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THE

LADIES' REPOSITORY.

A Universalist Monthly Magazine.

MRS. CAROLINE M. SAWYER, EDITOR.

MRS. CAROLINE A. SOULE, MISS MINNIE S, DAVIS, ASSISTANT EDITORS.

V. 32

NEW SERIES.-VOL. III.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY TOMPKINS & COMPANY, 25 CORNHILL.

1863.

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N the splendor of a serene evening sun,

main road led, two men were seen on the opposite shore.

"It appears to me," said Eliza, "that they are beckoning very impatiently for the boat. Perhaps they are suffering

I owed joyfully by the clear Rhone, travellers."

On its rocky shore, amid the vine-leaves
of the castle garden, sat two ladies, Oc-
tavia and Eliza. Octavia gazed steadily
over the river, into the darkness of a
grand old forest; and her sad countenance
seemed to indicate that she was searching
in its depths for some happiness irretriev-
ably lost.
Less melancholy was the
younger, Eliza. Her breathing was soft
and tranquil, but her tender being was
full of life. She was industriously knit-
ting, whilst her eye placidly penetrated
the advancing shadows of the evening,
and rested alternately on the disconsolate
Octavia and the vast landscape before
her.

Touched by the pictures of the evening world, she finally said,

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There still rules a good and benevolent Creator in this wonderful universe. May there not come from him good thoughts and penetrate the hearts of those who bear his image?

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Octavia pressed her hand, painfully smiled, looked imploring to heaven, and then again to the restless, hurrying stream, and sighed. The two were again silent.

Soon after, in the direction whither the

VOL. XXXII.NO. I.—JULY, 1863.

Octavia trembled as she looked, and told Eliza to hasten; but when the two reached the shore, the ferry-man was already crossing the stream, The two men, with some baggage, entered the boat. Whilst they were approaching, Eliza held her mother's trembling hand, who leaned upon her bosom, murmuring a whispered

prayer.

The ferry-man soon reaches the shore with a well-dressed stranger whose arm was bandaged, and a servant who carried his baggage. With a suffering but agree able manner, the young man excused himself to the ladies for his sudden appear ance. He was a seaman, named Orson, whose ship at present lay anchored in the harbor of Toulon, and who, on a pedes trian pleasure trip which he was making from thence to Paris, had unfortunately just broken his left arm; and he was, therefore, seeking assistance and a night's lodging at the castle.

surgeon

Both were granted him by the excited women. Eliza hurried anxiously to the castle, hoping to find a skilful who had been called for a sick servantgirl, still there. Fortunately he had not. left, and she brought him with her. The

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