Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1826-04-01

Alicia and my boy are the sacrlfces oil
my credulily-but, ill to-day, | nadly
chung TO hope, wild and chimerlcal
enough TO satisfy the raying fancy OF
lunatic--and to-day enc more merciiui
! than his fellows, lold me there was--no
hohe In a few hours the fiat goes forth,
and | am taught that utter ruin will be
the result
DO not despair while even shadow OF
trust remains urged. gently, Charles,
for Alicia's sake-tor your sons, you
must hope on let US return to your wife,
| il you are thus moved, what must be her
suIIerlngs.'
/ A flush of the deepest crimson over
spread the coun,enance OF Morton; then,
bursting into a hysiercal laugh, he him
self directed my attention to ii, as he cx-
claimed bitterly: Do you not see how
my impoient pride rushes 10 arms, when
friend would look on the wretcbedness
that will ere long be food for the cold
eye OF an Implying world !--and yet
and he held me back moment, and the
glow of memory frightened bis countc-
nance and flashed in his dark eyes - You
will not see A llicia as | have seen her
as she once was--aS she will be no more!
! This vision OF present wrelchedness dar-
kened the tablet OF memory, and with
an expression of subdued feeling, he led
in silence to an obscure street, and final
! " to his miserable lodging; the creak-
ing stairs gave notice of our approach,
10 the young and heart-strlcken wife, and
on our entrance her eye al once eagerly
sough, and rested on her husband. Fair
and eautiu! as the NJ ahom edan houri,
there was a cast of thought upon her
fine lace, that pictured to the heart the
deprecating sadness OF the recording an
gel, when noting down the trespasses Of
pan--ber dress was comely, even in
wrelcbedness, but what had dress avail
ed 10 such a face and form The tong
| braids OF raven hair that pressed her
forehead, were lost beneath a close cap
OF purest white; her child played a, her
knee, plump and rosy, unconscious OF
present troubles, and thonghtIess of those
To come. Never did bow so low be-
fore titled beauty on irst MEETING, as
did before the wife OF Morton On our
entrance, Charles had thrown himself
upon char, end with his face buried IN
! his hands sobbed aloud Alicia was be-
side him--her white arms encircled his
neck; her lips pressed his brow; was
forgotten /!
AT length Morton raised his head, end
4, FL I Il ~
IRE of the apartment. Alicia, speak 10
him. he murnured in an unear,hiy tone,
our own sorrows. are enough; why
should they spread their pestiIence a
broad 2 She approached me, and at the
moment Morton's child playfully chung
to his knees-hurried!y ne grasped the
liule innocent, and raising him up al
arms length, he exclaimed, Charles,
unhappy victim, OF fathers weakness
YOU are a beggsr PLEASED with the
rapidty of The motion, and the emphat-
ic accents of his father, the impor, of
which he guessed not, the child laughed
galy in his face. Morton could NC, bear
this in frenzy of emotions he would
have rushed from the room Alicia, like
his guardian angel, held him back. She
had not shed a tear her bosom heaved
| wildly, and her cheek was dea,hly pale,
but still she spoke with fearful camness.
Alicia said the unhappy Charles, as
subdued by the violence OF his own emo
,ions, he rem aimed passionately in her
embrace, 'why do you cling to me
have MOI drawn the worlds scorn down
upon you z
'If The world, indeed, scorn us, my
love, said the young wife, tenderiy, let
us be every thing to each other, and the
sting will be unfelt.'
A,lhis moment quick step was heard
upon the stalrs-the door yielded to the
pressure of heavy hand, and with
smile of honest, joy upon his counle-
nance, man in mean habit entered the
room. you have gained your cause,
Mr.. Norton he uttered hastily --and
heard no more. A wild laugh burst
from the lips of Charles, and he strain
ed The senseless form of his wife to his
breast, with frightfu violence.
was slowly saun,erins in Pail Mall,
but three days ago, when from be win
| dow of handsome chariot, fair hand
motioned my approach. For momert
looked ncredulous|y at the lofty brow,
kissed at intervals by superb, snow
white plume at the raven hair hanging
in glossy and iuxuriant ringle,s; at the
mild dark eyes cleaning with tempered
brightness but, in the next instant,
large tear swelled in them. | was 10
doubt no longer; i, was Alicia; aud as