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On his months; or ®3 if paid within the year. return to bis native countr\\ he had married the Village subscribers, and those supplied by carriers, w i l l j , . e ■ . , , be charged 25, or #•> in advance. • daughter of one of his neighbors, who, during i\o paper discontinued until all arrearages are paid, unless his absence, had been left an orphan. Posses- A lvenisernents,ofn sq u a r e o r u n d e r ,in s e r ted th r e e w e e k s s e t ^ 88 Montano was, of wealth, and having a Montano and his lady arrived at Boston, from a by-road leading off the highway. It was England. several hours ere he reached the bank of the Montano had been in the East India service, j Hudson, and a most pitch-dark night, with a most tremendous storm coming on—-he was or 91; and 25 c*'n*s for each subsequent insertion. A Iibe- al discount made to those who advertise by the year. From the Saturday Courier. THE HIDDEN GRIEF. O, think not that because mv laugh Rings out so wild and free, That frowning fate hath never filled Its bitter cup for me; Nor the song is warbled forth In tones of glad delight. There never mingled with its notes Of joy, a strain less light. Though now I tread the lighted hall, Or breathe the thrilling lay; O, how I once have-turned from all In weariress away: And deemed not then the dazzling world One single charm could bring; To lure me fo its haunts again, A sad and blighted thing. But I have schooled the heart to hide Its load of grief and care; The bursting thought to melt in song, The lips a smile to wear. When all beneath is one sad wreck Of hopes in happier hours: The vase that holds the withered leaves, Once redolent with flowers. * O, even when the festive wreath Is twined around my brow, And passion’s tones are 6oflly blent Wiih many a low breathed vow, Through all unheeded as they fall, Without an answering thrill, The memory of one magic voice Will vainly haunt me still. But though the heart be breaking, yet The world shall never know, That gathered thoughts are garnered there Of bitterness and wo. ‘Tis this has filled my tones with mirth, •And lit the beaming eye, The semblance of a careless heart, A bitter mockery 1 Dundirk. H a r ie t E. S pe n c e r . From Uie Auburn Free Press.—(By request.) T H E T W I N S . A WESTERN TALE. CHAPTER XI. { Continued from No. 28.] •* Small eveuts often prove, in the end of the utmost im- p ortunec. Thus, guilt has' been discovered from circum- b .antes, apparently the least connected with it.” A nonymous . On the memorable evening or Cornelia’s res cue from the furious horseman, she lost a gold chain, which had always been suspended around her neck, or at least she had worn it from the earliest period of her recollection. After her arrival at the hermitage of the outcast chief, she missed this trinket—and in vain had the Indian, to gratify her, explored the pathless forests, searched the rude hut, and thence examined aroynd the spot where she was found by him and the faithful dog: he could find nothing of it. It will be recollected, however, on her depar ture with the Indian from the spot of her^escue, .she saw the lorm of a man gliding behind the frets. The reader, therefore will now for a moment wander back with us to that period. The horseman, who at that time escaped the indignation of Edward Holenbrook, through the intercession of our mountain maid, after gallop ing off some distance down the highway, dis mounted from his horse, and again entered the forest where, taking a circuitous route, it brought him near the spot where lay the supposed dead body of his companion. Here he stopped until the foi lunate arrival of the Indian and dog. As soon as they departed, he raised hi6 fellow horse man from the ground, and found he had only fainted with the loss of blood. He proceeded to examine the wound, and discovered that the ball had entered his body, but not in a direction which could prove dangerous: His fall had stunned him, and the immediate faintness had thus extended him as a lifeless corse on the ground. On being brought to by his compan ion, they staunched the wound, and, with his assistance, immediately proceeded to their hor ses, which, mounting in haste, they started to the eastward. During the scene above descri bed, the unhurt horseman discovered Cornelia’s chain glittering on the ground; and, unperceiv- cd by his companion, picked it up, instantly se creting it in his pocket. About a year from this period, as a gentleman was standing by the counter in one of the pawn broker’s shops in the city of New York, a rough looking fellow enteied, throwing down a chain of curious workmanship. The elegance and beauty of it immediately struck him as some thing wh cli be had seen before, and induced him to examine it closely. There was attached at one end a 6mall clasp, beaming the initials of two names. On seeing these letters, the chain fell from his hand—a trembling seized his frame, while he staggered to a seat*and wildly gazed upon the counter where it had dropped. Every feeling of nature seemed in commotion for a mo ment, when suddenly he aroused as if waking from a troubled dream, and his eyes sparkled with a ray of hope which seemed to burst like a sunbeam through his thoughts. He aiose fio.n his chair, and, with one hand gia?ping the man, and the other seizing the chain, demanded how he came in possession of the chain. The man at first hesitated, until threatened with the vengeance of the law, in case of dis honesty; when he disclosed the place, situated in the western part of the state, where he had found it, evasively adding, that he had no doubt it must have been lost by the owner, who pro bably resided in the vicinity of the spot. But desire to see the new republic of America, he and his adored Louisa, embarked for this coun try, which at that period had just been acknow ledged by Britain as free and .independent. On their arrival in Boston, after a few months’ residence in that place, they retired to a coun try residence a few miles out from the town, in consequence of the approaching confinement of Louisa. Here a month or two elapsed, and she gave to the arms of the enraptured Montano, a son and a daughter: but, owing to the weak and slender constitution of the mother, the t w i n s were sent into the interior of the state to a care ful nurse. They had not been long under the charge of the good matron to whom they were intrusted, before they were suddenly token from her by. some person unknown, during her ab sence one evening, for a few minutes only, hav ing left the babes asleep. Frightened almost to dietraction at the sud den disappearance of the children, the neigh borhood was rallied, and pursuit instantly made after the wretch, so hardened as to steal the sleeping babes from their cradle. The pursuit was fruitless, and the nurse, the next day, star e d to convey the heart rending intelligence to the parents of the stplen children. Mrs. Montano had nearly recovered from her confinement when the afflicting intelligence reached her of the loss of these first pledges of their affection. The blow fell like a thunder bolt on the wretched mother and Montano, al though driven almost to desperation by this act of inhumanity, was compelled to stifle as much as possible his own feelings at the news, and direct all his attention towards consoling his adorable companion. But it was too much for her to hear: She lingered a few weeks, and then expired in his arms. Thus left alone and doubly desolate in this land of strangers to him, he made a few inqui ries in order to find his children; but, finding his health so much impaired by his afflictions, he immediately returned to England. Sickness seized him on his arrival there, and, for two or three years, he bemoaned his wretched fate in solitude. His friends advised travelling: and several years more he'spent in traversing the continent, constantly changing the scenes and climate, until in some measure he recovered his health. After a few more years’ residence among his friends, and having his mind temper ed by his former sufferings, he conceived the plan of again visiting America. The land was dear to him; for in it was inhumed his departed wife: And hope sometimes whispered in his ear that his children lived, and, by his exertions, that land where all his bereavements had taken place. Accordingly he embarked, and after a pleasant voyage, arrived in the city of New York. Here spending a few weeks; he started to visit the sacred spot where reposed the ashee of her, who, notwithstanding the lapse of years, occu pied a fresh and unfading image in his recollec tion. After an absence in the vicinity of Boston for a few months, he returned to New York, and took up his residence in that city. It was in the after part of one day in Septem ber, when in one of his walks through the streets of this metropolis, curiosity compelled him to drop into a pawn-broker’s shop, whtye he wa6 standing engaged in conversation, when the en trance of the man with the chain awakened every feeling of his nature, and aroused the energies of his mind to trace, by this unexpect ed clue, his lost children. The chain was one that belonged to his la mented Louisa, and contained upon the clasp, the initials of his name as well as hers. On the morning that the children were 6ent into the interior of Mass., she had .in his presence, with her own hands, put the trinket around the fe male child’s neck. It is impossible to describe Montano’s emo tions on hi6 thus unexpectedly finding a token of his love, which had adorned his wife and child; but in addition to the painful recollec tion it inspired, it,also aroused that latent spark of hope which was smouldering in bis bosom, and, like a “ still small voice,” whispered in his ear that his twins were in existence, and would soon be restored to his arms. He immediately purchased the chain of the man, taking him to his lodgings. Here stating briefly to him the circumstances connected with this trinket, he requested more information of the place where it was found. An instance of the inscrutable ways of Omni potence in bringing to light the crimes of hu man mortals, was now displayed: for Montano, on informing this man of the chain’s being pre viously his property, and put by his wife around the neck of one of his infant children, and of those children’s being rifled from his arms, ap peared thunder-struck; and a paleness over spread his countenance, showing every indica tion of guilt. The agitation of the man was too visible to escape the penetrating eye of Montano; and he gazed intently upon the trembling wretch before him in utter astonishment, while it aroused eve ry suspicion in his bosom. Reader, judge then bis feelings, when sudden'y the man before him fell at his feet, acknowledging himself as the robber of the twine, and imploring on his ben ded knees for mercy! Ye, who hath seen the look of vengeance which sometimes flashes from the eyes of some bold and daring spirit, whose indignant feelings madly precipitate him beyond the barrier of reason fearful of crossing the river while the storm raged. He deposited the basket in the piazza of a building, tvhile he went to the river side to see about his boat. Returning soon after, the basket was missing! The next day he heard of the inquiries made by the Hollanders for the owners of the children; but he was fearful of his own safety, and kept silent. A few years after, he lost his wife; and as he had no children, he moved lo Canada. Here, connecting himself with a gang of abandoned wretches, he gambled, counterfeited, and fre quently roamed through the stale of New York, ^tealing horses, and fleeing with them to certain individuals, who were ever ready to buy them. It was in one of j, xpeditions, that, in company with one of ins Inpanions in iniquity, they became benighted among the hills near the small lakes of Owasco and Skaneateles. They entered a log dwelling which they supposed totally uninhabited; and their horses being fa. tigued, he left his companion within the build ing to make a fire, while he went in pursuit of something to feed them—as they lesolved to stay during the night. He returned some time after, while a cold, wet storm was raging, and- finding the doors fastened, rapped loudly for ad mittance; when his companion came out, in forming him that another peYson was also in the house, who was benighted; but might pro bably leave the house as soon as ihe storm abated. On this, he again rode lo the highway, when, soon after, the storm began to cease, and he saw the man depart. He then returned to the log house, to urge the departure of his com rade, as it was approaching towards morning. After drying himself by the fire, they were about starting for fear of pursuit, as the horses they had with them were stoJ.en property; when his compaiiion, tuki’rg which belong ed to their dark lantern, pushed open what he supposed to be a buck door to the rude building, and encountered the tremendous form of a large wolf dog, in a little room adjoining the main building; and the instant after, a beautiful fe male attempted to flee out of the window with the dog, but was instantly\ seized by them — When they took hold of her she fainted; and while laying senseless, they concluded to carry her off with them. Accordingly’, on her reviving, they actually mounted her on one of the horses, and rode off —the horse, however, not being used to two riders, became in a short time outrageous, and the girl in terror escaped from his companion’s arms, and like a deer fled into the forest. They dismounted, and pursued; but were soon check ed by a third person who shot his companion down, and would also have immolated him, but for the girl herself, who interceded for him. He made, good his retreat, and taking a circuitous route, returned and found his comrade not dead as fast as possiole ibf Canada. As they left spot, however, he saw something shining on the ground, when he picked up the chain in question. Croker, on finishing his brief sketch of wick edness, again fell upon his knees before Monta no, swearing by his God, whose laws he had set at defiance, that he would now reform, and as sist him in restoring to his arms the children, if they were on thoface of the earth. Montano accepted the proffered services of Croker, although he was suspicious that his penitence was in some measure feigned. To gether, however, they proceeded to the west to find the residence of the Hollanders, whom they learned by inquiries on the Hudson, had moved in that direction. On arriving in the vicinity of the scene of our narrative, with careful inquiries, they ascertain ed the place of his location, and of his visit to the eastward. Montano on hearing the name of Edward, immediately despatched Croker with the extraordinary letter, the subject matter of which has already been v;- fielded. The preceding ch.b'* biv./juits having brought the reader to anticipate some wonderful disco veries at the mansion house of Holenbrook, we now leave him to enjoy this pleasant prospect, and proceed in our next chapter to relate them. CHAPTER XII. V “ .Honey, tfioubaneof bli«s, thou source of wo.” A nonymous . Never had Edward Holenbrook felt a glow of more heart-throbbing pleasure, than on the morning after the arrival of Cornelia to the resi dence of his foster parent. As he jumped from his bed, his wounds and broken limb, seemed scarcely to be felt. “I shall know this day,” said he to himself, “who this incomparable girl is; and if she is friendless, as she appears, I swear before Him, whose morning beams, and evening shades make the day and the night, she shall find in me a protector and a friend! This day, likewise, reveals to hie, whose natural son I am, and 1 trust rends the veil which unbe known, has shrouded me in ignorance of my parents.” As he dressed himself, the sun, looking like a globe of fire, was slowly showing its flaming disk above the distant emeninces, and gradually mantling the face of nature with its mellow light. A sky of pale blue, which was gradually breaking away in grey and white colors, presen ting mountain on mountain of clouds piled up from the baldrick of the horizon, rearing their tops into the arched canopy above, arrested, for a moment, his wandering thought—It seemed the most beautiful morning he had ever beheld; and again he hurried his dressing, to sally out and enjoy t,hq mild, bracing air. Seizing hiagun, the usual companion of his morning ramljles, and whistling for Victor, his dog, he took pis way down the lane to the edge of the forest. He gradually extended his walk can form an idea of that tremendous' around the domins, until he found he was pro the yellow beys from the old Englishman! Does he carry much cash with him?’ “ I don’t know—he is thundering shy of me! I know he is rich, however; for when we left New York, I saw him sign a cheek for a cool twenty thousand for one ot the brokers.” “ Good! If he tunes as high as that, we will try him asv he passes through the woods—he don’t ride without a few loose hundreds: and I must have his horse, by G—d; for Canada Ned will couut me out fivq hundred wheels the mo ment 1 clear the States. He is a full blood, you say?” * “ Yes, and full cf lire—all bone and muscle— bottom for a four-mile heat, and fleet as the wind. But hark! 1 hear sounds' of horses’ feet—put ycur mask on, Mott! he has an.eye like a hawk. Suppose he has the real English lion in him, and vvilJ fight sooner than deliver?” “ Why, then, by the Holy Ghost, I’ll blow daylight through him: — you know old double- barrelled jYiagara never missed fire,—and I have just clapped only four fingers into her: Is that charge heavy enough for the little twin bull dogs, hey?” “ Yes: Hush! hush!— Let us move to the place.” Edward heard the foregoing short dialogue, with an astonishment that can belter be concei ved than described: and, as they stopped, he cautiously slid behind the trunk of a huge.hem lock, by the side of the road, where, listening, he could hear the ruffians, in the mean time mo ving further into the thicket. What it could mean, and to whom the con versation alluded, except this Montano, who was expected at his foster father’s mansion, Edward could not divine: but if robbery and murder are to be perpetrated, thought he, I am providenti ally 6ent, perhaps, to avert it. At least my trusty rifle is sure end as well charged as the robber’s double-barrelled Niagara, as he styles his pistol. While these thoughts were roam ing through his head, he distinctly heard a clat tering of hoofs upon the ground, of a horse travelling towards the entrance of the lane which led up to the house; but as whoever it might be, must come in sight of him, from the place where he then stood, before they entered the lane, he watched with some anxiety their appearance. Soon, a horseman emerged from the woods in full view, and, at the same instant, Edward saw also two fellows spring into the path, ahead of him;—one seizing the bridle of the horse, while the other appeared presenting a pistol at the. breast of the rider. Edward, at this sight, cool and collected as he was, could hardly refrain from levelling bis piece at the monster, and rushing towards the spot. He to the house, when Edward informed them of the bloody .transactions of the morning. Medi cal assistance was procured immediately, when the stranger and the villain who had received the contents of Edward’s rifle, were both pro nounced dangerously'wounded: but hopes were entertained that neither would prove mortal* The other robber had paid thetorfeit of his te merity, and died in a moment or two after re ceiving the ball in his forehead, his brains hav* ing been li erally blown out. While all the family paid the utmost atten tion to the gentleman, Edward spared no pains to have careful nursing bestowed on the ruffian whom he had wounded; for, as much as the wrotch merited the punishment of death, by his daring and assassin attack, he felt now no dl8» position to have him die by his hand. It seems that this fellow, who was no other than Croker, had accidentally come across*) the day before, one cf his old companions,, with .whom he, a year previous, bed associated in Canada, and, who was the same that Took’partT\” in the transactions mentiored in the first chap ter of our tale. His name was Mott; and on Croker’s thus unexpectedly falling m with him, he imparted lo him a plan which he had long formed of robbing Montano, and fleeing again to Canada. Knowing that lie had money with him, it was concerted that he should be attacked that morning, as he approached the house of Iiolenbiook. It was while lying in wait for his appearance, that they were providentially over heard by Edward, in his morning ramble. As yet neither the wounded persons had spo ken: They lay, as it were, in a stupor, after their wounds were dressed, and the girls, as well as Edward, were constant in their atten tions, that nothing^should be left undone. On the next day, as Cornelia was sitting by the bed-side of the gentleman, she heard the low, murmuring sounds of his voice; on which, she instantly opened the curtain to ascertain the cause. He lay apparently easy, but on the light’s coming suddenly upon him from the room, he turned his head, and, opening his eyes cast them towards her—“ Louisa,” said he, “art thou come for me?” and, looking intently at her for a moment longer, he continued, smiling.-— “Pardon me: I thought at first thou wast the spirit of my departed wife:—I beiieve my mind must be waadering. But who art thou, image of my deceased Louisa?” At this moment Edward came into the room, and, seeing Cornelia standing by the bed-side of the stranger, softly approached her, inquiring in a whisper, what was the matter. But just then the wounded person closed his eyes, and lay perfectly quiet and still, although a moving of his lips was discovered by them'; and Cor nelia, perceiving that his piilow wanted adjus- stood still, however, intently watching their; ting, gently raised his head, and was in the act farther movements, when suddenly the cry of j of smoothing it, when he again opened his eyes. frown which came from Montano: but he sub- ceeding toward^vthe lake shore. Suddenly he dued the contending feelings which gave rise was arrested in his course, by the sound of to it, and sternly demanded of the wretch every voices behind a cluster of bushes apparently but inhuman act which had been the cause of all his a few feet distant froiahimi—lie stopped and. grief and sufferings. — j listened.— * The man informed him that his name wasj “ You must securb a*Fofiiti» sum from the old Croker; that setenteen or eighteen years pre-| fellow, before he finds out tie truth, that this is vioue, ho lived on the banks of the Hudson, near the boy,” said one of the'Wces. where the cloud-capt Catskill is seen frowning “Ay, ay! but he is too d-, ---- d sure that this on the majestic stream below; that it was he young Holenbrook is one of the twins,” answer- who stole the children for his wife, who had the ed the oilier voice, which continued—“but by day before lost het infant. He stated, that he Heavens! there are two girls at the house, had travelled all the day in pursuit of some one plump and rosy as a Canadian chambermaid!— who wished for a wet.rurse:—it being towards Egad, Mott! to see them is buough to awaken night, he had accidentally entered the house of the fire of youth in a three-score-and-ten gray the guardian of the twins; arid finding no ono head.” -n your plump red chopped lasses, Our business is not of girle. I say “ Do you wish any thing, dear sir?” asked she, in a voice of compassionate tenderness. The silver tones of her voice seemed to striko upon his ear with an effect indescribable; and —are still the same— or do I dream?” “ I am not your Louisa, sir; but one who will administer to your wants,” replied the mai den, carefully adjusting the clothes over him. Again he said, though with a more feeble tone, “ What voice is this? O where am 1 ?” Edward until now had been a silent specta tor; but seeing him exhausting himself with something imaginary, gently pushed Cornelia aside, and sliding into her place, tenderly said, “you are in the hands of friends—do not ex haust yourself: your situation demands that you should compose yourself; and your surgeon has given us orders that you must use no exer tion.” “ I am satisfied'—I obey—I was dreaming,” faintly said he; and turning his head, appeared soon again composed. “ His mind is dwelling upon something,” softly whispered Cornelia lo Edward, as she took her seat again near’lhe bed side. “ Yes; but it is the sight of you, my girl, that has awakened some recollection of a dear friend,” answered Edward, while a thought rushed into his mind respecting the letter cf the stranger, Montano.—“ Can this be him?” murmured-he to himself, aside. “ I know not,” said Cornelia; “but he called me Louisa, and said he thought I was his lost wife:—It is owing to his weakness: If his rea son is impaired, 1 fear a fever threarens him.” “ frus!” replied Edward, musing, “ Slay here, dear girl, and I will call more medical aid:” upon which he left the room to seek the gener ous Hollander, his foster father. It was nearly a week ere the stranger was pronounced out of danger. Croker, in the mean time, had sent for the Hollander, and re vealed to him, the events of his past life; sta ting every circumstance of his previous confes sion to Montano; of his intended robbery of him in tlie woods; and closed, with a solemn protes tation, as a dying man, that his firm belief was, that the children of the basket, were those of the wouuded Augustus Montano, who now lay in the house with him. This confession was carefully taken down by the Hollander, m the presence of the dornini of the town, who lesided some miles distant; and who had been sent for, to pray with the wretched mortal, just closing his earthly career. On the evening after this developernent of his crimes, in awful agony he expired, and was, the next day, interred along side of his companion in iniquity; death having thus pufe period to a course of wickedness, which for years they had pursued. The Hollander, being thus put into posses sion of facts relating to the manner in which the children were deposited in his premises, on the Hudson, became now anxious to find his broth- we can proceed no farther without bringing as _ fast as possible, these characters to a better ac« the guardian of the twins; arid finding no ono head.” quaintance with our readers. j in the premises but the children who lay asleep, “ D— Nearly a year preceding the event of the J he conceived the project of stealing them; and Croker! “murder! help!” from the horseman struck up on his ears, and the report of two pistols soun ded loudly through the forest. “ Tis too true, by heavens! Double barrel- N Niagara,hflg,ogj enoj^lif;uffl..tIte^fl ding place into the open path. “ Stop! d—— d assassins!” cried he with a voice as from a trumpe*, while he rushed like a madman towards the spot. The horseman fell forward upon the neck of the horse: and, as Edward reached the spot, the ruffian who held the bridle, let go his hold, and fiercely advanced towards him. “Advance another 6tep, you human tiger! said Edward, “and I swear by Him who made me, you shall die.” The robber leaped, however, within the dis tance of the raised piece, and seizing him by the collar, was feeling with his other hand for a knife. “ Unhand me, villain!” cried Edward, starting back with force, as he eaw the man brandish a long knife, and throw his arm back to strike a deadly blow. His sudden start loosened the grasp upon his collar, and he sprang backwards a few feet, firing’ his rifle at his formidable an tagonist. “It’s a sure shot,” muttered he to himself, as ha saw the villain spring up a few feet, and, wri thing in agony, fall to the ground, uttering a hollow groan. The second report of firearms, so near the horse, suddenly started him; and the rider, who, wounded, had pitched forward on his neck, now fell off. lie had, on being first assailed, and threatened with instant death, pulled a pistol from his bosom, and deliberately shot one of the robbers in the forehead—at the same moment .he received the contents of the villain’s “double- barrelled Niagara” in his right side, and he fell forward with the cry of “murder! and help!” upon the neck of the horse. The robber, on re ceiving the ball in his forehead, had dropped to the earth, uttering a horrid oath, and was now a lifeless corpse. Edward, an seeing the horse 6tart, throwing the gentleman off, sprang towards him, raising him in his arms, while the horse, which was frightened, now with almost lightning speed, darted up the lane towards the mansion. The man appeared to be severely wounded, and bled s.) freely that Edward was fearful life was fast ebbing in the exhausted, senseless form in his arms. “ God of humanity!” exclaimed Edward; “is there no assistance near?” But there was no time to be lost—he mused a moment: and for the first time during the scene, saw his dog looking wistfully at him.— “Victor!” said he, “ here!” And the dog boun ded towards him.—A thought suddenly entered his mind; and he tore his cravat from his neck, immediately dipping it in the blood of the stran ger; then fastening it around the neck of the animal, pointed up the lane, bidding him “home! home, sir!” Upon which the dog, obedient to ; his command, bounded like a deer, and was off er, whom he had learned, much to his surprise towards the house. I while on his visit to the east, had'returned to “ This may bring some one of the family,” j America, and immediately retired into this part thought he, as, in the mean time, he examined of this part of the country—little dreaming that the wound of the stranger. The ball had enter- brother had been summoned to the father of all ed his right side, glancing, and came out at the being. back. lie had tainted with pain and the loss of During the confusion and bustle of the week* blood; and then lay apparently senseless in Ed- in which all the events of this chapter transpi* atardhs arms. j red at the mansion, the expected narrative o‘ \A naif hour had nearly elapsed, when the Cornelia, although impatiently wished for by sound of voices was heard in Ihe breeze: and . all the family, had remained unknown: but now soon the dog, preceeding the whole family, wiih the tranquility of the house was again restored, old Holenbrook and black Harry at their head, they vveie all assembled but the wounded guest, came rushing down the lane to the spot. Cor- and she gave them her-history. She knew but nelia, Isabella and Adeline shrieked with af-j little of the early events of her life; for her first fright, as they approached, on seeing the ground dawning recollection was in Holland. She, crimsoned, presenting something like a field of however, went -through with the principal battle, with killed and wounded strewed around, j scenes of her life—related to them the names Shuddering, they heard the groans which un-1 of her father, (as 6he still supposed,) of the consciously proceeded from the wounded; but. death of her mother, and of their embarking for unseeing Edward unhurt, they ran towards America; their coming into this country* the him. I sudden death of her parent, and.the events of The whole of the bodies were now removed t her mountain residence with the generous and A < \
