e shelter of their roof, she
was secure. The place was extremely picturesque on a small scale--a
green glen, where the surrounding heights were broken into a variety of
forms, and where the eye, on whatever spot it rested, caught some point
of beauty. An impetuous little stream rushed from the jaws of a ravine
that formed a sort of vista at one extremity, and, brawling away through
the wooded depths of the valley, tossed itself into the air over a group
of artificial rooks at the foot of the tiny lawn. Dark trees filled the
openings in the hills, and the sward round their roots was dotted with
clusters of wild flowers, like a garden. A rustic bridge spanned the
water, and graceful willows dipped their tresses into the spray. Aquatic
plants clung about the rocks--parasite tendrils climbed the ancient
wood; and there was altogether a feeling of solitude and repose in the
scene, that rendered it the most fitting seclusion on earth to ripen
into a new life of love two ardent hearts like ours.

With what anxiety I looked forward to the next day, when Astraea and I,
liberated from all eyes, should wander about these lonely paths! It came
at last, and with it brought my doom!

(_To be continued._)

STORY OF SILVER-VOICE AND HER SISTER ZOE.

The phenomena of memory are singular objects of study. I have often
thought that a certain class of ideas and observations could be so
arranged as to form an orderly, connected chain, one link of which would
bring home all the others, however deeply sunken in the mind. But
experience teaches me that this is not the case. During my residence in
the East, though I kept a careful journal of every thing that seemed
interesting at the time, a thousand circumstances came to my notice
which I did not set down; and when I have endeavored to recall them,
many have stubbornly refused to appear when wanted. But suddenly, when I
at least expect it, I now and then find myself irresistibly carried back
to old times. Forms that had faded into distance--thoughts that had
seemed dissolved into nothing--scenes and impressions which I had in
vain sought to revive--obtrude themselves irresistibly on my notice. In
general, the unexpected visitants are welcome; the fireside is rendered
brighter and more cheerful by them; and their presence sends a glow
through this northern atmosphere, which allows autumn to steal on
unperceived.

I was prevented last night from sleeping by the perpetual recurrence