Brotherly Love.

personal defects , ivhich it was kindly suggested might account lor the moroseness he displayed in his general intercourse with society , lvhile it ivas further stated that he had on some occasions given revelations of a better arid more generous spirit than his usual deportment exhibited . But there was another ground for recommending him to favour . _ The circumstance of his deformity of feature aud figure , had the eftect ol

estranging him at an early period of life from association ivith those ot his own years , for with the thoughtlessness of youth , they ridiculed his personal defects until they drove him in the bitterness of mortified pride , into solitude , to commune ivith his own gloomy thoughts , and to brood over that deformity which he deemed entirely excluded him from the sympathof his kind . This state of isolation ) howeverivas favourable

y , to the development of his mental faculties , which he straightened by study and reflection . . But here also , nature had been scant in dispensing her benefits , for he appeared to be deficient in the rarest , best gift of genius , a vivid imagination .

lie cottld reason with closeness and ivith logical acumen on the sub ? tlcstand most complex subjects—he could disrobe fallacy of its meretricious , drapery—he could wind through tlie maze of ingenuity ivith unwavering determination and fidelty to the point at issue . But when the invention that could enable him to shed new aud various lights on his subject , and the warmth of fancy that could render analysis attractive , were required , lie signally failed . He ivas critical , not creative . .

Perhaps it is erroneous to attribute this mental constitution to nature , for , as ' will shortly be seen , he cherished a warmth of affection and a depth of sensibility for- one object in creation , ivhich were strangely at variance with the want of imagination displayed in Ms public exhibitions or his intercourse with society . His language also ia her presence was different from his common phraseologyand instead of being precise and

, prosaic would rise into sublimity and poetry . It might be , that his unprepossessing face and form suggested to him E . conformity between his mind aud his c : 'terior , and as the one ivas repulsive , he endeavoured to render the other cold and unfanciful ..

biiuou continued his walk to and Iro tor about an nour , wlien lie pei-¦ ceived a form approaching from the direction of the town , aud the auditor might have heard his heart throbbing in thc silence . A few minutes and the young girl , for it was the form of a female , stood before him . She appeared about seventeen or eighteen years of age , that period when inciient womanhood commences to dcvelope itself on the unfolding form ,

p and to trace on thc countenance- intellect and sensibility in their maturity of thought and feeling , where previously little else than a sense of physical existence was visible . Every look revealed thc soul within , and this more than even her face , ivhich was faultless and feminine , or her graceful figure , prepossessed thc beholder in her favour .

Simon took her hand , and looking into her face with an expression in which hope , doubt , and deep affection , were blended , said . " I almost feared , Ida , you would not come—it is past the hour we agreed to meet . "