Town and Country; Or, Life at Home and Abroad, Without and Within Us

ttended the soldier's every-day life, that the words "as idle as a s

f music was heard from all parts of the city, and perfumed bre

e seven hills; and its people rejoiced as they ha

? The tinkling bell is a sweeter sound than the trumpet's blast; and the curling smoke, arising from the hearth-stones of contented

n cannot describe, nor pencil portray,-a beauty which seems to hover around the form, words, and motions of those whose special recipients it is; a sort of ethereal loveliness, concentratin

idolatry he cherished her. She was his confidant. In the privacy of her faithful heart he treasured all his plans and purposes. Of late, the peaceful security in which the nation dwelt gave him the opportunity of r

r father, or the young man whose apo

trict attachment to what conscience dictated as right opinions. The general loved him for the inheritance he possessed in such traits of character, and the love which existed between his daughter and the son of a plebeian was coun

on a beautiful eminence, in the rear

n rays streamed over hill and dale, palace and co

and beautiful scene before them, when the musical voice of Rubine

ich she delighted to dwell. Turning the gaze of her l

t's blast, and the smoke and the heat of the conflict, better than its g

admiration. He gazed upon her with feelings he had never

tary life,-she, who had seen but one side of the great panorama of martial life,-to speak thus in prai

sound the alarm which shall call me from your side to the strife and tumult of war. Instead of your gentle

exclaimed Alett;

your country?" in

le. It need not be that you go. But why this alarm? We were talking of peace,

thought will arise that it may be taken from us." No more words were needed to bring to the mind of Alett all that filled th