The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1838-02-21

? sure, NIr. 80"
what you want !" was Mrs. C""l"fs ~
iuindrr, whenever he vrDiufed :" conpi"ii'
4" You know, told YOU from Tie hrsl, ~.
d,uvh,er wasn'i ed,iicuied for drudge
pm sure, poor thing! Harriet never has
sovereign in her purse, nor a new gown Il
- Ler bock. It's unknown what she's gun,
: ,bronol, since she married. ! protest irl
: oute ashamed last Sunday, when she ruf
!, ,gain.t them Curats, rs ihry were s,rppib.
! into their carriage after church, aud ] "a"
= Marin give sncl, a glance al poor HarneI' =
. old straw bonnet. To be sure, Mrs. Carhl
: would have given something ior the preIiy
: f,ce that wns blusInne underneath"
For Harriet, though pale and delicate,
was unluckily pretier tlnn e'er--"i'uck-
: iIy because her beauty often uilrac,ed at
ientions which she had not presence oi
mind To repel. BY the Intervention "i her
nother, Lord Alfred Rnndslfy had ec",ne
,he occuuier of the first h0"r. The rent Of
: I5O ooinrns a-year WAS If too much con-
s,oueucc 10 The distressed Rowland, To adj
mi, ofan hesitation about accepting such
:, tenant and, once Installed under their
roof Lord Alfred had soon 0ccaslun 10 mo-
I ,ice HE priyhtIuns Of his former play
and he gallanry or good naIure 10 minis
ter on various OCCASIONS, Ia Harrltt's taste
for luxury and ease. He took n servant,
whose chief business it WAS To- assist The
The mistress Of the house. He bought ii
pians-furIe, which he eitreaied Mrs. Row
land to- consider as her own. The grand
nioiLer was treated with new shawls, and
boxes ~ lhe theatre, children with toys and
swcrtnrn.s. " hat could Lord Alfred do
too mach for his old playmate, 70 strangely
mis- IN iiched and out of place, us married
10 u Vulgar lradesmen
The sequel of all This need not be cir
cumslanlally detailed. From folly 10 crime
The road slopes impcrcep'ibly aud, To The
crime of The delinquent soon succeeded CA
posurr, silnlnt, aud rain. Harriet aud her
mother were driven from the house of the
honest man they had di-grhced, who bro
ken-hrar,eJ aud hopriess, 40 longer at
temp'cd to STEM the lidc oi difficulties their
weakness aud Im!rovldence had cr' aied.
Rowland became IL declared Iilsoiyenl; und +,
having resolved for the sake of his children,
to attempt the renovation OF his fortunes ~
foreign adventure, he proceeded Ia Bed
ford, prcvinus to embnrkIng for America,
to place his worse than orphan girls under
the protection of his molher. 4" uce'' not
say, teach them Ia be usciul--to he good
wiscs-good mohers," said the miserable
man for know your steady ways of
lhluklng on such matters. Oh, mother !!
You were right Had she been engaged
rs she ought IN household duties, she NIGH,
never have been the thing she ls-she might
never have come Ia harm ~
! For grievous, indeed, wns the harm that
had befaIlen Harriet With no one to turn
To for her own or her mothers maintenance
unable to work, aud tn beg ashamed, the
roof of her scducer afforded her n , unq,iirt
home. II was there that Mrs. Cooper,
the ni-Jndglng or'gil of So much evil with
rred aud died and, after the loss of her
mother, Harriet, prey la grief aud re-
morse, brcs me lost ia icrbleness and indo-
lence. Even Lord Alfred found her help
Ilc.snsss u burlben. lie had not expected
II 6nc lady in Cooper's daughter. Even he
thought il The duty ola iemaIe companion
Ia exert herself t" provide him will, COM
iortnhIe and orderly home. Aud when The
Rand>ley family (uho affected to rrsnrd
mad 'ice) made it sine qni non oi paying
h,s L"rdship's debts "fhonor. ,ha, his mis-
iress" should he given up, Harriet was dis
missed.
I" subsi>t upon the scnniy annuity
vouch.afcd her as n reward for The ruin of
her husband and the dcserIion of her chll-
drr0, would have been impossible to Que so
II,llr cap .hle of administering to her "wn
necessities. But heaven was mrrciful.
The shocks she had sustained proved too
much for So enervaled a constitution; aud
Harriet was soon conscious that her career
of sorrow was almost AT an end. The app
proach of death gives courage. She felt
that it was not for her fathers daughter To
die in workhousr or n gaol. Aunt Mary.
the kind-henrted, forgivlng, merciiul Aunt
Mary was still alive, aud dill noi tnrn n
way fom the humble confession at the pen
i,rnt--"i have sinned against heaven aud
before thee"
II WINS in the humble abode where hci
more deserving parent had seen the light,
thai the unhappy young woman laid down
her head to die. Her last hours were haun-
ted by asuniling rrcolleclons uf The home
she had neglected, the children she had N
bandnnrd. the husband she had branded
with d,.grace and her sole consolation
was the knowledge lhat Rowland's moth
er was rearing her deserted girls in the
paths of usefulness and virtue. " My poor
girls will no, he deluded out of their sphere J"
said she, as she turned her glazing eyes up
on her sorrowiul old aunt. They will
not he misguided to the fate that has be-
fallen, POOR HARRirT CooPER !"