The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1838-12-12

hands nervelcss from terror A physician
was immediately summoned, who bled h,m
profusaly, and after few hours, conscious
ness was restored. lie wns removed to his
chamber, ind Allison remained with hin,
during The remainder ofthe night. Angus
Ia sat by her fathers bedside holding his
hand, almost stunned by the sudden
ness of the calamity. Never since her
recollection, had her father known an
hours sickness, and now to he prosirated
at once, in the midst of horid health, il was
awful. She dared not ask the physician,
II there was danger, lenst he should confirm
her worst fears. She looked ut Allison,
and in his pale aud anxious countennnce,s
she saw a reflection Of her own anxiety and
sorrow. Towards morning Mr.. Temple
opened his eyes, and looking earnestly
round him" My children" said he,
" come near me--hoth--ho,h." Father"
cried Augusta, "we are near thee--oh 2
my father shy that you are bcuer-only sny
that you will IRE" As she uttered the last
word she bowed her head upon the bed
cover, and sobbing us if her heart were
breaking. my child" said Mr.. Temple
fain'ly, you must Gull upon God TO sus-
tain you for there is need. feel that the
hand of death is on me. Sudden aud aw-
ful is the summons-bul it must be obeyed.
Doctor, ] would see my minister. Not to
give peace to my parting soul-for all is
peace here" said he, laying his hard fcebly
on his heart, "pence with God and man
but there is one iling would witness be-
fore ! die" Sydney, who stood u, the
beds head trcmbled ut the import of,hcse
words-Augusta in her agency, compre-
hended them not. Sydney, my son, give
me your hand-Augusta, is this your hand
] hold My children, if you would bless
my last hours, you must let my dying eyes
behold your union. Il will gladden. my
friend, when meet him in another world,
to tell him his last wishes are consumma-
ted. Do you consent, my children'" Ho
looked up to Sydney, with ,ha, earnest ex-
preston which is never seen except in the
eye Of the dying, and pressed their hands
together in his, already cold and dewey
with the damps Of death. Sydney sunk
upon his knees unut,crably affected. All
the happiness of his future hfe was ut stake,
! hut it seemed MS nothing ot ihn, moment.
I" Your daughter, sir 7"-wns all that he
couId utter. "Augustn," repeated Mr.,
Temple, in II voice feorfulIy hollow, "wili
you not speak 7" "Oh my fniher," shc
murnurcd, /" do with me ms you will, only
take me with you" The reverend figure o:
The minister was now added to the group,
that surrounded the bed of death. Strange
and awful was the bridal ceremony perform
ed at such n moment, and attended by such
solewnities. Sydney felt ,ha, he was mys-
s.,r,n.sIv aud ,rrcs;at;l,lv ;snn.IlnJ 81. 80 IL
ful6lmcnt Of his destiny, without any VOLT
ion Of his own-and he supported with II
firm arm, the sinking form of her, he wus
now to call his own. II was with bloodlcss
lips aud deadencd perceptions, Augusta re-
pen,ed her vows; but low MS they were,
they fell like music on the ear, TINT was so
shortly to close to all earthly sound. "There .
is a blessing above mineling with mine,"
fnin,ly ariculated the dying man." blcss
ye, my dear children, and ye will be bless
ed" These were the last words he ever
uttered. Augusta tell almost liieIcss on her
fathers bosom but what a moment before,
was the temple Of nm immortal spirit, was but
now dust and ashes. At the same moment an
orphan and bride, she wns incapable of
comprrhending the startling realities of her
situation. The hinges that fitted through
her mind, were like the pbHntasnagoria OF
dream--a vngde impression Of something
awful and indcscribablc having occurred, n
wild fesr of something more awful still im-
pending. filled her imagination and paraly-'
zed her frame. Bu, Allison had full and
aching sense of The responsibilities so unex-
pectedly imposed upon him. Tie monrned
for the vcnernied and generous friend so
suddenly snatched away, but lie gricved
most of al, that his last net had placed in
his keeping that to which he felt he bad no
legitimate right. No selfish repinings filled
his beart-but,,o fud himself married, join
ed irevocaLly to woman, who had given
him so many proofs OF personal aversion
who, never till TINT evening, lad evinced
towards him the slightest sensibilny-.n wo-
man he did not love, and whose superior
fortune burdened him with n painful sense
of obIigation-ihcrc was something mex
pressibly CALLING md humbling in these cir-
cun,siances, to the sensitive and bigb-mind-
ed Allison. Tenderness, however, mingled
with the bitterness Of his reflections and
even then, he could have taken her to his
heart, and wept over her tears of sympathy
and sorrow, had he not dreaded Tint she
would recoil from his embraces. lie did
not in,ruds on the sucredness Of her grief,
and for days she buried herself in the soli-
,ude of her chamber. She admitted no one
but her chosen friend, Miss Manning, who
rcpresen,ed her rs inconsolale, either sunk
in a iorpor, from which nothing could
arouse her, or ia state Of nervous excite
ment still more distressing. He waited,
hoping that time would restore her to COM
parative composure. and ,ha, she would be
willing to receive from him the consultations
of friendship. Finding, at length, tina, sho
persevered in her system Of solitary grief,
and tha, time, willis, II must, according 10
its immutable laws, soften her anguish for