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n.rx.dtfnroof looks down upon a sea of golden corn, and me ior tier portrait- wo somea out a musn* islands of green orchards, flushed with fruit; rooming and gathering wild flowers, and on our but most it pleases me when logs are roaring way sang pleusant songs together, and inter-* ?. _ . 1 • .1 * -1 m • « ■ t .1. « ____ 1Ji.l_ - b____ _C A« tl.-Vin its mighty chimneya, and Christinas time is changed our little stores of reading. On thecome, them, letSix abreast tho witches might ride up cvo before my long put-off departure wc were t their broomsticks pronco and curvet | thus roaming; we had to cross a hundred stilesas they would. If you entered tho hall by great —-tho choicest blessings of tho country 1 used doors, while Robert Chetwood and myself were to think them—and once, instead of offering myat our game of billiards at its further end. you hand to help her over, I held out both my armscould not recognize our features. Tho galler- and upon my life, George, tho dear girl jumped ic9 arc studies of ooraoective. and the bare, I right into them; and that was how I got to kissica arc studies of porspective, and the bare, shiniDg staircases as broad as carriage-ways.right her cheek.”Tho library, set- round from tho thick car pot “What shocking Btoriea you are telling, Koto tho sculptured coiling with ancient books, bort,” said Mrs. Chotwod, and certainly shewith brazen clasps, and old-world types, and was then blushing up under her lace cap to herworm-drilled bindings, Tho chapel, with its | white hnir. i .t. _ j 1 iixcroi ^blazoned b .tints on tho dim windows, and the I “Well, my dear, nobody was them except.mighty corridors with floors of oak, and sides j Kate and myself, and I think I must know •what of tapestry, are pictures of tho past, and toach happened, at least as well as you do, so,” he i .0 il i i_ . f t.V«.____ T».1 L Ai«nttmlt; i\«l Ann mnTO VlSlt tO thO fflTTTIwhole chapters - of tho book of history; Red I continued, “after one more Ro3C and White Rose, Cavalier and Round* 1 Katie and I were married j she gave up all herGailTOAlTRhead, Papist and Protestant, Orangeman and healthy ways and country pleasures to come Jacobite* hate each had their day m old Tre- and live with mo in the busy town; studious ofW.rx.ms.IS!ttcrmadyn House. When tho great doors .slam to-1 others’ happiness, careful for others' pain; at• at ___ il_________ Ml m. _ . 1. - »__I ntl lt;imAn /if ftlp- nhlt;l /I i 11gether, as they sometimes will, to tho inexpressible terror of tho London butler, they awakeall times forgetful of herself j active and diligent she had ever leisure for a pleasant word and au series of thuuder-claps which roll from base- kind action; and for beauty, no maid nor wife mcnt to garret; many a wnrning havo they | in the world was fit, I believe, to compare withgiven, in tho good old times, to Tremadyns. her, to you, George, who knew and loved our hiding for their lives, and many an ftrras has dearest Gertrude, I need not describe her moth*been raisod and mirror slipped to tight or left, cr. Sho was not long with me, but it soonat that menacing sound. To this day, Robert seemed as if it must Lave^ cost my lifo to have CbctWQod often comes anow upon sorao hold iu parted with her; yet tho girlish glory faded andwhich those who ruled before him havo skulked the sparkling spirit fled, and tho day has bicn—sometimes in his own reception-rooms, but forgiven, though forgotten, never, which tookmore commonly In tho great chambers where I my darling Katie from my side.”ho puts his guests. These chambers are eolo9- Tho old mem paused a little hero. Mrs. Chet-sal, with huge large pillars bearing up a firma- wood kissed him softly upon tho cheek.mcnt of needle-work, and dressmg-elosets largo enough for dining-rooms. Ryory person of“My second wife,” ho.resuraed, lc was not bo young, and certainly bad not the outward gracesnote who could or could not, by possibility or 0f th0 first. Sho was beautiful, too, in the date, or circumstance*, havo slept thcroin, have flower as Kate was in tho bud; her face had not\V.9.iyhad tho credit of passing a night tnthin Trc- tbo vivacity, nor her eyes the dancing light ofin*iyun.per-it nillooalhWrx.raadyn House, from the wandering Jew, Shaks- Kate’s, but there sat such a serenity upon her peare, Queen Elizabeth, down to Charles tho I features, as we sometimes boo upon a lovelyFirst, Peter tho Great, and the late Emperor lundacapo when the bud is near its setting; a Nicholas. There has been more than ouo mur- | ]ooh which no man ever tires of; and Mary boreder in tho Red room, several suicides in the mD children, and then, much as I had lovedBlue, and one ghost still haunts those Bpota in 1 sapling, it seemed to me that the full-fruited expiation. Tremadyns in lace cuff* and wigs; trC(J Wft3 dearer yet. She was no country girlin scarlet and ermine; from top to too, lino both from tho Dovorx dales, but a town lady bred the galleries—sold by the last Charles Surface I j bad Q great house by that time, with all thingsof a dissolute race for ten pounds ten shillings fitted about me, and my sphere was hers. Thea head. One great Trcmndyn dynasty has passed away—Robert Cbotwood, lato banker in the city of London, not so long ago banker's clork, now reigneth in their stead. The Ttc-madyns eamo in at tbo time of the eicgo of Joricho, or thereabouts, and tho Chet woodspearls suited her pleasant brow, and crowned her still raven tresses as becomingly as the single rose in her hair had adorned simple Kale. I think; I may say 30 without ingratitude for my present great happiness, and with the leave of my dear Charlotte, that the happiest hours ofabout ten years before the eicgo of Scbastopool; mj jife weri. spcjifc.during those days, when ourbut there the advantage ceases. Thcro is no man kinder to the poor—no man more courteous to all men—-no man, no matter what his quarterings, in all Devonshire, with a bettertwo children's voices rang cheerily over the house, and some little scheme of pleasure for them was ray every-day desire and Mary’s.-— Even at the terrible time when boy and girlthoAW.firx.mI laHlcmilyrCOheart than Robert Chetwood, Tremadyn House j ^re being taken from us at once, never did is open to thlt;) county, as it ever was, and his | their patient mother seem more dear tome;old London triends ate not forgotten; a hale and 1 from when tho bush of sickness stole upon us hearty gentleman indeed, he is, but ho has hod Qt first, to tho day when that whito procession many troubles—he is os happy as any man 0ur doors, what a healing soirit was she bereaved of children can be. and it was tho tVhen we thought that the thickly folded veil of loss of them that mode him buy tho house, and | sorrow had fallen over ns forever, how tender-give up his old haunts and busy way.Ho wsr tbe D’onery wlndDTrs iWe open to tbo rdr.But iho facet of tLo children tbey ■were no longer there;♦and that, whatever it may be is too sad a sight to look uponly she put it aside.“3t must needs havo happened that mv speech has here been melancholy, but indeed should not speak of Mary so. She was tho blithest, choerfulcst, most comfortable middle-PIOrPkThthibaGecctCcPUrSBM(p;ofP*ABltb'But whnt n wife the old man had, to make up, *ged man ever had; behind our veryaa it seemed to me for all! I sav to me, for one darkest trouble a smile was always lying readylt;■* .1 *i.i_ •„ ■ .1 *_ . -_S tnr»A7ii^V. it nrffl wKof n aVior!1*of those children, a tnniden of seventeen was tostrnBgle throngh it, and what a light it shed!. ■ « * 1 ^ 1 I Ci n ft f n ft ■ 1 M ft rii m a a /I i kv ft *1 ft a V I a ^ a ^ a ^ ^a- One of your resigned immoveable females,whomy betrothed bride—the gentlest and most gra- une orcious creature over oyoB looked upon; I think I accept every blessing as a temptation, and sub-rr ofJISIN.NO.lent.ill *Dd It nee*, er pub-:m Im-4pcrtD-i Work culUotj*oycB looKea upon, . . . ,if I could write my thoughts of hor, I should nut with precisely tho same feelings to what move those to tears who never saw her face, thay call every chastening, would have killedgavehavowhen they read “Gertrude died.” Sho herself to mo; tbo old man never couldgiven her. -1 9ay no moreThis iawhy Tremadyn Hpuso has become to me a homo... It pleases Robert Chetwood to have a friend's eon with him, above all, because he was hi b daughter’s plighted husband, and my father’s friend is trebly dear to mo as Gertrude’s father. When tho Christmas party was diapered, and tho great house Ib quite emptied of its seero of tho new year. They call me son and I call ‘ them my parents. If Hoaven had willed it so, dear Gertrude and myself could have hoped for greater wedded happiness, more*11C(g«P-Idxe between us, than is between those two.saw► wis 1fl'ranl*.n, 1 tied »o-I ibfcthe s., 28$fl. HEN.»* iibove“£55XGIf.“Perhaps,” he aays, with a smile I never a young man wear, “perhaps it is that my old eyes are getting dim and untrustworthy but Charlotte seems to mo the dearest and mostElcasant looking daroo in all tho world/' And is wife makes answer that her Bight also is jost as little to be depended on. To each of them has come the silver hair, and the reverence with it ibnt alone mako it boautifal; and if her Bteps are »lower than in youth, it is not because their hearts are heavier; they are indeed of those, so raro ones, who makes us in love with life down *t*tl to it a close. They; always* seemed to me as having climbed the hill together their whole lives long, and never was I more astonished than upon this new year's eve, whena Mrs. Chetwood being with us too in after dinner talk, at custom was when all her^gnert were gone,mo in a week. George, my Mary acted at all times according to her nature, and that nature was as beautiful andr bleaacd as- overfall to tho lot of womankind. You/might well, think that Kato and Mary were two prizes' great enough for one man to draw out of the marriage lottery, and yet I drcw.another. When I lost my beloved Mary, toy third wife took her place in my inmost heart.u Kiss mo, Charlotte,” said the old man, tondorly, nnd again she kissed him on tho cheek, lC And now.” continued he, “let us fill our glasses, for tho New Year is coming on apace : and please to drink to tbo memory of ray two wives, and to the health of her who is still left to mo. Tho two first toasts mnstne-oaaarily be somewhat painful to my dear Char lotto, and we will, therefore, receive them in silence, but tbo third wo must drink with all the honors.”80 after these remnlcs. fcc stood up, glass Inhand., and said to her :“Kato, Mary, Chari otto*—bride 3, matron, and damo in one, to whom 1 have been wedded this half-century,—for I have had no other, wife,George,—God bless you, dear old heart 1 Wc have had ft merry Christmas as we have ever had* and 1 trust it may be permitted to us to havo slill together, one more happy New Year. Hip I hip! hip] Hurrah I” and tho echoes of the tbrco times three seemed cheerily to roam all night about Tremadyn House.
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