HASZAR.D’S GAZETTE, JUNE 30.

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“ Mr dear Kitty, we must think of getting you soiue new clothes to go to ndon with. Of eottrse, you will like to buy the principal things there : but you must have a. psw gown to go in. Morley has a lovely dobcgecloured silk, which I'm sure would just become you, and he only wants three-and-ninepence a yard for it. We‘ rather a short length, but he said, if I'd take it, Ite’d allow me something." I

“ I am not going to’ ondon, my dear aunt,” replied Catherine, in a low voice.

“Not oin, to London!" exclaimed Miss Birkby. looking over her spectacles in amazement. “ Why Lady Irwin has been here herself, and

your pa a and I accepted the invitation.”

“I tod Lady Irwin I was not going. I did not know she would ask me lilljust now. Edward talked of it, but she never mentioned it before.”

" But why you won’t go, I can't understand,” pursued Miss Birkby. “You may never have such another opportunity in your life. You would see everything and be in the first society without any trouble or fatigue. I’m sure Lady Irwin won’tbe pleased. lcan’t understand it. W when] was your age, I used to go wherever any 09° “Red m°- I h°P° 3°" ‘"9 “oi lllillkillﬂ 350"‘ air was fragrant from banks of violets and prim- l”'i“§ Y0“? P'P3 Md me! “C3099 Y0“ l"'°Wi “'9 l roses. and the distant moon hung in the ether. °°“ld m3“'R° Peiiecllll “'9” b)’ °‘"'°l‘7.”i '“d 0f.’ It was an evening for tender thoughts, and as °°l"'° ‘"9 “nil “P9” I0 l‘°"I’ 37°“ 3l"§I"-" 5 Catherine pursued her way, her mind wandered

“ I lhiilli Y0" “ld P5P‘ V'°“ld be l°“°ll's "1 back to the old days of her childhood, and to the Veilliil" Yeilllined C3lh°'i“°i 3l°“’lY I ‘h‘ b'" _ll"_" I‘: i countless pleasant hours which she and Frank

nott e on _v reason—thai is not i e principa jhad , emu, “hen reason. I don't think, it would be well for me to ' EN, . 3,", ;,, ,1“, mad b,,,,,gm ha; face to 8°: “lg! l'°P° )'°“ "ld P'Pl‘ Will I93 "19 3”)’ 3‘ tl;ache|5vith himhof whom shedwahs thiinkipgélshg

0 l e e him wit sur rise. an t eti e o 00

“ Oi °°l|"°i duh ‘"9 "9 °"lY I00 Bl“ l° l"“'° l setting tumultuously pto her heart deprived her

on. I’m sure I don't know what we should do i [0, me momem of gpeech 0, motion, without you for three months: Iain only sorry 65] came to meet you, Kitty," and Frank 350"‘ I-Id! i|’V'iﬂ-” t Irwin, “ your aunt told me, where you were gone

" Well, now, this is too bad,” cried Edward ’_,h,, uked me go ¢ome_] hope you are not Irwin, brushing into the room. his face flushed 1 di,,,,]e,,,ed_v and his eyes bright with tears of vexatioii. " Only l .. oh_ no 3" "id c,.i,e,i,,e, {gambling yet more, ‘Milk Mi” Bl"kbY""“lI' lm'8l“¢—m9lh°' “Ni E and only daring to deprecate his anger by a look Kill! WM’! 30-" ,'of eupplication: for there was a restraint and I " Si” ll“ .l“°‘ been lelllllﬁ‘ ‘"9 ‘Oi m)’ d“','; "d ,1 hauglitiness in his tone and manner lyyhich were

‘in “"9 39 mllch 3'" 'i“°‘ 3‘ °“ C3" 3- I uite new to er. He ttirned to wa with her,

“ Bill lhe d0eln’l- liniiw WlHIlyIl|6’8 |'€i|i3i"f-lt"l2nd they had proceeded some way before he

l’0l~“|‘n°d EdW3"di imP"“°“5lY—" llllw 5h°“ld ~ again addressed her. At length he said, she? She has never been out of this stupid lilllel It 1 w,,,,, ,0 gay , few wmd. to yo,._ cgt|,e,jn¢,” Villlsd in lief life; Ind you can’t think Will“ l He spoke slowly and with manifest elTort. “I trouble father and I had to get mother to ask her. I need no, ,9“ you. ma, ,.,,,,,. ,—,,{,,,,,| ,0 ,,cc,,mp,,,,y She's horribly GT0" WW9 and “V3 ‘IN’ l"'‘’'' ‘he my mother to London was a sad disappuintirient. Wollldﬂlb come, IIUW she COIIIII ICII ,IIIII I l yea’ and an unexpected digappointmanl [0 me. ¢3l1’“hi"k- ‘Nil!’ “'‘’“’l l'‘‘“ WW9: Kill)’ ‘I93’ I” l am not going to distress you by an inquiry into the he ¢0|Ilin||3ilt changing 31 0006 i|’0lB 3029' l°imoiives of your refusal. You set upon them so enm-In “ You don’! know what 4! splendld ‘decidedly, that you must be satisﬁed with them. place London is. -Illother goes everywhere, and 1 only ,,.,,h ,0 ,,,y,.,h,,, [ am ,,w,,,.,, from your °'°"Y°"° °°m9' l° 0"?’ I'll‘-'59? “id 1“ “'°‘'k '9 l conduct on this occasion, and from the manner of _ Illid-‘I'll ‘I0 I'll’ l93'""l Wei)’ m,‘"’"l"l.'t bel°"° 1 your behaviour to me since my return from Ger- 8° °“l- D0 1'{'"“‘_t dial’! 3 U937,-: ’ _ _ many. that I have been so unhappy as‘ to incur

“ I shellld lllw ll very much: "ill Cﬂlleflne, your displeasure. I have in vain examined my- Imllllll’-' 3" ‘"""‘I" l° °""°'3l ‘he "ldllen Willi selfto discover the reason, you have given me no which ‘he 3P“l“-’- ” I 5l‘"“ld like *0 599 Wilﬂi clue,tliougliIdaily feel something hasso complete- we have so often talked of, and to hear the clever changed our mutual relations and destroyed a Ind “M005 "'9" Whom Y0“ l"1°Wi bllll d0 "Oi friemlsliip so close, ho old. on must not ima- lhinli ii W°“ld be Vigil‘ ll" me I“ £0-” glue that I am so preposterously conceited, as to

“Bill why. {filiyi why? W: ‘"0"’! d0 In_\'- suppose that your refusal to go to London was Ihing Wl’0"ll- 0“ 03" 0 I0 '3 “Tell llifee lime! entirel occasioned b our unwillin ness to be on aSuiiday, if you like‘; and there’s a church distres.)-‘led by my prhsznce. It" lhatg were the close to us. Whelﬁ they have service every day. l only obstacle, you need no longer hesitate, for I Then the"? 3'6 I013 05 b€t!t!I|"- 19" limes more i have to-day asked and obtained my father's per- misefabie llilg any 70“ C0" ﬁnd Bl Swlllowﬁeld. ‘ mission to make ati extensive tour in America ; I who come an as you for money without your’e ho e even to extend in travels as far as the having the trouble ofhuiiting them up. Isn’t she Rtidky Mountains.” y ‘ilre.‘;‘mel Mi” Biﬁlibg 7 She lt]liitlt‘Irs it such a He had spoken in a hard, dull tone, never once cenc or to say a e oes not t in it would be looking at his com anion. but nervously switch- rifglit.hTliered’s hnobguod tr: be gothou; of her ing his riding-canep to and fin and following its a tort at; an t e auty o it is, s e oel not motion with his eyes. Each sentence struck coudescend to tell us why she does not thitik it harder and harder on poor Catht-riiie’s heart, and would be ri'ght—O, Kitty! you can’: think what when the last abrupt announcement was made, a rage Frank is in. He turned as white as a ‘she was compelled to stop, for her faltering limbs lllﬂeli Ind got up from the table where we were lrefused to support her, a deadly pallor overspread all sitting at lunch. He didn’t say a word; but I l her countenance, and her lips quivered with the wculdn’t be in your shoes for something!" l vain attempt to articulate u sound.

“ ii ‘I005 599'“ 3 Pill’: d"¢|ﬂ’l ii. Kitty? ” Terriﬁed out of his anger, Frank hastened to put in her aunt. “ I'm sure you, spa and I support her, and gazed with stupeﬁed amazement could manage very well. I could get ans Thorpe , on an emotion such as he had never before viii- to rsad.to him : sbereads particularly well for a l iiessed, while his heart smote liiiu for the selfish- ::clOl:I:ol;|‘eIaC:‘°c:ﬂ:I|,I’l0lt, and he would soon getfnessgf IE] rcp:oacl;§s.F k . I u f

ll _ 0 - " , itty,' cri ran , assionate y, or-

“ Oh, Miss Birkby, it's of no use," cried I get what I have said. Of couise, know, dear, Edward, sorrovvfully. He had been studying l you can’t help it! I was a fool to hope it ; but Catherine’sdhallf-averted face. “ Shehdon’i wish 1 you know, Kitty, every one in this world is sel- to come, an , 0 course, we cannot win to coin el .fish but on.”

IIOf._iIOWever sorry we may be.” P l ‘‘ Youyshall know the whole truth," said Kitty,

Ki“! nched ll°"|ll’t bill laid nothing. who, in her anxiety to master her emotion, hardly

understood the import of his words; “I have

“ Ifyou’d only give a reason,” pursued Ed- ward, after a auae, and in a softer tons. “ If never trusted you and repented of it, and, hardas it is, I will trust on now.”

you would tiny say why you don't wish to p ” ' " No, Kitty; will know nothing ; you shall‘

ptit no force upon yourself, dear. know that I not in every respect unworthy your regard. I can well understand what a distasteful compa- nion I must be to a gentle and accomplished wo- man like you.” .

" Frank, how can you talk so strangely? you know the inequality is all on my side. Listen to me a few moments, and I will try to tell you my reasons, that you may not think me altogether capricious and unworthy your friendship. You see my father has spent his life in such retirement

else think hardly of you.

than any sister could have been, I am sure; so, if you say it’s not for want of love. I will believe you and love you all the same; but you won't mind writing to me

Catherine assured him, that she looked forward to his letters as a greater source of amusement during his absence ; and the boy at last departed, much comforted. and ﬁrmly resolved to maintain the virtue of Kitty’s incomprehensible determina- tion against all assailants.

But another and a harder struggle yet awaited her-a struggle she would gladly have avoided, had it been possible. The intimate friendship which had subsisted from infancy between herself and Frank Irwin gave him a right to some further explanation of the matives of her coutluct—a right which, whatever the diﬁiculty in which she might be placed by the assertion of it, she felt no inclination to question.

To avoid, or at least postpone, her meeting with Frank, she took occasion to pay a visit to her old nurse, who, with her husband. occupied a small farm, at some distance from Swallowﬁeld. She did not leave Mrs. Price’s dwelling till past ﬁve, and the early spring day was waning fast, as she sadly bent her steps hotneward. The humid

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“ 'I'Irst.I cannot do. Edward; but will you not uflfaitll in me? Will you not believe me. when any that it is not for want of love to you thatl

have ‘efused,-that I should have enjoyed it

more In] can tell! Will you not believe this

on my simple word, and trust and love me still!

You do not know how sad it will make me when on are away, to think that you are judging ardly of ms. '

The boy was silent, his face worked with various emotions. At length it grew clear and ﬁrm. He took Kitty's hand, and pressing it that he thinks and cares little about what is said ﬁrml between his own, exclaimed. or done in the world. He is accustomed to see

“ tis hard, but I’lldoit. I'll do it for you, you, and he loves you dearly. My aunt knows, Kilt . I'll believe what you say; Iwon’t think erhaps, something more about sot Ii things; but hard y of you myself; and I _won’t let any one I darsssy, if either of them though! soon: it at all, I

Y? never me; you have always been saver and kin -

they would consider that I was quite your ual.”

.“WdI',” said Frank, earnestly, thong not impatiently.

H You see their aﬂection for me would blind them to truth." Kitty spoke with increasing eﬁortgbut still with a certain energy. " I tried to speak to Lady Irwin, and to ask her help, but I can it not. I do not think it is right to speak to

on, Frank; but you will help me, as you alwlyl have done. all your life, and for the sake of our old, pld friendship. I cannot lose your friend- ship. '

" Come what may, that will never be, Kitty,” said Frank, earnestly.

“ Thank you for that comfort. And now you understand my motives. ’ _

“ Forgive me,dear, I do not understand them in the least. You talk about the world and about your father belng blinded by his affection for you: ill"

honestly confess myself unable to make 00! H10 sequence of ideas, or to see what bearintl your observations have on your refusal to go to London with my mother.”

" Don’t you see that, ifl were to go. I Iliolild be, almost of necessity, a great deal in your com- pany, and people might think—or, to sppak the

simple truth, it might not be well for inc.

"0! why did you not tell me that before? 0! course, it was hard. for you to say it. was a blockliead not to think of it myself. But I am going away now, you know, Kitty, so fill‘. 10 another hemisphere ; you will go now ? _ No one can make observations, no one can misinterpret

you now !” _ “I will go, if you wish it, very low, heart—broken voice. “ There is something still which you hide from me," said Frank, looking steadily at her, “ and it is something which makes you unhappy. Even

3’

she replied, in a

London.”

“ How can Iwisli it go, if you are not there?” returned Catherine, almost angrily ; “ would not everything I saw remind me of you and of your kindness long ago I"

there with‘ you! I have heard that women are riddles; and I’ve been puzzled sometimes to un- derstand my mother; but it’s new to me to ﬁnd 3/014 |(|;c(l)m}|)l':ItenelI)‘I9 and |ilnco;ta’i,st:ariitd."Ki_“y en ‘ti emesaa om, ,- treatinglyy; “don't aysk me to go London-—don’t show any interest about me ; and, when you come back, you will ﬁnd me once more your old friend and luyfellow.”

"Ida, Kate; do not let us deceive ourselves. That can never be again. The happy time when we were all in all to each other is gone; and the cold friendship you offer me is but a sorry substi- tute for the love you once bore me. As for me,

cannot cease to love you ; but I cannot pretend to he satisﬁed with being less than all to you. Time may possibly modify my feelings, and I may grow accustomed to the thought that I am nothing to you: but we cannot become children again, and the memory of those joyous days only makes the sorrow of to-day the heavier.

" Do not say so!” said Kitty, in a tremulous tone. “ we may be as brother and sister to each other.”

“ Brother and sister !” he replied, almost ﬁerce- ly. “ Do not deceive yourself, as you cannot deceive me, by that miserable delusion I Brother and sister! Brother and sister we never have been, and never can be I love you, Kitty, cruel as. you are. You know that love you,--not with the temperate affection born of habit and of instinct, which knits together those of kindred blood ; but I love you with that passion which. if you do not know, you have least read of. You were the dream of my lioyhood, the hope of my youth. All that sisters are or may be to others, you are a thousand times to_ me. I do not im- portune you to do impossibilities, I love you too dearly to seek to influence you by appeals to your compassion. es, and value myself too much for that; but do no mock me by comparing that which is life of my life toa feeling, however pure and sacred, which may. without difficulty, be divided among half-a dozen. Some day, Kitty, you may know the bitterness of having your passion unre uiied!' .

" here are many, many, worlhier your affec- tion than Il”

“ If [there are, I don't {care flor them. I love you. have loved you rom t 9 hour when first steadied your infant steps in your fsther’s orchard. Inever called you sister. I never felt the love of a brother towards you. The love] tlten bore you was a faint foreshadowing of that whlich now possesses me. I, _pyle'st:ppptuously, ma e sure o my happiness. ' is winter I never questioned that you returned my love, absurd as it may appear to yoti. Nevertill this winter‘:-never, fully,‘ to-dsyjdid I contem- latet e ssibilit o t as on . ' :1“ If] :31’! but Iiearer toyrsiu Iii any one thing.”

ltsrsd Kitty.

" What then?” said Frank, impatiently ; “ would not bring your heart nearer to me. should love you like a lover, and you would look upon me as a brother.” ;

Bﬂow littl: ‘you knogvl” exclsiiu:dDKate. “ 0 you thin have ha no struggles. 0 you think I have shed no tests? you think it is easy to me to lose one turn of your countenance- one tone of your voice! 0, you must not think that all, or even the heaviest of the sin is on

if Igo to America. you do not wish to go to 0

“ And vet you deny me the pleasure ofbeing .

your side. You will have much to com on you—

much to drive me from have only the memory 0 help me.” _

“ You are more and more inexplicable. Kitty. If I could trust the seeming sense of your words, I should almost hope that you indeed love me, an as] would _be loved. Yet you make tit. .9 to arouse ns.:ssi._.snd with a look so be as, that I dare not rejoice at it. What bar. it ‘Il.l_IteIO between as! list nakaswn hin- dqee isliieh turns this. which should be the sincerest itieiaent of our lives, Into sorrow and bitterness 1" ‘

“Youdtnow! Oh, why compel me to repeat what you know so well! I am a simple coiintry girl, without protection, withoutawomplishments. You have talents and rank which ﬁt you to form an alliance with any of the noblest families of the land; and such an alliance Sir Edward and Lady Irwin nattttally expect you to form.”

“ And is this the only hindrance, Kitty?"

“ Yes. Even for your sake, I would not creep into your family by stealth; or enter it only oir suffersnce. I will not deserve the reproaches of those to whom I owe gratitude and affection."

“ By IIOIVEII. Kill]. you wrong my father and mother if you think that they would value rank or fortune in comparision with such a true and

ure heart—such a cultivated mind—as yours!

asides, if they were blind to your merit, do you think they set no value on my happiness—that they have no regard to my wishes? Put such unworthy thoughts away from you ! My moth" may sometimes seem capricious—she may be on. certain in triﬁes, but her own affections are too strong to allow her to endanger the happiness of both our lives for a prejudice, I am sure both she and my father will welcome with delight ta prospspt so full of reasonable happiness for both

‘your thoughts. I shall the past, and prayer, to

But Catherine cotild not think so. In the midst of her tremulous joy, her heart remained bear with foreboding. She felt that Lady Irwin would disapprove of their union, and a preacienco of sorrow weighed upon her spirit. Frank, though not entirely free from the same instinctive apprehension, could not restrain his delight at the acknowledgment he had drawn from her, he overwhelmed her with endearing words, demanded explanations of a thousand triﬁes which had pained him, as evidences ofiu- difference, and learned, with rapture, that they were so many tokens of conscious love. Then he had argumeuts—unanswerable arguments—to prove the absurdity of her apprehension of Lady

rwlh's disapproval, till Catharine, though uncon- vinced, was soothed into a sympathy in his de. light; and when they parted, at her father's gate, it would have been hard to tell which was the happier of the two.

SUPPLY OF ARMS T0 RUSSIA BY AN AMERI- CAN VISBIL.

Mimi-:L, May 26.-When the Driver,

Comniander Gardiner, was sent into the,

Baltish port, to serve the vessels lying there with the ofﬁciul notice of the block- ade, she fotiiid among others an American barqiie, called the Sammy Appleton, of Boston, U. S., it fine craft of about 900 tons register, whom she also served with is warning to clear out within six days. A ay or two afterwards, the Driver, being out cruising, fell in with this same Ameri- can, and an officer of the Driver was sent on board to examine the ship's papers. They were found perfectly in order, where- upon tlic ollicer demanded to see tltc bills of hiding. 'l'lie American captain objected to this, and began to ninke difficulties which excited the suspicion of the British officer, so he insisted on their production, which was at length complied with, and from which it appeared, that the Sammy Apple- ton liutljnstlunded at Baltish Port 50,000 riﬂes and l00,000 revolvers, besides about 800 cwt of cotton, us the ostensible part of the cargo. “Oh, oh, you have been land- ing rifles, have you, my friend?” quoth the lieutenant. “Now we’ll just search your hold;’’ and taking the carpenter of the Driver with him, as is usual in such cases, he proceeded to examine and ransack the hold of the American ship, but without ﬁnding anything auspicious. “You may thank your stars, my man,” said the lieutenant to the skipper, when the search was concluded, "that I found no arms on board your vessel; for had there been one single rifle more than the number of hands on board, you would have been been nab- bed, as sure as my name is “ , lcaluulate I was too wide awake for you Britishers this time,” said the 'Yaukee, chuckling with deli ht; “ and I reckon I'm on the safe side o the hedge now." No- thing could be done, and the Driver's boats shoved off. The Sammy Appleton, it up- ears, entered the Sound on the I5tb of arch, and arrived at Baltish Port on the 12th of April.