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CQy*.-Terms Cash in Advance. -?'-l -l ? .. ?s .'.....-3.'..'L' - - [wniTTK.s run the ouanokdubo news:] MORE TRUTH THAN POETRY -OR HOW Alt'! IIUR AINSTON GOT HIS WIFE. EY JOANNES. ? JpPiu **Yt ft . cu,\;ri:n I. ?How arc tinrs Inno i:'. Olayburu tvtf** feed Arthur Aiu>ton of the clftver who was taking hitn to Ihc ho |f ? ? ? .JJ^Kvoryihinyj is pretty dull, sir," re plied.the lac .ni : driver. u.i:m\ ntly half| ? leep, or anxious to get back to the h-> te4 where he could loaf around between ?csrs, and watch chances to gratify his Shiechanaliati thirst. there," continued Arl'.uir, scc::; iugJy anxious to learn something more fro j'ltis iion-coinuiiinieiitive companioii, 4,;l.s laatiy beautiful young ladies here a; ever./ Tbc Milses J>>yer, where are they?" ? Still in cur city, I I G iove, sir. V?ju appear to have lived here *onee; you nccm to know something of the belles of the city. How long do y u expect to remain with us? It it be for any length of time, you will have a chance of, seeing the two young ladies of whom you inquired just a moment ago, as there is to be a dance at the hotel in a week or so, and I heard this morning that they were, to be there." Arthur observed that the moment he mentioned the names of tho Misses Boy er, (ho .driver who had before ap peared dull and stupid, roused up, changed his position, and commenced to scrutinize him closely. Rut not finding, in the lineaments of our hero, a resemblance to the person he was ou the qui vivo for, be withdrew his impudent aud inquisitivo eye* from Ar thur's face, and turned them iipon his horses, "i Arthur thought for a moment over the iisftt reply that the driver made to him and his inquiry whether or not he, Ar thur, had ever lived in the city, und concluded that the news of his visit hud got out, and that it would be best to ' in...V/er him in a manner that would mis lead hla mind, and remove his tmspi clons. This answer was thou given to tin driver: , 'Yes I know something of this city, but my knowledge was not derived from having lived here. I have becu here on business severul times, but never re mained long enough to become acquaint ed with any but those with whom I gen erally transacted my business. I should liko very much to remain over a week and be present at tho party which is to be givcrt at tho hotel, but othor matters will call me uwny before then. :.. .^i-I.should like to get acquainted with tup Misses Royor, as"? - T ?^Why^I thought you were acquainted with them," interrupted tho driver. "Didn't you iuqu'tre of them a few mo-1 nicnts ngo, and if they wcro beautiful V "Yes. But I.did not say that I know them personally. I remember to hnvol met them twice upon tho oars, and it was! there that I observed how beautiful they were." "What time docs the up-train leave here to uiunow r; Arthur asked, ns if desirous of diverting the attention of the driver; from tho idea of the Misses, Boyer, aa l himself. "Twelve o'clock," laconically replied, too Dutchman, for our hero's driver was no other than such an individual. Hero the carriage drove up to the ho tel. Arthur alighted, registered uuder a fictitious name, and requested to bo shown to a room. After the servant was dismissed, he congratulated himself upon having found out so soon alter his arrival that the Misses Boyer were in tho city, aud that he had sucocded in eluding a re cognition by the driver. lie sat down on the bed, aud said to himself, '"Thus far things have progress ed as good as I eottld have wished them, but to-molTovt ?" Hero he got up and paced the room to and fro iu a kind of abstracted mood. Alter the lapse of a ? ft w moments' time, he slopped suddenly before a large mirror that was in the loom, and said? ?1 wiil act honorably about the tuat'cf to the end. I will not run away with her. 1 will marry her right here in the city of Cla vbur:, iu spite of all onp isi lion. She is too good a:id noble to be claimed in any other w iy. 'T wii! go to sleep, and Ui tb? n. tug I will write to her that I am here, and that I intend tu seek an interview with her fii her, and tell him plainly whit my intentions are; that I have changed my mind from the manner in which I proposed that we sh >uld marry ; and that 1 have a hopj that my inter view with her father will result in m.ik' i-,g us both feel happier. '?Yes, I will write her this and then 1 will go straightway to her lather* store, and tell him all from my own lips ; and although ho has been hard and inflexible iu the past; although proof against all my entreaties upon paper, methinks win n he sees me, standing manly before him. pleading an honest love and asking a recognition of it at his hands ; when 1 tell him right to his face haw m ich I love his daughter, ami how she has learned to love me in return, I say me thinks he will rcleut, and withdraw his opposition to our marriage." Arthur now divested himself of his clothes and was soon soundly asleep. In his slumbers he dreamed that he had had tho interview, and it resulted favorably to bis wishes. l>ut let us learu something mote of him and his court ship, aud the name of the girl whose image was so fblidly en shrined in his heart. Well, to hurry along, wo wiil state that .Mua^tuuy w tthotuuu was engaged, [was tio other than Miss Bliza Boyer, the youngest of the Misses Boyer, the belles of which the driver made men lion. Arthur A Ins ton did not. see them on the train, as ho said, but had tuet them one night at tho oily hall, two years pre vious to the time of which wo are writ ing. It was there l(o got acquainted with Miss Fli/.a Foyer ; aud it was there that the germ of that love was plantel iu bis bosom, which was destined to ho the great event of Arthur Ainston's life. From the very first moment that he behehl her, his heart was enchained. So completely did her charms captj | vate him, that, in defiance of all eti quette, ho attempted to make a confes sion tolicr the first hour after ho rhet her; and only desisted when told il he attempted any such thing again, it would bo on pain of being bnuishcd Forever from the society of bis fair iuumorata. Arthur stopped; that is, his tongue obeyed his bidding, and nO further oral declaration was attempted to be made that night. But all could see that he had fallen desperately in love, Tu every act and movement of his could be seen pomist^kablo ?igus of a love "just newly beta." And it must be admitted, that so clc gant wore Arthur's mauncrs, dress and personal nppoaranco, thutnlmost any girl would have felt fl ittered by his hi too tions. That night when he went home, many resolutions to learn more of the charmer, Eliza Buyer, aud u faint but undefined hope of one day winning her esteem, engrossed his whole bosom. He fell asleep thinking of this queen of beauty and intelligence. \\ hen he arose next morning he found bis mind more absorbed than ever witli the idea ol herself. The fact of it is, bp approached uear ly a lunatic. IJat if his rogret und chagrin wer : great when he reflected who Eliza B?yer was, how immeasurably su perior her position was to Iiis?] and that probably she would not recognize hiui ou side of the bail room, they were a thou sand limes more intense when, on re ceiving the morning's mail, he found a letter fioin his father commanding him to return home immed'atelv. lie read the summons over and over again, as if unwilling to believe his ? V'V.p" .3,? *-t-;-"! ??->?*?;. senses Finally, however, he forced himself to regard it nS ?' roility, und tint, ho did burn that night! Tho- ? who i> rvd loved with that warm, burniugt iuiiito Sovej that was now aglow iu the l?..s om of As :bvir Alston, cm well imagine the bittomesI u*f his sorrow at (Uis moiucut. It appeared tu him* at fn>.l tluit a cruel fortune hail permitted him to gel a glimpse of Paradise, only to be *uin inoucd forever fr mi it.-? holy pre cincts, without one ray of hope to illu mine his future life. So greatly was his mind exercised that at one time he resolved to disregard parental authority, assert his freedom, and linger around the gates of this newly found haven of bliss. Hut iu his calmer momenta, better im pulses took possession of nlo bosom, and be concluded that come what would, he should.never have it said of him that he was an undutiful son. Here he fell into a gloomy reverie and was only awakened from''it when called to break last. He wont down Stair's, but to say that he ate anything would be tilling an tin truth, lie did drink a little black tea, but that wa> all. After returning to his room, ho men tally swore to ?ee Eliza Uoyer, before leaving that night As to res dve with him wns n^vn,...!.. r.C hastily snatched tip it pen and indict ed upon a piece of paper that was on pis table the following note: "MiSB Ki.r/..v BoVen: 1 hope you remember me. Indeed, if you really deemed mc as impel tiuynL as you declared I was on last evening, 1 know that I am uot forgotten. Hut need 1 teil you that it. wns not imperil notice on my part that dictated the dec laration which 1 attempted to make. Did not. Miss Hover, my actions convoy a stronger declaration than jl \vArc pos sible for mortal lips to impart 'i You might have hoard mo in vf?aMcatinn of myself. Aud now that 1 urn summoned this morning by my father to return home to night, I beg that, you grant me ;i iltort interview this niteruoon. I know that I offended you last evening, and I can never forgivo mys. If until assured of your forgiven.->s?, from your own lips. .So, iu defiance, of all eti quette, aud bocau.se ktj may uC< |ny last uppo'ru^v oi; ever meeting ymi, (<i be seech ut your bauds this suiall ravor. 1 ' *?tr j\Xti 4.It I "A favorable responso from you will forever bless this da/* in.the lifo of ***** X ARTHUR,AiNSTON"! Aftor reading thix note over, ho rang for a servant. \V tri a few directions ho placed tho Uttle billot in tho waiter s baud, and shut ted t.To door. If his mind waB troubled by the .sum mons he got a few tffiurs before, to re '.ur:: home, tho rw?: enso that bis pres ent situation placed ^tim in, uecusioued a torture ten fold hu>yior to bear up un der. lie knew comp?jJ-atively uotUiug of tho girl to whom he -.had written, ex cept her name, aud that- sho was proud aud haughty in her manners. Iu this mood of < rnipd he paced tho room up and down, .during tho cutiro absence of the servant. vPresently u nip wtfj^hoard at the door. Almost afraid to motet tho waiter, aud still move afraid to ??!*tdtho note, if he slr.nld have one. Arthur approached the door, opened it, and to his delight, luiugipd with many gwiiua of lear, lest it should contain something to wound his feel" gs, received th?5 responso to his n.'te. It was neatly^iocased i:i a beauti ful envelope IIc closed the door, and fell upon the side of tho bod, iu a frame of mind not at all enviable. His whole life appeared to be centered in the rue grand thought of his exist ence, and that thought-v us. of Kliza Foyer. Liko the mau who li.id i?vedoJ his las! dollar in n lsrge lette- v Schonte, and de pended* up ui its rcsuF lor th > sue<:< ss of bio future lite, s > Arthur regal 1 his Tov> for" i.lira. ^|^o was fostuuate, if unfortunate, disgrace and misery were inevitable. , Tim; with Arthur Ainstqn. All <d his Lapis, his aspirations, and his res lutj is to one day distinguish hhnsclf, were merged iu the oue idea of alternate hope ami fear, and depended for their sue.ess upon the revelation which he would soou learn fiotu the uote in his p ssessiGn. liaising up and standing before the mirror, he said : "Can my nerves be so terribly tiffeeted ! by the beauty oT a Woman who perhaps cares nothing for me? it is child-like ! weakness iu tue, and I will bravo the re sult like a man, bu it. ovcu worse than 1 e.\p. et. I have her answer, and I will ' read it. I Here Arthur opened the note, which was written upon gilt-edged paper, in a beautiful and graceful hand, ami read : '?Miss Fliza Boyer will see Mr. Ain ston in the parlor this afternoon at d o'clock." These were the only words the note contained. How sfrango they appeared to Ar thur! Ho could tK>t understand how, if she would consent to permit him to visit her in her own parlor, she could write to him so vaguely and iudcG uitely. 'I*ui,"J no argued, ifl hive h?r pot' m:->ion to vioil her, aud should not com pi i n of meeting with bad luck. Indeed, my sf:;r of sdcccsS must be in the asccti daney for, b} Ouorgt), I did not dream two hours ago of any such good fortune '?Won't it bo grand," lib continued, -?if instead of making amends for the hisni? already given. I should rbpbsl it under her owji i\?A"! Ifl can only avoid the piercing glauces of her dark eyes, T may be tempted to do it." So saying AfUtnr pulled the note from his no'-kot and road it again. W'jata mystery, Hp thought, it was wrapped iu. Not one idea could he glean from its phraseology, either for or against himself. He replaced it in his pocket. Bird Walked out upon the street, lie had not proceeded far before he met tucou pic of friends, one of whom said to him ? ? Well. Arthur, old follow, how i* that k mil (tail ilj daiked eyed beauty? Did you dream about her last night V "I havo very important business to transact this morning," responded Ar thur, "and I trust you will spare me from answering tiny questions now." But Arthur's friends were determined not to bo put off in any such manner, and declared,? "Now, Arthur, there is no use to deny that you lovo the girl, and if you will own up, we may be of resistance to you in some way. You remonibor that you havo always said you never expec ted lo Gnu your affinity until you met a dark hrunottc, of a particular cast of features, with dark eyes; dark hair and beautiful white teeth. In not Miss El'za Buyer the personification of tho woruah you described as your ideal one ?" "I would like to talk with you, boys; but as I have business of ai^ urgent 08 tun.- to transact, if you will excuse mo this morning and conic to my room to night, about 8 o'clock, you will much oblige mo, and then I promise to tell you all, asj am going away to night Here Arthur tore himself away from his friends, and walked hastily up Com merce Street. "How strangely lie acts this morning," remarked one of his frioiids to the other, "lie must have made a declaration of love last night to Miss Eliza, aud re ceived in reply one ul" those withering glances of rebuke, for vrhi?h sue is eo noted for'exhibiting whenever a gentle man presuihos too far with her." "I dplt't know," replied the other. 'hut 1 shouldn't wonder if such was 4.*'thug'a j'ato, if he was s> foolish as to iflilKe* iv'Vo to .Mi?s hi;z.r Jioyerj on so slight nu acquaintance. But we will know all to-ulght, so let's not speculate any furl her." The two friends Went their way and thought nu more of Arthur, until the time for their visit to hid room arrived. Meantime, our hero was becoming more ami biorc, if possible, infatuated with this mysterious girl. The whole day was while*! away iu a kind of listless dreamy air of ubstrae ... lion, '-ntil within an hour or so of the time appointed for the interview, wheu he became nervous again. Finally the hour arrived. After retiring to his room, and care fully adjusting his toilet. Arthur Aiustot. .Malted on a visit, the re Milt of which, was either to make him excessively happy, or cause his cup of life to overflow with deep, bitter sorrow. Arrived at the door, he rang the bell, handed his card t > tho servant und waited in breathless silence for her re t urn. Presently she rc-appcarcd,showed him to the parlor, and said, "Miss Fli/.a will ho hero iu a few minutes." . He was now left alone, to think, to wondcr and to admire. Everything in the pairler betokened a ! refinement.?hny i?n <-v?r.i>n.ro..,.n taste that Arthur construed into an omen against himself. ??How foolish," said lie, ' iu a youth like myself to a-pire to the lovo of an occupant of such a happy place as this must be. Surely she will tell 1110 to leave her presence the minute that I approach the theme. But? At this moment footsteps were heard advancing^ and the last sentence which Arthur commenced to frame was cut short. It, was Eliza. As she entered the parlor, Arthur advanced to moot hor, bowed gracefully, and extending his hand to hor, SRid : "Miss Boyer, It 1 am refused the pleasure of pond icting yon to n scat, I shall feel, in the beginning, that you will never whisper, forgiven." "Be seated yourself, sir," iho said, gently, hut firmly releasing her hand from his ; "and as I havo but a few. min utes to devote to your call. I hope you will tell mo at oaco in what manner you insulted me, and for what purpose you seek my forgiveness. I do not'remem ber to havo ever beon insulted by you. If you aro aware of Any such event as having transpired, you will please to tell ine as, iu such a caso, it must have been one offered by you which I did not ob serve." "Do not remember, Miss Boyor!" cugcrly exclaimed Arthur, "Why, did you not stopjme abruptly ou last evening when I dared to tell you a truth, and declared if ever I attempted such a thing again, that the penalty should be a forfeiture of your society. Was not that alone enough to lead me to believe that I had insulted you ; that I bad of fended either your dignity, your posi tion, your personal beauty, or your idea of a rigid etiquette, by my presump tion ? Hence the note that I penned you ibis morning, and hence my ap pearance here. And I am in earnest, Miss Hoy er, when I ask your forgive ness. Iam going away to-ni,ht, and shall never feel happy again if I have to leave here under the impression that / was the means of rendering unhappy a single moment in the life of one so fair. If it vraa your dignity that I insulted, I have repeuted the sin ;! if it was your position in life, I promiso never again to presume, in such a man ner, to one so lofty ; and if it was your beauty, 1 beseech an absolution on the ground that it is irresisti ble, and that (ma is no thing of I be will." "Mr. Ainslon," returned KKza, ' if you are really iu earnest, the Burprise which vour note cancel wC 111 ? more than equalled by your p/cscnt ut terances. Hut to shorten this inter view." Kliza continued, "I will say that you did not insult me. I only spoke to you in the manner I did, because I deemed you presumptuous, and that I might avoid a shower of empty compli ments. My heart sickens at the idea of ball-room declarations, and hence my conduct towards you. I tntst this es pianation will satisfy you." '?Perfectly," rvjoincJ Arthur. "1 thauk you for it. Aud uccd I tell you it almost tempts mc to repeat the pre sumption here under your own roof. Oh ! Miss Iviz.i" (here Arthur dropped all formality^ "if you do not believe in the sincerity of ball-room declarations of love; if it was bcoauso of your hatred for these that you refused to hear me bi t night, oh ! will you, can you disregard and disbelieve ouo uttered under your own roof? Will you not believe me when I tell you that I love you as 1 have t never loved before ? when I declare that j in you I havo found the vjsioncd quocn of my most exaggerated dreams of beau ty and intelligence ? Believe mc, Eliza, without your love in return for the senti ment with which vour dear charms in spire me, my future will be a dreary, unhappy blank. Oh ! turn not from mo, niw Aanr ?!.>??-? f?. .... uwoju 18 my judge this is no ball-room declara tion, no impulse of a moment ; it is a declaration of the heart, a confession of deep and earnest love, and I entreat you to spurn it not." "Mr. Ainston," Elisa replied, some what excited at Arthur's unexpected confessiou, "it I did not k.iow you to bo a gentleman of intelligence, I should think that the purport of your visit here, was to insult me ; but as I believe it is for an hom st purpose, \ will not f;ign the affectation which would load me to doubt you. I believe you are in earn est, 6ir, and 1 feel flattered nt your good opinion of myself. You appear frank, and 1 shall be equally so with you in re turn. 1 thank you for your expressions of regard for mc ; aud yot, I could wish that we had never mot." "Vor God's sake talk not in such a strain Klisa !" Arthur excitedly ex claimed. "Ho you uot know that my whole, life depcuds upon this issue. A\"?11 you destroy my happy dream, and crush my hopes in theif iosipiency, by saying you 'oould wi#fci:*haft m*9&?& ?Wpr inet?'" .vt..*?. - ?te?'J wpmfmfi "I oould?;wi**V#i*, Eliza iysumed~4ftfflaj?e &JW,??jffy'?tD0 means of inspiring you with a | pj?ioa. that c*fyllfyjipyjf? lias loug since been decided and many bright, goldon hopes ruthlessly shatter ed; and I beg that you dismis? the.idea. Mft ?J 155c - J * it ? 7p9 ^ 9 Mi \\\\Z of myself from your mind, and' reuiem , i W^jr******** her me only as a mend. Eliza hero got up and started: m re treat, but was intercepted by Arthur, who threw himself between her and the> door. It was easily seeu that she feared fco> remain longer in tho rooin, lost her heart should prove too weak to** resist the siege brought against it by Arthur. And ho was smart enough to see this, lie knew that the "woman that deliber ates is lost," aud that if he e?Blo^only succeed in detaining her for -a short while, the tender chords of sympathy that vibrated in bor bosom towards hid,, o.*'1- L-v/iS might yield to the touch of his master hand, and his love Gud its reward. Sd, urmiy -planted between Elis* andS the door, Arthur passic uately exclaimed z "Tor Heaven's sake beextne ity^llyy-p, just one mouietiL more I entreat ^Iff,!'. Ob '. Eliza, if you do not l?ve mc now., s ay at least that you do not. hute me, andl that you will not tea1% your heart to re* sist the passion 1 fain would eukindie in your precious bosom. If it is unknown? J to love, let mine be tho happy lot to-teachj j you its diviue lore. I leave to-night.. I If 1 go with no hope from you, 1 shall - . Jr ??? - ? MOM remote .egion, where I shell, seek. to. drown my sorrows- iu-scenes unlike those; around you. ?Mr. Aiustoa," Eli? saidt, ib-a- fcooe whose tcemor betrayed, her feelings,, '-even, if inclined, to" listen, fa*-four declaration* you could- not expect ate to give vou an answer now*. Remember, that I never met ynu before last evcuing, and I, therefore, ask. you igain to leave me." Arthur, more encouraged than ?vir, j s.iw now that she was cither a terrible coquette, or lovud him; The former be knew she was uot, aud summoning,SO bis i aid all the eloquence he could, command^ he renewed his siege. '?Iknow EliSa," he resumed, utRat declaration is a hasty one, aud that I never met you before lust uight; but then we aro uot strangers in. the strict sense of the term. I have resided hero for over two years. Your fath er and brothers know mc, and through them I kuow you have learned that I am a gentleman. But if you will con? scot to be reasonable, you shall know of mo yourself. If you will not repel the pleadings of a heart yet unskilled in the art of deception ; one that Would spurn, the idea of trifling with- female delicacy,, yon shall learn all of mo that you want to know. Oh! my doar, sweet Eliza, think that it. i? * yra.ve m jour hands. Can you. consign it to misery,, j and sorrow, and darkness forever ? You, my adored ono, are the tribunal that shall prononuco judgment upon my heart and tho love it has tor you. T await your sentence." Aulhur here caught Eliza passionately by the hand, and looked her in the fae?r full of painful aud uncertain anxiety^ Like a prisoner convicted of some awful crime, standing at the bar of jus tice, pile, motionless, and filled with strange und couflictiug emotions of fear, awaiting the sentence of death to be passed upon him, Arthur AinStba stood, boforo his gentle, adored Elixa, waiting in agony am} doubt to hear tho doom pronounced that was to seal his fate for eternity. Directly aha raised her eyes-front the floor, looked Arthur gently in tjhQ (Tape, with an expression of tenderness and sympathy that showed how detply her heart had been moved and ?aid iu a soft voice, "Mr. Aiustoo," Atter standing thus for a few mo ments, she again bung her head and in a sweet subdued tone whisporftd-? "HOJ?*.'* [?:.>VnM I t. IN OMR NKXi ISBUK.J