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BY VTV1AN,
CHAPTER VII.
..The knocker is muffled, and "death
the Great High Priest of Nature, has
put its seal on everything.
Pause, and stop, ere you step. With
solemn tread guide the feet. The
last, farewell seebis to breathe from
everything, a solemnity is diffused fill
ing the whole apaitmcnt ! A shade, a
stillness, a twilight of the heart deep
ening in the gloom of sorrow. The
divine woman is lying on the lap of
her Saviour. Angels are hovering
around. She is gone. Yes ! dear Mrs.
Vane is gone, but her memory will ,
be honored among men, her death is a
shadow that rests upon the homestead,
The places which once knew ber, now
wear the sadness and desolation of the
tomb. The aspect of Nature is changed,
The wind which made an anthem of
praise among the boughs of the elm
trees, now wails with dirge --like melan-
choly through the foliage. And the
moon itself shines with a sickly lustre,
as if mourning a departed worship-
er, i .
Ob, brave and tender, pure and ho'y
-heart ! Art thou indeed still ?nd pulse- j
less ? Has the indwelling deity depart-, I
cd, leaving the noble temple to crum- I
ble iuto dust?
! Yes ! suddenly smitten by the angel
of death, instantaneously as the olectric
flash, the bolt descended, and she bow
ed to man's last enemy.
She fellas the oak of the forest falls,
firm and stately to the last, fell as the'
tree falls when a strong w nd sweeps
over it or tho lightning blasts it. She
was spared the humiliating process of
dependence and 'decay, the gloomy 1
passage through theyaliey of the shad-
ow of death, the pains, the agonies, the
expiring conflict. One moment on
earth, tuejuext in Heaven. One mo
ment she gazed on the beauties of this
life, the next upon that gloryof glo
ries. - :'
Rut she was prepared for the con
querers coming., Though ta her the
joys of earth were sweet. Heaven was
sweeter still ; and with it she had long
held close and divine communion.
There were loved one? gone before,
whom her spirit longed to embrace. y
Not till the last dark' hour had she de
ferred the work of preparation. There
was a daily tanctity in her ' life, that
anointed her for the sacrifice of death.'
She seemed a temple with all its fair
proportions nmarred, unchanged. No
trace, of ruui was there, its. beauty and
symmetry were not broken and defaced.
Firmness,- dignity, simplicity and truth
were the columns that supported it,- p
tendernesi, sensibility and grace its
ornaments, and religion the sunlit dome
that crowned and perfected the noble
fabric-
There was an altar within that tern-
where the incense of prayer and
praise were ever ascending, and the
thrcshhold was sprinkled with the blood
of the eternal sacrifice. '
From the moment when we saw her
in her white shroud with the sad white
flowers scattered among its folds, and
saw mysterious, solemn signs of death
upon her face, the smile of more than
earthly placidity and peace upon her
lips, we were as sure she had gone to
Heaven as though we saw t he golden
portals open, and her admitted into its
celestial mansions. ,
She is in the bosom of her Saviour
her God.
She was only given to earth awhile,
and we rejoice that we nave given
another to swell the orchestra of
Heaven.
CHAPTER VIII.
Some of us have said in our hearts,
" we are all alone," when one whom
' " 1 .1 1 " '
we loved Yfus removed, tnougu many
were left to care for us. Heaven j ity
those who in their bereavement may
cry without hyperbole, " I am al
alonc.'V But without Mrs., Vaiie,
Claudia Grant could indeed cry out, 'I J
am all alone.
There is jio nsed to describe the girls
grief when she knew that her adopted
mother was dead. She would cry out
with anguish
''Oh, mcther, came back to me,. I
am alone in the world, fatherless and
er.
motherless. Death would be a blesa-
ing to me for life will be
filled with
suflerin.
r.
Ele was too good, too pure for earth
I knew,
lie took her to himself.! But - why
couldn't He spare her to me longer
am I so wicked, so sinful that I should
bo jthns punished? Forgive me I pray
for the impious thoughts which have
struggled for mastery in my bosom. I ;
have dared to Question bisjustice as well
as his mercy. It is right that should
suffer, my life with her has betn so
happy, so blessed. What?" she ex-
claimed, lifting up her streaming eyes
arid deprecating hands to Heaven,
' What have I done that thou should'st
thus heavily lay thy chastening hand
tipon me? The world seems 'a wide
grave yard to me now. She is happy,,
while am wretched. O, Lord I need
thy chastisement, I deserve the stroke
Divest death of its terrors to me, let
me love to meditate upon it. Let me'
visit her grave, and .there let me real-
ize the- truths of thy word, and oh, if
departed spirits aro ever permit ted to
minister to those they loyod on earth.
I know he guardian wings of my two
mothers will ever hover 'round my
head." ,
And she prayed oh, how fervently
for grace and strength to endure to the
end, and forgiveness for the past, And
she felt that she could hear her fathers
blessing and see her mothers wondrous
smile and feel her arms around her neck,
She almost had a glimpse of Heaven,
and the light that she saw there, shed
itself over and around her, and some-
thing surged through ber jsoul as only
a breeze from its Edenized shores could
have done ; and sho .thought she
heard the soft rustling of wings, and
with its departure faded forms bending
over her.
And Claudia arose from her knees,
with a resigned and softened heart.
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CHAPTER IX. 1
"Well Claudia dear, you will make
our home, your home now," said Paul
Ashley. ' We will endeavor to make
your life with us happy. The grief
which has fallen upon you now, is one
which will at first be a great shock, but
like every one else this grief will I soon
be subdued, andTou will after a - time
forget your sufferings. My wife you
well know is a woman of the world,
devoted only to fashion and its vota
ries, one whom I am free to confess to
you is little calculated to make another
happy. Once, my child Iloveda wo.
man, as pure and 'guileless as ever
lived ; but at an unfortunate time I
was governed by the wishes of others.
for the moment I forgot my manhood,
forgot truth everything i else, and
trampled under foot the love of this
woman. Xever after that Lave I seen
her never did I obtain her forgive-j
ness ; but my God has forgiven me ; and
Claudia this woman whom I loved, this
woman whom I wronged was your mo
ther. Never has my heart been given
another, though my name and fortune
have- My home has never been made
glad by the smiles that would have
greeted me from her. All is cold, ut
terly devoid of that affection and con-'
fidence that marks the intercourse of
man aud wife, but down deep in my
heart is that love that was hers, not
gone, still warm and lasting, and my
child I nw give it to you. Let me
prctect you, let me be a father to you,
for the sake ot the dead whom we both
held dear, for the sake of her whose
sj irit has kept, and is still keeping
watch over me, only to guide me in the
right path and at last receive me in
Heaven. To you Claudia I have j re-J
vealed the secret ol my heart, to you'
alone is it known. I have told it to
you wi'h the' hope that it might bind
us more closely together. ' Let us love
each other, letfnc feci that you are
mine, image of your own dear moth-
With this he fell into a fit of weep
ing, and with her arms about his neck
the tears of the young girl and the
gray-haired man mingled together.
Long they remained thus. Cluadia
raised her head, aroused Mr.' Ashley 1
from his reverie and begged him to
tell her something of her mother, in
the days when he knew her, in the days
of her prosperity.
He told her all, everything about her
mothers family, and then, said.
"Come Claudia, be ready to-morrow.
Tc-day, I will give too, in which to 1
prepare to leave here; tc-morrow I will
call for you, and take you homo with
me."
She wept more violently.
14 Can I leave this home? away from
it all things seem cold, uncertain, dead;
but these familiar things in the one
home that X have known lor so long.
Nothing else I love now. But I
thank you so much for what you have
just said, and the home that you offer
i must accept, uut oear with my
weaknesp. Ton cannot understand how
dear to me is this home, and to leave
it is almost as bitter as death, here tbe
happiest days J have ever known, have
been spent, and a tear plashed down
upon the crape dress, the to Ida of which
were crisp and fresh, mourning lor the
last dear one on whom yesterday closed
the doors ot the family vault.
' Think of something more than yonr
troubles, Claudia, try to overcome them,
soon again we hope.by pleasant associa
tions to make you the brirht blooming
girl you vere a week ago. I too grieve
for the aster I loved, a sister ever kind
and ready to make life brighter, but
while I am sorely bereft, I lesign her
more cheerfully, knowing she is at
rest."
Claudia, and Mr. Ashley parted ud- j
til the morrow, she to pack her trucks
and get together the many costly gifts
scattered here and theie about the
house, things held sacred now
Mr?, Ashley's son now traveling in
Europe, young Paul Ashley, would be
come heir to Mrp, Vane's immense
wealth. Dying Buddenly bhe bad left
Claudia entirely unprovided for, and
having no children herself, it had de
scended to her only nephew, Paul Ash
ley.
?' Claudia's preparations were complet
ed, and she retired, not to sleep, but to
fpend the night in making some
plans for tbe future by which she might
enjoy an independent lite, for she did
not like to feel that from Mr. and Mrs
Ashley came eyery comfort she enjoy
ed. The next morning early Mr. Ashley
I
n his carriage came to accompany her
to bis house. Arriving there she
twas met by Mrs. Ashley, and the two
gave her a welcome, warm and a flee-
tionate, on the part of the man, but
with a cold hauteur on tbe wife's part
She was not carried into the large par
lors, but up into her own room, where
she found her furniture taken from her
room at home, aid bronght here to
mak : this fed more like home to her
They were all so kind. At list she
bad discovered that the love which
Phil Raymond cherished tor ber was
dearer than a friendly interest, she had
seen the jealous look, which had caused
his eye to flash, when in society some
more fortunate one had obtained her
hand for a dance or a promenade, she
bad noticed tbi and sne well knew
that in coming here to make his home
ber home, she was placing berselt
where this love wonld daily grow, and
finally become a part of him. She
knew Phil's nature. Bbe knew the
strong love of which he was capable;
bow he would exalt, and honor its ob
ject.
The next day, and.tue nexf , passed
until Claudia was becoming interested
in things around
The wound in ber heart was being
healed, Hie possessed charms fer her.
Mrs. Ashley , was kind, but daily, she
was planning, and thinking of a new
lite, bumble it must be, but indepea-
dant it should be, and soon she will
find it.
To Be Continual.)
A little girl who was sent for some
indigo, lorgettiog the naror, aked the
grocer; 'Please, sir, what do people
dye with?' What do people di with!
exclaimed the grocer ; hy, with the
choltri sometimes.' 'Then, said the
child, mothe wants twenty-five cenU'
worth ol cholera.'
Xlio Cliiltl'w Pocket Etl
. rutette,
1. Always say, yes, sir; no sir;yca,
papa, no, thank you ; good night ; good
morning, Never say -how or 'which,
for what. Use no slang terms Re
member that good spelling, writing
and grammar are the base of all true
education.
2. Clean faces, clean clothes, clean
shoes and clean finger nails indicate
good breeding. Never leave your
clothes about the room, nave a place
for every thing, and every thing in its
place.
3, Rap Vbefore tnterlng a room,
leave it with your face to the company.
Never enter a private room or public
place with your hat on
4. Always offer your seat to a lady
or old gentleman. Let your compan
ions enter the carriage or room first.
5. At the table eat with your fork ;
sit up straight, never use vour tooth-
pick, although Europeans do, atd
when leaving ask to be excused.
6. Never put your feet on cushions
chair or tables, - '
7. Never overlook any one when
reading or writing, or talk or read
aloud when other are reading. When
conversing, listen attentively and do I
not interrupt or reply till the other 1
has finished.
8. Never whisper or talk aloud at
churches, or other public . places, and
especially in private where Any one " J
9. Long coughing, hawking, yawn
ing, sneezing or blowing is ill 'man
nered, in every caso cover your
mouth with your handkerchief (which
never examine nothing is more vul
gar except spitting on the floor,)
10. Treat all with respect, especial
ly the poor. Be careful to injure no
one's feelings by unkind remarks.
Never tell talcs, make faces, call
names, ridicule the lame, mimic the
unfortunate, or be cruel to insects,
birds or animals. 1
.A. Burst of Eloquence.
"Weitern eloquence continues to im
prove. A Wisconsin reporter sends tbe
following s'letch.
A lawvtr in Mil-
waukee vas defending a band.-ome
young woman accused ot stealing fiom
a large unoccupied buikliog In the
night time, and thus be spoke in con
elusion ;
Gentlemen of the jury, I am done.
J When I gaze with enraptured ejea on
1 the matchless beauty of this peerleas
J virgin, on whose resplendent charms
j suspicion never dared to breathe ; when
I behold ber radiant in the glorious
bloom of lustrious loveliness which an
gelic sweetness miqjht envy but could
not eclipse ; : oefore which the star on
the brow of the eight , grows pale, and
the diamonds of Brazil are dim; and
then reflect upon the utter madness and
folly of supposing that so much beauty
would expote itself to the terrors of an
empty building la tbe cold damp dead
of night, when innocence like ber is
I hidiog itself among the snowy pillows
of repose; gentlemen of the jury my-
feelings are too overpowering fore
pression, and I inrow her into your
arms for protection against this foul
charge, which the outrageous malice of
a disappointed scoundrel has invented
to blast the fair name of this lovely
maiden whose ' emiles shall be the re
tard of ths verdict which I know you
will give,' r
Tbe jury acquitted her without leav
ing their seats. Exchakok.
They have soaae yery mart busi
ness men in New Jersey. Last week a
young man was struck by lightning
In a field sear Trenton, and when the
4 people began to flock to the spot to
I look at the victim, they found a man
1 standbff by the eorese Irvine to sell
lightning rods te the crewd-
Fashionable lady coming out of
Church: -'What a powerful sermon!
I was never ' btore to imrescd with
the duty and privilege of giving treelr
I am determined to do better, and to
sead this very week: another silk dttsi
to my daughter.'
True good nets i like the glowworm,
it shines moat when no eyes except
tbofe ot Leaven are opon it.
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