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We shall soon issue a catalogue of Sabbath school Books, and also a catalogue of all Universalist Publications. er ith er m, Lat to sh, * award, Trascible, may possibly be; but that he is in serious difficulty, while her companion just, and not ungenerous, I will maintain was silent from an unwillingness to inter-against all accusations. Yes, by thunder! in this list, send us the amount due, otherwise it will we published. We repeat, THESE ACCOUNTS MUST BE SETTLED, in some manner, at once. It remains for you to adopt an easy course, which if you do not accept, we have but one alternative-and this we shall adopt. LET THIS MATTER BE ATTENDED TO AT ONCE, and thus prevent further trouble. THE LADIES' REPOSITORY. MAY, 1862. TALES OF THE ROUND TABLE. BY ELSIE CRANMER. My Own Story. CONCLUDED. LUCY, OR THE TORY'S DAUGHTER. "I left Lucy and her companion, you remember," said I, after we were gathered as usual around the table, the city and its terrors shut out "just as they were emerging from the little inn together. The rain had for sometime ceased; but the road was in many places gullied and stony, in others soft and slippery; and worn with fatigue, weeping and want of sleep, poor Lucy found some difficulty in keeping her feet. Several times she stumbled, and her thin kid slippers were soon saturated with water. Her companion silently eyed her from time to time, until at last seeing her set both feet in a deep puddle, he threw up one side of his rough cloak and offered her his arm. "Here, my girl, you had better take an old fellow's arm than to wear yourself out in this way alone. I think I can hold up this little slender person.' Lucy looked up into his face, and reassured by his frank, friendly smile, accepted the offered support, and they walked on side by side, as silently as before, Lucy meditating with no very light heart on the reception she might meet with at the fort, and by no means sure that she was not involving herself as well as her father, in serious difficulty, while her companion was silent from an unwillingness to inter rupt what he saw were the perplexed and disturbing thoughts of the young lady. Roused at last from her revery by his quiet and unobtrusive attentions and grateful for the firm arm with which he sustained her slippery steps, Lucy threw off her reserve and broke the silence first. "You mentioned sir, that you were acquainted with Gen. P-?" "I know him very well," answered the soldier. "Do you know, sir, whether he is so hard and cruel, as he has been called?" "He hard and cruel!" cried the soldier surprised-"It is the first time I ever heard him called so-who asserts this, Miss ?" "Indeed, sir, I do not know-I thought I had heard so- stammered Lucy, confused and trembling she knew not why. "Hard and cruel!" repeated the old soldier passionately-" hard and cruel! Curses! Who isn't then? Hard towards the vile, perhaps unforgiving it may be toward the treacherous and wicked-yet beyond-” "O, I did not mean just that," interrupted Lucy, surprised at the warmth with which her companion defended the General-" I have not the honor to know himI only asked you for your opinion of him, sir." "And my opinion, young lady, is. that somebody has deceived you in relation to Gen. P. That he is often hasty, rash, irascible, may possibly be; but that he is just, and not ungenerous, I will maintain against all accusations. Yes, by thunder! |