he was determined for once to act with even now, perhaps, the bosom companion of an- fine slope of the chase, came over his soul with consistency. As he closed the door he distin- other, who pitied her with smiles, and gaily up- sickness and dismay. The high blood of his poor guished a faint sob, and a feeling of self reproach braided him for his falsehood. Then again would animal was barely sufficient to answer the feeble seemed fast coming over him; but then his hon- the flush of shame rush over her cheek, her urging of its rider; and the slow stride, which our! Was he to endure the possibility of being maiden indignation determine to forget him, was accompanied by a deeper and a deeper sob, triumphed over by such an eternal blockhead as and her bewildered wits busy themselves upon seemed fast flagging to a stand still. The Childe Sir Lubin of the Golden Dell? plans of teaching him that she had done so. felt that he was too late. He inquired of a

Sibyl made her appearance in the drawing- In the mean time Sir Lubin began to con- troop of merry-makers round a roasting ox, and room soon after him, in her riding-dress. Her gratulate himself that he made an impression.-found that the wedding cavalcade had set off for manner was cold and distant, and she heard him Sibyl had lost the spirit to repel his advances as the church. He looked down upon the hilt of feign business at home without condescending she had done before, and the little which she af- his sword,—he was still in time for vengeance,— to notice it, only that there was a fever upon forded him of her company, was clearly a pretty still in time to cut short the bridegroom's triher cheek which spoke an unwonted tumult of stratagem to bring him to an explanation. He umph, to disappoint the anticipations of--Spifeeling. Her horse was at the door, and Sir had a great mind to be cruel in his turn, and lead rits of fury! were there none to inspire a few Lubin was ready to escort her down. As she her heart the dance, as he expressed it, which she minutes vigour into his fainting steed. The steed took leave of her cousin they were both haughty, had led his, but then she was very pale, and toiled on as though he had possessed the burning and both their hands trembled. In a minute might have a fit of illness. On the evening when heart of his master; troops of peasant girls she was seen winding through the old avenue. he had resolved to make her happy, Sibyl indeed dressed fantastically, and waving garlands on Sir Lubin, who was observed poking his head received a letter, but it was from her lover's sis- either side of the road, soon told him that he was from his shoulders with all the grace of a goose ter. It was full of the gay rattle which usually near the scene of the sacrifice. They had rein a basket, was evidently saying tender things, characterizes the correspondence of hearts which ceived a sheep-faced duck from the head of the and, altogether, looked cruelly like a dangerous have never known sorrow, but it was other news blushing Sir Lubin,-a sprawling wave of his rival. The Childe drew his breath through his that Sibyl looked for. She toiled through lively long arm, thrust, in all the pride of silver and teeth as though they had been set on edge, descriptions of fetes and finery, and flirtations, satin, from the window of his coach and six.and moved from the window like a spirit turned scarcely knowing what she read, till at last her They had beheld the fevered and bewildered out of paradise. eyes glanced upon the name she sought. She loveliness of the lady Sibyl, looking among the

Sir Lubin did not find his ride very satisfactory. stopped to breathe ere she proceeded, and then bride's-maids, intense as a planet amid its satelHe discovered that it was a fine evening;-made Childe Wilful was gone to, and was pay-lites, and were all in extacies, that if possible a clever simile about Lady Sibyl's cheek and aling violent attentions to Lady Blanche. increased his agony. Another lash, another poppy, and another about her cruelty and a She tore the letter calmly into little strips; bound, and he turned the corner which brought bramble; but they had little or no effect. She her lips were compressed with beautiful, but him full upon the elm-embowered church, suranswered "no," where she ought to have said stern and desperate determination. That night rounded by the main body of the May-day multi"yes," looked bewildered when he asked her Sir Lubin made his proposals, and in the deli-tude, and a string of coaches which displayed all opinion, and, in fact, as he poetically expressed rium of fancied vengeance, Sibyl answered-she the arms in the county. He sprang from his it, was extracting honey from the flowers of her knew not what. horse, and dashed through them like a meteor. own imagination. It was not long after that the Childe was re- The party were all standing before the altar; "Will he indeed have the heart to leave me turning sadly home from the Lady Blanche. She and he staggered, and restrained his steps to hear thus?" said Sibyl to herself. "Unkind-un- was very beautiful,--but, oh, she had not the how far the ceremony had proceeded. There grateful-to take my little treasure from me,-speaking glance of Sibyl. She was lofty and high was a dead silence, and all eyes were fixed upon

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