Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1839-11-12


IA smiles when the worm was craving a, her ach-
ing heart.
There, you look something like YOURSELF
julia said the selfish Walter, ono evening, wnen
N obedience 20 his wishes, she had placed herself
~ the harp, which stood btside the sofa. on which
her weakness obliged her 10 Tccline. "Comc, you
only want rousing, as told Dr. Bcrkly Yesterday
when he shook his head and put on a long prufos-
sional face; illness rs all ideaa fancy. making
women a trouble to themselves and a burden
every ono about them. IL only wants courage and
nerve TO throw II off. as one changes ones dress
and really Julia, yours is quite out garment;
m tired oil seeing IT," melancholy smile
the only answer to this ill-iimod pleasantly
Come" be continued, "psy Of those lively
airs YOU used 10 be fond of before plagu-
ed with those cursed brats who have your
very life out BE off, sir, out OF the way :" said the
unnatural father to the trcmblnS11oy who sat at hs
mothers knee and, suiting the action 10 the word,
hurled him with his foot TO tie other side of the
psr,incDt. with violence that made the floor echo
beneath the fall.
The spirit of the mother could not brook this =
neglect, reylling showercd upon herself she had
born calmly and without a murmur but If ever the
most ,mid animal will turn and defend her young
when attacked how much more will not woman
dare ~ defence of her offspring, So was II with
the wife OF Beverly. Every feeling, the dearest
and mos, sacred in her bosoms shrine, had been
outraged-outragcd by him. too, who Of all others,
should have respected and upheld them and, for
the first tine words OF bitter and reproaching inn
port escaped her lips Rcmons,rance only produc-
ed the opposite effect intended obdurate heart
and Walter Beverly the husband and fatler of those
he had wronged, quilted his home, To spend else
where gayer evening than he might now antci-
pate within his own walls
Late was the hour when he returned, under the
two-iod influence Of wine and passion, those demons
ever ready TO join compact together, and make
common cause against eTing man. Supplied and
weary with the orgies of tho club, whittier he had
flown to stine in noise and riot the upbraidngs of
the still small voice" that will be heard within US,
! it was not till the beams of the noor-day sun shone
into their chamber that Beverly awoke to conscious
ness, and to look on the inaninaie form beside his
pillow. Mrs. Beverly dead, Exhausted by
the vexatlon OF the evening, heart-sck and heart
broken, she had softly kissed her children as they
slept, and retired some hours before her husbands
return; and alone in the silence and deep hu sh of
midnight, that awful power who bids the weary
be at rest" had visited her sorrows, and her pure
spirit had flown to him who gave it.
Some moments elapsed the horror-struck
Walter could collect his bewildered senses sufli-
cently to comprehend the fatal truth He bent his
ear TO lisien--no gentle brcathngs answered to his
hopes told him that life yet inmate of tina,
fragile tenement he touched the pale check over
which the long eye-lashes hung like a jety fringe,
with tear still moist upon 1t. His hand recoiled
at the icy thrill which that touch sent through ms
yeins-thcre was no installing the touch of death
| To summon the servants and medical aid was now
but the work OF a moment in vain the vital spark
was quencned forever. In all the stupor OF grlel
too agonized, TOO deep for tears, the wretched
stood gazing on the form before him. Yes, there
she lay the bride Of his choice, the wife of his boz
som, the mother of his children the shadow oil
beauty yet throwing its twilight loneliness her
features, even the lunar rainbow retains the out
line of the brighter arch of day. but CLEANS paler and
paler beneath the chill of midnight At that awiu
moment what would the husband and father not have
given to recall but the last twelve hours of his
istencc-to have caused the dial OF time go bach
| as it did of yorc How did every unkind word h,
had uttered, every offensive look of which he haC
been guilty, set themselves in battle array agans
him. and rise from the cells of his heart, like III,
skeplics of terror, 10 upbraid The wolf that fec
the ie-stream OF the Spartan thief, the tooth o
the viper, the three fanged sting OF the scorpion
are nothing contrastcd with the sting of an accusing
, conscience
The lesson did not loose its effect upon the hear
, of Beverly a resolution which years could no
have accomplished was the work OF one t
hour. PROSTATE beside his desolated couch, wit
his children gathered round him. the first praye
Beverly had uttered since he knelt in boyhood at III
!, mothers knee, broke from his Inundated SOUL Fl
forgiveness OF the past and direction for the future
and there too, on the solemn shrine, with the WEEP
lug pledges of love before him, did he vow TO conse
crate his future life 10 their welfare and 10 be hence
;, forth a father IN affection ia The spirlt
/ her he had injured bent down and hallowed n
q prayer and the recording angel, who reJoceth ov'
r The sinner that repenteth carried the oath 90 HEAVIER
Years have leeted 10y since the period when h
- history commenced and in the fondly attached +
!. Their, watching and guiding the expanding minds
n his atecioRaie children, no traces can be recognl
" CT OF the early iaihngs OF Walter Beverly.