chequered shirt, was in a few minutes and where she had been. He only anmetamorphosed into as fine a gentleman, swer was 66 as far as appearance was concerned, as Thou fiend in human shape, I allow had walked the streets of that great me- you just one hour to remove your effects tropolis for many a day. The bill at this from this house. The actual possession place, as well as at the others, was paid of my property here you long deprived by the lady. me of, and vainly thought you had made Tudor's amazement was now complete. arrangements by which you could have He neither knew what to say or to think. deprived me of it through life; but I have Who the lady was, what her intentions frustrated your wicked designs-I am were, he could not even surmise. He a-now mistress of my own house, for I was gain asked for an explanation, and in-this moment married, and my husband is sisted upon one; but the only answer he now in the front room." received was— I must now leave the newly married "Follow me and be not alarmed-all couple for a short time, for the purpose will be explained hereafter to your entire of reverting to the previous history of satisfaction." Mrs Tudor. She was the only child of a One thing Tudor was obliged to ac-very wealthy gentleman, whom I shall knowledge-the lady, thus far, had done designate as Mr A., not recollecting his actual name; and for the same reason, shall give to his daughter the name of Eliza. He had spared neither time nor I by him as well as he could have wished; he therefore resolved to ask no more! questions, and to comply with all her requests and demands. Presently she con-expense in the education of his daughter, she being the only object of his care and ducted him into a magistrate's office, and politely requested the minister of the law regard, his wife having died when she to unite her and her companion in the was quite young; and before her death, which took place when she was fourteen bands of matrimony! This was someor fifteen years of age, he had the satisthing of a damper to Tudor, but nevertheless he strictly yielded! the ceremony faction of witnessing her one of the most accomplished and beautiful young ladies was soon commenced, and in a few secof London. onds the couple were pronounced man and wife. A short time previous to his death, an arrangement was entered into between Without uttering a word, or even ex- Mr A. and a brother of his, by which his changing a kiss, Tudor and his wife now brother was to have possession of his left the magistrate, but not, however, un-dwelling house, his servants, horses, cartil she had given him a sovereign for his riages, and such other property as had services. The couple passed through not been deposited in banks for the benthe streets in silence-Tudor hardly efit of his daughter, to the time of ber knowing what he was doing, or what he marriage, when the possession of them had done, certainly ignorant of where he was to be given up to her husband. It was going or what awaited him; and the was a condition of the agreement that in thoughts that occupied his wife's mind, the case Eliza died without marrying, the reader will soon be able to judge for the property was to go to her uncle and himself. Turning the corner of the street, his family. Tudor beheld a few rods in front of him, Immediately after the death of Mr A. a splendid dwelling, towards which the his brother removed into his dwelling; wife seemed to direct her steps as well Eliza boarded in his family; and every as his own, and into the front door of thing went on very agreeably for some which they soon entered. The room in- months, when Eliza discovered in her to which Tudor was ushered by his wife, uncle and his family, the manifestations was furnished in a style of the greatest that she should never marry-the reason nagnificence. She sat him in a chair, for which, from what has already been telling him to make himself contented said, must be obvious to every reader. for a minute or two, and then passed into Unluckily for Eliza, she did not discover another room. the diabolical plot in season to frustrate The first one here to address her, was it in its bud. It was nothing less than her uncle, who, on seeing her enter the this: to shut her up in one of the centre room, jumped in astonishment from his rooms in the third story of the house; to chair, and calling her by name, demand- prevent her leaving it by keeping the ed how she had escaped from her room, doors and windows thoroughly bolted, and refuse her associates, by telling them window, and was promised a rope ladder when they called, that she was either at the following evening, to effect her esschool or was at some of the shops on bu-cape from one of the windows in the siness, or had taken a ride in the country room adjoining; but having loosed the for health, and to see some of her rela-bars of the window the same evening the tions, or by telling them something else instrument for the purpose was put into equally destitute of truth. her hands, she determined not to wait Eliza generally received her meals till the following evening for the promthrough a small door in the ceiling, fromised ladder, not knowing but the plot of the hands of her unfeeling aunt, to whom the servants might be discovered by her her cries for liberation from her lonely uncle, or by some of his children; and and disinal prison house, were no more she accordingly went to work making a effectual than they would have been hadrope (if such it may be called) from her they been directed to the idle wind. bed clothes, by tearing them in strips Three years was the unfortunate girl and tying the ends together. After a few thus shut out from all communication hours' labor, she completed her rope, but with the world, when one morning her fearing it might not be strong enough to scanty breakfast was carried to her by an support her, it was some time before she old female servant of her father. Eliza, dared to attempt a descent. But preferonce more discovered the face of her old ring death to a longer confinement, and friend and servant Juan, burst into tears, fearing that she might be detected, she and attempting several times to speak, resolved to make the attempt, resigning but was unable to. Juan well understood herself into the hands of Him who is the the meaning of these incoherent sob-orphan's friend. She did make the atbings, and said herself, almost unable to tempt, and she was successful. Yes, she speak from emotion, "Hush, hush, Eliza, was liberated from a prison in her own mistress; speak not; I understand all. house, where, for "filthy lucre's sake," Your tyrant aunt, was taken suddenly ill she had been confined by her own uncle, last night, and the doctor says it is doubt- and once more breathed the pure air of ful whether she long survives. I will see freedom. This was about day-light. you again at noon and at evening. Some She immediately bent her steps towards of your old servants have long been plan- the wharf where the Boston vessel lay; ning means for your escape, and are now and from that period in her life till she in hopes of effecting it" and without ushered her husband into her own house, waiting for Eliza's thanks and blessings, the reader has already had an account. tripped down stairs. The surprised and horror-stricken unEliza although unable for some time to cle stood in mute astonishment for some partake of her simple repast, did so at moments after being informed by Eliza last with a better zest than she had ever of her marriage. She again repeated the known before. Her old servants were demand, "Leave my house in an hour, still about the house, and were bent upon thou monster!" and then returned to her her rescue! Most welcome, soul-inspir- husband, where the promised explanation ing intelligence! was made. "What!" said she to herself, "is it The amazement of Tudor, and the possible that I am to be delivered from transport of his wife, at the sudden change this vile place of confinement? Is it in their fortunes and conditions, may pos possible that there lives one who seeks sibly be conceived, but they certainly iny liberation and happiness? Is is pos- cannot be expressed. Being incompetent sible that all connected with this estab-to the task, I will not attempt to describe lishment-my own establishment-do not the scenes that successively followed, the possess hearts of adamant? God speed embraces of the happy couple, and the thee, Juan, and thy associates in thy kisses exchanged-the joy of the servants work of love and mercy!" it seeing their young mistress once more It is unnecessary to detail all the miset at liberty-the chagrin, mortification nutie of the scheme for Eliza's escape and disappointment of the inhuman uncle and the several interviews held between and his family-the kind congratulations her and Juan for the three days she sup of old friends and acquaintances-the plied Eliza with her meals. Suffice it to parties that were given by Mrs Tudor, as say, that on the evening of the fourth day vell as those attended by her and her after the above interview, Eliza was fur-usband-their many rides into the counaished with an instrument to unbar heillery, &c. &c. 160 Just Seventeen-The Particular Lady. One pleasant morning, some four or lived since their union, honored by all five days after the marriage, the attention who enjoyed their acquaintance. From the Saturday Morning Visiter. JUST SEVENTEEN. Just seventeen! The sunlight throws And pleasures dance amid the beams of the officers and hands belonging to the "Capt. ———, [calling him by name] before leaving your vessel, permit me to make you acquainted with Mrs Tudor!" It was not till this moment, that the captain and those around him, recognized, in the elegantly dressed gentleman, their old friend and companion, Tudor, the Cooper!-they supposed that some sad, if not fatal accident had befallen him. once more leave the reader to judge of the congratulations that now followed. I Just seventeen! The bowers are green, Thy glowing paths bestrew, Just seventeen! True wisdom waits, Which wearing, thou may'st surely win The Wile THE PARTICULAR LADY. The remainder of my imperfect sketch There is a coldness and precision is soon told. Tudor distributed the wa-about this person's dwelling that makes ges coming to him among his former as- your heart shrink back (that is, if you sociates, bade them good by, but not, have the least atom of sociality in your however, until he had extracted a promise nature) with a lonely feeling, the same from the captain and his crew to call as which you experience when you go by often as possible upon him, before sailing yourself and for the first time among de-left the vessel, entered his carriage, cided strangers. and was driven to his own door. Every thing is in painful "order." The Tudor and his wife lived through life damask table cover, you recollect, has upon the most amicable terms, and were been in just the same folds ever since it blessed with prosperity and an obedient came from the vender's shop, eight years and respected circle of children. Some ago-(if the owner had not been so paryears after his marriage, he returned to ticular it would not have lasted so long ;) his native place, Boston, where he built and the legs of the chairs have been on two or three wharves, that bear his name the exact diamonds in the drugget they to this day. They afterwards returned were first placed on; by the bye, do you to London, where they died as they had remember seeing that same drugget off the carpet underneath? No; for sheTo the "particular," nephews and niecnever has company; the routing, the un-es are sad plagues, they are so untidy. tidiness they would occasion, would cause See, how careful she steps across the the poor soul to be subject to fits for the road, watching for every vehicle, and rest of her natural-or rather unnatural, waiting till it is at least a quarter of a life. She is sometimes married, but was mile distant, for fear of being splashed: never known to have any family; but she and even in dry weather she crosses o is more often single than otherwise. In the joints of her toes, and holds her dress the days of our good father, Adamn, this above her shrunken ankles. She looks person did not exist, for ladies were not as though she were going to bite every then so numerous as to be separated into passer-by in a crowded thoroughfare, that classes as they are now. When it first happens in the least to disarrange her caine to light, we are not sufficiently dress. She is generally thin, and scraglearned to determine. Though untidi-gy and sallow. It is her constant fidget ness is a fault all people should avoid, es- that wears all the flesh from her bones, pecially the young, yet, for mercy's sake, and color from her cheeks. urge them not to be particular, in the very She never can get a servant to stay essence and quintessence of the word.-long with her; I never heard of but one She will become hateful in the sight of "Particular" lady who retained a domesınan, snd stand no chance of being mar-tic for six years, but then, she was as ried. "particular" as her mistress. I experienced the extreme pleasure of spending a few days with a particular friend, (in both senses) a short time ago. Going rather earlier than I suppose she expected me, the first thing I found out, was a spare bedstead and furniture, covered up in a brown Holland case, or, rather, an immense bag. The bed-side carpets were folded up with the neatness of a silk handkerchief, and the swing-glass was in another bag. Were not these things enough to frighten not extremely tidy ones out of their wits? But this was not all; the cabinet piano was enveloped in a shroud which regularly took a quarter of an hour to remove when it was about to be used. The easy chair that Mr reclined on all day long, was wheeled into another room every night, because the dust in sweeping the parlor before breakfast should not injure it. Of course all the carpeted rooms were covered with drugget, and brown Holland over that. But the dinner table was the best; first, it is always covered with a fancy oil-cloth, upon the top of that was put a green baize, and over that was spread the spotless table cloth; fearful of the latter being soiled, every dish and plate stood on a mat, and this said table cloth was always folded up in the same creases, at the end of its use, as at the first day. All the knives, forks and spoons, were rubbed thin and genteel with cleaning. It was awful to go, day after day, into such dustless orderly rooms, though no one is a greater enemy to uncleanliness than myself. I sighed-actually sighed-to see dust, if it had been only a single particle. TO MY WIFE, ABSENT ON A -- VISIT. BY SEBA SMITH. Come home, my dear Elizabeth, If love could not restrain you, *** Sure the kindness of your heart Like the dove that found no resting Apart from thee, my bride. Yes, bride Estill must call thee, Though sixteen years have fled, Fraught with the ills and joys of life Since the day that saw us wed. Yes, bride I still must call thee, For still I feel thou art And the life-blood to my heart. Kind friends may be around me, With gentle word and tone, The bright bird that you left me, Chirps often through the day, That you are far away. For your sake I will feed him With fresh seeds and flowers, 162 Young Wives-Mary of Guise. And his morning and his evening song Comes clinging to my knee, And when I kiss his little cheek His bright blue eyes look glad, My sun of life, Elizabeth, But though misfortunes press me, And I'll mind not fortune's frowning, Records of TVoman. For the Ladies' Pearl. MARY OF GUISE. There have been, in the history of man, periods like those seasons of storm that mark the changes of the usually quiet "trade winds:" periods, when the long established customs of preceding centuries are about to be demolished; when old forms are yielding to novelties; and when society passes through a perfect transformation. These perieds stand horribly marked on the blood-stained page of history with the red records of desolation and death. Deeds of treachery, murder, treason, strife and suspicion are rife in such stirring times; and convulsions in church, state and civil society are wrought, whose effects are felt through YOUNG WIVES. It is usual with many a succeeding age. Such a period, young wives before they have been many was the sixteenth century to Europe. weeks married, to assume a confident The old feudal system, grown venerable look and manner of talking; as if they with age, was passing away before the were intended to signify that they were During that period, Mary of Guise, the subject of our article, made her appearance on the busy stage of life, and for a few years was one of the world's busiest actresses. no longer girls, and, consequently, their prorogation of royalty, and the silent whole demeanor, before they got a hus- though mighty influence of the free prinband, was all but a constraint upon their eiples of the reformation. nature; whereas, I suppose, if the votes of wise men were gathered, a great majority would be in favor of those ladies, who, after they had entered into that holy state, rather choose to double their por tion of modesty and reservednsss Avoid the least degree of fondness for your hus band before any witness whatever-even This lady belonged to the powerful before your nearest relations, or the very and chivalric house of Guise, at that time maids of your chamber. This proceding so resistless in their influence over the is so exceedingly odious and disgustful to all who have either good breeding or destinies of France. Her haughty famgood sense, that they can assign two very ily, anxious to cement the interests of unamiable reasons for it; one is gross France and Scotland, for the purpose of hypocrisy, the other has too bad a name to be mentioned. Conceal your esteem checking the growing ambition of Henand love in your own breast, and reserve ry VIII. of England, married her at an your kind looks and language for private early age, to James V. of Scotland. That hours, which are so many in the four-andmonarch, broken hearted, through the detwenty. feat of his army of ten thousand men by PRETTY WOMEN. Of all other views aa detachment of only five hundred Engman may, in time, grow tired; but, in the lish and by the fiery opposition of his euntenance of woman, there is a variety nobles, died a few days after Mary gave which sets weariness at defiance. The divine right of beauty, says Junius,is the onbirth to her first child, since known as divine right a man can acknowledge. the beautiful and unfortunate Mary, |