went to my heart always the same always inarticulate and stifled always accompanied with an incapable motion of the head but with no change of face always proceeding from a rigid mouth and closed teeth as if the jaw were k and the face frozen up in pain of david do you remember when he did this she proceeded do you remember when in his inheritance of your nature and in your of his pride and passion he did this and me for life look at me marked until i die with his high displeasure and moan and groan for what you made him miss i entreated her for heaven s i speak she said turning on me with her lightning eyes be silent you look at me i say proud mother of a proud false son moan for your of him for your corruption of him moan for your loss of him moan for mine i she her hand and trembled through her spare worn figure as if her passion were killing her by inches you resent his self will i she exclaimed injured by his haughty temper you who opposed to both when your hair was gray the qualities which made both when you gave him birth you who from his cradle reared him to be wliat he was and what he should have been are you rewarded now for your years of trouble o cruel t i tell you she returned i will speak to her no power on earth should stop me while i was standing here have i been silent all these years and shall i not speak sow i loved him better than you ever loved him i turning on her fiercely i could have loved him and a� no return if i had been his wife i could have been the of his for a word of love a year i should have been who knows it better than i you were proud self the personal and experience my love would have been devoted � would have trod your paltry under foot i with flashing eyes she stamped upon the ground as if she actually did it look here i she said striking the again with a hand when he grew into the better understanding of what he had done he saw it and repented of it i could sing to him and talk to him and show the that i felt in all he did and attain with labor to such knowledge as most interested him and i attracted him when he was and truest he loved me yes he did i many a time when you were put off with a slight word he has taken me to his heart she said it with a pride in the midst of her frenzy � for it was little less � yet with an eager remembrance of it in which the embers of a feeling kindled for the moment i descended � as i might have known i should but that he fascinated me with his boyish courtship � into a doll a trifle for the occupation of an idle hour to be dropped and taken up and with as the humor took him when he grew weary i grew weary as his fancy died out i would no more have tried to strengthen any power i had than i would have married him on his being forced to take me for his wife we fell away from one another without a word perhaps you saw it and were not sorry since then i have been a mere piece of furniture between you both having no eyes no ears no feelings no moan moan for what you made him not for your love i tell you that the time was when i loved him better than you ever did i she stood with her bright angry eyes the of david wide stare and the set face and softened no more when the moaning was repeated than if the face had been a picture miss said i if you can be so as not to feel for this afflicted mother � who feels for me she sharply retorted she has sown this let her moan for the harvest that she to day and if his faults � i began faults she cried bursting into passionate tears who dares him he had a soul worth millions of the friends to whom he stooped no one can have loved him better no one can hold him in dearer remembrance than i i replied i meant to say if you have no compassion for his mother or if his faults � you have been bitter on them � it s false she cried tearing her black hair i loved him � cannot i went on be banished from your remembrance in such an hour look at that figure even as one you have never seen before and render it some help i all this time the figure was unchanged and looked motionless rigid staring moaning in the same dumb way from time to time with the same helpless motion of the head but giving no other sign of life miss suddenly down before it and began to the dress a curse upon you she said looking round at me with a mingled expression of rage and grief it was in an evil hour that you ever came here a curse upon you go after passing out of the room i hurried back to ring the bell the sooner to alarm the servants she had the personal and experience then taken the figure in her arms and still upon her knees was weeping over it kissing it calling to it rocking it to and fro upon her bosom like a child and trying every tender means to rouse the senses no longer afraid of leaving her i noiselessly turned back again and alarmed the house as i went 