Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1841-08-05

'"N iih7 ON'h wv w wv
pony for you, for she persists IN II, tina
you are not ~ good health, though w
all think you are n great deal bette
than she is herself Yet she says
would 90 You 80 mach good 10 ride ou
every day; that It is n hard thing for
nan who has been accustomed 10 ridin,
4 10 do without IA horse; that II would civ,
you more rcspectabli'y in The neighbor
hood, aud n"uy other things that W
don't qn.ie understand. However, ",
oil work for tins great object; aud las
winter we had nearly accomplished it
| when there came in at Christmas, tina
long, long bill lton the cruel wine mer
chapl, Tor lhugs which my mother neyeI
! knew of, but which she said must bC
\ paid for before We thought ot the pony
I, shall never forget how she cried llia
| day. Indeed, We all cried 10 see hel
so distressed; and the worst was, poor
George could not go to school for a
whole quarter, because there was not
money enough to pay his master and the
wine merchant too; so he grew quite idle
Ind misc hievOus, and lost more than he
had gained for three months before"
And thus the child went on in her sim
pliciiy, disclosing more and more Of her
nolber's economy, little dreaming that
every word she uttered went like dag
ger TO her fathers heart. Ho had
dropped his knife upon his plate, his
coffee remained untas,cd, and lie sal
with his elbow resting on the table,
aud his forehead shaded by his hand,
apparently occupied with the pattern Of
a napkin which he was folding and un-
folding, wholly unconscious OF what he
did
"You may take away those things,
Mary" he said, when he felt that he
could bear no more. And as soon as
the child had disappeared, he rushed in-
TO hs own room, and boi.ed the door.
"i!ave then been such a wretch"
he exclaimed ayes, ! have eaten my
children's bread, and reduced my wife
to the grade Of common heggar. ta-
ker-in Of plain work! She who was once
80 elegant in all her tastes, and Who
ought to have been cherished as the only |
treasure of my life.
"lf they had shut me in dungeons, and
fed me with losihsone food, could have
borne it; but | have been a pampered
oerate, fattcning Oh the Iuxuries which
want has purchased where, where shall 4
find on ocean that viii wash I'VE pure
rom this pollution"
Tho shadows OF evening were FAR
advanced that day, While the miserable
nan was still pacing the round of his lit
lie chamber Mary had knocked gently
It his door many times during the last
ow hours, aud she now Knocked again, I
o say that her younger brother was un'
ressed, and going to bed, and wished
. bid his papa goodnight T.
Frederick opened the door, and the
title cherub sprang into his arms, ut the
ame time looking snxiously round The Il
parlmen,, as if he had expected to find !
is mother.
His father kissed him, and bio him
Goodnight, but still he did not seem sat
'fivd 10 GO.
"What does he want?' asked the ia
Irr. IL
"lIe has been accustomed" replied !, I
larry, "lo say little prayer before he
'ent TO bed; and IA my mother is not
ere, aud hs always says it in this room 4
erhaps you will let him kneel beside !
on, just for few moments; he will not
ay long.' IL
IL was II novel situation for such pa
mt 10 be placed in; but Frederick al !
nst mechanically seated himself in tho Il
d nursery chair, and the child kDell "
'wn at his feet, with its l,lle rosy hands r.
Ided on his knees, it, blue eyes raised, u
d IT'S golden tresses thrown back from II
o"-wblte temples, over the infant q
ok and shoulders, which its hali-un-
esshad left uncovered C,
The prayer Of one whose experience II
5 been long in this world, is necessari- "
clogged with 20 many Interruptions Of y
'ugbt, 40 many associations and re- 8,
Elections, that IT seems ut best but n he
uggle OF the soul To make itself hea ard Il f,
It the prayer OF child is like the un. ca
'hI'l'ca,ed voice Of nature, passing tn
IN IT'S pure bosom at once into ihc skies.
There are few hearts so hardened as - -,
resist the impression made by this in b,
cent and artless appeal; aud Frederick de
nd was peculiarly disposed, on the IN
,ht we have described, to be soltencd +
o more than common tenderness. He r.
] his hand upon the shining tresses Of 70
child. lie beat his head over him, {"
his lips also uttered an involuntary ~, ~
yer, against which the gates of mercy clc
10 not closed Tho
he slept not the whole Of that long TO
ht; yet restless, anxious, apprehen- tal
, as he was, he was enabled in the midst o"
l host Of midnight horrors, TO abstain WV WV
n his beset,Ing sin. The next morn ~,
he breakfasted with his children /. nw
I'd him; and If ha did not join them in \ Tin
II humble fare, it was simply because, Th
r many unnvailing attempts he found un'
had lost the power TO do so. This ing
appeared, it possible, still longer hr
y the night He could not read
could not even lhink TO any purpose AZ
could only feel aud feeling had lately -,
n TIE bane oi his life. lis children y"
Q all busy with their different occu 10
pns. He knew not what to do: bat pur
he was able to abstain. L
" the following morning he was So 'o',
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