It was still an untravelled wilderness, and bold must be the explorer who dared to penetrate its luxuriant depths.
Circumstances connected with the property bequeathed by his uncle, made it indispensable that Ernest should be in New York the coming winter; and he made arrangements to pass our first bridal season in the great empire city.

He wrote to a friend resident there, to engage a house and have it furnished for our reception.
"For never," said he, "will I carry bride of mine, to make her home in a fashionable hotel.

I would as soon plunge her in the roaring vortex on Norway's coast." "And must we be separated from your mother and Edith ?" I asked, trembling at the thought of being removed from Mrs.Linwood's maternal counsels and cares; "will they not share our bridal home ?" "I would have the early days of our married life sacred even from their participation," he answered, with that eloquence of the eye which no woman's heart could resist.

"I would have my wife learn to rely on me alone for happiness;--to find in my boundless devotion, my unutterable love, an equivalent for all she is called upon to resign.

If she cannot consent to this, no spark from heaven has kindled the flame of the altar; the sacrifice is cold, and unworthy of acceptance." "For myself, I ask nothing, wish for nothing but your companionship," I answered, with the fervor of truth and youth, "but I was thinking of them, whom I shall rob of a son and brother so inexpressibly dear." "We shall meet next summer in these lovely shades.