The Litchfield County post., 1828-03-13

ily were alone, entering by aprivate stair way reserved for the servants. If her ta- ther was sick she obtained with great difIi- culty the favor of placing herself beside his bed, but under the condition of not naming herself before strangers, and caus- ing herself to appear evento the eyes of the physician as a simple hired nurse.
 Thirty years elapsed from the time of MT. Garden's second nuptials. Nearly the whole of that period he resided in the country, and his daughter, after he remo- we'd thither, was ignorant of even the place of his residence, when one day he presented himself before her, told her that his affairs obliged him to take uphis residence for short time at Paris, %and that he had resolved to remain, during his stay in the city, in her humble asylum. Mir. Garden had lost his fortune; discord had separated him from his family: he had but single friend in the world that oGs kis daughter. She received him with transport, and eagerly yielded ups to him her only he'd. MT. Garden from. that moment to his death, which happened two years afterwards, spoke no more of returning home. Never did his daughter ask him the slightest question concerning the motives which had estranged him from his wife and son. She was suffering un- der dreadful malady, but she exerted her strength so ia: as to serve and take care of him. The mornings she employed in mend- ing the clothes. of her father, in washing his linen, and preparing his repasts. The persons with whom she worked, had con- sented to her beginning her labor at mid- day, but in order to regain the time lost, she remained at it until eleven o'clock in the evening. Her little salary could not suffice for the maintenance of two persons, and her pious delicacy caused her to con- ceal from her father part of her neces- sites. She saw herself obliged to profit by the good will of some benevolent neighbours, and contracted debts with 1 them, which, augmented by the last sick- ness of her father, amounted at his death to the sum of five hundred francs. How enormous, was this sum for girl awho had to depend on her labour for subsist- ence Her father expired in her arms.
 Filial piety is duty ;Rbut are there no ! circumstances which give character of eminent virtue to an action in itself ob- ligatory? Besides Miss Garden has other titles.
 During the time she was living alone, before she, had the happiness to receive her father, she had shared her home with Sophia Valley, heririend, and like herself poor and without assistance. After a lapse of eight years, Miss Valley was att ltacked by a malady of the breast, which lasted for two years. Henrietta although an invalid herself passed her nights in watching by the bed side of her friend, & ! her days in labouring with ardor, in order to procure for the poor patient he neces- sarIes which she fanced. An old man, relation to Miss Valley, succeeded her in the affections of Miss J Garden; she received him in his turn, maintained him by her toll, and assisted him in his dying moments.
 Since the death of her father, she shares her scanty means with a poor septuagen- arian widow, mad lame Brosette. Nothing is more touching than the harmony which reigns between these two persons: never theless, at the time of. receiving madame Brosette, Henrietta was already harrassed by the idea of her debt of three hundred francs but how could she shut her door and her heart against this unfortunate madame Brosette! Thus she drudges with all her strength; she imposes many priva- tions upon herself, without inhcting them upon her companion, in order to pay her debt; and her most ardent wish is-nol 10 die before she has attained that object
 She is entirely stranger to the designs formed by charitable persons to make hel a candidate for the prize of virtue. Il she had been consulted, she would nev. CT have permitted her good conduc towards her father to be published to the world.-The Acadamy has decreed her 8 prize of three thousand francs.
 l &From the National Journal. b@ | No one who is an accurate observer of pas sing events, and an accurate thinker, has eyel doubted for moment, that the motives ir l which the resolution Of Mr. Chiffon Originat.