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DRESS WEARER. planr MT MART SfKNCKR I'KAHE. abodl . we a< Halt buried in the velvet cushions of make one of the luxurious arm-chairs of an a- "A partment, furnished with a magnificence ious i nn Eastern sultana might envy, sat an eld- dear erly lady, habited in a costly and most healtl elaborate undress. Her face had been for oti fair to look upon; but, by long practice in sant I ine fashionable art of concealing all ex- get f< [iressions, she succeded in wiping out from "Y< ler features everything of the kind, save and a one, ? cat-like distrust aud haughty self- "B conceit* ing di Listlessly reclining upon a yielding "Hi lounge was a young lady of seventeen or "I i eighteen, with a set of features inost rare- tcissoi ly and wonderfully beautiful. Still with a ste face and form of perfect symctry, the long more lashes of those usual down cast eyes could not conceal, in their occasional over bright "W flashes, the pride and discontent of a heart honest wrarring with itself; also in the petiah curl "Hi of her fruitless lip, and in the arching of If yot her exquisitely pencil brows, could you tnusici read tlie same. "\Y Beautiful as bad been the mother, and To wli as was Bertha, her favorite daughter, no fi?r pa one for an instant could accuse the eldest relatia daughter, Caroline, of being even good pect t< looking. lIo|ie)essly homely, her face ex- protiei |>rc*aed most plainly that she had never the w forgiven father or mother for her ill looks, we hrv MOV live M?l?f HIT UVIItg so m<v<vu. tutu. Like a stray sunbeam in a scowling pic- "Bi tare was the presence,in that family group, child!' ?*' Clarice, the youngest daughter. If "W she was pretty, she did not know it. Iler during delight lay, not in herself, but in her tame have birds aud squirrel*; in Straus*' and Labits- can se ky's waltz*?which she was forever play- sides, ing; in dnnciug fancy dances; and diffus- for ne ing the warmth and joy of her own sunny anotln ii'ni|*r wnong me ever comenoing mem- down her* of het family. any c "Clarice, do htop that intolerable drum- give, i ming on the piano! 1 wish to rend wrae- accept thing to mother.** ^ know < "Certainly, if you wish it, sister Caro- my pi line; far my fingers fairly ache with the pa'trot last grand attempt,** replied Clarice, walls- cious ing, with the lightness of a fairy, across new d the spacious room, her voice softly echoing try in the air she had just been playing. "You might as well be a humming top, mot|,c and done with it, such a whirling and Ruth buzzing as you keep up." nounc "What were vou going to read to roe, Caroline?" said Mr*. Winslow. , t "An announcement of the death and njnC4 failure of Mr. Walter Lee." recoct "Of Walter Lee! Caroline, did you say were of Walter Lee." denial "I think I spoke sufficiently plain far you to undestand the name." , "Walter Lee! llow shocking! When \ did he die!" J* "Very suddenly, last evening; and the ^ paragraph states that his death was most j. ' probably occasioned by the startling an- ^ ' nouncement of the failure of the house in ^ which all hi? property was invested." "I suppose his widow snd daughter will look to ais now far their support." ?&:dt*u 7* ' hitherto ailent Bertha. UolK "IJo tell roe. Bertha Winslow, if you lune ' have aroueed yourself sufficiently to make ?'!"*? auch a wise lemarkr sneered Uarotine.? MI thought you bad l?een faat a sleep ever ?' since breakout. All I can any i*, if you M Mi suppose that I suppose \\ alter Lee's wid- to,'J ' ov and daughter will be so weak as to Th imagine they have a claim upon us, mere- was i ly because Mrs. Lee happens U be the weigl sister of my father." found "Ruth Lee has many accomplishments, just if ^be will doubtless conclude to maintain tion fiierself and her mother by her own in- long <dustry," staid Mrs. Winslow. MT H1 do not recognise any claim they them tiave upon ua," persisted Caroline. "If they people are careless in btuinesa, it is no rea- from eon they should expect to depend on those get l who are more prudent" judg< At the first word that announced her can I uncle's death had Clarice left the room, Al and, with her school-bonnet and shawl ie was her hand,was hurrying through the streets hoUt to her uoicie's dwelling. turn* The closed shutters and the crane at ens, the door told plainly the sad tale within, to U "I knew you would come to us in our been aflktioa dear Clarice," said ttuth Lee, as Ti the warm hearted girl stole into the room fcm where the mourners were sitting and not i threw herself weeping on Ruth's bosom, his c MDh, Clarice, may tuck a bitter grief as is er at mow breaking my heart-strings never com# their upon your "1 R?'th paused, for the vision of her wn- to tl de Wtaifot, bur mmin dufcrfi fhtW, weai her own dear mother's brother, passed bo- Bert fore her?a vision of a stern, cold, cruel "I hearted man, who either asked for nor due eoald net eempruu wKh bus And then tmamaammmmmmmmmm it is always engaged in the execution of b your comrnisions. Ruth Leo, you know, 11 never leaves her home to fit dresses." ct "You can have the carriage this afternoon, Bertha," said Mrs. VVinslow, who, tl if her proud heart loved anything, it was sc her haughty, beautiful Bertha. b< "Much as I dislike that sanctimonious, c! patient little Ruth Lee, she must make my dress; for no one elso can give it sueli lu a graceful fit as she." tli "You have never tried Miss Pinchcm," al observed Caroline. M "I have no need of padding," retorted Bertha. tli "You would be glad to employ Ruth ih Lee yourself, only that she professes to be too honest to interfere with nature." B "I fear this Ruth Lee has very little foi custom then," remarked a lady visitor. "She makes all my dresses, and also sti those of many of my friends," replied Ber- nc thn. no "Dear mamma, let mc go with Bertha I this afternoon," implored Clarice. "This Mi j once let cousin Ruth make my " co i "Not till you have done with that foolI ;?i. ..f?ii--- -- to her mind the image of a man with ild's simplicity of heart, with a wo's tenderness and nobleness of nature was godlike in its upiightncss and i. The irreparable weight of her beement once more overpowerd her, and tears she shed seemed like tears of \ wrung from the heart ie hard, uncompromising truth at Ji stared the widow and orphan in ace. They were beggars. All were t from them, to the very home in li they had lived so happily. With a gth of purpose scarcely tndongitig to cars. Hutu Lee aroused herself from jrief, and set herself to seriously planwhat had best be done. She could >ok for much help from her mother, tr health, never very good, seemed >roken down by her affliction that began to fear she might lose her 0 morrow, dear Ruth, we must leave home where we have seen so much Strangers will reap the fruits of dear father's taste and judgment in ling and executing this comfortable 3. But what shall we do! Shall ccpt brother Richard's invitation to 1 a home with him)" nd be looked upon by his parsimonvife as dependents in the way! No; mother, while I have youth and !? I will look to no one but myself ir support. I have found two pleaittle rooms down town, that I can r a mere song." os, hut that song must be paid for; hat with, dear Ruth!" y myself. I have decided uponmak'esses." jth!" always had a handy way with my sand needle," continued Ruth, with ady voice, but a cheek more and pale. ou be a dress maker!" by not, dearest mother! It is an t employment." it you play and sing so beautifully! i must do something, why not teach ho would learn ot me; dear mother! 10m could I apply, or would I apply tronage! All our friends, eveu our >n?, have shown bow little they ex- i a do for us. Then, I doubt my own ncy too much to put myself before i rorld as a mus e teacher. Besides, ve no home suitable to brinor ttimiU it a situation in some school, my ould take me from you too much i ' the day. No, dearest mother; I < thought of all, of every thing, and c nothing else for ine tj do. Be- | I have partially engaged some work i it week. Aunt Window paid us < r stately visit wbile you werelving this afternoon, and. without making | >tfer of assistance, which, (iod foruc! if she had, I should not have ed?she seemed very desirous to our plan* for the future. I tolil her < an, and m!io remarked, in a verilizing way, that it waa a verv judione, and that Bertha had several resses to tie made, and that I might y hand at one next week." 5 next week found Ruth and her >r settled ia their narrow quarter*. made the dress, and it waa proed a "fit" and aoon alio had inore im" than she could well manage.? rery fashionable jiersons who had, her change in fortune, declined nizing kher at an acquaintance, glad to avail themselves of her unL>le skill. her taste and ingenuity there seem> limit; and, as she always kept her ises, cost her what sleepless hours might, she soon found herself able .co before her mother many of those comforts to which she had been acned, ami which her frail health deed. d now, in the elegant mansion of ^inslows, all wm bustle and preparaAn unlooked for |>iece of good for* had befallen thetn. The plain Car* had actually received an offer, "notlanding the oft-repeated predictions r mother and sister to the contrary," rs. Winslow with much satisfaction, Mr friends. e happy bridegroom in prospective i cruslry old bachelor, worth his )t in gold, who never till now had I n woman sufficiently ill-favored to y him in proposing to her the queamatriinoaiaJ. He had taken n lifeprejudice to pretty women, hev are all vain." he said, "and love ! selves nnd every one elite better then do their own lawful hunhand*. And, being flattered nil their Uvea, they to think themaelvea better able to a of every thing than any one elae brtlwrn." II waa preparation. The down ataira uninhabitable with painter* and upm, ami the up ataira waa in a* much oil with netting girls and satin*, Unlaces, and lady friend*; for there waa i Mich a gr*nd wedding aa bad never known. ffttd with the eonfasion, Mr. Window d fault with every thing; tat, he waa much heeded. Aa he lived uioetly in oaating-room, or at hie club, the moth* >d daughter* had all pretty much own way. It ie ajfche time what will be becoming te bride! What the bridesmaid is to r b not of the leant coMc^ueocr," said ha, in * pet. I tbonght your evoning'a dme* waa en, and that yon had decided Hutu should make itT" replied the bride IV carriage ie never Aft my dfcpneal; i.. .. ..nun <>i caning nor cousin," replied sh Mr*. Winslow, in a stern voice. ry The lady friend soon found occasion to sni depart, anxious to lighten her heart of in< the news, with which, until then, she was s<x unacquainted, that the Winslows had low un connections, of whom they were ashaiu- tin ed. he Kuth and her mother had retired so quietly from the circle in which they hail en moved, that but comparatively few either inj knew of, or eared for, their whereabouts. ou A stately carriage had just driven from the humble homo of Kuth Lee. thi Standing beside the table in the same bc< attitude which she had assumed some mo- ou ments before, after she had closed tlie door upon ber haughty cousin, Ruth Lee to seemed struggling with herself to restrain 1 some powerful emotion that was working ] w ithin her. At the sound of her mother's mo step within, Ruth gathered up the folds wo of the costly fabric that wjis piled upon hei the table, and throwing it over lior arm, clu she bold it up as though admiring its mo beautiful texture, but really to conceal the ha? heaviness of her own heart. not In a moment or two after, ber mother ing entered the room, and Ruth tried to smile lati as she showed her the material for l...r ?.? cousin's dress : but it was a dim smile, and ilm Mrs. Lee saw that it was more full of tears see '' "V'W'yni ill iisiuMUis mwiuvi'iieion ' Hu'll f* fasl "I have lier patterns dear mother, and fasl die is to call to morrow afternoon to try it. on her dress." test "Hut what it is, my child, that has sail gone wrong with you ? It is something bar more than usual, I know. Do not con- adi real anything that comes near you." k?-\ With that, as though she could no Ion- fae< ger restrain her feelings, Hutli sank into for in arm chair near by, and gave away to sa<! a resistless passion of tears. Checking am herself, after a few minutes, she exclaim- wa ed? "Forgive me, dearest mother; I am vc- pit ry wrong to distress you so cruelly. Hut n<>< she was so proud, and cold, and distant, thr and imperative; she, who used to be my am schoolmate! she who used to I>e tny cons- bill in! And then it was more a remark she p<?i made?" lici "What was it, iny child! Don't hesi- his tate. Tell me what she said." ow "It was only that she did not see how sh< 1 found time to read such ttooks. 1 had tea been reading 'Jane Eyre.' It was more hei the tones than the words. Hut dear moth- ou er, it is nothing." "Nothing that you should lie so hurt ; wn you, who are all goodness !" dif "Hut, dear mother, her heart has never mi been softened by griet. Her life has been Sh one of uninterrupted pleasure. Nothing so dear mother, like suffering seftena the A hearts to others' misfortunes." < ? "My poor Ruth!" ha "Poor dear mother! Ain I not rich in shi your lore!" tal "You have it all, my chihl. lint did I tei not tell you that Lincoln Reyinotid had ae returned ) Lieutenant Raymond now.? lie used to be a favorite with you, I re- ^ member." jie That "used to be"?that, or some reco!- nil lection of the by gone, set Ruth oft* again, lis and ahe aobbed aa though ber heart would wl break. pr "Dearest mother, I am very foolish and cm nervous this afternoon. There! I will 7-y command myself before I spoil this half hs finished dress. Now, tell me when he 1,1 returned, and how you heard it." th "I read the announcement of the arri- ?( val of the ship in which he sailed, in this ni morning's paper. His naino whs very er flatteringly mentioned among the list of officer*. Ruth suppressed a sigh that aroae to her lip* and the tear* that would come to J* ber eye*, and went on quietly stitching at the draw on which she had been at work *11 day. hi "Welcome home, Lieutenant Raymond! * said Bertha Window, advancing, in her P< inoat graceful manner, and with her " brightest smile, to meet that gentleman, u as Tie was ushered into the drawing- W room. w Clarice stopped in the midst of a waltz tl just now from Germany, and ran forward to shake handa with Raymond, without tl stopping to think whether aha did so nr gracefully or no. Her smile was very tl bright, for it came from her heart. Lin- p coin Raymond had been very intimate h with tftfc two fcmiiies; but report gave V him Ruth Lee, and report shhI ltd* lh-r- ft tha, with all her beauty,, was very jealous it of bar cousin Ruth. o Bertha bad rover seemed so beautiful; e he sparkled all over; and you could not I tell, for the Bfc of you, which flashed tha righter, her words or her eye*. Rnv loO'l seemed, for the moment, at least, mipletcly bewitched. Clarice did not seem to like the way lings were turning, and she recalled j niie by gones, in which Ruth . ee had | jen the heroine. Raymond's manner i langed at once. "I have been looking the citv over f??r sr," said lie; "and hear lait sad news of I : ie family, Mr. Leo having died insolvent j so. l'ray, Miss Winslow, where have rs. and Miss Lee removed ?" < "Oli, did you not know f replied lier- i a, quickly "they went out West, to some i iar relations of Uncle Welter'.-." I "Why liertha," exclaimed Clarice.? ut liertha gave her sister a look that, < r the tittle at least, silenced her. I Lincoln Raymond was so thoughtfully "lying the pattern of the carpet, that lie : itlier heard the exclamation of Clarice, ; >r saw her sister's look. I "Out West. How far out West.? iss Winslow ? Out west is a very large > tut try." I Clarice left the room, looking as though ? e were in a high fever, and liertha ve- i adroitly changed the conversation. She < id many enchanting things; hut Ray>nd seemed thoughtful and absent, and i hi after took his leave; not however, j til liertha made him promise to call 8 next morning and walk to church with I r. -* "Ruth, my child, I do not feel well t ough to leave the house this tnorti- c ;. You will have to go to church with- ? t tno. I "I had thought to go to our old church t s morning, dear mother*. I Imv.. n.?? '< 2ii there since we moved In-re, so far * t of tin: way." ji '"Is it not too great a distance for von t walk my dear child I" " g "I think not, dear mother." I Unth had dressed herself with nncoin'II care that morning, althon-di she Hid not have ncknowh-dgcd even to e "self the reason. As she ncartd the il irch, she felt as though she were al- a at guilty of soino w rong-as thougl) slic n {deceived her kind, good tnotlier, in , confessing her real motive for not go- \ ; to the place of worship they were of < 3 attending. A soft blush stole over I sweet face as she confessed to herself t it there could he no harm in wishing to v it the last year and a hall had cluing- r /lIV1 tlftllVil tii?o Ukoiuoi ? ^ liionahle part of the ?ity, and (iU' a liionahlu jMiople of the city attended 1 i For in religion, or its outward mani- t ation, as in all things else, there is the I lie spirit of exclusiveness that strives to \ the door to the "vulgar mass," and i I nit only those who possess the golden i i to its entrance. The many familiar ! v cs which she had not seen until now t nearly a year, filled Uuth's heart with I Iness as she softly stole lip the side aisle, a I quietly seated herself in one of the <j II pews. There, in the l>road aisle, near the pul- | , was her own well remembered pew. j1 sv occupied by strangers, and, near it. | it of her aunt Winslow's velvet-lined j 1 velvet-cushioned. No one was in it I | t Itcrthu and now the hot l?I?m <I i , ured from her heart and hurncd upon I ? . ?i. -i?i-. ...i? . i.- - - I r |vnii; wih ii s*m- unit* nnm* i handsome face! She adverted her n instantly, ami, for a few moment*, 5 thought she was going t<? faint; l.iit tra came into her eyes, an<l she turneil rself to the wall and |M>ur?-d her heart t in hitter, silent tears. She thought of the difference that now is lietween them, and magnified the ferencc until it seemed to her that he 1st spurn her as the dust under hi* feet, e had never felt until now her |H?sition degraded, nor her employment so mean feeling of independence, and the strong sire to make her mother comfortable, d hitherto supported her. Hut now e almost hated herself for having tinderken anything that severed herself so ut ly from tlio lift to which she had been customed. Then the strange, unnatural state of cictv, and its self imposed laws rose to r mind. A panorama of Iter former imerons acquaintance-, who had la-en ind in glove with her, hut who now lien she met them in the street, either etended not to see her, or unfeelingly t her, arose l?eforc her, until, to her dizinind, it aceined as though she wenally less worthy of esteem since she had idertakeu that hateful employment. She ought of her weary, toiling days, day* toil that often extended deep into the ght, and she felt that she and her mothhad letter accepted the invitation of iclc Richard, or done anything thai hat she was now doing. Such a loathg for that weary, weary toil, and its endm privations, came over her, *?* made ?r heart sick and sicken within her. The services of tho church went on, cantime, and 11 >th, alone, and in her >rrow, seemed to read the hearts of those osawI i n/1 ooru fotv u/r>ru tliap.i tt lm ere sincere in tho prayer# their lip# utrod. The responses of most of those ni'y dressed worshippers of Mflininon ere spoken with a ready lip, hut with a loughtleiw heart and wandering eye. Ruth felt sickened to the very soul with te thoughts that crowded through her lind ; and then that such thought#, to te exclusion of *hose more suited to the laee and day, had tak en possession of ] er, filled her with ike kecuest remorse. Vith a strong effort she banished thetn wn her muni ami with a devout and j>cn.enl heart, she follow ed tho remainder f tho service, but once daring to trust her yes in the directions of her cousin aud anooln Raymond. la the church yard, just as she was go ing out of the gate, ;i voice close bcl her, that made her very soul stand remarked? ,4I>o yott know, Miss Winslow, just now, as we left the church yai caught a glimpse of a face so like l< Lee's that it seemed to belong to her \ self I 1 have been looking in vain for same face under every bonnet around < since." "Resemblances are very common," : the voice of her cousin licrlhu. "lit Could not, of course, have been Ruth 1 unless they hive carried balloon-mal in Iowa to a greater degee of perfec than they have with us." Ruth heard as in a dream, and gli< ?n, reaching her home at hist, worn i>oth in mind and IhmIv. "My burling Ruth, what is it ? ire as pale as our own white dress, i roil tremble like a frightened bird. \\ las disturbed my precious cliild ?" Ruth threw herself on her mother's Kim, and gave way to her feelings i lood of tears. She had restrained I >elf so long that now the sympathis mice of her mother unlocked the tcar-g: f her heart. "< Mi, mother I know I am weak ; wrong ; but wln-n I am able ! will rou wbat troubles me." "My dear cliild." said Mrs. 1 eo, wl iutli had made a clean breast, and t ill that oppressed her heart, all she I bought and felt that day?"my d 'initi, nave jtatiMice; all will yet l?c ri^ md well: evil may prosper f<>r a tii >ut truth must prevail, goodness in iieet its own reward. You can see w s the design of your cousin, Berllia, he will out with herself I would be [rout a wrong that or.e so artful : ruthless as she, should be the wife of < o pure and noble-minded as Line taymond." "But mother " "Now your xm| heait is seeking to use her I can read it in your face. \V t is better so. Charity comes from Oi lid, of all Cod's precious gifts, it is ne least in use." Bay after day passed on, and Bert rVittaiow laid her snares more and m loselv around her victim, until, bliiu ?V their artificial glitter, he seemed rei o fall into their artful meshes. H,r <. vere very bright, and the most da/./l ed burned upon her cheeks : her v< ras vcrv soft, and the touch of her tin tVKMu.?; ev, r.v ensity and fire ol her nature. It mi lavelwen well?it might have been, il votild, by little and little, have, infitien ier naturally no'de spirit back to its o nal simplicity and truth ; but, thoi 'oiing in ve il -he had grown so ok lie wavs of the World that.she would li teen more likely to influence him, throi m uiiholv love, to the <lestniction of in n purest s:id loftiest feelings. I >av after day passed on, each ( caving Kntli 1 m<>re \ve;iry and j roin her endless toil. Kvery lew days wo iriug some fresh rumor of the grow ntimaev of her cousin Bertha and Lim tayuioud. Ib-r whilom coiupanii vho made Iter now feel herself to he tl lervant, seemed to take pccnli.ar deli; n telling her the welcome news, proba row sympathy for her, knowing she i btVlilotid used to !? s<? much togethei One such had just gone, when a ( 'iagc drove up rapidly, and in a iikmi ,'laricc caino l?ouiidiiig into the rc vhere Kutli w.as. "Oh, cousin Until," said she, throw m i JiriiiJ* nnm^iv arouim imt, now y [ ?iii t<> sec you once un>r?! And, o nave something to tfll you to which must listen at once." "What is it, my dearest cousin? I til attention." "Oh, it is a masquerade! Will it. he delightful ! A real masquerade private one?no one is to know aboil i'or, you know, it is against the law. ! Summer is going to have it. It is to had at her house, which you know in arly nit acre large: -?> we will not v for room. She is going to have c thing in style. The whole house is ti thrown open to the guests. 1 am gi in the character of a tamhoriu dancer fortune teller, and you are to make dress. I tcazed mamma so hard t far this once, she consented Hut need not put much a-ork on it; tnnk as slightly as you can, ho that it will I together for one evening; you need inind the stitches, for no one will see tl Here is a complete Parisian costui contined Clarice, opening a bundle, is one of the richest materials, for I c them my self, and ordered the dress t< made after this pattern. See, is it beautiful? It will be the most beco" drpm you could wear. Von may I to take in the seams of the tonic a 1 to fit your slender waist: the skirt*, I tl will be just the right lenirth. And are the little shoes?nunilter three : yo I reineinber the number. And hei the mask to tie over your sweet and " "Dearest Clarice, trhat ore yon ing aboutf Not, surely, of my goin this*1 "Now do not say a word, for 1 se no upon your li|H I have sot my I upon it. No one will know Your mask will shield you, and can see eeerjrtmdy, and enjoy the bri scene and mingle with it, without person ever suspecting who you are.'1 "It will be verv, very pleasant, eert but" "There aro to be no but*. Mrs Hui and I hare arranged it all. There h ticket; and Mr*. Pummer is goii send a coach for you at eight o*tloefc hind , night week. She has always felt still, towards you: but to keep peace wil ; family lias seemed to give you up." that | "I'm me dress, dear Clarice.' *<l, I 'Never mind the diess; it is a [ futh from Mrs Summer. Now don't look ,'orv We must not be too independent ii the world, but do as we would be doti ever and accept favors from others, whoi ; cerely given, as we would give said lovingly, and in the spirit of trust, it it ; there is so little of that spirit in thisv Lee, world!" dug j "My dear Clarice, where did you li>n i so niieh of that true spirit of Christ i I need look no further than your Jed j truth-inspired, genuine little heart f out I answer to my question. You have ! vailed, darling. I could not reftis i'ou a much more important request, wlisi and | pain it might cost me." hat ' "l'ain, dear Kutli! Hut this will I you nothing but pleasure." bo- | "And now your dress, my dt in a 1 Clarice." ler- "Yes, yes, here it is, and here is ing ' pattern to guide you in making it. ites will a- I "Yes, dear Clarice." ind "Mrs. Summer, recollect, is to s< tell coach for you; but you will not cornel alone, unless I am greatly mistaken, lien The night of the masquerade hat old rived; and Uuth had to acknowledge md she could not have worn a more bo ear jug dress, ller mother could not st [lit, entlv express her admiration of the 1 mo, ty of her darling. Everything that < mat make her toilet complet, even to the hat broideretl handkerchief, was sent but the dress. It was like some fairy ta too liuth. And when, punctual to the md incut the cartage came, the tumu me |,er thoughts grew more strange and oln flitting. She was once more going the very midst of the circle of whicl had once formed a part, and no ex- nilitant part; but it was still like a el', tale, for she was going to wear the Ml? iblc cap, and not one of the gay coin die could know who she was. The seono was brilliant beyond lie pe.'tations and she was charmed ot herself and all her old sad though watching the numerous beautiful - strange coustumes, and in trying to i * out this one and that, ller cousin H '!'k' she was sure she had discovered, til e ,,s i hi.^in * V I M,,rt'ns''" ?ni>do. A tall, graceful ' I picturesque, close-filing guise < rjn who hovered continually near the ??<: , queen, was, her heart told her, L j Kavmond. r,q" j'resent ly, tainhorin in hand, can "v1 j to Kuth the merry little fortune tel 111 j ' (.'i>me with me, dear ltuth," whii ? she very mysteriously; 4'I have some 'j .' to show you." Kuth followed her cousin through and long entries all thronged will j way maskers, until, coining to a , | ' Clarice drew a key from her pocket '. opening it, said to Kuth? mS "Co in, dear and stay till I rctnn 1 is a perfect love of a little room." "'.s' Kuth could not well do any thin; " ,r than remain till her cousin's return, I ~ , had locked the door and taken the lM>* with her. However, she soon returned, l?u alone, for she brought with her the j ,,r" fill Creek. u'lit "Now," said the tamborin girl, "i K"u the favor, "lioth of you, of unrna and tell me, when I return, if the '"tf j>rise is not mutual and well cone ;lnd You need not fear interruption." Id I llefore Kuth had time to reply Jon dancer was off with her tamborin, the door locked after her, and th "to in her possession. 'This is a cool proceeding, to sa not least of it," said the Creek. "1 ?a will do my part of the obligation," it it, tinned lie, unmasking; "and my fair Mrs. will do hers"? be "Hut the "fair friend," instead r is masking, chose to faint. The rapt gently nntide her mask to give her t very and as her featucrs were revealed tu i> be he could scarcely repress a scream r>ing caught her to his heart, and hel and there so long and fervently that hii my strong life infused vitality into th< hat, face resting on his bosom, you "Where am 11 Oh, I have had e it strange dream!" oxclamed Kuth. hold "You are safe, and will soon, I not ho well. Kut, dearest Kuth?ni) ICIU. Miss I^?e. when did von return fri no," w?r "It "Oli, 1 have never lioon to lows hose my lift*." Ami Kutli looked as t > bo she would faint again. not "Ncvor been to Iowa! This in si nlng Your cousi Hertha"? have "< )|i, do not saj anything ill o ittle, She is my eouain. Never mind m link, inn leave tliu room. 1 had rather hero "Hut, my dearest?hilt Mis* \a 11 see d?K>r is fastened upon the outside, i re is are both prisoners. Let us make t face, of it, and talk over the past. I tell you how I have ldHgod to see talk- had decided soon to go to Iowa in g to of you." "They told me you were soon e the united to my cousin HerLha." Iieart "We will not talk or that; tli yon. wiil confess that yoer false cousii you, what liewildered me hut she nerc lliaut I succeed in effacing you form no any | dearest, dearest Huth. When I country a year and a half ago, it w ! ... lJ i? .1 I .-l ? -i _!.i mii?Y, \ Rimut niy uiau i cx|imeu, una wvvn formal engagement or declaration miner between tin. But my whole ha ?yoor your*, and 1 hoped MM irtuldd y< r?g to wm mine. Wu I?tnwukenf" t thi* Ruth trembled from bond to t *>* I * ^ M kindly could not say a word. Tito coining in, ill Iter justaltlio moment, of their little jailer, was a great relief to Ruth; but, though - she had given Raymond no verbal answer iresent the light of love in her soft eyes bad illu? proud, minatcd his inmost soul, and made liim ii this happy. ic by, Clarice saw at a glance how things i sin- were, and all she said was? them, u( Hi, forgive my poor s\stcr! And fof* Oh! give me for not revealing to you sooner ticked that cousin Ruth had not left this place*, but oh, I could not speak the words! learn liertha is my sister, and her untruth made ? llut my^Tufhrt ache so much I could not speak own ft. *.&ut oh, say I am forgiven?" or au Raymond was too happy to harbor ati pre- unkind thought against any one, and ccre you tainly not against the present author of itever his happiness. 80, out of his full heart, lie comforted the tearful little Clarice into' cost smiles again. Clarice was right; Ruth did not go irling home alone that night. Nor was there any more stitching for the weary dressi the maker. You "How happy we shall all be, dearest' Ruth, in our dear old home again! It was so kind and thoughtful in poor Linrmd a coin Raymond to repurchase the house home your dear father built. I shall be, as I have been, the happiest mother alive; and j ar. now more than ever, in having two such1 , that dear children instead of one." Vi'"- From the Xeio York Freeman"s Journal. ilhci- ? beau- Dr. Ives in Rome. 'em- ^"c arc ]cn&h cna^cc' Pu* an' with cn<^ to a" anxiety 011 l'ie Par^ 8011:16 ^ our l'rotcstant neighbors in icfcrence to the l'rotcstant liishop of North Carolina.? He abjured Protestantism, and was received into the Catholic Church at Christmas,. . . in the city of Rome, by Mgr. Talbot, form, si, . or,y an Aglican minister; at present private . . Chamberlain of llis Holiness. We learn , e', this by a letter from Rome dated Dccem. 7 ber :30th, in the Univers of the 6th inst. The same letter informs us that a number P'iny of Protestant parsons arc laboring for the conversion of Mrs. Ives in the only way ir ex- ti,0y caI1< which is by abusing her hus. band. The following is an extract from the ts in letter in the Unieerv: "Vu "1 >r. Ives, after his arrival at Rome,-, make ,?nj0 t)ia acquaintance of Rt. Rev. Dr. ort 1.1 Metiill, Bishop of Richmond, and ho sub-?>se' sequcntly applied to Monsignor Talbot, [ttcon- private camcrario to llis Holiness, in order to make his solemn abjuration and to vJk lmblid>: profess the true faith. The Holy oltisn rogard, lmthcaftiwiy- jfriwrnA W Mnnoin. incoln |!l(c a(,oVC mentioned, the faculties necessary for receiving the adjuration; and the ,c UP Anglican Bishop made, with sentiments. "('r* of the deepest joy and of the most tender -jH-red piety, his profession of Catholic faith at thing tk0 hands 0f this former Anglican minister, who, as well as he, was a convert to rooms the true faith. The Holy Father chose to li the administer in person, to the distinguished door, convert, the Sacrament of Confirmation; , and and this ceremony took place on the 26th 1 >eecmbcr, in the private chapel of His it- It Holiness. "1 >r. Ives, by withdrawing from the ; else i Protestant Kpiscocal Church in the United or she j States, has renounced a very desirable |h>s1 key ition in a secular point of view, and has been compelled to struggle with family, t not affections and ties of the most intimate ;race- character. Dr. Ives is married, and as yet his wife has not followed his example, lo me She has even all along warmly opposed sking his design, but it is said that she already sur- has In'gun to defend her husband against eived. the attacks of certain Protestant ministers who bad accompanied tho Ex-Bishop of , the North Carolina to Roma. Let us offer up with our prayer that Divine Oraco may comc key plete its work, and that two hearts, so. closely united by nature, may bo still y the stronger bound in the profession of tho Hut 1 same Catholic faith. eon- "The Rt. Rev. Bishop of Richmandhas friend had the happiness to gain another soul to the Church. He has received the abjure of tion of an American lady whom ho had Creek himself prepared for tho important event, he air, "Besides the above, another conversion 1 him, has also taken place during these festival . He J days. It is that of an eminent person <1 nor ag0; prudential motives, for the present, * own that his name should be made pub) pale |jc jn tlie newspapers." such a Small Bank Notes. hope, Ah it may not be generally known to, r dear our readers, that a law was enacted (luring >m Io- the last session of our Legislature, in relation to the circulation of Bank bills, of i in all less denomination than fire dollars, of [hough Bar.'is out of the Stnte, we publish tbo following: [range! "VI. That from and after the first day of J uly next, any person or persons, corpor if her; ation or lxnly politic, who shall within ic. Let this State, directly or indirectly payout, go.w pass or put in circulation, or cause to L*e, the be paid out, passed or put in circulation and we any bank note, bill, certificate or ackhc best now lodgement of indebtedness, whatsocar.not over purporting to be a bank note, or of you. 1 the nature, character, or uppearahce of a search bank note of less amount or denomination than five dollars or purporting to be issued, i to bo by any bank, note, or person, or association of persons in any other State, shall ough I be subject to a pkyment of twenty dollars, a some- to be recovered by an action of debt at r could the suit of the State, appropriated onef heart, half to the informer, and the oilier to the left, the Maintenance and lepairof the publicbnilas more dings in the district where the action if out any brought** of Inve - - - - _L art tj,0 nnmb?T of ponOM who arrived and oar love booked themw.lve* at the Oirard Hoodt, Philadelphia, daring the Mat year. *** oot, bat thousand one band'od eod * %> & "*? *