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(Vol. l.y THURSDAY, April 9, 1807; (No. 6.)
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FROM THE PORT FOLIO.
EMILY HAMMOND.
An American Novel.
(Concluded.)
After spending three days with Mr.
Drey, my anxiety to see the poor stran
ger at Boston, ltd me again to that
town. Everard was at leisure, and ask
ed leave to accompany me. We reach
ed the city late in the morning ; and
while Everard was engaged in conver
sation with some gentleman of +.is ac
quaintance at the coffee-house, I rode
directly to Mrs. Barlow’s. That good
vvoman saw me alighting, and met me at
the door ; “ I am glad thou art come,
but I have ?;ul news for thee :—he poor
girl is sick—sic't, I fear, past recover,.
On the- evening after thy departure for
thy friend Drey’s she seemed highly
fe\e i' h, and begged to retire immedi
rfltely after U a# Ate rested little ; and on
i inquiring after her health in the morn
ing, I sent instantly for a physician; and
from his opinion I find we have little
to hope. She inquires anxiously for
thee when her recollection is perfect ;
hut since yesterday noon, she has been
almost constantly delirious. This morn
ing she asked to see her infant,which had
been placed with a nurse : the poor babe
is itself ill, and we strove to evade her
inquiry. After repeatedly urging the
pathetick request, “Let me see my
child—my poor friendless babe/” she
wildly cried—-u Oh / they ha\ •e sent it
to the hospital/” Her frenzy alarmed us,
and we put the child into her r rms : She
| hugged it fondly to her besom, and said
in alow voice : “My sweet little Mary /
your mother :s dying / could your fathci
see us now / but hush—he lives some
where here: he will say we followed
him, troubled him, disgraced him/—Oh
no, not for thp world would we have
him say that. But where the good
miui \ no saved us < firts he forsaken us
too ? IIow kind he looked / He is an
old man too—he forsake my poor
Mary / No, no /” Soon after this she
fell asleep ; we expect her to awake in
h« r perfect senses, and then I shall wish
thee to see her immediately.”
Evernrd now joined us, and as we
had seated ourselves at dinner, an el
derly gentleman, in a Quaker’s dress,
was introduced, and welcomed by Mrs.
Barlow as frn old and valued friend.
“ Friend Hammond, said the worthy
woman, it is many long years since I
shook thy hand last ; I am glad to see
thee ; but thou hast come to a house of
mourning.”
tl Mourning, sister / my own heart
is a house of mourning ; but for Whom
art thou afflicted /”
“ For the poor and the stranger ; a
lovely young woman, a guest in my
house, is now on the bed of death /”
41 Mv poor Emily is among strangers
too, ’ replied the venerable mourner,
dry'. ng the hitter drop of sorrow from
his furrowed cheek. 44 Oh sister,” ad
d ;d lie, “ I would not trouble others
with my griefs ; but the Almighty “ hath
(l«_alt vety bitterly with mo.Thou wilt
remember that when my business com
pelled me to visit India, I rcmoved'my
wife and rav infant daughter to the
house of my brother in Philadelphia.
My sufferings abroad I will not mention:
shipwreck, sickness, captivity, kept me
from my native land for ten long years ;
but heaven blessed my labours with a
bundant increase, and but now I had re
turned with the soothing hope of shar
ing the bounties of Providence with my
beloved family ; but mv wife is dead,
and my daughter—oh sister / my sweet
little Emily is—lost ; ruined, eloped
from her friends / fled, perhaps from
disgrace and life together, with all her
sins on her head /”
“ Who/” Emily Hammond ?r' inquir
ed Everard in breathless agitation.
“ Yea my good'young friend, didst
inov. Know my child/ '
44 God of mercy /** grhancd Everard,
and sunk senseless on the floor.
M c assisted him into the next room
and placed him on a hed; but before he
had recovered so far as to permit any in
quiry after the cause of his emotion, the
nurse came from above stairs with a re
quest from the physician who was then
attending, that Mrs. Barlow would
walk alx>v^ She complied immediate
ly; hut after a few minutes* absence, she
returned in tears.
“ friend Hammond / wilt thou com
fort the dying ? Friend J. the moments
o! thy poor girl “art numbered and well
nigh finished ;” she wishes to bless thy
kindness with her parting breath /”
Everard hud now recovered, and re
quested to he left alone ; and my self and
Mr. Hammond followed Mrs. Barlow
to the room of the dying stranger. The
curtains of the bed were partly drawn,
and we had approached close before she
observed us. 44 My father/” with a faint
scream was heard from the bed. Mr.
Hammond fell on his knccs'bv the bed
side, and groaned in anguish: “ My
child / my poor lost Ernilv / Oh my
sainted Mary / is this our daughters ir