THE NORTH CAROLINIAN
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lately returned His first VISIT continued
the fond mother, with pride, "was paid to me,
and on his departure be sent that portfah."


cDo you know where he is now" asked
Ellen, conceaing, with a violent effort, the
interest she felt in the reply.


DAT Washington, belicve-he wrbte to
me about fortnight since from West Point,
stating thai he should have 10 visit Washing
ton soon on business. Is your tea, NIss,
agreeable - she continued, suddenly reco-
lec,iDg that, in her fondness for her chill, she
had forgotten the duties other station.
Shall we picture the struggle that took place
in the mind Of Ellen that night after she had
retired? Her cousin, little thinking of the
effect it was to produce, had bantered her on
hei love for the landlady's son, and had thus
aroused prejudices which only her affection
had hitherto kept down. What! should she,
the proud, the gifted, the high born, wed the
son of a village landlady? Long she lay and
thought of it, and every moment her pride
grew stronger, so that, although her love had
struggled for the mastery her pride of birth
had come off the victor. Perhaps she, had
| never loved with that single heartedness which
is true wo.nan's jewel-but it was-she
rose, in the morning, deterninedfo break of
the match with her lover. She reso.veds how
ever, not to apprize hin, OF her de'erus i2sIson
until she had reached Boston.


During the rest other journey, Ellen assum-
ed gaiety Of tone little in keeping with her
real feelings. She made 10 confident of her
cousin, for it was a yart Of her sels-wled and
lnperlous nature to rely wholly on herself.
But when they reached Boston, he accompa-
MED her to her residence, and on taking
leave, said .ughingly, in reply to Il reto:t OF
hers,


':Adeu my sweet COZ, and remember, when
you are married, to buy the old inn, III -.
as a sort Of remembrance of old times.''
The shock struck home Ellen had re-
newed the struggle in her breast betwixt love
and pride, and the former had almost come of
conqueror, when the unlucky retort Of heI
many good feelings, bu: she had lived so long
in the world, that she had become believer
in the the truth of its maxims. What could
her young friends say, she thought, if she mar
ried andlady's son? She went into the
dismissal to her lover.


And how did he receive it More in sor-
row than in Indignation. He sat down, ane
wrote a reply, in which he coldly notified the
receipt OF her letter. No unworthy regret die
he breathe-no attempt did he make to change
her determination. His love hitherto hae
blinded him to this trait in EIlen's character
but now it appeared i'll all its glaring deformi
ty before him, and he renounced her, certain
Iy not without pain, but without regret.
And years had passed, and he ant
| wooed another and iairer bride. But ElleI
never married. She repented too soon 0
her conduct. Perhaps others avoided her.of
account Of her heartleSsness towards Stanley
but from the hour Of their separation she iadet
away, as i: some secret sorrow was Sxhe
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