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he was struck by the death-like paleness on her cheek. Julia could by an effort control her voice; she could ii a degree subdue her feelings; but she could not command the expressions of her countenance could not bid the blood visit or recede from her cheeks at her will. She knew not, indeed, that at this time she was p ile; her own face was the last thing in her mind. Mr. Westbury had no sooner answered her question, than he added "You had better retire, Mrs. Weslbury. You look as if the fatigues of the evening had been too much for you."' "Fatigues of the evening! Agonies rather," thought Julia; but thanking him for his "kind" ad vice, she iaimedialely retired to her chamber. Until this evening, Mr. Vi'estbury had scarcely seen Miss E. since his marriage. He had avoided seeing her, being conscious that she retained her full power over his heart; and his sense of rectitude forbade his indulging a passion for one woman, while the lnih:in.r nf .-mother. Miss Eldon suspected

this, and felt piqued at the power he had over ..... 1 i -.1. :.r.. himsell. Her heart uuiierco. wmi s;iusitction when she saw him enter Mrs. Brooks's drawing-room: and she resolve! to ascertain whether her influence over his affections were diminished. S'ic was mortified and chagrined, that even here he kept aloof from her," giving her only a passing bow, as he walked to another part of the room. It was with an unusual pleasure that she complied with a request to sit to the piano, for she well knew t'ie power of music of her own music over his heart. Never before did, she touch the notes with so much interest. She did do her best that best was pre-eminently good and she soon found that she had fixed the attention of him whom alone she caied to please. After singing one or two modern songs, she began one that she had learned at Mr. Westbury's request, at the period when he used to v'sit her almost dailv. It was Burns' "Ye banks and braes o' bonnic doon,"' and was with him a gn at favorite. When Miss Eldon came to the lines "Thou 'mind'st me of departed joys, Departed nevrr to return" he raised her eyes to his face, and in an instant he forgot every thing but herself. "Her happiness is sacrificed as well as my own,'" thought, he; and leaning his head against the wall of the room he gave himself up, for the time, to love and melancholy. The song concluded, however, he regained some control over his feelings, and still kept at a distance from her, nay conquered himself; so far as to repair to the drawing-room to escape from herdangerous vicinity. He saw her not again until she wasequiped for her departure. Then she contrived to get near him, and threw so much sweetness and melancholy into her voice, as she said "good night Mr. Westbury," that he was instantly disarmed and drawing her arm within his, conducted her from the room. Hov." said he, in a low and tremulous tone, '-how, Maria, c ould you sing that song, to harrow up my feelings? Time was when to be near thee to listen to thee, was my felicity, but now, duly forbids that 1 indulge in the dangerous delight."' Miss Eldon replied not but raised her eyes to his fice, while she repressed a half drawn sigh. Not another word was u'tered until they had ex, hanged "adieus"' at their carriage door. Two or three weeks passed away, without the occurrence of anv incident calculated to excite peculiar uneasiness in the heart of Julia. True her husband was still the cold, the ceremonious and occasionally the abrupt Mr. VVestbury; he passed but little even of his leisure time at home; and she had never wet his eye when it expressed pleasure or ap probation, liut lie did not grow more cold more ceremonious; the time he passed at hi own fireside, rather increased than diminished, & for all this she was thankful. But her efforts to please were unceasing. Her home was kept in perfect order and every thing was done in time, and well done. Good taste and good judgement were displayed in every anangenient. Her table was always spread with great care, and if her husband partook of any dish with peculiar relish, she was careful to have it repeated, but at such intervals as to gratify rather than cloy the appetite. In her dress she was peculiarly neat and simple, carefully avoiding every nitirlc of apparel that was tinctured with the "odious colour."' She had naturally a fine mind, which had the advantage of high cultivation; and without being obtrusive or aiming at display, she strove to be entertaining and companionable. Above nil, she constantly endeavored to maintain a placid, if not ;i cheerful brow, knowing that nothing is so repulsive as a discontented frowning face. S!io. felt that nothing was unimportant that might either please or displease her hus band; his heart was the prize she was endeavouring to win; and the happiness of her life depended on the sentiments he should ultimately entertain toward her! Every thing sho did was done not only properly but gracefully ; and though she never wearied in her effort, she would oft times sigh that they were so unsuccessful. She sometimes feared that her very anxiety to please, blinded her as to the best manner of doing so; and would often repeat with a sigh, a.ter some new, and apparently useless etfort "Je lo eerviaris niieux, si je V eusse aime monis." The first thing to disturb the kind of quiet that Julia enjoyed, was the prospect of another party. One morning, while at the breakfast table, a carJ was brought in from Mr. and Mrs. Parker, who were to be at home on Friday evening. After looking at the card, Julia handed it to Mr. Westbury in silence.

"It will be pioper that we accept the invitation," said Mr. Westbury. The remembrance of the agony she endured at the last party she attended, caused Julia's voice lo tremble a little as she said "Just as you think best, but for my own part I should seldom attend a party for the sake of enjoyment."' "If Mrs. Westbury thinks it proper to immure herself as if in a convent, she can," said Mr. West bury; "for myself, I feel that society has claims upon me that I wish to discharge." "I will go if you think there would be any impropriety in my staying away," said Julia. "Situated as j oil are, I think there would." said Mr. Westbury. "Situated as I am," thought Julia; what does he mean? Does he refer to my station in society? or does he fear that the world will think me in unhappy wife, that wishes . i i irr . i. 91'

losenuuu nerseii man uci nuun i In the course of the morning, Julia called on Mrs. Cunniglnm. and found that lady and her husband discussing the point, whether or not they should attend Mrs. Parker's party. "Are you going Mrs. Westbury?" asked Mrs. Cunningham. "Yes MiC Westbury thinks we had better do so," Julia replyed. "Hear that Edward!" said Mrs. Cunningham. "You pert f ive that Mr. Westbury likes tha. his wife should enjoy the pleasures of society." Mr. Cunninghom looked a little hurt, as he said "my dear Lucy, am I not more than willing to indulge you in every thing that will add to yourhappiness? I have only been trying to convince you how much more comfortable we should be by our fireside, than in stub a crowd as must be encountered at Mrs. Parker's. For myself, the society of my wife is my highest enjoyment, and of her conversation I never grow weary." "Thank you for the complaimcnt, dear, ' said Mrs. Cunningham "and we will settle the question at another time." One of the first porsons Julia dislingished amid the company as she entered the drawing room, was Mrs. Cunningham, who gave her a nod & an exulting smile as much as to say "You see I have carried the day!" Julia had endeavored to arm herself for this evenings trial, should Miss Eldon make one of the company; and accordingly she was not surprised, and not much moved, when she saw her husband conversing with that young lady. She was loo delicate in feeling, too refined in manner, to watch them, even long enough to catch the expression of Mr. West-! bury 's face; but resolutely turning her fac e another way, she endeavored to enter into conversation with the persons near her. Mr. Westbury had not been in Mrs. Parker's drawing-room half an hour, ere Miss Eldon contrived to place herself in uch a situation as to render it impossible for him to avoid addressing her; and this point once gained, to escape from her was impracticable. A strong sense of honor alone led him to wish to escape, as to be near her was to him a most exquisite happiness, but in the greater the delight, the more imminent the danger; of this he was sensible, and it was not without some resistance that he yielded to her f icinalion. Could she once secure his heart and at those moments that she was sure that no ear heard, and no eye observed her but his own she let an occasional touch of pexseuosa mingle so naturally with her half subdued sprighthncs, as to awaken, in all their original strength, those feelings and those regrets he was striving to subdue. For the time he forgot every thing but that they mutually loved, and were mutually happy. They had been standing together a considerable length of time when they were joined by Mr. Cunningham who obruptly remarked "ou dont enjoy yourself this evening, Westbury." "V. hat makes you think so?" Mr. Westbury inquired. "You look worn out, just as I feel," answered Mr. Cunningham. "How strange it is," he added, "that married men will ever suffer themselves lo be drawn into such crowds!" ".Why not married men as well as bachelors?' asked Miss Eldon. "Because they relinquish real happiness and comfort for a fatiguing pleasure if pleasure it ran be called,"' answered Cuningliam. One's own hearth and one's own w ile, is the place, and the society, for unalloyed enjoyment. Am I not right Westbury?"' Miss Eldon turned her eyes on Mr. Westbury, as she waited to hear his answer, and an expression compounded of curiosity, contempt and satisfaction, met his eye. it was the first time he had ever remarked an unlovely, an unamiable expression in her countenance. He calmly replied to Mr. Cunningham "Unquestionably, the pleasures of domestic life are the yiost pure, the most rational that can be enjoyed." "Oh, it is strange," said Mr. Cunningham, "that any one can w illingly exchange "them for crowded rooms and pestilential vapors, such as we are now inhaling! There is nothing to be gained in such a company as this. Take any dozen, or half-dozen of them by themselves, and you might stand some chance to be entertained and instructed, but bring them all together, and each one seems to think it a duty to give himself up to frivolity and nonsense. I doubt whether there has been a hundred sensible words uttered here! to-night except by yonder circle, of which; Mrs. Westbury seems to be the centre. j There seems to be something like rational' conversation there. Mr. Westbury turned his eyes, and saw that Julia was surrounded by the elite of the

party, who all seemed lo lo listening with

pleased attention lo a conversation that was evidently carried on between herself and Mr. Evelrth, a gentleman who was universally acknowledged as one of the first in rank, and talent in the city. For a minute Mr. Westbury suffered bis eyes to rest on Julia. Her cheek was snflused with the beautiful carmine tint of modesty, and her eyes with intellectual light while over her features was shed a slight shadow of care as if the heart was not perfectly at ease. "She certainly looks very well," was Mr. Westbury's thought and his feeling w as one cf gratified pride, that she who was evidently his w ife, did not find her proper level amongst ihe light the vain and the frivolous. "You have been delight fully attentive to your w ife, this evening my dear," said Mrs. Cunningham to her husband, as soon as they were seated in their carriage on their way home. "I am not sensible of having neglected veil Lucy." said Mr. Cunningham. Xo 1 suppose not; nor having been very attentive to another!" I cenainli- am not. Towliemdoyou allude?' "1 suppose," said Mrs. Cunningham "(hat Mr. Westbury is equaily unconscious of hav ing had his attention engrossed by any partic ular individual." "You certainly cannot mean that I was partic ularly attentive to Miss Eldon Lucy." "Oh how could I mean so?"' said Mrs. Cunningham, with a kind of laugh that expressed any thing rather than pleasure or good humour. "I really wonder bow you came to recollect having seen such a persi n as Miss Eldon to-night." "Your remark concerning Westbury brot' her to my mind," said Mr. Cunningham. "How strong," said his wife. "And how extreme that young ladv's mortification must have been, that she ould not detain tw o new ly married men near her for more than an hour and a half at one lime! Seriously Mr. Cunningham, thecompany must have thought that 3011 and Westbury were striving which should do her most homage." "And seriously my dear Lucy," said Mr. Cunningham, taking the hand of his wife, w hich she reluctantly permitted him to detain "Seriously it was merely accidental that I spoke to Miss Eldon this evening. There is not a person on earth to whose society and conversation I am moie completely indifferent so take no offence, love, where none was meant. There is no one whose conveisation c an compensate me for loss of yours; and it is one reason why I so much dislike these 1 rowds, that for a time, they necessarily separate us from each other." I'll.. C .MMt'i hit ninfitinir lit; IUIIU'III11 IIIVII lllll, Mrs. Cunningham called on Mrs. estbury, w ho, at the mo ment of her arrival happened lo be in her chamber but she instantly descended to re ceive her visitor. W henJMrs. Westbury left the parlour a short time previous, her husband was there; but he had disappeared, and she supposed he had gone out. He was, however, in the library, which adjoined the parlour, and the door between the two rooms was not quite closed. After the compliments of the morning Mrs. Westbury remarked "1 was somewhat supri&ea to see you at Mrs. Parker s, last evening "Surprised! why so?, "You recollec t the conversation that took place on the subject the morning I was at your house t "O, yes I re member that Mr. Cunningham was giving a kind of dissertation on the su perior pleasures of ones own chimney corner. Really I wish he did not love home quite so weW though 1 don't despair of teaching him, by and by to love society. - "Can it be possible that you really regret your husband's attachment to home? asked Mrs. Westbury. ''Yescerlainly w hen it interferes with my going our. a man ami 111s wile may sure ly enjy enough of each other's society fc yet see something of the world. At any rate I sh all teach Ned that I am not to be made a recluse for any man!" "Have you no fears, my dear Mrs. Cunningham," said Mrs. Westbury, "that your want ol conformity toyour husband's taste, will lesson your influence over him?"' "And of w hat use is this influence," asked Mrs. Cunningham, "unless it be exerted to obtain the enjoyments 1 love?"' "0,pray beware, said Mrs. Westbury with sympathy-"bew are, lest you sacrifice your happiness for chimera! Bew are how you trifle with so invaluable a treasure as the heart cf a husband.!" "PI10 pho how serious you are growing," said Mrs. Cunningham. "Actually warninsr ana exnorting at twenty Tears of age What a preacher you w ill be by the time you arc forty! But now be honest, and confess that you. yourself, would prefer a ball ur a party to sitting alone here through a stuped evening with Westbury." "Then to speak truth," said Julia, "I should prefer an evening at homo'to all the parties in the world balls 1 never attend, nnd do not think stupidity necessary, even w ith no other than ones ow n husband. "Then why do you attend parties if you do not like them?" "Because Mr. Westbury thinks it proper that I should." "And so you go to him, like miss to her papa and mamma to ask him what you must do?' said Mrs. Cunningham, laughing. 4 This is delightful, truly ! But for my part, I cannot see why I have not as good a riirht to expect Edward to conform to my taste & wish es, as me to conform to his. And so Westbury makes you go, whether you like to or not?"

"No, indeed," said Mrs. Wesflury, "J neverexpresed to him my aversion to going, not wishing him lo feel as if 1 were making a great sacrifice, in complying with his wishes." "Well, this is pretty, and dutiful, and delirate." said Mrs. Cunningham, laughing again.

"But I don't set up for a pattern wife, and if Edward and I get along as well as most ol the neoole. I shall be satisfied. But to turn lo something else. How do you like Miss Eldon?" "I am not at all acquainted with her," said Julia. "You have met her several times," said Mrs. Cunningham. "Yes, but have never conversed with her. Her appearance is greatlv in her favour; I think her very beautiful." "Sheis called so," said Mrs. Cunningham; "but somehow I don't like her looks. To tell the plain truth I cannot endure her. ihe is so vain, and artful, and self-complacent." "I have no' the least acquaintance with her," repeated Julia; "but it were a pity so lovely a face should not he accompanied by an amiable heart. Arc you much acquainted with her?" "Not personally. Indeed I necr conversed with her ten minutes in my life." "Then you may he mistaken in thinking her vain and ailful," said Mrs. Westbury. "O, I've seen enough as to satisfy me fully as to that point," said Mrs. Cunningham. "When a young lady exerts herself to engross the attention of newly married men, and when she looks so well satisfied at success, 1 want nothing more. She can have no deli cacy of feeling she must be a coquette of the worst kind. It was now Mrs. Westbury's turn to change the subject of conversation, and simply remarking "that w e should be extremely careful how we judge of c haracter hastily" she asked some question which drove Miss Eldon from Mrs. Cunningham's mind. Soon after the visitor departed, and Julia returned lo her chamber. In the evening w hen Mr. Westbury came in, he found Julia reading, but she immediately laid by herbook,and resumed her work. She thought it quite as impolite to pursue the solitary pleasure of reading w bile her husband was sitting by, as to have done so w ith any of her companion ; and she knew no reason w hy he v as not as much entitled to civility as a stranger, or common acquaintance. It was not long before Mr. Wrestbury inquired "w hat book had engaged her attention.' It was Dr. Russles Palestine. "It is a delightful work," said Julia. "1 have just read an extract from Chartcubriand. that 1 think one of the most elegant passages 1 ever met with." "I should like to hear it," said Mr. Westbury. J ulir opened her book.and tS.epnsnnge lost none of its beacuy by her reading. She read the following: "When you travel in Judea the heart is at first filled with profound melancholy. But when, passing from solitude to solitude, houndless space opens before you, this feeling wears off by degress, and you experience a secret awe, which so far from depressing the soul, imparts life, and elevates the genius. Extraordinary appearances every where proclaim a land teeming with miracles. The burning sun, the towering eagle, the barren fig-tree, all the poetry, all the pictures of Sripture aie here. Every man commemorates a mystery, every grolto announces a prediction, every hill re-echoes the accents of a prophet. God himself has spoken in these regioos.dried up rivers, rent the rocks, and opened the grave. The desert still appears mute with terror, and you would imagine that it had never presumed to interrupt the silence, since it heard the awful voice of Ihe Eternal." J ulia closed the volume, and Mr. Westbury nfler bestow ing just praise on the extract she had read, took up the work and proposed to read if she would like. She thanked him and an hour was very pleasantly spent in this manner. A little time was occupied in remarking on what had been read, when nfter a short silence, Mr. Westbury inquire d of Julia, "w hether she saw much of Mrs. Cunningham." "Not a great deal, was Julia's answ er. "Was she here this morning?' said Mr. Westbury. "She w as," replied Julia. "Ho you intend to be intimate with her?" inquired Mr. Westbury. "I have no intention about it," said Julia "but presume I never shall, as I fear our views and tastes will appear very discordant." "I am happy to hear you say so," said Mr. Westbury. "I am not prepossessed in her favor; and greatly doubt whether anv intimacy with her would 6e salutary. Such a person as 1 conceive her to be, should be nothing more than an acquaintance." Nothing more was added on the subject, and Julia wondered, though she did not ask, what had given her husband so unfavorable an impression of Mrs. Cunningham's char acter. Ihe truth was he overheard the conversation of Ihe morning, which he would have frankly confessed to his wife, but for a kind of delicacy to her feelings, as he had heard her remarks as well as those of Mrs. Cunningham. He knew that it was notnuite honorable to listen to a conversation without the I enow ledge of the parties; but he could not close the library door without betraying his proximity ; he wished not to see Mrs. Cunningham, he therefore remained quiet, and heard their whole colloquy. (TO BE CONCLCDEI) next week.) The debt of the city of Boston amounts to two millions of dollars.

Frvm tf.e Indiana Derrocrci BE A CANDIDATE. Do )0u wish lo get yourself nbusfd with, ont demerit, and praised beyond vcur tiescrt? Be a candidate. Do you wish to be censured upon the points in reference to which you are the most certain of being right, to hear .Vtribuled to you errors, vices and foibles of whie , you arc innocent, and to be puffed for qualities, acts, dispositions, and virtues of wind, your wife and children never suspected you' Be a candidate. Do you wish to read your own private histon. with emendations, additions, substructions, multiplications, alterations and amplj. cations, with a copious preface, introduction,

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ecu, sixteen ot whom were trom JVew ic city.

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