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I would not words of mine wie ak nag to the surprise of all, Fhould bind where you no longer love, dint Die Gems Wes ete. the beeatiful meck aad sens, I give you back the vows, whose truth gut, ble move arma were closely cover You swore that circling years should prove al, and thet bis ed. A Greek jacket and And I believed it; now I know cs vest ef black velvet, the Uni. You'll say the same when next you plead. tace could charm. relieved the full, plain Released from this unhappy troth, Regina looked with skirt of the same mate- lakes. Go where your fickle choice may lead grave eyes at some of ee ge rn Ooa- Clifford's Pall well I know whose magic smile during this harvest of the jacket, and its loer Has changed your love's inconstant flow ; good opinion, and yet edges, were marked by Her face is like a post's dream, they were the best of a single cord of erimeon; merica As two twin stars her dark eyes glow. friends. We was often the potuted lace collar ; tains in And from the parted, crimson lips at the little cottage. He was confined by a raby, | 7° are there, and 1am glad we are going te Come sweet thoughts clothed with winning grace; | giadly gave up grand out te the shape of «| ewer this ballet together;" bat she sever For nature richly dowered her dinner parties to share crescent, aud two tiny | ‘armed his way. She ast with her chesk ope In intellect, and heart, and face her Besvuteldieal meal, ruby stare fastened the | '"¢ om her hand, looking steadily at pc = That heart has never yet been stirred , or left his place vacant Sing, denattsuity ra o tole of attendant wetenegetinn, tie Tarn all its sweetness into gall? bealde ber as she sung foreign flower, whose | Why could she not spare one thought for hina? in Ame- Tt» peace change to impatient strife ’ to her guitar, in the Lloed-reA petals droop- why could she not share her pleasure with ene 3 I see the quick flash of your eye, dusky warmth of the od Ife dagger potmta, | Who had shared so many of her -_ sia But does the fear not come to you spring twilight, the relieved the tutense | *aite in her own home! Thus he fretted end That one who breaks his solemm vow: songs that Eilinford had blackness of her braid. | famed, quite conscious that f Hole Retiniemd Another's faithleasness may ree ’ loved. Every one knew ed hair. Other gems | Vere im question, be should never dram of Post. this; and yet, strange or ornament she bad | "oelving auch a manifestation of her affection You deemed it but a little thing to say, every one was none, except the plain for him; but not wise enough to understand reise, in Phares sy. my osa* ar ea content with the ar gold ring which never | ‘at Regina, putting herself in that private © make ex e more ° left her position, assumed all the privileges of o | States. And crowd a life's bliss in an hour any ear 4 this aie ta wae and would have died rather than per 7 peti ab pad er had grown tired ; pars quiet garb, her regal alr | ‘em He mever undemtood her; but at this bay on pot sec play, found for moment he was farther than ever from appre To break the chain your hand had forged, people out and peeullar loveliness siating the deli a jn ay A 7 And fling my worthless love away. po peers py . REGINA AND RUTH IN THR sTUDY. seemed to hind thelr best | creatnese of her pride. lle vanity was hast ron Forgive you? do you foal the need ” feotly blameless life looked on her without | "suse she made no sign. Rather forgive m-, Richard Stone, since Lord E:linford’s death, and that the | seem quite energetic in your discussion. But @7es, and the dansewse herself saw it, and r-| a fecling of envy—no man, without subsori- Then, again, he remembered Miss Briinéeed’s That from the fulness of my trust, Brompton cottage was no lure for titled | you must defer it; for see, while you are talk- her efforts to fascinate and to please. ' bing heartily to that hackneyed idea that words, ‘If the whim seines her to marey, whad I judged your nature by my own ; rowes, but a refuge for s woman who had | ing of the Queen of the Night, she begina to = when she found thet searching, beauty is most adorned when wearing its | U™ W*t0 40!" Bare enough! And, shove al, Fongive ans, that in mg vein decom, grown weary of the world. No one exoept | shine!”’ thoughtful glance fixed upon her face, she rimple mantle of hodden gray. what was he to de! He had mover thought of Piya Pa spam nape eal Clifford and the manager ever visited her; yet | Kven as she spoke, the bell rang, and the | trembled and turned pale; sometimes she Mrs. Krlinford and Helen watched her with» | BMT7INé Be’ himeslf ee ee pce swe paisley ; there were kind women’s gm ew pon he Pine sat down in their places, ge ee ager her own a peculiar interest. a cy al pore non eyaally indifferent? The Rast of her—kind English hearts y- + of admiration interest, | most directly opposite ir own ; glasses I 4id net knew you, I was bind. for her loneliness, and that would have over-| 1 have already desoribed Regina as “Mary | that would have been love of Mh had Aneed, |beomahs her as Gear 00 & dhe hel bein Gitine a ee Awaking to the perfest day, looked her fall, if she had brooked their gentle | Stuart." I have some meroy on my readers, | Por six weeks this little play within s play had | beside them. Helen gased nervously, quite |‘ 2*Phyr night after night, soarcely loskedat I see the shrine at which I bowed, advances. But she would not—she had lived | and will not compel them to gase long upon | teen enacted, and ballet-girls and actors, ‘and | prepared to drop her glass if Regina stirred; | *** #°™: * intent was he upon Regina's Men; And find my golden image clay. without the world too long; and though she | this passionate astern Queen. It is enough wore alike conscious of it, and many | bat Mrs. Rrfinford leaned easily back in her | 7°* be Knew as well a0 Clidierd thet Dine hep Bayard lives not again in you; knew well, as she came before her audience, | to say that the part was fitted to the actress, | were the epecniations about Regina's thoughts, | chalr, and stared Iike a true-born Briton, taking | **!! Would as soon become his Adel of tha me- One erred in judgment, one in heart night after night, how they were learning to | that the audience were delighted, and that even | many the wonderings if the two, so evidently | the goods her gods provided her, and fully | ™*™* Whet if he wore dreaming of her evan ‘We were both wrong, and being #0, value and respect her at last, nothing more | Clifford felt a new affection for the offspring of | interested in each other, would ever speak or | conscious that she was getting her ‘ money's then, as the fatare Countess of Charlemoumt, It ia far better that we part. than a softened glance, or a brighter smile, at | his brain, when he saw it animated and im-| meet, except upon the boards. Neither ever | worth,”’ at least, that night. When the first ready to purchase her with « corenst if he You cannot give me back the faith times, betrayed it—nothing wooed that trem- | formed by the beauty and the fire of her nature, | mentioned the other's pame; Regina ask- long survey was over, she tarned to Clifford, was to be tempted in no other way! He ae- Whieh glorified al! whom I knew bling sympathy which would so easily have | and felt that the Zenobia of his own dreamwas|ed no questions of the manager or Clif. | Whose eyes were also fixed apon her. tually wembled at the theaght. aad she—che It was my brightest heritage, been won. bat a pale shadow of the Zenobia she had placed | ford about the girl; she knew all of Regi ** Well, Mr. Clifford, you are right; she u« sat so calmly there, with Otahed s ring apem I staked and lost it all for you. “The season’? was rapidly waning. Regina, | upon the stage—living, suffering, hating, and, | na that the world knew, and sought to know no andsome."’ her hand, and Krlinford’s brother watching J staked and lost! you cannot still worn out with continual excitement of acting, | at last, dying, before that silent, sympathizing | more. On this night sho danced in the “ Hall *T thought you would acknowledge it one her—looking only at | nadine, evidently think- ddle of The words which echo in my heart had decreed her ‘last appearance,” and had | crowd. of Thirty Fountains,” and won the monarch “ay.” ing of uo coo bet Unies, Coben Ge The future—what has it for me ’ chosen “‘Zenobia’’ for her benefit night. The | Zenobia died in want and wretchedness, it is | hy her smiles, and triumphed over the dying “And | like the way in which shf@sits therm. water nymph and all akin to her! Certainly 1d quite The past is past, and so we part. house was crowded. Again Mrs. Erlinford sat | trae; but she died, also, clad in the royal | Queen for the last time. Standing at the side She takes no notice of any of us; sho is quiet it ~— omiable hamer into which our in her box with her daughter; but Clifford, as | robes of former days, crown upon her brow. | scones, she waited for Regina, as she came 0d lady likedn her appearance—more so than | Peor Clifford had fallen! At one and the same well as Charlemount, bent over Helen's chair, | It was thus that they saw her stretched upon | from before the onrtaln. A little group of most women would be in her position.”’ moment hv consigned the German nymph and K RG | N A: and Clifford held the glove and fan she had | the pallet in her tent, the recreant husband at dancing girls Mngered neat; she put out her “Yor."’ And Clifford looked angrily at the Kari of Charlemount to the halle of Bbtia, b | laid aside. He was looking dreamily down | her feet, and the Arabian steed bending his /jand ag Zenobla awept proudly by, and | Lord Charlemount, whose face wore a pecullar and made up his mind that he would ask Re OR, THE BIRTHRIGHT. into the pit, and wondering if it could be possi- graceful head over her ina mute, sorrowful timidly touched the purple robe. It was her expression as he gazed his fll. ‘‘ Regina is gina to be his wife before twenty-four house post. oni ble that he had made one of its contented ocon- | farewell. Crowned, and in the purple still, | own silent adieu—unnoticed she also intended thoronghly lady-like, and knows how to ignore had passed over his head. BY MARGARET BLOUNT. pants six weeks ago, when her gentle voice | she came before the curtain to receive their | i¢ to be; but the actress stopped and turned and resent all presumption as well as any one Meanwhile Regina gaze! at | adine with her broke in upon his reverie, and made him start | homage after the play had ended. In after | towards her. Wax she about to speak? No! J ever mot." heart ie her eyes. Home peculiar beaaty is ‘ ra. and draw nearer, to hear what she was saying. | lays, how many recalled her to memory, | She only amiled slightly, waved her hand, and The Berl dropped his ape-giass, and tamed the girl's changeful face had pussled her, from CHAPTER Ill. Are you composing a new play?’ she ask- | standing alone, with flowers at her feet, and J ou. Gone without a word—gone, It sharply round, as if he fancied more in the thely Gest mesting; she sew now whet the - ed, smiling slightly; ‘“‘for I have spoken to | diamonds on her brow-—pale, But beautiful, and | might be, for ever! Something like a tear words than “a his ear. Meeting Clifford's charm had been. The Zephyr's form wae Those sweet brown eyes! They smile on me, you twice, and you have not deigned to answer | looking, with a gaze that had something of | stood in the girl's eye, but the call-boy sum- eye, be smiled, and listened quietly to Mrs. somewhat fragile | her face coloriess, but lit wp And I smile back again me by look, or nod, or sign !’’ sadness in it, around that crowded house! | moned her to dress for a new part in the ballet, Krlinford ahe hn tet possessed with a devour- with large brown eyes, that sparkled and Yet, in that very glance, I see “T am shocked at my rudeness—I beg ten | Did any presentiment cross her mind, as she | and it had no time to fal! ing eurtestig beamed like stare—no, that le too cold a The shadow of 0 pain thousand pardons !’’ he began, confusedly. made her brief and silent farewell? Did any No farce followed Regina's plays. In their “Do tell — since you know her so well, otntle, for orbs Uke these! They were deop— Those eyes have loved—thore eyes have wept ' ‘“* Pray make no excuses—they will not mend | revealing of the future flash upon her vision, | place was givin a ballet of unusual length, Mr, Clifford, does she always dress in that,pe they were stillthey were soft and shining; Still; looking into mine the matter. But tell me, instead, if you are | a4 oho gased upon the box where Clifford, and carefully prepared by the manager and bis eutiar style? they resembled lonely mountain tarns, imte They lift their free glance gloriously, heartbroken at the thought of losing the beau- Lava ( harlemount, and Helen Erlinford sat? | dramatic author. On this night ‘ Undine" 63 beltewe co. Ad beast | have never ccen |” ‘an » ne Ge We on And are too proud to pine’ M. B tifal actress—from the stage, I mean!” No ; eke little dreamed of all that lay before was to be performed for the first time, and to) jer in any other colors.’ lesked Ith those wondrous eyes went 6 ne a ; thesia ty Mn ak” ashe ae hme haw rt come | The Eph th anevada teed | tak and son! Yoo at an | Tareas gy tiga ae sige ae ‘ ° ba enough wo re yore 09 o » 404 | upon the ville « principal parthad been = y, recotuin vok drows | ut K es a Six weeks passed by. The new play of ‘‘ Ze- gret her going.”’ . heart, and theirs. The shadow of a cloud rose eta “ne ht ae a ballet had .. kd : - ne: os : . : + ar dors with a wavy mass, almost like curls, bat nobia’’ had been eminently successful, and “ Bat she will come back again,”’ in her sky, but the cloud itself was hidden. | been got up at unusual expense and with an- , nib np “~s ; “hs tig hl 9 ur softer and more beantiful than caris could post. Clifford, as its author, was lionised and made “Ah, Mr. Clifford !”’ broke in Mrs. Erlinford | The first breeze of the coming storm ruffled the | usual care, and that the Zephyr intended to 7 Q : vy sea a Pe . have been. As she rose from the mimic broek sphere much of in circles he had never dreamed of | y+), common-place sentimentality, ‘‘s0 few | calm waters of the bay, but they still broke | make a aeiall triumphant «/- Sad Withaste the Para = k tei Bie ties » ob thie beside the isherman’s cottage, with that beas- den on entering before. To have written the play was come back again !’’ gently on the sunny shore; the hash of the | had been but one among the ranks; this night “7 re eer eg ee See tiful hair anbound, and crowned with water- e away much; but to have written it for Regina—to “True! Yet, Regina, let us hope, will not | #pproa hing tempest in the summer air seemed | a4 vcoyar ta “Beng: Nth san bs Sgt ere : : - lilies, her flowing robes of white, her pure, lid cos: be enveloped in the blaze of Aer glory—was far |) sve the heart to desert us. She only goes | only the paure of the light wind to rest among keep her in the ranke le , “ i vers r nm ' ~- vonage her I pale cheek, and upraised eyes, a murmar ef rIN more; and even Mrs. Erlinford followed the abroad for three months, I believe.” : the flowers. “Regina! Regina!’ cried the Many lingered, good-natured! sieline wig thie . ” v" oem ae = e delight and surprise broke from the aadience. ceca of Sichion, and crowned the young hese “Bat I hear she is impulsive, and always crowd, with friendly accents. ** Regina !”” support and anette the ma amon ay ype ge he 4 ma eobery apr Yiecttiy' She seemel uniike a haman being, and with laurels by her matter-of-fact praise. And following the fancy of the moment ; in a word, said the eyes of Charlemount, and the smile of | these were the o eaaatte of Mes rd her ” om ig 7 a “Y "* me ng a "| crossed the stage lightly aud glidingly, like ‘ Clifford accepted his waccess with a meek con- unsteady. Is it true ?’’ Clifford ; ‘* Regina !"’ the little bouquet of roses, | box. And the few who were preparing for de da gelionceg “ig = tl Keine al si a spirit in a dream. Even Clifford was wen : ost. sciousnesa of merit, that procured him many ‘+ ] am afraid it is—in a measure.’ shining with a single pearl, like a dew parture, secured their seats again, with eager 4 aay i - Ay ames ? val , rs owe from his moody reverie by Helen's undis- 4 m is 5. a lecture from Regina, who averred that, but ‘Then if a whim seizes her to remain on drop, that fluttered down from Helen’s hand, and esteaitat looks. A rumor nie from pit hs yh , a P - et =_— 1S ot pulsed delight, and made to lean forword te 4 reaper: for her, he would be entirely spoiled. the Continent, to settle down at Paris, or to | * Messenger of peace and good-will. Yes, | to gallery, that Regina herself was in the a ro — "* i rs a" : iP ws | Look at her. . I think she was right. Forgetting that the | marry, what are we to do!” “Regina !"’ to the last, queen of the stage, and | house, waiting, behind the curtains of the sn oh hae as tay reg t) Ky Data ‘ piposare “Why have we never appreciated her be NT good people of London are very much likes! Clifford started at her last words, and Charle- | queen of those throbbing human hearts! The | manager's box, to witness the ballet! aia oh Gonee | laholed & Ban “2 © | fore?” exclaimed Helen. ‘She danced beas- : those of Athens in the days of old, for ever | mount smiled at seeing him. gemmed crown and the purple robe, the flowers | Eyes and opera-glasses from all dire: tion Helen fi : th e tifully, it is true, in the ‘Hal! of the Poum- “@ F om the run after ‘‘ some new thing,’’ he al- “I think Regina will never marry,” he said, | 4 her feet, and the eager faces, and the «till | turned that way. Yes—she was there! only ~ ‘ r Axon -~ _— pen the orimeon flower | tains,’ bat not like this. Mamma, are you ; danas lowed his vanity to blind him to his peculiar quietly. ‘Do you not agree with me, Mr. | ore eager cries of kindly feeling and fare- | pail concealed by the transparent screen, read — ® . ™ away mare ; looking t'’ j ? Awe position. Clifford ?’’ well,—they wore the fitting close to the eplen- | jog the bill for the evening as componedly as i Bat you forget ite name * Yes, my dear x) After all, it was but nataral that he should “I, my lord? I—I have formed no opinion | dor of her artiet life. She passed from the | any other playgoer might have done! The be lo, Shall | ask it of Regina = better, * And do you net agree with me!" * insert be elated. It needs the sterdiest of heads, ora | on the subject. I cannot say that I have ever | stage with a tender, grateful rmile—the gentlest | manager was not with her, but a little brown shall | bring youone of the flowers ’ “She dances well; | never thought ome end 1 heart that has got crashed among the manifold | thought of it before.”’ look thay had ever seen upon her face; and | (scod woman. attired in a sober-colored silk, a ame like it much, Mr. Clifford. And— | conid do it with long trailing robes before.’’ wheels of life’s machinery, to bear up againet ** And yet you know her intimately."’ neither she, nor they, dreamed for an instant | sat at the other side of the box, in fall view of = please eam Ser to gies & for you.” “It is a fairy by moonlight !—it is Titamia palda ' 80 sudden an elevation. There are very few ‘Certainly !’’ was the cold reply. ‘‘ Bat we | that she would never tread the boards again! every one; and the white dog, Mary Stuart's ¢ Oe Coen. Aetnont Oe. herself !'' exclaimed the enraptured Helen. o bere who do not grow giddy, and play strange pranks | discuss other subjects than that of matrimony | They bad one more glimpse of her that) « Prigoe Charlie,’ rested his muzzle on the “Oh, Mr. Clifford, that reminds mo!" ex-| The ballet concluded in the chamber of the as —A before the eyes of gods and men, when they | when we meet. If she has any such plans, | night, however, and in a new position. It had | crimson velvet cushion, and looked comporelly claimed Mre. Krlinford. *' Does Regina ever | false knight and his beautiful bride. Undine’s are snatched ont of a dark obscurity, and sus-| she has never mentioned them to me. From | been observed by many, as Zenobia reclined | prand, with his dark intelligeut eyes wa jouds ag song was heard long before her face was seem we pended, like Mahomet’s coffin, midway be-| what I know of her, however, and she is, as | on her cushions iu the “Wall of Thirty Foun-| J, was comical to eee the intense ate “Never, I belivve, «xcept on the stag. | by that terrified couple. The lady leaned ’ A tween the heavens and the earth—aspiring to- | you say, my dear and intimate friend—I should | tains,” while a band of dancing girls performed | po4% with whi: h people noted all these little ‘How very odd!" apen her husband's arm for sapport—his eyes — wards the one, attracted by the other, yet | conclude that she has no vocation—that is, | | their graceful evolutions before her, that her | things. The dog and Madame lradence seemed “Indeed, I never saw her with any orma | tarved always to the open door. Slowly foated _ touching neither. Clifford was not one of this | do not think she means to marry, now, or at | eye followed ove, preeminent above all the |p, evjoy the attention they attracted, with phi ment anti! to-vight. The flower, at times—|through it that lovely, sorrowfal figare— happy few. The eager boy’s heart rejoiced | any future time.’’ | rest for the lightness of her movements, and losophical com por ure bat the rabies are strangers to me. slowly fell the petals of the white lilies from within him at this glorious fulfilment of the He bungled and blundered so strangely over | the beauty of ber form. This dancer, after- Perhaps nothicg astonished the owners of ‘And that peculiar dress’ Do you know, | her waving hair—sad were the words shesung, - boyish dreams; the proad man’s spirit rested | the latter part of his speech, that Lord Charle- wards the rival who banished her from heart, | the opera-glarses, and the eyes, more than to Mr. Clifford, I feel more interested in her than | and sad her parting glance. Oct inte th» ort exultingly in the sunshine for a time, but fiut-| mountcould not help smiling again; and | and home, and throne, was the object of her | find so little difference between the actress and «rer, pow. Is that her companion ’"’ moonlit court-yard again, like a spirit of the a tered its wings now and then, for » | Helen, turning half-reund in Ler chair, looking | peculiar attention, whenever they were on the the woman. There she sat, proud and beanti-| ‘Yes; that ts Madame Prudence—half | night—the fountain sparkled and dashed at her phin’ belder flight ; the mere human vanity fed, and at him wenderingiy. stage together. Wherever those flying feet | ‘ai as ever—no less Zenobia that the robe and | nurse, and half adopted mother; and the | very feet—one look was cast towards the case ‘Saw grew with that it fei upen—the praise, the “Gontlemen,”’ said Mrs. Belinford, “you! twinkled, they were followed by Zexsbia’s| crowu were gons—no less Mary Sinart that | quaintest, brightest !!ttle Freachwoman I ever ' meat of his chamber, and the white robes vam