Hubert's Wife

ennons. Red curtains shaded the windows, and drooped in folds to the floor. Roses and green leaves seemed springing up

lounge covered with bright patchwork, and furnished with log-cabin cushions, easy-chairs and ottomans, together with the work

en the loved family-room o

ung in the window; how could he sing on the morrow, missing her accustomed voice? Her picture hung over the m

at lesson of his life, and he would learn it well, the more that it was so severe and incomprehensible. But sleep and fatigue overcame Hubert at length. The light from the fire no more danced with his shifting curls, but settled down in a steady golden glow over the mass that mingled it

pressure of the present yielded to a half-conscious memory of the past, and a dream-like reverie bright

and ditches deep, and vigorously sought specimens of uncouth, out-of-the-way beast, bird and insect. He studied mathematics and classics, played pranks upon one tutor, and did loving reverence to another. He planted flowers upon his own moth

ith jack-o'-lanterns, impromptu giants and brigands, false faces

ousness and earnestness. If it gave him delight to play off upon a stranger the joke of "bagging the game," he en

form kindliness of nature. He cherished love for all that was around him, both animate and

sterious blight, rising in the orient, traveling darkly and surely unto t

he myriad-headed city, situate by river and by sea, but thou wert insatiable! Proud dwellings and lowly co

s happy and fair. Some cousins came down from the ci

month, how fea

ning, after the lapse of twenty years, shudders as he recal

se prevailed least amongs

were perha

ege years and his sister's course at school. He sees Jerusha Thornton in her youth and pride and beauty. She waves off the many suitors in her train, only to smile winsomely at the young master of Kennons. Her estate is equal to, and adjoins his own. He has known her from her childhood-he loves no other-and still he loves not her. He revolves the reason of this in his own mind. She has b

woman at its head. Its master had come to

Rusha as their mistress. They wished their master to marry-they would dance

nearly five years; she would soon be

n each other. For many years, however, having

She was coming home so soon, he had such confidence in her judgment and womanly intuitions, he would await her

ate. Ellice was the only child of a widowed Presbyterian clergyman. Her father had spent all he had to bestow upon her, in her

ella's good brother Duncan, a situation had been secured for Ellice in the family of Col. Anderson, not over six miles from K