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Features FOR LADIES.

STORY OF SILENT LOVE

The following touching incident is from the New York Mirror:

An eminent clergyman one. evening became the subject of conversation, anda wonder was expressed that he never was married. “That wonder,” nil Miss Porter, “ was once ex- pressed to the Reverend gentleman himselfiu my hearing. and he told a story in answer, which I will tell you tml,perhaps, slight as it may seem, it is the history of other hearts as tensitire and delicate as his own.— Soon after his ordination, he preach- tdonce every Sabbath for a clergy- manin asmall village not twenty miles from London,

Among his auditors,from Sunday to Sunday, he observed a young lady, do always occupied a certain seat, tntlvhose close attention began in- ttnsrbly to grow to him an object of thought and pleasure.—-She left the church as soon as the service was "ter, and it so chanced that he went “for a year without knowing her “line: bttt his sermon was not written I'Ithout many thoughts how she would

then unless he read approbation in Gradually he came to

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'ng sermons, and to wish on other days than Sun- :but the weeks slipped on, and dash he fancied that she grew paler I. thinner, he never mustered reso— Ionenough to ask her name or seek 'peak With her. By those silent h however, love had worked into . “fl. and he had made up his “ '0 seek her acquaintance and h". If possible, when one day

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he was sent for to minister at a fu- neraL

The face of the corpse was the same that had looked up to him Sun- day after Sunday, till he learned to make ita part of his religion and his life. He was unable to perform the service, and another clergyman ofﬁ- cinted; and, after she was buried, her father took him aside and a ologised for giving him pain—but e could not resist the impulse to tell him that his daughter had mentioned his name with her last breath, and he was afraid a concealed ati‘ection for him had hurried her to the grave.— Since that, said the clergyman in question, my heart has been dead within me, and I |00k forward, only, to the time when I shill speak to herin Heaven.”

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THE OFFICER OF THE GUARD.

A TALE 05' THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.

It was a dark and gloomy period during the French Revolution. The remorseless Robespierre had done his worst; and the terrible factions which he had raised to support trim in his ascendancy. already began to trem- ble at the growing inﬂuence of the Royalists. The Jesuits and Jan— senists were burning with all the zeal of theological controversy; and the infuriated people giving themselves up to the unbelief of an unintelligible jargon, or to the spirit of a false and dangerous philosophy. Religion, af- frightvd, had ﬂed the country, and inﬁdelity, with all its attendant evils, was stealing over it like an invisible curse. The Very fountains of abom- ination seemed to have been broken up, and a deluge of pollution pottred

upon the land.j'I‘lre sanctuary and monastery were invaded, and thel bloodothirsty tyrants becoming more ; merciless and sanguiuary by the very despondency of their cause, heaped the most unpromked vengeance upon their wretched inmates. ‘

While the fttry of the revolution was at its extreme height, a com- munity ofnuns in the suburbs of Par- is were seized and condemned to the guillotine. On the day set apart for their execution, a ferocious mob had gathered in the streets of Paris, and as the victims passed along in their monastic dress, a faint murmur of disapprobation erase, not unlike that ofthe mingling of far-off waters. Many of them were in the full bloom of youth and beauty,and sung as they ascended the scaffold. the hymn of ch' Creator, with most lively and musical voices. They reached the fatal gttiliotine, and with a black veil still drawn over their faces, bowed their necks one by one beneath the bloody axe. It was a martyrdom which even the old in crime could scarcely witness without feeling their

bosoms heave as with the thrill of best emotions. Barbarin had in- deed become a business, and human;

ity been frozen hard by constant,

many years, he still loved her wet. unchanged affection.

At the outbreaking ofthe revel... tion, he joined the party ofhis father

scenes of desolation and horror.«- and became a friend to Robespierre,

But there was pictured in the coun-l

and an enemy of the Bourbons. Ti."

tenances of nearly all, a somethingblood-thirstiness of his leaders sien-

like the struggling of heart and mind, '

and the stout arm of one of the ofﬁ- cers of the guard fell nerveloss as he looked upon the massacre. He

could no longer riot in the des-l traction of maiden innocence; and'

his pent up feelings relieved them- selves in tears. just on the eve of submitting to her.

fate, cast an eye of recognition upon the. man who had shown so much hu-‘ manity ; and throwing her veil part-i

ly aside, disclosed to him a familiari face. He rushed forward before the executioner, and, in the agony of his; spirit, cried out— t

‘ Spare her—oh ! for mercy’s sake, spare her !’

The multitude gazed in astonish- ment, and the executioner stayed his purpose, and the axe fell by his side—

“ Listless from his crimsone'i hand,

The axe hung clogged with massacre."

‘ And thy heart fails thee, does it, young man i’ said he, with a ﬁendish smile. ‘ Liberty of speech and ac- tion calls for the sacriﬁce, and must and shall be made.’

‘ Oh ! no,’ cried he ;—‘ by your love for me—by all that is dear to our country and to human nature—I entreat you to spare that girl. She is innocent, and her father never op- posed the liberty for which we con- tend.’

I cannot now handy words with you, said the executioner : the ex- ecution most go on, and as l have no power myselfto revoke the sentence which has passed upon these nuns, it will be useless to trouble me with any further pleas for their safety.’

‘ Will you then prolong the execu- tion ofthis victim, until I have seen and asked her life of the proper arr- tbority. I know my prayer will be granted when they have heard their innocence and the cause of my anxi- ety.’

‘ Go, young man ; but, remember. unless you return in ﬁfteen minutes from thistime, your. errand to you- der place Would be as well untold.’

Many minutes had not elapsed beforethe chivalrous,youth had reach- ed his destined place. It was not

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a wild freak of gallantry, nor a dream of wonderng sense, gentle reader, that urged him on to the ac- complishment of so hold a plan. It was the prompting ofa better nature and of early love. nun had been the object of his attach- ment from his childhood ; and altho’ the turbulence of the times had separated them from each other for

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ened him to the heart’s core ; but. in could not retrace the steps which to had taken. It was immediate denti , or help in the work of destruction. which had been so well begun. Hr" concience struggled for a while with his principles : but the latter prevai -

of the slaughter of his friends one acquaintances. He saw the fathr: of his beloved fallon the scaﬂ‘old,an«' breathe out a prayer for his only daughter. He heard how, from tin: circumstances she was forced against her will, to embrace a life of conver — ttral seclusion, and to seek in the cloister an asylum, from the cares- and corruptions of the World. Bnt the affections ofthe artless girl cou'rt not be easily weaned from society They were concentrated into one sutw lime feeling oflove, and the conver.: and black veil were insufﬁcient tr- lead her to the sole contem Italian 0‘5 holy and eternal things. be your; liberalist loved her with a warm gist. of youthful feeling ; and during the few moments which were allotted him by the executioner, plead like .3 mother for the preservation ofhc- life. He gained his object, and hm» ried back with the glad tidings. A thousand enquiring eyes were looking out towards the palace. No officer of the gttard met their view. '1'. ' cheeks ofthe maiden were pale wi .. anxiety, and her brow was deeply furrowed with the lines of thought. The angel of hope which visited her 'out a few moments before, had Her. and she now gave her last look to 2!..- spirit’s heaven. The allotted time had expired—she bowed her neck—- the axe fell—and her soul went beer: to God, who gave it !

Just at that moment the ofﬁcer was seen hurrying with unwanted human speed towards the fatal spot. He. ascended the scaffold with the word “pardon” trembling on his ashy lips; and, as he looked around 0'! the bloody scene before him, he saw the yet unquiet ﬂesh of his soul’s idola- try ; the w0rds of grief became too big for utterance, and the energies of his noble nature died within him. He reeled, and fell prostrate amid the slaughtered nuns. The dream- less, pttlseless sleep of death had come over him, and his body was consigned to the same tomb as that ofthe unhappy victim whose life he had vainly attempted to save.

Jack, said one sailor to another, Jack, I don’t want to hurt‘yout feelings, but shiver my timbers, ifl don‘t believe you stole my watch.