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© wiTH SWEETEST FLOWERS ENRICH’D, FROM VARIOUS GARDENS CULL’D WITH CARE.”
OAS MOIS VOL KVEn 0
"THE RIGID FATHER.
- LETTER IX.---in ‘continuation, -
° “@WARLES JANSON TO HENRY MULLER.
TNOW relumne my Pen to continue my fete,
“ter.
Without lifening ‘to Augut s odjeions,. 1
nae ‘drew her with me into the meadows at a little dif-
"egance from the houfe, and we-walked along the
When I was alone with her.-
“bank of the river.
J faid to her tenderly---« Augufta, I-know. not
pwhy Lthought fo. but it feeaed to’ me, whee I
‘exme to fee you this evening, thit you did not re-
“ eeive me with the (sme cheerfulnefs and pleafure
: “youl have ufually expreffed.” °
© Oh! no, indeed. nos. there can beno re. fon
"for you to think fo, faid fhe," eagerly turning to-.
awards mes 2.
«© What thenam I to think, dear Augudar”
replied I:
Her anfwer was a finh. :
-¢ You figh! teil. me what is the ezufe oft he t
fg he? -, -
- *She fighed again and was fi? ent, but let a tear
{drop on the hond-in which J held hers.” - :
=. @ Deirett Augutta, you weep! am I nolonger
“your friend ? I entreat you tell me every thing ?””
— 2 Teannot,” enfw ered - “fhe, in alow voice; my
. ynother has forbidden me.” . :
« Deor Augofta,” faid I, with much emotion,
¢ will you noc tell me why you weep ?-.--not me?”
“ll Obbagreat deal has hep pened 1 have besa .
“very me elancholy.”?
«¢ For Heaven’s fake tell me the ceufe!’? | --
Oh! I with [could exprefs to you the words fhe
mttered. as they came from her full heart, with all
: the inl: xions of voice, the fizhs, the artlefs hefi-
\. “gations, the. motions of her hands, the expreffion
ofher features, that you might form fome concep-
tions of the delicious emotions that at thatr moment .
‘everpowerrd my whole foul.’
eAtss 0? faid the, after 2 there fi! ence, ‘*I
Oo enow not whether Ido right to tell you'--and yet
’ here is no perfoni in the world to whom I would
“\ fooner tell it than yourfelf,
‘and I fcel---T have been very melancholy---" No,
“J maft noc tell it to you!”
° fron young Grohmann.
. moch jpreffion onme, but the longer I theught
: eafy.
ker bofom.
My mother thinks,
“6©-You muft tell mecvery thing, dearet Auguf-
nf tal if [ had any thing that prefi.d on my heart,
‘I fhould tel] it to you.”
«| No,” faid the, heftily, fe you did’ not tell me
-ghat you was going to marry Mifs Willmans.’? >.
ooSs.e* Of that, dear Augufta, we will fpeak prefent-
“Iy... L could wifh my ‘hapginefs 2ffured by know-
©. 4ing that you love meas I love you.”
ae Yes,” faid fue, the tears farting into her eyes
-'e€ my mother faid to me one day that Tloved you,-
“j:and that you: Joved me, and-jaft after. the: had
told me fo, my brether came home and told us of
ovrisiended marriage, which he had heard. of
of itthe more I found myfelf melancholy and un-
‘My- mother, from time to time, looked at
me and fecmed forrowful. Tendeavored to aflume
< chearfulnets, .but st, lift burft into tears. My
* smother then took me with her into her chamber:
ween braced each other, and I laid my. face on
She weptand laid, “ dear innocent
-was but for aninftant. -
At firhit did not make-
‘unhappy child Oh! I could have wilked to
vhave died that moment on my mother’ s bofom, fo:
“deeply did thofe words pierce my heart. My mo-
ther-then faid that the herfelf had beea to b! ame,
‘and had aéted incvutioufly. «You muft not, Au-
‘gulta,” added the, * be fo unreferved and familiar
with him 4s you have been. “I could indeed with
that he would not come to fee us again’---And I-
too.”
* You too! ‘did you too with that 2? (uid I hat-
ily; 3 foi it’was neceflary that I thou'd fpeak 5 amid
the exquilite: fesiings which this pure, artlefs, and.
uvfufpicious innocence hid excited.
She was filent for fome time: at laft fhe fuid,
flowly and mournfully---%¢ If your vifits. would
heve made you unhippy, I muft have. wifhed it,”
though-I know not how I could have: endured
never to have feen you more.’””
“ Dear Auguita !” faid I, preffing her to wy
breait, ** can you then really believe that- I will
ever mirry Mifs Willmans.”” 3
Gatily the riifed her expressive countenance,
and looked on me for fome time with a kind of
anxious expectation. As I continued filent. the
faid, in'a low voice- -! When my uneafinefs over.
‘powered me; I often went up f fairs to my cham-
ber to weep, that I might not pive:my mother
ptin, and when I was there alone, I oficn feid to
ny fclf that it could not be poilible.: Bat when I
had heard that your father fimfelf had faid it was
fa, and when to day Mifs_ Willmans went by, our
hovfe to. gu -to. yours-- POL PL would not Uve
ag-in fuch smother day !---1 was convinced it mult
be true. = oTt might not indeed be agreeable to
your weithies.”
‘And, dear Augufta, what do you believe that
Ido with?” faid I, tenderly pressing her hand.
1 felt her hind tremble in mine; the withdrew
it to cover her fice, which was fuffufed with bluth-
-es, and f.iJ, in a very altered tone---** On! ! len:
treat you Mr. Janfon letus return. =~
‘© No,” replied I, «* Dear Augatfta, I will: tell
you what I. with, whit L now: with, and -what I
fhall ever with as long as my heart fhall: contioue
to beat.---[ with, Augufta, that you may be my.
wife, my innocent, my dear, my moft tenderly be-
loved wife.” No, [have not engaged to marry.
Mifs Willmans: how, Augutta, could you fappoie
fo ?---and herein this folitary. plece, I {wear,. in
the prefenceof him who made us both, tnat I am
thine, and thou, and theu alone fhalt be mine.”
She eagerly raifMi her hands, Which had before
covered her face, asif to embracé me, or to call
Heaven to: witnefs my oath.
deprived of fenfe. Her cheek was cold 3 bur it
A deep figh, reftored her
to herfelf. I embraced her, and prefied her tea-
derly to my heart.
** Avugufta,’” faid I, *€« my deareft wife; thow art.
in the arms of thy hufband,”?
She flowly raifed her face, Timprefied the firtt
“kifs oflove on her lips, and atked her---** Det
thou love me, Augufla? Art thou mine?” °
She threw her arms around me, ¢aft down her
eyes; hefitated a moment, then inalow and ten-
der sigh, uttered.--** Yes!’ >
We now turned back, and fhe walked silently
by my. side, holding by my. arm; with ci eyes
\.NEW-YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 14 1804. . :
“Her eyes f{parkled, |
but in a moment fhe fank down on my breaft as if,
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- fixed on the ground, and, I may fay, almoft de-
prived of fenfe. °° Augufts,”” whifpered I from .
time to time. She clung Still clofer to sy ‘arm,
and hattenened her pace. ~ Thus we came home,
and when wearrived there and came into the light
Lfirft perceived how psle fhe was.
able: to utter a word.
Her mother was greatly agitated and clafped
-her weeping daughter to her bofom.---" Avgutila,
faid fhe, tenderly, ** you have for,otten what you
promifed me ;” then, turning haftily to. me, the
(sid with. much emotion---*¢ 1 ‘mult requett fir,
that you will let fome time elapfe before you viGt
us again... I hive nothing but my chi dren.”
I took Auguft.’s hand, and faid,** Desr mother, - . °
this hand, this_heart, is mines
14m: your fon.
Augalta | wil! be my wife.”
She attempt-: -
“ed to fuy fomething to her mothcr. 2nd to conceal
under afmile,-asI thought, the-violence of her ;
emotions; but the fan into chair, and was un-" ,
,
The innocent girl ‘inftantly flarted up,. and .
threw herfelfon the bofom of her mo:zher.
‘Ts this true!’?. exclaimed the latter in a tone
of tranfport, and gszing on me for fome time in
filence.---Will you— ”
eT will,” (aid I, interrupting her, and immedi.
ately drew Augufa to my lips. *
Embrace now fo!lowed enibrace, ‘and my promi-
ted wife hung on my neck. O4! it-was-a fcene
ecftatic blifs. | Now that the love cf Auguta was
confecrated by the confent and bleffing of her mo-
ther, dtbroke forth’ from her fall heart without ~
reltraint.
She kneeled before her mother; and I
put my hand in hers. -T rembling and. coafufed, °
with tears in her eyes, though they fp-rkled with
joy, fhe took the ring whicaI placed on her finger.
Her mother intreated me to leave them, wher L
was preparing to relite ‘all th.t had. piffed; and
inform her of the difficultics which we hid yet to
overcome.
Tacquiefced in her requett. and took my leaves
with the livelieft fenfstions of joy in vmy heart,
after haviag appointed to fee thzm again the next
day, when they were ‘to accompany me ina litle
country excurfion,
It was midnight when I returned howe, I found
ray. chamber locked. My father, who ufually
went to bed at ten o'clock, was tii up, and called
ine. “When I went to him he took me.to the tas
ble, and-iaidto me, very harfhly, ‘For the la os
time, I-advife you fign the contradl’”.
Never, father? faid I, firmly and coolly.
-€£ You will not?---I- fwear, however, ‘thet the -
fehoolmafter’s daughter fhall never be my dsugh- >
ter-in-law: no, never !---You now know my fixed:
refolution, and you may go.---There is your cham-
ber behind mine.---You thal] never come over the
threfhold again till vou have figned the contraat.’”
“He opened the door and pufhed: me\in,-and L
now amin my prifon. ‘Fortunately I had -in-my
pocket-book a fnall phial ofink, and a few “theets
‘of paper which have enabled me to write this letter ~
to you. As Mr.
fend you is fil in''my peflcfion, you will,
perluaded, aot be ofinded at ‘preskiog the Tea ‘9,
inclofe this; for, as ny father knows Mr. Rofea’s.
hand, he will forward it without fafpicion, others
wife] fhouid net be. adic to » convey this, iener io.
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