nieasantand improbable things, she saw Gilbert Rod-| 1

ney leave the house with a rapid step, and instead of speaking to him, as she would so naturally have done at any other time, drew back and hastened to her sister.

“ Well, is itall over?” exclaimed Rose, putting her bright face round the door of the library, in which ‘Con- stance still sat. F

“ Yes,come in, Rose, it is all over—all over—and I oe him for ever”

“ Ah!” said Rose, and smiling as she kissed her pale cheek, “ Gilbert loves you too wa for that. And - he wag very angry. Somehow IJ cannot fancy cousin Gil- ert ina passion. But what did he say, Constance ”

“I forget—I forget it all now—only that he is lost to me fer ever!”

“ My poor, foolish Conetance. You will have him at your feet again long before to-morrow night, and then it will be his turn toask forgiveness. I could not have imagined that he would have been so displeased at a more jest. Itis not as if you or I had ever doubted him tor an instant. Of course you explained this, Con- stance!”

“| explained nothing—he did not give me time; and 1,was too frightened.”

Rose looked grave and thoughtful.

* That ie a pity,” said she, at length ; “suppose you were to write to him?”

“| would do,anything you wish, Rose.” '

Her sister was alarmed by her manner, and the ex- pression of anguish and despair upon her pale face; but abe went nevertheless, and brought a light, and mate- riala for writing, which she placed before her.

“I cannot write,” exclaimed Constance, helplessly, “1 do not know what to say.”

“Shall Ewrite for you?” asked Rose. But her sister did not answer. Rose sat down and wrote hastily, but 1 t was to her mother. And Mrs. Dinerben, upon her re- turn, found Constance ina high fever.

THE EX A:MTTRER:

with one or two exceptions, of those who had been concerned in the rebellion. Our hero was now at li-

accordingly shipped on board a whaling vessel, which at the end of two years more, landed him upon his native shore.

Wife, children and frieuds filled his thoughts, and he hastened on to his residence in Canada. Every thing remained as it had been—neighbours and friends greet- ed him as he passed—~but how his heart sunk.within him to find the homestead deserted, and learned that his wife had been married two years to enother, suppesing the “ husband of her youth” to be dead. She and her new-found mate had Jeft that part of the coun- try and settled somewhere in Iilinois.

The poor man felt desolate indeed, and he deter- mined to see, and if possible, to reclaim his wife and children. After a weary travel, and many inquiries, he traced her to Knox county, Illinois, where they were comfortably settled in their new home. ‘There he presented himself a few days since. The wife could not have been more surprised or pained to see an appuration from the grave, for she had long considered him as dead. Tiie new husband too, was rather dis- agreeably surprised te see before him a claimant for his wife, what should be done? The first husband was anxious to obtain the lady:; the second was disinclined to give her up. We look upon kis “ claim” as good.

They were reesonable-people all round. The origin-

weeks, during which time the matter was frankly talked over. At last the rivals came to the very just and rational conclusion that the lady was the person to make a final decision of the question, and to her it was. mutually

“ He wil! come now,” thought poor Rose, as she sat} agreed to refer it, giving her time to consider it in all

by her sister's bedside. “ He cannot help forgiving her, when he sees how much she has suffered.”

But Gilbert Rodney came not; and Rose felt very angry with him, and very, very sorrowful, and knew not what to think or what to do.

Mrs. Dinorben guessed immediately that there had been some misunderstanding between the lovers, and it srieved and displeased her that Gilbert should keep away so Jong at sucha time. But when she afterwards eame to learn the particulars, she was able to make every allowance for his deeply-wounded feelings, and resolved to take the first opportunity of explaining away the error into which he hed fallen in believing that Con- stance herself, however wiuch:to blame she. might have been—and the mother did not attempt to palliate her conduet—bad ever for a moment doubted the faith which she had dared to test. Accordingly, the first time she eould leave Constance with safety,she went in search of her nephew, and learned that he had gone to India.

Constance did not die of a broken heart. Sorrow rarely kills, its mission is to purify and make us better and wiser, The first th ng she did when she recovered, was to write a long letter to her cousin, confessing and- ex- plaining everything, but many. weary months - passed away before she could even expect to receive a reply.— it eame at length, a few lines hastily written, but breathing of Jove and forgiveness, and enclosed in a let- ter which told her that the writer was no more, he had died of a fever, aftera few days’ illness. Constance wept when she heard it, but not as one without hope.— She did not say, “my punishment is greater than l can bear?” “but Thy will, oh God, not mine, be done.” — When Constance had kissed and placed those-few lines in her bosom, she felt that she had done with life, and resolved henceforth to live for others. Again she ex- slaimed to her mother and sister, “Oh, the good that | will do2” And to this day the name of Constance Dinor- ben is seldom mentioned in her native place unaccompa- nied by a blessing.

Gensange ae forgot her cousin Gilbert’s last words—neither must we. for therein lies the warning aud moral of our little history--words which deserve to be written in letters of gold, although they are far of- tener recorded in..tears.--“ Love TRUSTS WITHOUT

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A BIT OF ROMANCE. {From the Chicago Daily Chronicle. }

It iga trite, but at the same time true remark, ihat the real incidents of life constantly occurring around us, possess 9. far more romantic interest than the fanciful ones, conceived inthe teeming, brain. of the novelist. Of this the following “ o’er true tale,” told us in brief by the steward of the packet boat Louisiana, on Saturday, will furnish an illustration.

Some ten years ago, aS Our. readers will remember, shere was what wae termed & rebellion in Canada, and after the “patriots” were all subdued, some were sug marily executed, and.a portion banished for a Jong term of years to Australia, Most of these. latter were men with families, from which they, were torn. without money, to expiate.in.a far distant land, by neon and hard labour, the crime of having fai ed in their attempt to rid their country of the evils of misgovern- ment. We think they acted very unwisely. in proceed-

its bearings.

What more perplexing position could a woman, be placed in than this? Here two men had almost equal claims upon her affections.—One was father of all her children but one--the companion of her youth—the other bound to her by near and.sacred ties,and by the mu- tual love they bore an infant that had been born to them. She could not fora moment decide—whet true heart- ed woman could ? A tumult of thoughts and emotions filled her heart, alternately. swaying her from side to side. Thus the conflict lasted for several days during which time she was enabled.to look clearly into her own heart, and at Jast she was ready.fora decision. Which could she choose but the man round whom were twined the tendrils of-a first and strong affection —to whom she had given the first offering of her heart ? The needle may vibrate for a time, but it points at last with unfailing constancy-to the never setting Star of the North: and in like manner the heart of a true woman, having in the wide universe but one. fitting mate, will, after all vicissitudes, turn- lovingly te the sunny warmth of her “ first-only love.”

A disposition of the youngest must now be made—and it was mutually agreed by the two men that as it could not be deprived of a mother’s care, the first husband should take it with the other ,children, to be restored {(o the father at some future time., The united family now made preparation. to go to @ new home: and so great was the interest excited in the neighbourhood by this-singular affuir that as many as a hundred and fifty persons from the neighpourhood were present to witness-their departure. On Saturday last they came up in the packet Louisiana, on their way to Michigan, where they will take up their residence.

We naturally sympathise with the first husband to whom wife and children are restored: but who will not ‘feel for the bereavement of the second ?

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A GOOD—AN EXCELLENT. BUSINESS.

a little, and one we consider too good to be lost. A few weeks since a person of respectable exterior and geti- tlemany deportment made his appearance in a little vill- ilage not a thousand miles from New Haven, where the inhabitants are somewhat proverbial for keeping a clo- ser eye to their neighbour's affairs than their own. The stranger took Jodgings at the village inn, and hav-

turb him, his time passed off, apparently quite agreeable

sage surmises as to

neither, and.that he would eventually leave the landlord with an uncancelled score as a token of remembrance.

Atdength one of the most inveterate meddlers re- solved in his own mind to broach the subject to the stranger, and thus by performing an act of kindness for his neighbour, unsolicited—whose easy nature he was certain of being imposed upon—he would have an opportunity to satisfy. himself as to the stranger’s real character.

“ne to the length they did, but this point we shall not we to ceaubien With one of these expatriated men

cartels bat chiefly to de.

hing dialogue ensued :

He accordingly introduced hiawelf, when the follow-

’ - ee : } or seven or eight weary years-he had borne the!

es erame of a lonely captivity, hopeless of ever seeing ciderable time | reckon? 1ome or friends again, when a general amnesty was) proclanned by the British Government in rezard to all,’

berty, and his first thought was to seek his home. He}

We heard a story the other day which amused us not) —

to himself, but much to the dispute of the neighbour- | pay : hood. Curiosity, that. ever restiess-tormentor of the vil-'4 pillion of francs per aonum, ‘The Government wish lage, a all agog ae the eg ow oe — enced M. Dupin.to be liquidateur, but this was objected te means of support, and many were the wise guesses and | by the ex-King.

4 both, until a pretty general consul- | ’ Oe a iar

tation and thorough canvassing of the pros and cons.by| the board of »gossips, it was concluded i eae lawyers in this city, but it looks, very much like «

tes Liew

* Well, stranger, you have been in these parts a com.

The stranger nodded assent.

‘ Pretty dear travelling now : costs you @ good deal to live at the tavern, I guess,’

Another nod. | * Must have some business to pay, pretty good busi- ness, eh?’ : | * Yes, sir, you are correct there: I have a good bus)- ‘ness—and it is a good business—an excellent business. | *'Thought so, how much might it bring a month?, | * Forty dollars, sir,’ | * Forty dollars a month! well, ’tis good business any how that pays you that.’

‘What is it, if l may be so bold ?

‘ Not bold at all, sir—I fake pleasure in informing you. You must know, in the first place, I make twenty dollars a month simply by minding my. own business, me again { make twenty dollars by letting other people's

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Innatation ov, Ernen.—On awaking from the in- ebriation, the personal experiances of the etherised are most interesting. A gentle aura, of the most curious and thrilling character steals over the entire frame ; and a sensation of the most perfect well-being possesses the mind. Then comes a gradual loss of consciousness ; sight, hearing, and tactile sensation disappear. ‘The mind appears perplexed what to make of its new con- dition, and feeling as if the chains which bind it to the earthly tenement were burst, it is inastate of the most downright apathy with regard tothe body. The soul then seems to bathe in an atmosphere of light, and re-

al claimant remained in the neighbourhood a-couple of; vels in the happiness of apparently another world, whiie

frequently a dream of transcendant glories passes be- fore it. Ifthe inhalation is discontinued, this blissful state is of short duration, and the stern, cold realities of our unspiritual world force themselves back once more upon the. recollection. The baseless fabric of the vision and the glorious fade away, and some casua! movement in the. apartment summons the patient at length out of the beatific condition. But the same glorious things are not vouchsafed toevery one. Some, on the contrary, are troubled with idle contests with fiends ; some are violently altercating. with their rele- tione; some are tumbling down bottomless abysms: and horrors of all sorts crowd in upon the minds of others. In these.cases, it is frequent that during the process, violent struggles, contortions of the features, and other tokens of uneasiness, betray the troubled state of the dreamer’s mind. A lady undergoing this process at our hands, during the removal of a tumor, was the whole time violently struggling and crying out to her child, with whom she believed herself to be violently contending. Where this state exists, the ter- mination of the précess is an inexpressible relief to the etherised, but it is an almost universal experience that ino actual pain was felt: “It was a frightfyl dreain.” ‘or “1 thought a fiend had hold of me,” are the expres- sions often made use ofon ewaking. In some cases these gloomy impressions are the results of imperfect inhalation ;.,.but in others it is a question whether the impurity of the ether employed is not the cause,—Peo- ple’s Journal.

Tue Ricut or Way.—Netl ing on earth would in- duce me to put up boards threatening , prosecution, or cautioning one’s fellow-creatures to beware of man-traps ‘and spring guns. I hold thatall such things are not only in the highest degree offensive and hurtful to the feelings of the people whom it is every. way important to conciljate, but that,they are also quite inefficient; and ! will venture to say that not one of my young trees have /ever been cut, nor a fence trodden down, or any kind of 'damage done, in consequence of the free access whic!) ‘all the world has to my place. Round the honse, of ‘course there is asetof walks set apart and kept private ‘for the ladies, but over all the rest of my land any one /may rove as he likes.—Sir Walter Scott.

'. Louris Permgire’s rawate Property.—It is said ‘that Louis Phillippe and the Government have come te ‘an understanding with respect to the private proper- ity of the ex-royal family in France, The Connt de ‘Montalivet isto be diquidateur, and a loin of 24,000 ,00C ‘is to be raised te pay the most pressing claims on tie “property, and for the immediate support of the membere

ing no visible means of employment to perplex or dis-| of the royal family now in England. Louis Phillippe i«

‘said to have bound himself, if this plan be agreed on, te y regularly to the Duchess of Orleans her dowry of

Harp Times FoR Lawxers.—There is no deartk

dearth among them, if the calculation lately made by some gentlemen of the bar be currect. By this it ep pears that the aggregate nett receipts of the profession are so small as not to furnish over $290 a year, to et least one-third of the members, ‘There are over 90C attorneys in the city, and itis believed tliat 200 of these earn $200 a year. The doctors ere not much better off, and the clergymen stil] worse. ffow ridiculous :- is, then, for parents to persist in thrusting their sore «

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