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IN te counties of England, I ruck into one of t lead ts of try, and stopped one afternoon at a village tuation of ired. tive simplicity about its inants not to be found in t coacermined to pass t taken an early dinner, strolled out to enjoy the neighboring scenery.
My ramble, as is usually travellers, soon led me to tood at a little distance from the village.
Indeed, it of some curiosity, its old toely overrun only ting buttress, an angle of gray astically carved ornament peered t covering. It of t in ternoon it ill tract of golden sky in t, from up all Nature into a melanc seemed like ting ian smiling on ty of he will rise again in glory.
I ed myself on a ombstone, and to do at ted scenes and early friends--on tant and t kind of melanc someter even troke of a bell from tos tones ead of jarring, c ime before I recollected t it must be tolling tenant of tomb.
Presently I sarain moving across t , and reappeared til it passed tting. ted by young girls dressed in teen, oken t ts.
tter order of peasantry.
to repress racted bro aloud s of a mothers sorrow.
I folloo tre aisle, and t of e gloves, was whe deceased had occupied.
Every one knounate as never to o tomb? But ence, ing? At t simple but most solemn consignment of to t;Earto earto as to dust!quot;--tears of trained. till seemed to struggle o comfort t t of do of its sness; s;mourning over be comforted.quot;
On returning to t tory of the deceased.
It old. Sy and pride of t farmer, but ances. t up entirely at y of rural life. Sor, te lamb of tle ?ock. tcion ernal care; it ed and suitable to to move, for to make to ation in life, not to raise . tenderness and indulgence of s and tion from all ordinary occupations ered a natural grace and delicacy of cer t accorded ender plant of tally amid tives of the ?elds.
ty of and ackno envy, for it leness and winning kindness of migruly said of her:
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tered spots ain some vestiges of old Englisoms. It s rural festivals and imes, and still kept up some faint observance of tes of May. ted by its present pastor, ians t ting joy on eartood from year to year in tre of t ed reamers, and a queen or lady of ted, as in former times, to preside at ts and distribute turesque situation of ts rustic fetes en attract tice of casual visitors. Among t ly quartered in tive taste t pervaded t, but, above all, e lessness of rural s enabled o make ance; o imacy, and paid to untoo apt to tri?e ic simplicity.
to startle or alarm. alked of love, but t more eloquent t subtilely and irresistibly to t. tone of voice, tendernesses ion,--true eloquence of love, and can al and understood, but never described. Can t young, guileless, and susceptible? As to unconsciously; s and feeling, or o be its consequences.
S to ture. , tention; of intervieies in Nature; alked in te and cultivated life, and breato cry.
Per girls. t ?gure of ary attire mig ?rst it t ivated . tac of idolatry. So o a being of a superior order.
S in y turally delicate and poetical, and no ao a keen perception of tiful and grand. Of tinctions of rank and fortune s not ellect, of demeanor, of manners, from tic society to elevated en to look of mute deligle ured a simid admiration, it tive unhiness.
ure. ion in levity, for en of ts, and t some triumpo ation as a man of spirit. But oo full of yout yet been rendered suf?ciently cold and sel?sed life: it caug sougo kindle, and before ure of uation he became really in love.
acles tacs. itled connections, o trimony; but ender and con?ding, ty in y in aious feeling. In vain did ry to fortify less examples of men of faso ciment cold derisive levity alk of female virtue: mysterious but impassive cy in can live.
t to repair to tinent completed t time in a state of t painful irresolution; ated to communicate tidings until t elligence in the course of an evening ramble.
ting o broke in at once upon y; s as a sudden and insurmountable evil, and y of a co ears from c s of mingled sorroenderness uous, and t of beauty apparently yielding in o overo propose t sunes.
e a novice in seduction, and blusered at so innocent of mind im t s ?rst at a loss to compreive village and ts. last ture of o reproac a s as from a viper, gave pierced to o tage.
tired confounded, ed, and repentant. It is uncertain of s been diverted by tle of departure. Need i?ed enderness; yet, amidst tir of camps, ttles, s imes steal back to t and village simplicity--te cottage, tpattle village maid loitering along it, leaning on ening to ion.
truction of all ings and erics ?rst sender frame, and tled and pining melancing troops. Sriump trumpet and trained a last acer tered about vision from , and left her all in darkness.
It rite to diculars of er story.
It ales of love, melancy and alone in t frequented , like tricken deer, to rankled in imes se of an evening sitting in turning from tive ditty in t in ions at ced a ic gloom and t ual, and looking after heir heads in gloomy foreboding.
S a conviction t sening to tomb, but looked foro it as a place of rest. t o existence o be no more pleasure under tle bosom ertained resentment against inguis of saddened tenderness ster. It toucs very simplicity. Sold s conceal from ed t concluded s die in peace until s him her forgiveness and her blessing.
By degrees rengt stage. Sotter to t o sit all day and look out upon till stered no complaint nor imparted to any one t y over till ?attering t it migo fres t uneartimes ?us be turning h.
In ted beternoon; tice air t stole in broug tering rained round the window.
been reading a cer in t spoke of ty of seemed to and serenity through her bosom.
ant village colled for t villager o to t illness peculiar to t. s rembled in blue eye. as ss o t distant co hered?
Suddenly to ttage; ed before t exclamation and sunk back in lover. o to clasp o ed form, enance--so so lovely in its desolation--smote o t . Soo faint to rise--stempted to extend rembling no iculated; sterable tenderness, and closed her eyes forever.
Suciculars wory.
t scanty, and I am conscious tle novelty to recommend t rage also for strange incident and ive trite and insigni?cant, but terested me strongly at time; and, taken in connection ing ceremony nessed, left a deeper impression on my mind tances of a more striking nature. I ed tter motive ty. It ry evening: trees ripped of tled coldly the dry grass.
Evergreens, ed about te, and osiers over it to keep turf uninjured.
tepped in. t of ?o is true, but care seemed to aken t no dust seness. I s s poo aator, but I spoke more touco my t delicate memento of departed innocence.