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Evenings at Donaldson Manor

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"There is my New-Year present to you, Annie," he said, as he began to
open it. All drew near and looked on with interest, yet few felt much
surprise when, the cover being removed, a Greek dress was disclosed.
From the rich head-dress of silvered muslin to the embroidered slipper,
all was complete. Annie looked on with a smile as he displayed piece
after piece--yet her smile wore some appearance of constraint; and when
Philip, drawing her to him, kissed her cheek and said, "Not a word for
me, Annie!" with her thanks were mingled some hesitating expressions of
apprehension that this dress would be very conspicuous, concluding with
the timid question, "Do you really wish me to wear it this evening,
Philip?"

"Certainly, Annie. It was in order to show you in this dress that I
proposed fancy dresses for this evening; you will not disappoint me?"

"Certainly not--at least not willingly--I will wear it. If I wear it
ungracefully you will forgive me?"

"I am not afraid of that," said Philip, as he glanced at her glowing
face with a brother's gratified pride.

Miss Donaldson advised that Annie should try on the dress at once, as
she prudently suggested it might require some alteration.

"Come with me, Aunt Nancy," said Annie as she left the room to comply
with this advice.

"Come back here and let us see you, Annie, when you have put it on,"
said Col. Donaldson.

Annie would have passed from the room without an answer, evading the
compliance which she could not refuse, but the Colonel called her back
and did not dismiss her till assured that the request, which he knew
would be regarded as a command, had been heard.

The dress needed no alteration. We afterwards found that Philip had sent
his friend a measure procured from Annie's maid, and the fit was
perfect. I am not quite sure that Annie, as she saw the beautiful figure
reflected in her glass, regretted the command which compelled her to
show herself to the party awaiting her in the library, to which we had
withdrawn from the breakfasting room, that we might not interfere with
the household operations, of which the latter was, at this hour, the
scene. Yet it was with a little coy delay and blushing timidity that
she, at length, suffered me to lead her thither.

"Beautiful!"--"I never saw her look so well!"--"I knew it would become
her!" were the exclamations that greeted her, on her entrance, deepening
the flush upon her cheek, and calling up a brighter smile to her lips.
Mr. Arlington alone was silent, but his soul was in his eyes, and they
spoke an admiration compared to which the words of others were tame.

"My dear Annie," said her mother, as she gazed delightedly upon her,
"how I wish I had a likeness of you in that dress!--you do look so
remarkably well in it."

Mr. Arlington stepped forward. "Would you permit me--" to Mrs.
Donaldson--"Would you do me the favor--" to Annie--"Might I be
allowed--" with a glance at the Colonel, "to gratify Mrs. Donaldson's
wish. It should be my New-Year's offering. I would ask only an hour of
your time--" deprecatingly to Annie. "That would give me an outline
which I could fill up without troubling you."

Mr. Arlington was so earnest, and Mrs. Donaldson so gratefully pleased,
that if Annie had any objections, they were completely overborne. Mr.
Arlington produced his sketching materials, and disposed his subject and
his light, and then intimated so plainly that the consciousness of the
observation of others would be fatal to his success, that we withdrew,
leaving only Philip with a book in a distant corner "to play propriety,"
as he whispered to me on passing, with a mischievous glance at the
blushing Annie.

And now the reader doubtless thinks, that in the engraving prefixed to
this volume, he has a copy of the sketch made on this New-Year's
morning. In this, however, he deceives himself, for the work of this
morning amounted to the merest and most unfinished outline, which would
have stood for Zuleika as well as for Annie Donaldson. Yet instead of
one hour, Annie generously allowed Mr. Arlington nearly to triple the
time. How he was occupied during all this time, I cannot tell, though
that he did not spend all of it in drawing I had ocular demonstration.

Nearly three hours, as I have said, had passed since we left the
library, when, looking from my window, I saw Philip, returning to the
house on horseback. Having left in the library a book in which I was
much interested, I had been waiting somewhat impatiently for Annie's
appearance, to satisfy me that I might without intrusion return thither
for it. I now concluded, somewhat too hastily, as it afterwards proved,
from seeing Philip abroad, that the sitting was at an end, and
accordingly went for my book. I entered noiselessly, I suppose--I am
usually quiet in my movements--by a door directly opposite to the seat
which Mr. Arlington had arranged for himself, and behind the sofa on
which, at his desire, Annie had been seated when I left her. There still
was Mr. Arlington's seat, and before it a table with the drawing
materials and unfinished sketch, but Mr. Arlington was on the sofa
beside Annie. He was speaking, but in tones so low, that even had I
wished it, I could not have heard him; but the few seconds for which
surprise kept me chained to the spot, were sufficient to suggest the
subject of those murmured words. The reader will probably conjecture
that subject without aid from me, when I tell him what I saw. Of Annie,
as she sat with her back to me, I could only see the drooping head and
one crimson ear and cheek; Mr. Arlington's face was turned to her, and
was glowing with joy, and as it seemed to me with triumph. Before I had
turned away, he raised her hand to his lips. I saw that it rested
unresistingly in his clasp; and gliding through the door by which I
stood, I closed it softly and left them unconscious of my presence.

The invitations had been given for the early hour of half-past seven,
and at seven, by previous arrangement, our own party collected in the
library dressed for the evening. There stood Col. Donaldson in the
uniform of a continental major, gallantly attending a lady whose fine
dark eyes and sweet smile revealed Mrs. Seagrove, notwithstanding the
crimped and powdered hair, patched face, hoop, furbelows, and
farthingale, which would have carried us back to the days of Queen Anne.
Mrs. Dudley, in similar costume, was attended by Philip Donaldson, who
looked a perfect gentleman of the Sir Charles Grandison style in his
full dress, with bag-wig and sword. Arthur Donaldson, in the graceful
and becoming costume of the gallant Hotspur, was seated with his Kate by
his side, and if Kate Percy looked but half as lovely in her bridal
array as did her present representative, she was well worthy a hero's
homage. But in the background, evidently shrinking from observation,
stood a figure more interesting to me than all these--it was our "sweet
Annie" as Zuleika--our Bride, _not_ of Abydos--leaning on the arm of a
Selim habited in a costume as correct and as magnificent as her own, yet
who could scarcely be said to _look_ the character well; the open brow
of Mr. Arlington, where lofty and serene thought seemed to have fixed
its throne, and his eyes bright with present enjoyment and future hope,
bearing little resemblance to our imaginations of the wronged and
desperate Selim, whose very joy seemed but a lightning flash, lending
intenser darkness to the night of his despair. I was the last to enter
the room, and as I approached Mr. Arlington, he presented me with a very
beautiful bouquet. I found afterwards that he had made the same graceful
offering to each of the ladies at the Manor, having received them from
the city, to which he had sent for his Greek dress and Philip's wig. Put
up in the ingenious cases now used for this purpose, the flowers had
come looking as freshly as though they had that moment been plucked. The
bouquet appropriated to Annie differed from all the others. It was
composed of white camelias, moss-rose buds, and violets. As I was
admiring it, Annie pointed to one of the rose-buds as being eminently
lovely in its formation and beautiful in its delicate shading. It was
beautiful, but my attention was more attracted by the sparkling of a
diamond ring I had never before seen upon her finger. The diamond was
unusually large, the antique setting tasteful. With an inconsideration
of which I flatter myself I am not often guilty, I exclaimed in
surprised admiration, "Why, Annie, where did you get that beautiful
ring?"

The sudden withdrawing of the little hand, the quick flushing of cheek,
neck, brow, told the tale at once; a tale corroborated by the smiling
glance which met mine as it was turned for a moment on Mr. Arlington.
Her confusion was beautiful, but he was too generous to enjoy it, and
strove to bring me back to the flowers.

"Have you ever seen some beautiful verses, translated from the German,
by Edward Everett I believe, entitled 'The Flower Angels?'" he asked.

"I never did; can you repeat them?"

He answered by immediately reciting the verses which I here give to the
reader.


THE FLOWER ANGELS.

As delicate forms as is thine, my love,
And beauty like thine, have the angels above;
Yet men cannot see them, though often they come
On visits to earth from their native home.

Thou ne'er wilt behold them, but if thou wouldst know
The houses in which, when they wander below,
The Angels are fondest of passing their hours,
I'll tell thee, fair lady--they dwell in the flowers.

Each flower, as it blossoms, expands to a tent
For the house of a visiting angel meant;
From his flight o'er the earth he may there find repose,
Till again to the vast tent of heaven he goes.

And this angel his dwelling-place keeps in repair,
As every good man of his dwelling takes care;
All around he adorns it, and paints it well,
And much he's delighted within it to dwell.

True sunshine of gold, from the orb of day,
He borrows, his roof with its light to inlay;
All the lines of each season to him he calls,
And with them he tinges his chamber walls.

The bread angels eat, from the flower's fine meal,
He bakes, so that hunger he never can feel;
He brews from the dew-drop a drink fresh and good,
And every thing does which a good angel should.

And greatly the flowers, as they blossom, rejoice
That they are the home of the angel's choice;
And again when to heaven the angel ascends,
The flower falls asunder, the stalk droops and bends.

If thou, my dear lady, in truth art inclined,
The spirits of heaven beside thee to find,
Reflect on the flowers and love them moreover,
And angels will always around thee hover.

A flower do but plant near thy window-glass,
And through it no spirit of evil can pass;
When thou goest abroad, on thy bosom wear
A nosegay, and trust me an angel is near.

Do but water the lilies at break of day,
For the hours of the morn thou'lt be whiter than they;
Let a rose round thy bed night-sentry keep,
And angels will rock thee on roses to sleep.

No frightful dreams can approach thy bed,
For around thee an angel his watch will have spread;
And whatever visions thy Guardian, to thee,
Permits to come in, very good ones will be.

When thus thou art kept by a heavenly spell,
Shouldst thou now and then dream that I love thee right well;
Be sure that with fervor and truth I adore thee,
Or an angel had ne'er set mine image before thee.

The visitors soon began to arrive. There were among them some amusing
characters, so well supported as to give rise during the evening to many
entertaining scenes; but to me this was the group and this the incident
of the evening. Not a group or an incident for prurient curiosity or
frivolous jest, but for an earnest and reverent recognition of that
beautiful law imposed on Nature by her Great Author, by which the feeble
delight in receiving, and the strong in giving support--that law by
which a pure and self-abnegating affection is made the source of life in
all its commingling relations--of its duties and its sympathies--its
joys and its sorrows--of its severest probation and its loftiest
development.

It was in the solemnity of spirit, engendered by thoughts like these,
that I stood at the window of my room, looking forth upon the still and
moonlit night, long after our friends had left us. My door opened softly
and Annie glided in, and ere I was aware of her presence, was standing
beside me with her head resting on my shoulder. A tear was on the cheek
to which I pressed my lips. A few whispered words told me whence the
ring came--but not for the public are the pure, guileless confidences of
that hour.

Our holiday festivities were over, and the next day the Christmas Guests
departed. They had stepped aside awhile from the dusty thoroughfares on
which they were accustomed to pursue their several avocations, for the
interchange of friendly sympathy with each other, and the offering of
grateful hearts to Heaven, and now they were returning, cheered and
strengthened to their allotted work. Reader, go thou and do likewise

"Like a star
That maketh not haste,
That taketh no rest,
Let each be fulfilling
His God-given best."

THE END.




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