and no one shall know; she'll treat you as it becomes her like to treat a lady, rich or poor. The cab is ready. Now, keep a heart: God is above us all. I'll open the door myself," she continued; "and the trunk is in; and keep up, miss-lies are found out sooner or later. Why," she exclaimed, secing that Emily paused opposite the drawing. room, surely you are not a going to be more insulted? You might as well talk to a stone wall as to my missus." ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. For the Rural Repository. CHANGE. BY AARON DE LANO. away, and is forgotten. Instead of gloomy for- "CHANGING, changing, ever changing," comprises the history of the world and its inhabitants, from its creation to the present period of time. The Emily nevertheless entered the apartment, boy of yesterday steps forth upon the stage of acwhere Mrs. Hylier was alone, pondering, in notion, the man of to-day-to-morrow he passeth pleasant mood, over the occurrences of the past hours-thinking how she had acted in decided opposition to her husband's desired, who willed it that Mr. Byfield was never to be contradicted, at least in his house; and though she was half convinced of Emily's unworthiness, she knew how hard it would be to convince him. The pale girl walked sitently up to where Mrs. Hylier was seated. "I come," she said, " to bid you remember what I say-that you will (heartless as you are) repent the unjustice and insult you have heaped upon the head of a houseless, homeless orphan. You have done me cruel wrong by your suspicion, and you send me forth to make the suspicion real; but God, who is above all, will save me yet!" She spoke these few words in the tone of a breaking heart, and without further word quitted the house. During the short time of her residence there, she had conferred more lasting service upon Mrs. Hylier's children than they had ever received before-she had sown healthful and truthful seed. Not content with teaching by lessons, she hallowed every tree, and leaf, and blade of grass, with a history. A new existence and dawned upon their minds: they understood why their hoop rolled, and why it came to the ground; they understood why morning followed night, and why the heat was at noon the most intense. They had learned more orally than they had ever learned from books. Poor Emily knew this; and as her arm encircled her trunk, and her hot fevered breath hung upon the closed windows of the rattling cabriolet, that was taking her she knew not where, the words of the French teacher rang in her ears-Torment the flesh off your bones-plague yourself to deathfag, fag, and see! At the last. you will have no more thanks for your heavy toil than I for my light labor' 66 Still," she murmured," I have done my duty." The Seasons Change. But a short time ago, Winter, with its snowy mantle and ice-bound streams, was upon us. Spring came next, with its beauteous flowers and fragrant blossoms. Now Summer succeeds with its heated air and lengthened days—and soon the faded, yellow leaf, the ripened harvest and the chilling rain, will tell, in language too plain to be misinterpreted, that sober, melancholy Autumn is here. Nations Change. The Student of History, however cursorily he may have examined the subject, cannot have failed to perceive, that change has been an essential ingredient in the history of every nation, that has ever existed upon the face of the globe. Greece and Rome had their infancy, manhood, old age and death. Feeble at first, by degrees they arose to such a pitch of greatness, that the whole of the known world felt the impress of their power. Conquest after conquest added lustre to the glory of their arms and kingdoms, enipires and dominions became their tributaries. But change, slow and gradual, yet the no less sure, was upon them. Like Samson of old, shorn of his locks, they were deprived of their strength, and thus became an easy prey to the rapacity of those nations they had despised for their weakness and incapacity. with irresistible speed. O, a fearful change has been theirs, the once undisturbed and happy possessors of this soil. Driven by the force of circum. stances from the land of their nativity, they have dwindled down to a few weak tribes-the last sad remnant of a once powerful nation. They have gone-but the lover of his race will often shed the silent tear over their destiny-a tear of bitter lamentation over the rapacity of frail human nature. They have gone-but the tale of the deep wrongs they have endured, has been registered on highrecorded in heaven. We Change. Life is to every one but a series of changes. The period of childhood, youth, manhood and old age, serve but to mark those changes more forcibly. Our hopes, our feelings, our joys, our friendships, our affections change. Our whole character, whether we are aware of it or not, is constantly undergoing radical change. Change we do, and change we must, till seized by the grim messenger, Death, we shall change to change no more. Maine Village, N. Y. 1850. MISCELLANY. THE BETTING DANDY. THE young gentleman-with a medium-sized light brown moustache, and a suit of clothes such as fashionable tailors sometimes furnish to their customers, "on accommodating terms," that is, on the insecure credit system-came into a hotel in Race street, one afternoon, and, after calling for a glass of Madeira turned to the company and offered to bet with any man present, that the Susquenannah would not be successfully launched. This" banter" not being taken up, he proposed to wager five dollars that Dr. Webster would not be hung. This seemed to be a "stumper," too, for nobody accepted the chance. The exquisite glanc. ed around contemptuously and remarked: "I want to make a bet of some kind; I don't care a fig what it is. I'll bet any man from a shilling's worth of cigars to five hundred dollars. Now's your time, gentlemen; what do you pro pose ?" though he might be a Pennsylvania farmer. He set down his glass, and addressed the exquisite A few centuries ago this large continent was one dense wilderness, whose stately trees were strangers Sipping a glass of beer in one corner of the barto the woodman's axe. A simple, unsophistica-room, sat a plain old gentleman, who looked us ted people wandered through its trackless wilds, subsisting almost entirely by hunting and fishing. "Please, ma'am," said the man to an elderly Their fathers had lived so before them-their tra. woman who opened the door of a small house in a ditions had spoken of no other mode of life, and low suburb, here's a lady, like, your daughter in they vainly supposed that they and their descen Kensington has sent you, as a lodger; and youdants, unchanged, would be permitted by the Great are to be particular kind to her, and she'll try and run down to-morrow night, between lights. The fare is paid, miss-the young woman paid it. She said she knew you hadn't changed your cheque." Mary's mother did not look as good natured as Mary herself, But Emily was so bowed down as. hardly to observe the difference. "Well," said the woman to her youngest daughters-"well, I never saw any one so careless about accommodation. Why, she said, the back would do as well as the front room, though I told her she might have either at the same rent; and if I had not undressed her, she'd have either sat up all night, or lain down in her clothes. She's more like a dead than a living woman." Concluded in our next.] Spirit so to live through all coming time. But the "Well, Mister-I'm not in the habit of making bets-but seeing you are anxious about it, I don't care if I gratify you. So I'll bet you a levy'a worth of sixes that I can pour a quart of molases into your hat, and turn it out a solid lump of molasses candy in two minutes by the watch." Done!" said the exquisite, taking off his hat and handing it to the farmer. It was a real Florence hat, a splendid article, that shone like black satin. The old gentleman took the hat, and requested the bar-keeper to send for a quart of molasses-" the cheap sort, at six a quart, that's the kind I use in the experiment," said he, handing over six coppers to the bar-keeper. The molasses was brought, and the old farmer, with a very grave and mysterious countenance, poured it into the dandy's hat, while the exquisite took out his watch to note the time. Giving the hat two or three shakes, with a Signor-Blitz-like adroitness, the experimenter placed it on the table, "Time up," said the dandy. and stared into it, as if watching the wonderful she was twenty years of age, and she has ever process of solidification. since worn mourning, and remained true to his memory. Jane is now the only survivor of the three; her admirable mother and her sister having died some twelve or fourteen years ago, and Sir Robert having died lately, while revisiting England, after many years diplomatic residence in{ Venezuela. The old farmer moved the hat. "Well, I do believe it ain't hardened," said he, in a tone expressive of disappointment; "I missed it, some how or other, that time, and I suppose I've lost the bet. Bar-keeper, let the gentleman have the cigars-twelve sixes, mind, and charge 'em in the bill.". "What of the cigars!" roared the exquisite, "you've spoiled my hat, that cost me five dollars, and you must pay for it." "That wasn't in the bargain," timidly answered the old gentleman; but I'll let you keep the molasses-which is a little more, than we agreed for." Having drained the tenacious fluid from his beaver, as he best could, into a spit-box, the man of moustaches rushed from the place-his fury not much abated by the sounds of ill-suppressed laugh. ter which followed his exit. He made his complaint at the police-office, but, as it appeared that the experiment was tried with his own consent, no daniages could be recovered. From the Home Journal. JANE PORTER, A REPROOF OF FOPPERY. DEAN SWIFT was a great enemy to extravagance in dress, and particularly to that destructive ostentation in the middling classes, which led them to make an appearance above their condition in life. Of his mode of reproving this folly in those persons for whom he had an esteem, the following instance has been recorded. When George Faulkner, the printer, returned from London, where he had been soliciting subscriptions for his edition of the Dean's works, he went to pay his respects to him, dressed in a laced waistcoat, a bag wig, and other foppeSwift received him with the same ceremony as if he had been an entire stranger. "And pray, sir," said he, "what are your commands with ine?" "I thought it was my duty sir," replied George, "to wait upon you immediately upon my arrival from London." "Pray, sir, who are you?" “George Faulkner, the printer, sir." You George Faulkner, the printer! Why, you are the most in ries. 66 AUTHORESS OF "SCOTTISH CHIEFS," ," "THADDEUS OF pudent, bare-faced scoundrel of an impostor I ever WARSAW," ETC, etc. THIS distinguished woman died recently at Bristol, at the age of seventy four. We shall, doubtless, soon have an authentic biography of her, from some one to whom her papers and other materials will have been entrusted by the brother who survives her; but, meantime, let us yield to the tide of remembrance which her death has awakened, and arrest, ere they float by and are lost, the scattered leaf-memorics that may recal the summers when we knew her. away with a flea in his car. THE NEGRO'S ADVENTURE. "LORRA mighty, massa! you don't know how I was skeered yesterday." "How so," I asked. met with! George Faulkner is a plain, sober citizen, and would never trick himself out in lace and other fopperies. Get you gone, you rascal, or I will immediately send you to the House of Correction." Away went George as fast as he could, and having changed his dress, returned to the Deanery, where he was received with the greatest cordiality. "My friend George," says the Dean, "I am glad to see yon returned safe from London. Why, here has been an impudent fellow with me just now, dressed in a lace waistcoat, and he would Miss Porter was the daughter of a gallant Eng-fain pass himself off for you, but I soon sent him lish officer, who died, leaving a widow and four children, then very young, but three of them des tined to remarkable fame, Sir Robert Ker Porter, Jane Porter, and Anna Maria Porter. Sir Robert as is well known, was the celebrated historical painter, traveller in Persia, soldier, diplomatist, and authof, lately deceased. He went to Russia with "Well, John, who lives a little back here, asked one of his great pictures when very young, married me jist to fotch up his horse, which comes down a wealthy Russian Princess, and passed his subse- here a feedin', in a little opening which turns off quent years between the camp and diplomacy, hon. the road out dar. So about sundown I takes my ored and admired in every station and relation of tin-pan and goes down to look for 'im. Welt, as I his life. The two girls were playmates and neigh- went along, jest afore I came to de opening, I tort bors of Sir Walter Scott. Jane published her I'd try to dance a jig, what de sailor men used to "Scottish Chiefs," at the age of eighteen, and be-sing and dance at de fort. So I begin-tink a tink came immediately the great literary wonder of her on de tin-pan, and singing de wordstime. Her widowed mother, however, withdrew Did you eber see de debbil, her immediately from society to the seclusion of a Shubble grabble, shubble grabbleWid a wooden iron shubble, country town, and she was little seen in the gay And an iron wooden ladle! world of London before several of her works had become classics. Anna Maria, the second sister, commenced her admirable series of novels soon after the first celebrity of Jane's works, and they wrote and passed the brightest years of their life together in a cottage retreat. The two sisters were singularly beautiful. Sir Thomas Lawrence was an unsuccessful suitor to Anna Maria, and Jane was engaged to a young soldier who was killed in the Peninsula. She is a woman to have but one love in a lifetime. Her betrothed was killed when } "All dis time I was lookin' down to see if I kep de step. Den jist as I turn into de opening, I begin again Did you eber see de debbil, &c. * "O, lorra massa! I hear something growl an' I look up, and dare was free of 'em-free of the orfullest big barrs, makin mutton ob dat hoss. I heard de Oregon fellers say, when you reets a barr you've got to keep on doin' jist what you've been doin' on afore, or dey will pitch into you. So I tries to keep on singin' and dancin', but my heart was up in my mouf; an' my feet was heavy as lead an' all I could do was to keep tink-a-tink a At last I shuv dis foot a little little on de pan. back, an' den todder; an' bym.by, I got a little bref to sing Did you eber, did you eber "All dis while, dem drefful barrs were looking at me, wid de blood runnin' out ob dar moufs.Well, massa, I kep on tink-a.tink; did you eber, an' shuv back, faster an' faster, until I slip by de if corner ob de clearin'; an' den massa, eber you did see lightnin' come down a dead pine tree, you see how dis nigger streek it. I run all de way to John's house, and dar I fell down mos" dead.Well, dar I lay puffin' an' blowin' till John come out an' giv me a mouful ob brandy; an' bym-by I got bref enuf to tell him about it, an' he's goin' to get folks to turn out for a barr hunt; but if he ketch his child goin' I don't belief."-Notes on California. THE ROBIN AND CANARY. A ROBIN happened in one of his rambles to alight on the cage of a canary, who hung in a pleasant bowed window, and was shaded by clemetis and honeysuckle. "Peet," cried the canary, twisting his little neck to look up at his visitor. "Good morning to you," cried the robin, “you look vastly well, as might be expected, lodged as you are in that pretty cage." "Thank you," said the canary, "I know that I have much to be grateful for. How green is this ciematis, and how fragrant is this honeysuckle.” It is galling to my pride to live as I do, while others are so nicely lodged," said the robin." There I have been mewed up half my life in that old flower pot under the eaves." "Yet it is pleasant there. How nicely the large horse-chesnut shades it, and in June how fragrants its blossoms must smell." As he spoke, the goodnatured little comforter hopped on to his highest perch, and turned up his mild black eye at his friend. "It is very well you, Mr. Yellow-breeches," cried the robin, in a passion, " to praise my mode of life in such high terms, lodged as you are amid luxuries, and in no danger of being similarly situated. Just try it for yourself a month." "that "You forget," meekly replied the canary, you have one luxury denied to me." "That is what?" "The power of going wherever you please." "Sure enough," said the robin, " I had quite forgotten that. How irksome it must be to you, to hop from perch to perch through the day without getting any further." As he said this, the robin darted into the air, and performing several rapid evolutions, re-alighted, quite out of breath on the the cage. 66 86 Finely done," said the unenvious canary.My wings have been cramped too long for such feats as those. But, my friend when hereafter you feel dissatisfied with your broken flower pot, and long for these gilt lodgings, remember that they are bought at the expense of one half of my faculties. Cherish, then, your old home, whose door is ever open, and from which yon can soar, while I, in my splendid dwelling, conscious of my latent powers, and sustained under privation only by a resigned spirit, am condemned to one eternal hop." PROGRESS OF A POUND OF COTTON. THE following account of the adventures of one pound of manufactured cotton, will show the importance of manufactures to a country in a very conspicuous manner: "There was sent off for London, lately, from Glasgow, a small piece of muslin, about one pound weight, the history of which is as follows:-The cotton came from the United States to London; from London it went to Manchester, where it was manufactured into yarn; from Manchester it was sent to Paisley, where it was woven; it was sent to Ayrshire next, where it was tamboured; afterwards it was conveyed to Dunbarton, when it was handsewed, and again returned to Paisley, when it was sent to a distant part of the country of Renfrew, to be bleached, and was returned to Paisley; then sent to Glasgow, and was finished; and from Glas. gow was sent per coach to London. It is difficult precisely to ascertain the time taken to bring this article to market, but it may be pretty near the truth to reckon it two years from the time it was packed in America, till its cloth arrived at the mer. chant's warehouse in London, whither it must have been conveyed 3000 miles by sea, and 920 by land, and contributed towards the support of no less than 150 people, whose services were necessary in the carriage and manufacture of this small quanity of cotton, and by which the value has been advanced 2000 per cent. What is said of this piece is discriptive of no inconsiderable part of the trade." THE MISER'S DAUGHTER. ONE cold winter, when the ground was so covered with snow that the little birds could not find any thing to eat, the little daughter of a miserly rich man gathered up all the crumbs she could find, and was going to carry them out and scatter them on the snow. Her father saw her, and asked her what she was going to do. She told him, and he said, What good will it do? The crumbs will not be enough to feed one in a hundred of the birds." "I know it, dear father," said she," but I shall be glad to save even one in a hundred of them, if I cannot save them all." The father thought a moment; he knew that many poor persons were suffering in his village, and he refused to help any because he could not help them all. His consience struck him, and he told his little daughter to break a loaf of bread and crumbs for the birds, while he went to scatter a purse of money among the poor villagers. TRUST IN GOD. es over them, will also watch over me and my fa- Thus he lived tranquil, while the other neither DREADFUL FIRE. BETWEEN 2 and 3 o'clock, last Saturday morning, our citizens were aroused from their slumbers by the alarming cry of fire. It commenced in the Cabinet Shop of C. Duxbury, on the south side of Warren-street, between Fifth and Sixth-sts. space of a few hours, a dozen or more buildings with the Lumber Yard of Macy & McClellan, were in flames. The loss of property is estimated at $30,000 to $35,000; we believe the insurance will nearly cover the losses. One day as the latter was laboring in the field, Although every exertion was made by our Firemen; in the sad and downcast because of his fears, he saw some birds go in and out of a plantation. Having approached, he found two nests placed side by side. and in each several young ones newly hatched and still unfledged. When he returned to his work, he frequently looked to these birds as they went out and returned carrying nourishment to their young broods. But behold at the moment when one of the mothers was returning with her bill full, a vulture seizes her, carries her off, and the poor mother vainly snuggling in his grasp, utters a piercing cry. At this sight, the man who was working felt his soul more troubled than before; for he thought the death of the mother was the death of the young. "Mine have only me-no other. What will become of them if I fail them." All the day he was gloomy and sad, and at night he slept not. On the morrow as he returned to the field he said: "I should like to see the little ones of that ANOTHER FIRE. On the evening of the same day, between 8 and 9 o'clock, a fire broke out in the barn of Robert McKinstry, and before the flames could be subdued, they swept across the alley and caught, the rear buildings next, and thus it again made its appearance in Warren-street, burning a number of stores and dwellings. The loss is estimated at about $10,000, the insurance will probably cover the loss. DOCT. GOODRICH'S MEDICINES. THE Medicines of the late DOCT. GOODRICH, may be had at E, P. L. ELMER'S Book Store, N. J. CADY'S Oyster Saloon and H. H. 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One of these men was fretful and disquieted, say- That all this has been, so suddenly, in the short space of a few ing: days, terminated by "the fell sergeant Death," is a matter of Oh, hark: what sound is this I hear, It floats upon the moaning winds, For whom the sighing winds doth mourn→ She's gone, from whence she'll ne'er return. That death our social board must break, And leave no one thy seat to take. A link is taken from our chain, O could she speak, she'd say," Weep not, prese. O, brother, dear, oft will you find So weep not, mother-all is well. At Chatham, on the 21st ult. Mr. Timothy Rogers, aged 85 www Original Poetry. For the Rural Repository. BY MISS C. W. BARBER. I HOLD a lettered sheet, 'Tis filled with hopes and fears, With joys that called forth smiles With griefs, that ea led forth tears The hand that traced this page, Hath been in dust for years. She was my older sister Day by day she lovelier grew, Like some fair floweret in the wood, Gem'd by the crystal dew; Light form she had-rich auburn hair, All called her beautiful We only said that she was dear, For when she passed from hearth and home Each haunt seem'd chill and dear; We weeping look'd and said, "A light hath vanished here." Not one of us wept 'round, When stranger's made her grave, And laid her down with prayers and hymns, Not one save him, unto whose care, Yes, he stood there, with pallid brow, How kind-how loved-how mild, All this bath come and passed, With joys-time's hand effaced; Oft in the still and starry night. When dew comes down upon the flowers, I dream I hear a voice beloved, Whisper of fadeless bowers; My sister. hast thou reach'd that clime That fairer home than ours? "Tis strange-'tis passing strange, Thou hast not plumed a downward wing No letter from the unseen world, And yet we fondly say, and believe, Madison, Geo. 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THE next morning the pat, pat, pat, of Mr. Byfield's cane was heard ascending the steps leading to Mr. Hylier's hall door; his knock had the determined sound of "I will come in." "Remember, James," said the mistress," popping" her head out of the breakfast-room. "I am not at home-I shall not be home all day-I am out for a weekwent down to meet your master last night." James bowed, and the lady disappeared "My mistress is not at home, sir," observed the sapient footman. Mr. Byfield poked him aside with his cane, and having entered the hall, said, "I want to speak to Miss Dawson." "Good morning, madam!" he said, with the exceeding courtesy of an angry man, before the storm that has gathered, breaks. "Good morning. Will you have the kindness to tell me where Miss Dawson is gone, and why she is gone?" Mrs. Hylier suffered Mr. Byfield to repeat his question before she answered; she was debating within herself whether she should assume a tone of indignant and outraged propriety, or that of gentic upbraiding; her temper triumphed, and she lost sight of her husband's interests and her husband's wishes. In loud and unqualified terms she upbraided Mr. Byfield with what she termed his sinful duplicity, in forcing a person, whom she called by no gentle name, into her house; exhausted a dictionary of epithets upon Miss Dawson-talk. ed wildly and at random of depravity-and wound all up by a movement something between an hy. steric and a faint. Mr. Byfield sat-his great gray eyes dilating and contracting, like those of a cat in the sunshine, according as his passions were "Miss Dawson, sir, left the house last night." moved; and notwithstanding his age, such was "Left last night! Then where is she gone?" their fire, that they would have scorched the noisy "Really can't say, sir; she's left for good, trunk fragile thing-who had sunk into her luxurious and all." chair a trembling heap of mull-muslin and English "Left-gone; but surely you must know where blonde-if she had had the moral courage once to she drove to ?" look him fairly and bravely in the face. There sat "The housemaid saw her off, sir." Mr. Byfield Mr. By field, white and motionless- -so white, that commanded Mary to appear; but she, having al- the flakes of his snowy hair could hardly be distinways lived" in the best families," lied with super-guished from his cheek; his eyes flashing, as I jor firmness. "The very words Miss Dawson said, sir, were, Tell the cab to drive to Oxford Street, and then I will direct him the number;' these were her last words sir, and I can tell no more." Ring the bell!" she said, at last perceiving Mary was in haste-not agitated by the untruth-that he took no more notice of her sons than he had so she stayed for no farther questiou but dived down done of her words: "Ring the bell!" He neither the kitchen stairs. spoke nor moved; and at last the lady essayed to do it herself. He seized her arm-and Lord Lindsay's mailed glove did not press more deeply into the soft arm of Mary of Scotland, than did the old man's animated bones into the wrist of Mrs. Hy"Not for a week. She's gone down to where lier. She screamed with spleen and pain, but remaster's stopping." "Now," said the old gentleman, "I must see your mistress." "Not at home," repeated James. "When will she be at home?" "That's the third falsehood you have told since I came into this ball, young man," observed Mr. Byfield. "Your mistress cannot have gone down to where your master is, because business obliged your master to come to my house this morning, even before he visited his own ;" and Mr. Byfield turned and entered the breakfast-room so suddenly as almost to knock down the fair mistress of the mansion, who certainly, was as close to the door as if she had been about to open it for her unwelcome intruder. have said; his long bony fingers grasping either 66 PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. NUMBER 22. and called herself an ill-used woman. At last the old man, gathering up his energics, spoke. He stated fairly and plainly, in agitated tones, that he had placed Miss Dawson with Mrs. Hylier, because he wished to observe how she would bear the ill and careless manner in which he knew she would be treated. It was (he said) of paramount importance to him, that he should observe how she bore up against the disagreeableness of her situa. tion; it had not (be continued) escaped him, that, as long as the impression remained upon Mrs. Hylier's mind, that it would please him to be kind to his protegee, she was tolerably considerate; but when she found that he neglected her altogether— the circumstance that would have drawn a noble mind to be more gracious to one so utterly deserted by the world rendered Mrs. Hylier careless and unfeeling. Mr. Byfield had his own way of doing every thing; and there is little doubt, from his own statement, that he would have gone on, heap ing mystery on mystery, had he not been suddenly aroused to a sense of Miss Dawson's uncom. plaining illness, by her appearance in the park; and, after much mental deliberation, he determin. ed-still after his own strange fashion--to provide her a quiet home, and be himself the bearer of his reasons to Mrs Hylier. "I thought," he said, "that fertile as you and your friend Mrs. Ryal are in attributing impurity to pure motives, you would hardly have dared to pin a slander upon these white hairs, or suppose that so single-minded and self-sacrificing a creature as Miss Dawson would rush into vice-and such vice! I did imagine, indeed, that you would have considered me her father; but to have thought and acted as you have done to have turned her penny less" "I did not!" screamed Mrs. Iylier; "I gave her a month's salary-1-1"--and then she appealed to Mr Hylier, to know why he suffered her to be insulted; and losing all command of herself, reiterated her opinion of Mr. Byfield's conduct. "For shame," said her husband. "Mr. Byfield, I entreat you to consider how Mrs. Hylier has been acted upon by the misrepresentations of Mrs. Ryal. She does not think her own thoughts, or speak her own words." sumed her seat. And there he continted to sit op. ed; and the two young ladies 64 |