isite beauty, her lovely, retiring modesty of manner, free alike
from affectation or sheepishness, her expressive and eloquent features,
all burst upon his view at once, his heart was taken "by storm,"--he
clasped her to his bosom, and felt towards her in an instant as warm
affection as though she was indeed his own child. The banns of matrimony
were published immediately, after the manner of the descendants of the
pilgrim roundheads, and the marriage solemnized as soon as the legal
time had elapsed; and the happy party took up their abode in old Mr.
Morton's house.

Morton's female friends and acquaintance at first seemed amazingly shy
of the new-comer; but at a "numerous and highly respectable" petticoated
caucus, a forlorn hope, after repeated declensions of the honor, was
chosen to make the first "call." Their report was so very favorable that
the newly-married couple were, in less than a fortnight, rather annoyed
by too much company.

On the passage from Mexico to China, and thence home, Isabella had, in
vulgar phrase, "taken a liking" to Jones, the boatswain, and formed,
what was probably conceived, at that time, the visionary plan of
breaking him from his intemperate habits. She communicated her scheme to
her husband shortly after their marriage, who most cheerfully coincided
in opinion with her. Jones was accordingly sent for, and regularly
installed in the family. The eloquent representations of Mrs. Morton,
and the promises of her husband and his father, had the wished-for
effect--the old tar consented to "give up grog," and did so, making
exceptions only in favor of the "glorious first of June," the
anniversary of Lord Howe's victory off Ushant, at which Jones was
present, the fourth of July, _'lection_ days, Thanksgiving days, and the
birth of Mrs. Morton's first child. This last event took place, by what
modern editors call a "singular coincidence," upon the first of June
ensuing; and Jones was sorely puzzled how to "keep up" both days, and,
in consequence, got very considerably "corned." It was, however, his
last offence; he gradually adopted the temperate habits of the family,
and continued in them to his death.

We have no farther particulars to communicate, except that Charles
Morton was taken into partnership by his father, and became wealthy, and
that his wife wrote a long and kind letter to her uncle, which was
forwarded by the captain of an outward-bound whaleman, who delivered it
into his own ha