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EUPHK0SYNE. AN OLD TILE OF THE NEW WORLD.

concluded. A crowd had by this time gathered on the balcony, all eager to watch thw coruscations of the auroia; and there were many who taw in them a shadowing forth of hosts engaged in battle portentous of impending wo to tho loyal garrison of Quebec. But no 6uch superstitious fears pnrulysed the courage of its brave defenders; and staunchest among them, and of firmest resolve to maintain the rocky stronghold against nil odds, was the governor himself, tho Comte de Frontenac, a gallant old noble, bred in the warlike school of Louis XIV., and a true believer in the great Henry of Navarre. M. de Frontenac possessed tho entire confidence of his sovereign, and it was this endeavor to deserTe it, by his wise administration and jjdicious policy seeking earnestly to advance the interest of the Canadian colony, and render it a more valuable appanage to the crown of France. But though just, generous and brave, the Cumte's imperious temper often balked his good purpose; toward those, especially, who in any way thwarted his views, he displayed his strong feelings, becoming frequently so irrascible. that his most familiar friends dreaded to approach him. In these dark and stormy moods, Madame de Levasseur was the otdy one who could exercise the cril spirit that possessed him. She was never moved even by his wildest tempests of passion; and, if manifested in her presence, they seldom failed to subside into calmness when she tried her feminine magic. He delighted to have her near him. She seemrd.' he aiid, 'to surround him with an atmosphere of joy and peace,' and the dutiful and i t-nder affection she rendered him in re-j turn for his fond indulgence, might have been that of a loving dauehter. Louis Saint Ours shared with Euphrosyne the favors of the str.tely Comte fur, like most persons who nre fond of power, he lovtd to have his favorites, though they were not so well chosen es in the present instance. lue young man Deiug auacneu to the personal suite of the governor, oc cupied apartments in tho castle, aud was thus thrown into intimate association with Euphrosyne in the daily and hourly courtesies of domestic life n dangerous position for the enamored Louis, especially as M. de Frontenac seemed in nowise displeassd at the intimacy which was ra j idly knitting the young p'ople more rlo-ely together. It was late that night before the gay assembly broke up. The dancing was continued languidly toward the close of the evening, and when it ceased, though the sound of music was heard at intervals, few heeded it. Some sat discoursing over their wine; others were gathered in knots here and there in the lighted rooms, or on the airy balcony; but every mind seemed engrossed by the one exciting topic of the hour. Indeed, the whole city was astir; tights glanced in all directisns; a ceaseless hum of voices nnd the tramp of hurrying feet rose on the air; and tho biazii.g watch-fires on the hights brightened with their ruddy dimes the rocks and cliffs over which brooded the shadow of night. It was past midnight when Saint Ours siid adieu to Euphrosyne, and left the castle on a private mission to the Intendant; and the yellow dawn was just tinging the horizon, when again he found himself alone in his chamber. Wearied, yet too much excited to feel the want of sleep, he opened a mall cabinet which sto)J in his apartment, and drew forth his writing materials, desirous of improving the short time that remained bofore the sound of the morning reveille, in inditing a letter to Madame de Lavasseur perhaps the last. Full of manly tenderness was this letter, and ns full of sad and bitter regret at the fate that forbade him to consecrate to her his life. All was told all mystery cleared away from his words and conduct; his whole soul was laid opea to her gaze, with its anguish,, its deep remorse for the wrong he had don in seeking, even indirectly, to awake her tenderness. The letter was sealed and addressed; and the half hour that remained before ! beirg summoned to active duty, he em ployed looking over the contents of the cabinet, which contained his private papers, and other articles of value. Letter after letter was given to the flames; hut several brief notes, bearing the signature of 'Euphrosyne.' and containing, it might be, some half-dozen lines of acknowledgment for n book, or other trifling favor, were gazed upon till the delicate characters became dim, and then restored ;o the cabinet. Unclosing private drawer, which he had almost forgotten, Louis started ot the sight of a miniature that had lain there undisturbed for years, though the rich gold of its setting was undimmed by time, and the gems that incrusied it remained as lustrous as ever. It was the picture of his child-wife, upon whih he had never looked since the day of his fatal marriage, -when it was given to him by her father. With an involuntarily shudder or aversion he closed up the dnwer; but immediately a sudden impulse impelled bim to re open it. and scan tho lenoamen's of the face, which had almost faded from bis remembrance. As he did so, a pair of soft dark eyes looked full upon njm eyes that startled him. he knew not why. and which he might have thought beautiful, had there been in them any deeper expression than the mere bashful innocence of childhood. He forgot thai with the lapse of years the child had ripened to maturity, and that tboie ejres so exquisite in form and

color, miht now be radiant with the sweet and tender emotions of woman; that the thin unformed features might now be rounded into beauty, and beam -with intelligence and love. But, no; Louis neither could nor would picture 6Uch a development to himself, lie looked upon the young face as that of his evil genius; and as. in contrast to it, beamed before his mental vision the soul-lit eyes and sunny 6mile of Euphrosyne, he cast the miniature from him in disgust. As it fell upon the floor, the spring opened, and revealed a ringlet of fair hair, fastened within the case. But what to him was this child's curll He saw only the dark braids which lent snch classic grace to the matchless head of Euphrosyne; and taking up the miniature, he threw it back into tho drawer, nnd locking the cabinet, he passed through a glass door to the terrace, to inhale the morning air. The dawn was slowly advancing, pninting the ea6l with hues that cist their splendor on the mist which enshrouded

the landscape. As the Fun ascended, the veil lified and flickered, hanging like a soft cloud over the Saint Lawrence, and wrapping in aerial robes the snowcapped mountains of Saint Charles. Saint Ours stood silently watching the tissue of vapor, curling and wreathing itself into a thousand forms of fantastic beauty, till it floated slowly upward, when the English fleet, lying off the shore at Beauport, was revealed. Every stitch of canvass was furled, and the only sign of hostility presented was the red-cross flag of England, floating from the mast-head of the admiral's vessel. The morning passed away; noon arrived nnd still no sign of intended purpose or action on the part of the English was mmifested. The hostile flag streamed out on the quickening breeze, and the guns bristling in formidable array through the port holos of the vessels, atone gave evidence of the intent of the couchant lions who waited to spring upon their prey. But just as the bell in the Tower of Notie Dime proclaimed the hour of twelve, a boat, conveying an officer, with a flag of truce, shot from the side of the admiral's ship, and eoou touched tho pier at Spirit Koch's. Springing on shore, the young ofllcr, with a courteous salutation to the commander of the detachment waiting to receive him, requested to bo conducted to the Cointo do Frontenac; to whom lie was' the bearer of dispatches from Sir William Phipps. The consent of the governor bing signified, he was blindfolded, wid led up the steep and rock) streets of the lower town, past frowning batteries, and through formidable rows of chevaux dt frizc. to the lofty platform on which stood the castle of Saint Louis. Admitted within its gates, he was conducted to the council chamber, where M. de Frontenac, surrounded by high dignitaries of the church, and officers, both civil and military, sat in state. An imposing audience, thought the yoüng man, when his eyes were unbandaged, and he stool, the bearer of a haughty messnge, before that silent and dignified assembly. The stern, proud countenance of the imperious governor, one would have thought, was in itself enough to daunt the courage of any ordinary man under such circumstances; but the English herald, with a bearing as haughty as that of the aristocratic noble he confronted, advanced toward him. and with a stately obedience awaited his permission to unfold his errand. Slightly returning the 6tranger"ß greeting, the governor said, in a brief and peremptory manner: Read on, sir, and you 6hall hve our answer.' The Englishman coolly drew forth his document and read, in a voice ns unmoved as though the words he uttered were ofthe most agreeable import, the bold summons of his admiral, demanding, in ihe name of his sovereign lord, William, king of England, the immediate surrender of the fortress nd city of Quebec; 'to which demand, added Hie imperturbablo messenger, 'your answer, Comte de Frontenac, is required in an hour hence, upon ihe peril that will ensue. And laying his watch upon the table, he coolly said: 'It is nowone o'clock, and I shall await your excel lency's answer till the time specified has expired.' By a simultaneous impulse, the whole asseubly rose from their seals, surprised out of their dignity by the insolence of the message and the audacity of its bearer. Rige and astonishment were depicted on the countenance of M. de Frontenac. Fora minute, excessive anger prevented his utterance; but when at last his white lips parted to speak, a torrent of scorn and defiance flowed from them. Shaking his clenched hand with a menacing gesture. I do not recognize the supremacy of William of England,' he said, ! know him only as the Prince of Orange a usurper, who to gratify his seHish ambition, has outraged the most sacred rights of blood and of religion, triring to persuade the nation that he is its savior, and the defender of its faith, even while he has violated its laws, and overturned the church of England. Those offences the Divine justice will not long delay to punish as they merit.' Perfectly unmoved by this hurricane of wrath, stood the messenger of Sir William Phipps, except that a haughtier light gleamed in bis clear blue eye, nnd a scarcely perceptible curl of his lipshowed his contempt for the accusation alleged hit sovereign. He only asked. This, then, is your excellency's only reply?' M. de Frontenac deigned no word in return to the ques'.ioo, but, with an air of frrgid determinatien, slightly bent his htad in token of ascent.

May it please your excellency, then,' resumed the officer, still in the same impetturbablo and authorative tone, 'to cause that this, your answer to our summons, should be rendered iu writing, for the satisfaction of my commander, t whom I would not willingly bar a ulse interpretation of your message. I will answer your master, sir, by the mouth of my cannon!' thundered the exasperated governor, whose fcarcely smothered wrath leaped into a flame at the audacious coolness of the herald. 'Thus, and thus only, will I hold parley with bim, and that ere long; for it. is lime to teach him that the. Comte de Frontenac. the vicegerantof the greatest monarch in the world, is not to be dealt with in this manner, even by his peers.' With a haughty wave of his hand, the angry old noble rose and left the council chamber, attended by his suite. It was the signal for the herald's departure; and again, with bandadged eyes, he was con ducted through the forufie.i city to the boat which had borne him ca his fruitless mission thither. The hostilities which almost immediately ensued on the conclusion of this brief conference, are matters of history, and upon them, even did the limits of our tale permit, we have no desire to jwell. Hour after hour the dreadful cannonade continued; but directed, as was t!,a fire of the English colonists, ogainsl ne hights of

the tipper town, their balls f 11 harmless; white the numerous guns r the rocky fortress replied with a ptver that told fatally upon the enemy's flotilla, and stil'ed the beating of many a gi'.lant heart that fought upon its decks. AH day the fearful strife went on w.eping eyes watched its progress on aching hearts its sounds fell like the knell of their life's happiness; and in darkened ch;mbers some lay unable to move, with tearless eyes, and ears muffled, to shut out the incessant booming of the rannen. But the wearyday declined at last; tw;!ig:. r, brief and bright, came on; and then the welcome, night, hroudiug all things in darkness, and stilling for a lime the desperate fight. S iint Ours hailed the approach of night with joy. All day he had been native where peril was rifest, rm had escaped unscathed; even a brief respite eves grate ful to hihi. Another evening might not find hiir. breathing, lovinf oil thai earth, made radiant by the presepce of Euphrosyne; for there lay the black hulks of the hostile vessels, wailing for dawn to renew the strife; and among the victims marked for death, might no: himself be numbered? With this thought spran" f. an intense desire to see Euphrosyne, i. '.nly for a few moments, to learn how she had borne the trials ofthe day, and to draw comfort and coujrage from her smile. But he had been left for the night in command of one of the batteries of the lower town; and to forsnke his p"st, even for an instant; was impossible. So, sadly resigning himself to the hard necessity, ho stood dreamily gazing at the turrents of the castle, as they stood against the evening sky, and picturing to himself the beloved imae which had never left him even in the perils of the fight. He was interrupted by a message from M. de Frontenac. who required his immediate attendance at the castle. He needed no second bidding to make him obey the summons, trusiing that, when he had received the Comte's commands, he should be able to steal a short interview with Euphrosyne before quitting the castle. He was detained but a few minutes by the governor, who desired to charge him with a secret mission to the commander of a distant redoubt; and as Louis passed from his presence, he made a slight detour, in order to traverse the corridor in which the private apartments of Madame dn Lavasseur were situated. His heart beat high with the hope of meeting her; but the place was vacant; though, seeing the door of her boudoir stand partly open, he paused opposite to it irresolute, yet fearing to enter unbidden. No light gleamed from within, and he ventured softly to breathe her name; but, there was no answer; not a sound broke the deep silence; only a faint odor of the flowers she most loved Flole balmily, like her own sweet presence, upon his senses. A glass door at the end of the corridor stood open, and witli a trembling, undefined hope he passed through it to the balcony, and there he found the object of his search. With the traces af emotion still lingering on her face, she lay upon a cushioned feat, the folds of her white garments fulling gracefully around her, and her ottitude one of profound repose. The moonbeams trembling through a flee cy cloud, quivered on her face, their pale soft light seeming to surround her head with a halo, and thus lending a celestial character to her beauty. Saint Ours stole toward her shrinking at the sound of his own step, yet drawing nearer till her low measured breathing fell softly upjn his ear. It seemed as if she had wept herself to sleep, for tears were yet glistening on her cheek, round which hr hair fell in disorder, descending in rich folds to the floor. One hand pillowed her head, the other lay passively across her breast, nnd in its clasp glittered the jewelled setting of a miniature. Louis felt a pang of bitter jealousy shoot through his heart; he knew the picture could be no other than that of him whom she had wedded and lost in early youth, and he could not bear to have her steal one thought from him, to lavish even on the dead. Suddenly her sleep became disturbed; she moved, and murmured softly, but his ear caught the whispered words, and the blood bounded urildly through his veins. Could it be? Yes, again she spoke; and his own nam was on her lips his father's name; that which he had

borne since he became known to her was his mother's. He bent again to listen a smile was on her lips. She seemed visited with happy dreams; and stooping low to catch her inarticulate murmurs, he again heard Louis de Morney.' coupled with another name which had been familiar to his childhood. He was amazed how could she have come to the knowledge of this name? He wished she would awake, but she seemed sinking into a deeper slumber, and he felt that he must depart without the interchange of a word. Still he remained, ns if spell bound, bending over her till her breath fanned his cheek, when, yielding to a resistless impulse, he slightly pressed his lips upon her brow. Light as was the touch of that impassioned kiss, it awoke her, and sho sprang to her feet. In her terror, she failed to recognize him; she saw only a tall fifcure standing beside her; and with a bound, she rushed from him toward the door, which opened from the corridor. Her dress was caught by some slight obstacle ns she was passing through; and in her enger histe to disengage it, she cast a furtive glance at the intruder, when she was struck with n certain something in his air. and in the outlirps of his figure, which arrested her flight. Euphrosyne!' whispered the well known voice. Glowing with joy, she

turned toward him. He advanced. You are safe, thank God! she said: but the sound of n closing door, and then of voices approaching, alarmed her; and snatching her hand from his clasp, she darted swiftly away. Louis stood for a minute like one entranced; but he had no time to linger; and comforted by having seen her, he strove to persuade himself that it was bolter for her happiness and for his houor, that he had been saved the xpression of feelings, into which, had the interview been prolonged, he might have been betrayed. He left the castle, and departed 6viftly to his mission. The brief truce of the night wns broken at early dawn by the guns of the enemy, who, undaunted by the ill-fortune of the preceding day, renewed the assault with a courage of success. But they contnnded against fearful odds; and though, for six continuous hours, they pressed the attack with unexampled vig or, they were at last compelledto retreat before the overwhelming power cl their opponents. Many there wero on the decks of the little flotilla, who would have preferred dying in the struggle; but Sir William Phipps. no less brave than hu man, wished to avoid a useless waste of life, and, assured that all chance of victory was tit on end. he orderedthe . anchors to fee weighed; and, crippled by the guns of the fortress, many of her gaEant hearts cold and silent, others bleeding on her deck, the defeated armament floated slowly down the stream. Fast and continuous from the highest of the citidnl pouring on the retiring fleet the fire of its cannon; scarcely a ball sped throngh tho air in vain; and when at last one of them in its flight struck the mast of the admiral's vessel, and ent it headlong, with the proud mast of England at its top, into the St. Lawrance. what humiliation crushed the hearts of its defenders! what insolent joy swelled the triumph of ihe victors! Borne up by its silken fold?, the flag floated ihlowly on toward the conquerers a token of surrender, which they hailed with shouts that6hook the city to its ctn ter. On it came, watched with breathless interest by that eager multitude, till suddenly, saturated by ihe waves, it disappeared beneath them, the end of the splintered flagstaff floating on the surface, designating the place where it had sunk. The breathless hush which succeeded its immersion, was broken by the clear commanding voice of M. de Frontenac impetously exclaimingl Shall the trophy be lost to us, and not an arm omong the hundreds here outstretched to pluck it from the wave?' God forbid!' shouted Louis St. Ours; ard with ti.e words he enst aside his coat and sword, and leaping from the deck, dashed out into the stream. The welkin rang with enthusiastic cheers; and many a one who had shrank from the peril, now envied the young man who had dared it the glory ot the act. The retreating foe were still near enough to mark the proceedings'on shore; and hoping to rescue thair fallen flng from the grasp of the victors, they renewed their slackened fire. But, regardless of dnngt-r, though the balls fell fast around him, St. Ours pressed on. The throng upon the shore watched his progress in profound silence; but when he safely neared the flagstaff, and grasping it. held up the flag, a burst of graiulation, long and deafening, greeted his triumph, and was again renewed, and yet again, as he swam b.-ick with the trophy to the shore. Leaping up the bank, he laid it. with a proudly throbbing heart, at the feet of M. de Frontenac. Surrounded by his staff, the old noble stood upon the highest point of the bank, watched the scene with intense interest. A smile at its gallnnt issue lit up the veteran's haughty face, softening its stern expression, and revealing by its sunshine the kindness which really formed a path of its character, though too often ob scured by the arbitrnry manner which his love of rule had fostered. Being courteously toward St. Ours: Well and bravely done, young air!' said he "Well and bravely! the crowning act of a heroic day! On the spot which has witnessed your valor, it is fitting that, in my sovereign's name, 1 de cree you the guerdon it deserves. Kneel down, Louis St- Ours! and drawing his sword from his scabbard, he held the glittering blade, flashing in the sunlight,

over the joung man's head for a moment,

thtn laying it upon his shoulder 'Rise, Baron da MornayP he exclaimed; 'and be thou fortunate in love as thou hast this day shown thyself valiant iu arms, and loyal to the service of thy king.' j At theso words the new made, baron rose, flushed and excited, pleased by the ! approbation of his commander, and the flattering distinction accorded mm; uut above, all, mystified and astonished at beiiiT accosted by the paternal name he had so long disused as the symbol of his legal bondage. Twice within the last few hours he had heard it repeated by those to whom he had never been known as oihr than Louis St. Ours; nnd now he , was re beptizod with his family name, - dinified with a lordly title. j

He casts us quite in the shade, raid he perjured lord, whose pictured face onD'E'Deron to a voung officer beside him; ly kept alive her remembrance, and nour-

and after this fine exploit, the women

will so deify himl' Young D'Aubigny, the and now The words faltered on her person addressed, shrunk from the gay re-; lip, as with a trembling hand she unclaspmark; he felt too deeply the power of the ed a chain of gold from her neck, an I rival with whom, in love at levst: he saw j held the miniature suspended from it tohow vain it was to contend; and without, ward him, then bending down, hid her

attempting nny reply, he turned upon his

heel and walked away. j lie took it eagerly, and pressing the The city that night presented a scene spring, disclosed the likeness of ayoulh, of rejoicing, except where, here and there, beautiful as Adonis; yet, was it not a close dwelling told of the desolation , could it be a transcript of his own b9ywhich the brief combat had brought into ish features! It was a strange bewilderit. A banquet at the castle celebrated ing thought, nor would he have yielded the victory ofjthe garrason; and conspic- j to the conviction of iis truth, had it not uous among the adornments of tho grand ( been forced upon him beyond a doubt by saloon hung'the English flag, dividing the , seeiug his own name engraved upon the attention of the guests with the youthful , case. Yet even that evidence seemed inhero who, at the peril of his life, had sufficient, for he held it up in the strong snatced it ftom the waves. Euphrosyne light of the hanging lamp, reading with looked the veiy incarnation of happi-j fixed gaze the name Louis de Mornay ness a delicate rose had flushed her clearly cut upon the goid. check, but paled or deepened with ever ( Rhosyne!' he cried, catching her imvarying emotion; a beaming light was j petuously in his arms 'Rosyne Rosyne in her eye, bounding joy in her 6tep, ade Lancy! she whom I have wronged, and tender gladness in her voice, that betray-j shunned, and bated! Can it be that she ed to Louis, more eloquently than words, ' and the beairtTTul Euphrosyne, the daythe depth and fervor of her love. Never ! star of my life, are one the same? If before had she so plainly manifested her; this is true, will not she to whom I hive preference: it saemed ns if she designed; been so unjust show mercy, and let the to convince him of it, and that so undis- sufferings I have bat feebly pictured c-

"uisedly, that, even while his heart strug- j tone for the fatal error of tho past?' Lookgled between the joy and anguiih which j ing up with a smile of trusting love, sha

the certainty of her love broueht wi'h it. he was half inclined to censure its almost triumphant demonstration. More painfully than ever came home to him his hopeless bondage his hateful obligations to another, and reproaching himself that he had so long tacitly premitted the growth of her affection, he resolved that very evening, even while, her hand held the cup of happiness to his lip, to turn from it, and reveal to her his true posi

tion. With this purpose he turned toj'For years 6he has been my precious seek her; but not finding her nmong the j charge, and for her sake I have marked crowd, he strayed on toward a small i your course, and at last brought you to my apartment, whose glass doors opened up- j side, that in case I found you worthy of on the terrace, which, at that hour, he i my poerless little blossom, a happy dethought to find untenanted, and where 1I noument might crown your melancholy could collect himself for the interview ho romance. The name she bears is an as-'

sought. With down cast eyes, and arms folded across his breast, the very impersonation of melancholy musing. Louis entered the apartmnnt; but as he slowly rmssed its threshold a murmur of voices sio.'led him, nnd raiding his eyes he saw, seated in a high-backed Gothic chair, surmounted by his own arms, the comte de Frontenac, while beside him stood Euphrosyne, one arm thrown carelessly around his neck, and her fair face, a very April face, with its mingled smiles and tears, half hidden on his shoulder. Entranced by the unexpected sight, yet retaining a dim consciousr.rss of intrusion, Louis mechanically turned to refeat, when the voice of the governor arrested his steps. Nav. do not quit us. Baron de M-t nay,' he cried; 'there 6urely is an unseen Power that directs our actions, or you would not have been drawn hither at so apropos a moment. Come and tell me what shall be done to the man whom we delight to honor! I feel that I have but poorly acknowledged your chivalrous conduct by the bestowal of an empty title; and now I would signalize my sense of your brave and gallant bearing by ennch ing you with a gift, priceless above rubies, if as ihe young believe the heart's affection is more to be coveted than worldly wealth and honors Euphrosyne!' She did not answer to his call, but kneeling in silence beside him, strove with her small hands to cover with her blushing face, as it rested on his knee. The Comte turned his eye; fiora her with a Sir.;'. a, and again addressed St. Ours: 'Young man, I knew your father, and loved him; and so loving him, rejoice that he has left such a son to honor his memory, and bear up his ancient name; and being such an one, I not unwillingly entrust to your keeping the happiness of my child, my Euphrosyne mine by adoption, the precious gift of a sister whom I 6hall never cease to mourn.' Thero was a breathless pause; the young man's tongue clave to the roof cf his mouth his heart seemed to cease its pulsationshe stood for a minute as if transformed to marble; then roused by an over powering rush of agony, he rapidly traversed the apartment. It was a moment of terrible suffering; he could not bear it long; and suddenly n&rvtng himself to the act, he paused before the chair of M. de Frontenac, and raised his eyes to read a sentence of wrath and banishment in that stern, despotic face, but instead thereof he saw an expression of kindness, softening the eagle glance of the veteran, such as he had never witnessed there before. A mist obscured his sigh, and dimly through it he saw the still kneeling figure of Euphrosyno. her face bowed down and hidden in her hands; and impulsively he cast himself beside her. breathing out j in broken sentences his love and his des-1 pair, rapiuiy ueiauiug iuu iwaiuiy ui tits early and forced marriage, and deploring with paseionate eloquence the xeleatlewi

destiny that crushed from his heart ths

hope dearest to it on earlh. 'This is a strange story, for6-nth,' s'aii the Comte, in a tone that sounded mwekingly to the diseased sense of the unhappy lover. 'Euphrosyne. my bird, heard you ever the like ot it.' A.y, almost the same, dear uncle,' 6ho said, raising her lovely face, now so radinnt wan nappiness tnat tne young naron, amazed, almost indignant, gzed fixedly upon her for a moment, half ready to bslieve himself the dupe of some concerted jest. 'The same, say you! pray how so?' questioned the Comte. 'List if it be not,' she answered.' 'X story of a maiden wedded in her childhood, left unclaimed, forsaken even by ished her efiVctien till they met agiin; blushing face from his gae. replied: It is forgotten now forgotten, dearest Louis, and forgiven. The joyful reunion of this moment seals and sanctifiaJ the empty vows of our childhood. Henceforth, let us live for God, who has so blessed us, and for each other. Ah, take her, my young gallant, and make her what amends you ran for yeur past folly and neglect,' said M. do Frontenac, in a tone of unwonted emotion. sumed one, of course, for with that mat-riage-symbol on her finger, which I couldt never prevail on her to lay aside, it was not meet to deprive her of her matronly dignity. And now I will leave you to mutual explanations; our guests are dit peräing, and a few hours still remain before the morrow summons u? to rternet duties. Be well assured that you are satisfied with each other, else it will be easy for the church to undo tha knot which affection has never rivetted. But if all is right and true in your hearts, we will have you re-married on the same day the! we chant ale Deum for the victery which has chased the invaders from our shores.' A bland smile brightened his face for a moment; then turning away he left them j to their happiness; and the door he closed as he withdrew, we will not venture to open; the privacy of such affection should bo sacred from all intrusion. A few days 6aw the waters of the Sr. Lawrence freo from the invading squadron, which, after various unsuccessful attempts to gain possession of some portion of the Canadian territory, withdrew, shattered and discomfittcd from the disastrous conflict. The final disappearance of the foe caused great rejoicings in the loyal city of Quebec; nnd amidst the festivities of the occasion, the nuptials of Euphrosyne and Lsuis took place under different circumstances, nnd with different feelings, from those which marked the former ceremonial; and with a pomp-, too. which better suited the taste of M. de Frontenac. In the church of Notre Dime, with ho. ly symbols around them, and the English' flag, the trophy of De Mornay'e gallantry waving from the walls, where for many years aftor it continued to hang, the young couple, in the assurred bliss of mutual affection, re-plighted their solemn troth, and rendered their thanks to the kind Providence which had thus led them so safety through Ihe valley of the shadow of death. Never keep animals on 6hort allowance if youstarve them, they vill starve you. CC5Dr.B. P. Rankin has been ap. pointed and confirmed Marshal of Nebraska. CCj-He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrites of whom you should beware. There's no deception in a bull dog." It is only the cur that sneaks up and bites you when your back is turned. A house in Boston, which lately shipped a cargo of potatoes to Galveston. Texas, has received advices that thore are no warehouses at that place to nretect tneni irom lue IrOSt. r r r N Hümbü. Bernum is bankrupt

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