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over the turf which covered the
remains of his beloved parent.
Scarce, however, had he intimated
this resolution, when the ghastly
paleness which overspread the
countenances of his domestics, and
the dismay that sat upon their fea-
tures, assured him that something
extraordinary was connected with
the determination he had adopted,
and upon enquiry, his terrified ser-
vants informed him, though with
'some confusion and reluctance,
that, for some months past, they
and the country round had been
alarmed by strange sights and nois-
́es at the abbey, and that no one
durst approach the place after sun-
set. Edward, smiling at the su-
perstitious fears of his attendants,
which he attributed solely to their
ignorance, and their love for the
marvellous,assured them he enter-
tained no apprehension for the e-
vent, and that he hoped shortly to
convince them that their alarm
was altogether unfounded. Say-
ing this, he turned into the great
avenue, and striking off to the left,
soon reached the river, on whose
winding banks a pathway led to
the abbey.

This venerable structure had been surrendered to the rapacity of Henry VIII. in 1540, and having been partly unroofed during the same year, had experienced a rapid decay. It continued, how

turies reposed in vaults built on the outside of the great west entrance of the church. In a spot adjacent to this ancient cemetery lay also the remains of the father of Edward, and hither filial piety was now conducting the young warrior, as the gathering shades of evening dropped their deep grey tints on all around.

The solemn stillness of the air; the tremulous and uncertain light through which every object appeared; the soothing murmur of the water, whose distant track could be discovered only by the white vapour which hovered on its surface, together with the sedate and sweeping movement of the melancholy owl, as it sailed slowly and conspicuously down the valley, had áll a natural tendency to inauce a state of mind more than usually susceptible of awful impres sions. Over Edward, predisposed to serious reflection by the sacred purport of his visit, they exerted a powerful dominion, and he entered the precincts of the abbey in deep meditation on the possibility of the re-appearance of the departed.

The view of the abbey too, dismantled and falling fast to decay, presented an image of departed greatness admirably calculated to awaken recollection of the muta

ever, along with the sacred groundbility and transient nature of all
adjoining, to be a depository for
the dead, and part of the family of
the Courtenays had for some cen-

human possessions. Its fine Gothic windows and arches streaming with ivy, were only just percepti

ble through the dusk as Edwardspective down the great aisle..

reached the consecrated ground,

where, kneeling down at the tomb

of his father, he remained for some time absorbed in the tender indulgence of sorrow. Having closed, however, his pious petitions for the soul of the deceased, he was rising from the hallowed mould, and about to retrace his

Having now entered the choir, he could distinctly perceive the place from whence the light proceeded, and on approaching still nearer, dimly distinguished a human form kneeling opposite to it. Not an accent, however, reached his ear, and, except the rustling noise occasioned by the flight of some

pathway homewards, when a dimnight-birds along remote parts of light glimmering from amid the the ruin, a deep and awful silence, ruins, arrested his attention. Great-prevailed.

ly astonished at a phenomenon so singular, and suddenly calling to The curiosity of Courtenay be remembrance the ghastly appear. ing now strongly excited, though ance and fearful reports made by mingled with some degree of aphis servants, he stood for some prehension and wonder, he determoments riveted to the spot, with mined to ascertain, if possible, who his eyes fixed on the light, which the stranger was, and from what still continued to gleam steadily, motives he visited, at so unusual though faintly, from the same an hour, a place so solitary and dequarter. Determined, however, serted; passing therefore noiseless to ascertain from what it proceed-along one of the side isles, seperated, and almost ashamed of theed from the choir by a kind of elechildish apprehensions he had began: lattice work, he at length trayed, he cautiously, and without making the least noise, approach ed the west entrance of the church; here the light however appeared to issue from the choir, which being at a considerable dis-ing on a white marble slab near tance, and toward the other end of the great altar, and before a small the building, he glided along its niche in the screen, which divides exterior, and passing the refectory the choir from the east end of the and chapter-house, re-entered the church; in the niche was placed church by the south portal near a lamp and crucifix; he had round the choir. With footsteps light him a coarse black garment bound as the air he moved along the with a leathern girdle, but no codamp and mouldered pavement,vering on his head, and as the while pale rays gleaming from a- light gleamed upon his features, far, faintly glanced on the shafts of Edward was shocked at the despair some pillars seen in distant per- "that seemed fixed in their expres

stood parallel with the spot where the figure was situated, and had a perfect side view of the object of his search. It appeared to be a middle aged man, who was kneel

sion; his hands were clasped to harmony, seemed the work of engether, his eyes turned toward chantment or to arise from the heaven, and heavy and convulsive viewless harps of spirits of the sighs at intervals escaped from blest. Over the agitated soul of his bosom, while the breeze of the stranger it appeared to diffus e night, lifting at times his disorder- the balm of peace; his features ed hair, added peculiar wildness became less rigid and stern, his to a countenance which though eyes assumed a milder expression; elegantly moulded, was of ghastly he crossed his arms in meek subpaleness, and had a sternness and mission on his bosom, and as the severity in its aspect and every tones, now swelling with the richnow and then displayed such an est mele.ly of heaven, now tremuacute sense of conscious guilt, lously dying away in accents of the as chilled the beholder, and al- most ravishing sweetness, apmost suppressed the rising emo-proached still nearer, the tears tions of pity. Edward who had started in his eyes, and coursing impatiently witnessed this extra-down his cheeks, bathed the deadordmary scene, was about to ad-ly instrument, yet gleaming in his dress the unhappy man, when grasp; this however, with a heagroans, as from a spirit in torture,vy sigh, he now placed in a niche, and which seemed to rend the and bowing gently forward, seemvery bosom from which they issued to pray devoutly the convuled prevented his intention, and hesions which had shaken his frame beheld the miserable stranger prostrate in agony on the marble. In a few minutes, however, he arose, and drawing from beneath his garment an unsheathed sword, held it stretched in his hands toward heaven, while his countenance assumed still deeper marks of horror, and his eyes glared with the lightning of frenzy. At this instant, when apprehensive of the event, Edward deemed it highly necessary to interfere, and when stepping forward with that view, his purpose was suddenly arrested by the sound of distant music, which stealing along the remote parts of the abbey, in notes that breathed a soothing and delicious

ceased; tranquility sat upon his brow, while in strains that melted into holy rapture every harsh emotion, the same celestial music still passed along the air, and filled the compass of the abbey.

Courtenay, whose every faculty had been nearly absorbed through the influence of this unseen minstrelsy, had yet witnessed with sincere pleasure the favourable change in the mind and countenance of the stranger, who still knelt before the lamp, by whose pale light he beheld a perfect resignation to tranquilise those features, which a few minutes before had been distorted by the struggles of remorse; for such had

been the soothing and salutary effects of harmony in allaying the perturbations of awounded and selfaccusing spirit, that hope now cheered the bosom so recently the mansion of despair.

(To be Continued.)

From the Desk of Poor Robert the Scribe.

"Though now so cheap, the thing I fear,

Will prove abominably dear."

There is a wonderful magic in the word CHEAP. The news that a merchant has got some articles very low, sets the whole neighborhood agog. No matter whether the thing is wanted or not--it must be bought. And the worth of many a good plantation is squandered in the purchase of things, useless as the fifth wheel to a coach, merely because they are cheap.

My aunt Eunice, whose wisdom is of the best kind, for it is wisdom of experience, used often to warn us of the folly of buying things because they were cheap. In her younger days it was her province to tend the dairy, and every fifth cheese was her own perquisite. She had got an hundred weight, and as John Cartright had attended her home two Sunday nights running, from singing school, and absolutely had pressed her hand a little, as he bid her good night, she had no doubt but John intended to make love to her. Not knowing

when he might pop the question,. she resolved to be in some state of preparation. So to market she went with her cheese intending with the avails to lay in some little necessary articles against an emergency.

New-York from Applebury lies. s. s. w. two days journey when the roads are good. Aunt Eunice had never been to the city before; but had often heard of the amazing cheapness of things there. Her cheese yielding her in good silver money, two pounds ten shillings, to a farthing. Who so happy as she. Methinks I see her now, tripping along Broadway; her cheeks ruddier than a pear-main ; her hair dressed in the fashion of those days, with a high commode, a little one side looking so jaunty. Then her stays were laced unusually tight, showing a waist siender as the cream-churn. Her stockings were of her own knitting and whiter than the lily; her high heeled shoes gave her an air of lightness and majesty. As memory rolls back the wheels of time, & opens to my ken the scenes of youth, other objects, in mingled light and shade, rise to my view I see all glowing with health and beauty, the smile of one, whose smile was life and love. The song that cheered my boy-hood reverberates on memory's ear. But the form of beauty is lost in darkness her voice is hushed in the tomb. There too beloved aunt, and thou old Robert, must here long mingle

your dust with hers; your hearts
that still beat so cheerly, becom.e
still and cold as the clods of the
valley.Ye who have loved *
but whither do I wander.

From shop to shop my aunt roved. A new thimble-bright as silver, cost but six-pence, and she bought it, Fans, ribbons, trinkets and gew-gaws, which her judg ment did not approve, she still purchased because they came so very low. She was not aware how fast her money wasted. When a little tired of running, and satiated with novelties, she returned to her lodgings, and sat down to count her cash, how great was her disap pointment, to find more than three fourths of it squandered on things of no value! Poor girl! she could not purchase half the articles she had deemed indispensable! She would sometimes tell the story herself, but did not like very well to be told of it. But being half in love and having

of course an itch for scribling poetry, she wrote an essay on the subject from which my motto is extracted. .

When I see men leaving their business and crowding to a vendue, when there is not a single article to be sold, they really want--but wasting their time, drinking and bidding, because things go cheap:

When I see a young woman changing her tow cloth for a para

Tho' now so cheap, the things I fear, Will in the end prove monstrous dear, But of all cheap things that in the end prove dear, razors and school-masters are the most abomOne will mangle your

inable.

face

the other will mangle the education and morals of your children. In too many neighborhoods, the PRICE and not the qualifications, of a master, is looked at. For the difference of three dollars a month, a man of sense and learning will be displaced to make way for a booby.

Listen to old Robert. The fu ture usefulness and destiny to your children, depend in a great measure, on their education and early habits. Their education and their morals depend greatly on their tu. tors. If the school-master be il literate and vicious, how can he impart knowledge and virtue to your children? A man of learning will notcannot devote his time and talents for little or nothing. No man deserves a liberal support, better than a good schoolmaster. When therefore a man offers to teach your children cheap, suspect him. A child will learn niore in one quarter at a good than in two at a poor school. It is cheaper therefore in the end to give a good school master 25 dollars a month, than a poor one 15

sol instead of a petticoat, or a six-dollars, for you save balf the time.

dollar bonnet instead of a bed-tick, I would give a pinch of my best rappee, if some kind friend would whisper them

APHORISM.
Advice-There is nothing of which

we are so liberal of as of advice.

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