BOSTONLIEG HAPPINESS; A TALE, FOR Ab.to THE GRAVE AND THE GAY. "Quod petis hic est."-Horace. "Seria cùm possim, quòd delectantia malim "Cosi à l'egro fanciul porgiamo aspersi Succhi amari ingannato intanto ei beve, IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. BOSTON: SAMUEL T. ARMSTRONG AND CROCKER & BREWSTER, NEW YORK:-JOHN P. HAVEN. 1822. HAPPINESS. CHAPTER I. 64 I have flaunted in the sun, and cast And now, and now-no matter. I have done Whether I live scorn'd or belov'd."—Barry Cornwall. "Oh, blessed, blessed company, When men and heavenly spirits greet, Oh, blessed, blessed company."-Southey. THE remaining page of Julia Wilmington's sad history is a brief one. After writing the letter, which in detached paragraphs we have already laid before our readers, she returned, with apparent interest, to the occupations, which, till the late unhappy event, had always afforded her delight. She visited the cottages of the poor, administered especially to the comfort of the sick, and superintended a school which owed its existence to her bounty. All allusions to her faithless lover were studiously avoided by her friends, and she herself never once adverted to |