JULIETTE NOW AND FOREVER. - 1869. . - . VOL. I. CORA AND THE DOCTOR. 11. COURTESIES OF WEDDED LIFfi. I 111. HOUSEHOLD AKGEL IN DISGUISE. IV. JULIETTE OR, Now AXD FORKVER. 1 .C JULIETTE. CHAPTER I. Of all the tyrants that the world affords, Our own affections are the fiercest lords. The storm of grief bears hard upon his youth, And bends him like a drooping flower to earth. - I N the beautiful town of H- , overlooking Long Island Sound, the travellers attention is arrested by two large country residences just perceptible through occasional openings of the thick foliage, and only separated from each other by a swiftly-running streamlet. Onc of these is an irregular stone edifice, with small bastions at the corners, capped with turrets, some- what resembling the old castles of transatlantic coun- tries, mith large Gothic mindovs, and steep slated roof. It stands on a slight elevation, commanding au extended view of the sound, alive with steamboats, fishing-smacks, and whitened mith the sails of a pros- perous commerce. The other building is of more modern construction being square, with n hip-roof, a long L extending back from the main -house, the latter oruamented with deep bay-windows, and a spacious portico over the front entrance. Both of these mansions are surrounded - by rich grassy glades, upon which the wide-branching oaks and the stately elms throw their gnarled apms and pendant bouglls over the thick carpet of the most delicious greensward. The winding avenues by which the houses are approached are lined with beeches, intermingled with maples, horse-chestnut, mountain ash, and evergreens of various descriptions, so closely as entirely to intercept the view from the street, except through the loilg - vistas, left open for -the purpose, in which the eye delights to lose itself. The old stoile mansion, with its belongings, had descended to Horace. Fearing, Esq., the present proprietor. The other house had bcen built by Dr. Morrison, upoil the site of a more humble residence, removed to the end of the lawn, and now occupied as the farm-house. Thcse places being so closely konhected, and the families residing in them having for many years maintained the most intimate friendship, it will not bo deemed strange that Edward, oldest son of the formcr gentleman, being a sprightly, resolute youtli of nineteen, had cultivated the acquaintance of Juliette, only , daughter of the good doctor. Indeed, to speak more accurately, neither the young 1nai1, nor the maiden, who was a year or two his junior, --This text refers to the Paperback edition.