GRAHAM’S MAGAZINE. VOL. XXXV. November, 1849. NO. 5. Table of Contents Fiction, Literature and Other Articles Jasper St. Aubyn Men at Home: or The Pretty Man-Hater A Year and A Day: or The Will Major Anspach Homewood The Battle of Trenton Mr. Merritt and His Family The Life Insurance The Balize Wild-Birds of America Editor’s Table Review of New Books Poetry, Music, and Fashion The Broken Household Fragments of an Unfinished Story Parting The Fear of Death Lines The Seminoles’ Last Look To My Sister E . . . . A. Bunker-Hill at Midnight Lines Spiritual Presence Flower Fancies Le Follet Wake, Lady, Wake Transcriber’s Notes can be found at the end of this eBook. * * * * * [Illustration: HAPPY AS A KING. Engraved and Printed expressly for Graham’s Magazine by J. M. Butler.] GRAHAM’S MAGAZINE. VOL. XXXV. PHILADELPHIA, NOVEMBER, 1849. NO. 5. * * * * * JASPER ST. AUBYN; OR THE COURSE OF PASSION. BY HENRY WILLIAM HERBERT. (_Continued from page 213._) Reader, the heart of man is a strange compound, a deceitful thing. Jasper St. Aubyn _did_ love Theresa Allan, as I have said before, with all the love which he could bestow on any thing divine or human. His passion for the possession of her charms, both personal and mental, was, as his passions ever were, inordinate. His belief in her excellence, her purity, in the stability of her principles, the impregnable strength of her virtue, could not be proved more surely than by the fact, that he had never dared an attempt to shake them. His faith in her adoration for himself was as firm-fixed as the sun in heaven. And, lastly, his conviction of the constancy of his own love toward her, of the impossibility of that love’s altering or perishing, was strong as his conviction of his own being. But he was one of those singularly constituted beings, who will never take an easy path when he has the option of one more difficult; never follow the straight road when he can see a tortuous byway leading to the same end.