Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1820-08-15


b. step came TO the door, which stood open
# as when the father had left it in his lear,
r. and now he thought with alright that MS
at wife, feeble as she was, had been unable
Ito support the loneliness and had followed
IS him out into the night, never to be brought
re home alive. As they bore Hannah in'o
he the house this fear gave way 10 worse, LOT
lie there upon the hard clay floor lay The
c. mother upon Der face, as if murdered by
ID some savage blow. She was 10 the same
e. deadly ssoon into which she had fallen
ID on her husbands departure three hours
IN before. The old man raised her up, and
al lher pitlse was still SO was her heart; ner
d face pale aud sunken; aud her body cold
= as ice. s. have recovered daughter"
v said the old man, g but have lost wife =
J. and he carried her, with groaD, tosthe
d bed, Cd which he laid her lifeIess body.
e The sight was 100 much for Hannah. worn
r out as she was, and who had hitherto
E Ibeen able to support herself in the delight
), full expectation of gladdening her mothers
! heart by her safe arrival. She too now
Iswooned away, and, as she was placed on
; the bed beside her mother, il seemed, in.
deed, that death, disappointed OF his prey
Oh the wild moor. had seized it 10 the cot
tage, and by the fire side. The husband
knelt down by the bedside, and held his
wife's icy hand 10 his, while William
Grieve, appalled, and swe-stricken, hung
over his Hannah, aud inwardly implored
God that the nights wild adventure might
not have so CHASTITY an end. But Hannah's
young heart sooa began once more to beat
and soon as she came 10 her recollection,
she rose up with face whittier than ashes
and free from all smiles, as if non had
ever played there, and joined her father
aud young master in their efforts to restore |
her mother TO life.
TWAS the mercy of God that had struck |
her down to the earth, insensible to the
lshrieking winds, and the fears that would
otherwise have killed her Three hours
|of that wild storm had passed over her
head AMI she heard nothing more than if
she had been asleep in GREATNESS night
OF the summer dew. Not even a dream
had touched her brain, and when she
opened her eyes, which, as she thought, II
had been but moment shut, she had /.
scarcely time to recall to her recollection r
the image Of ier husband rushing out into
the storm, and Of daughter therein lost, Il
till she beheld that very husband kueeliug
tenderly by her bed side, and that very II
daughter smoothing the pillow on which K
her aching temples reclined But she Il
knew from the white stedfast countenances Il
before her, that there had been tribuiatiou II
and deliverance, and she looked 90 the
beloved beings ministering by her bed, as
more fearfully dear TO her from the I'M
imagined danger from which she felt as
sured they had been rescued by the arm
of the Almighty. Il
There is little need 70 speak of return
ling recollection, and returning strength. i
They bad all now power TO weep, and
power to pray. The bible had been lying
| in its place ready for worship; and the
father read aloud that chapter in which is
narrated our Saviour's act of miraculous
power, by which he saved Peter from the /
sea. Soon as the solemn thoughts awak-
ened by this act of mercy so similar TO
that which had rescued themselves from |
death had subsidized, and they had all risen
up from pray yer, they gathered themselves
IN gratitude round the little table which |
had stood SO many hours spread and
exhausted nature was strengthened aud |
restored by frugal and simple meal par |
taken of in silent thankfuness. The |
whole story Of the night was then calmly |
recied +; and when the mother heard how |
the STRIPPING had followed her sweet Han |
nah into the storm, and borne her in his |
arms through hundred drifted heaps |
and then looked upon her 10 her pride, so
young, so innocent, and SO beautiful, she
knew,that we're the child indeed TO become
an orphan, there was one, who, il there
was either trust in nature, or truth ia re-
iigion, would guard aud cherish her all
the days OF her life.
/ 1t was not nine o'clock when the storm
came down from Glen Scrae upon the
Black moss, and now in pause Of silence
the clock struck twelve. Within these
three hours William aud Hannah had led
q life Of trouble and Of joy, that had en-
arged and kindled their hearts within
them and they felt that henceforh they
we're to live wholly for each others sakes.
His love was the proud aud exnltipg love
I OF deliverer, who. under Providence,
) had saved from the frost and the snow the
: innocence and the beauty of which his
young passionate heart had been so des-
! peraiely enamored and he now thought
OF his own Hannah Lee ever more ling
/ about in his fathers house, not as SER
want, but as a daughter aud when some
few happy years had gone by, his own
: most beautiful and most loving wife. The
[ innocent maiden still called him her yn,lng