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 LADIES’ NATIONAL MAGAZINE.

Vou.iv. PHILADELPHIA: JULY, 1843. No.1. . and glossy, and the rich brown hue of her com-

ANNA TAYLOR, plexion deepened with every breath of summer air

BY MAS. ANN 6. sTEPHENS, ull her cheeks were literally pearllike in their

a sloora, and ipe sti Aiaicins tern tag j bloom an ne vet aia esas ee ever half When the first blussoins of our youth so bright and red as ber small mouth, Are withered in the early wpring, Anna Taylor knew that she wun beautiful, You By kaowledge of the hearte untruth! coutd sce it in the sparkle of her large black eyes,

Si ae er with ‘ Poox Anna White! we had laid her in the cold |‘? 6 coquettich manner with which she moved

grave with chastened and worroming beara” “fv %0selosirous orbe beneath thir jetty lahen when j : : admiring eyes were upon her, ia the amile which pledge whieh laid 18e fedieabtlof ole ULNA band 7 endiy exhibited vbaee pearly and even teeth,

seoroal lrongihene endl. wovee: mote’ chisely ie: | It was visible in her deportinent and conversation Geb feeepees of dalh whlch bed temviouel Sis radially boise bavghity and dictato- of to brightest Linke away. We talked of the deudy | ich eae? etm® Bas in ae of heer gentleness, her beauty, and of the solcima } OP" co) White, would trivinphuntly relate the Sieh pine oe Bed apt night and day by het imantury inotaenee that fad beck lavished death bed. Many a lone twilight did we meet |

d A by ‘on ber during a short visit which she bad made to ase sand mete che le a, { the county town directly after our feiend's funeral, hug wish, im the still graveyard where che lay. It | 5 all her faults wa loved our playmate, was a sad, swect pleasure. Our hearts were full }

o }and wore fond of her, even when the rare beauly vf regret, bat at pain with themselves, for even un!


 * i : t, {Which captivated 69 many gometimes interfered

sisters had we been to the departed. No broken with our own sucial clsima It is tra Anna

Clara would now ond then turn away in tears

promise was recorded agaicst us—no lack of atlen- Hon teanied aa wilh w Ber eRe A WE i haughty girt disturbed the still resting. knew if sereat Aono White conld arise from ber i place of the dead with boasts of her selfish code grave and sit down with us in the shadow of that avers and T had often obsered her lock wen atiil burial place, she could not reproseh us for an a alle when commanded, rather than desired SAMS 9 Mord) “Atid me oho bad bee90') |. torr any af iio blndly Mises which, as friends, faithful to the dead, could we in @ few short weeks ‘we hadlao Jong interchanged amongue. But Anna Cerys meee tiae? Blas eeursel BAL | Gusts ab anlbyel’aainitgreUUreR cher oa esol hat [oy upen Mie: @raveiOf “our Gigad Fs. the-qrothd; and lewen aot strange that she eras ree, ad he grass el Severo MEE aut prink fioesitbe. Ueeghilem vanity whieh Koitted its roots over her bosom, when treachery a | Gopramed Herannigsuild smote, Hie CEG

ae Heep wore aban dest crept, 18) oar st euind would bold ills aympathy with the little fold,

J have said that Andie Tsjlots the AMAL OF 30 oe araylor en ber: form expanded in grace and set, was a fine healthy and Weautifal girl. Beautiful §
 * } worldliness which secmed rejoicing in the heart of

beauty. Perhaps, too, the orphan Clare felt her own indeed she was, but oh! haw unlike the sweet}

i { want of personal attractions somewhat too keenly ; feminine loveliness of the departed, Her figure }

3 for her tove of the beautiful was intense, and a was superb, and even at that early age every limb § naturally meck disposition rendered her dissatisticd wus rounded into altmost voluptuous falaess. Euch | ji the quiet attractions of a sweet, thoughtal

‘lay her thick raven treaves become more abundant} fee, which, if not strikingly handsome, had a thou-

a tale, in “The Lady's World” { sand charm of soul and mind which were sure to } win upon the heatt and the alfection, and strengthen

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