Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1843-09-21


spot where he disengsged himself from
her despa,'ins grasp, until she heard ~"
if'm d"or close, when she ieli senseiess
60 ihs fiIor.
The next day Lucy was in n high |
fever and Ehan, who suspected ihe
Truth from ths incnh-reut rayngs OF the |
Invalid, aod whose heart bled for her
cousin, despa,ched au ur.ent note 10
Rnberi, begging 10 s'e hld, II only for
moment, when she hoped TO alter has de-
termination. The nv,e was sent hack .
from his boardin. house with the inior-
ina,ion that he had Left the Chy that mora
jnI, aud II wasunceItain when he would
return.
What suff.rings wero endured by !.u.
cy on the bed ol sickness shc continual
~ ravcd about her last interview with
Robe,i, bis irowning look and stern words
seemed ever 10 be present To her lmh2i- /
nation. Her friends III length began 10
despair OF her life, aud when the ply ST.
cihn pronounce ed that the crisis had come,
they watched teariully at her bedside
through the long night, dreading every
minute 10 see the awful change begin.-
But, almost against hope, She tell toward
molnlng into gentle sleep, aud when.
she awoke ~ her right minC, they saw
that The danger was past. knesllng by
her bedside, they poured out their graft
tude amid grateful sobs ANA tears.
To Lucy, perhaps death would have
hecn IA welcome AZ liie tor what had
she TO live for now HAT all her fond hopes
d happiness were destroyed II hus she
thong h, in the fist weeh OF her cony ales-
rence. Allcxpccia,ion of her lovers re-
turn was given over, ioi Immediaiely on
his quarrel wiih Lucy he had departed
tor W ashnston, aud accepting the "ihce
oi private secretary 10 his uncle, then the
minister t" -. Petersburg, post which
he had refused only week before. In
three days after he had sailed But
though The blow fell with stunning effect
upon Lucy, shu gradually recovered
from il.
We are not writing fiction but tel
ling n story ofreal liir. Lucy MAS saved
from n broken heart aud an early grave
apparently by miracle but those who
read more closely the human soul, will
attribute her recovery To The sympathy
al her friends and the constitutions ot re q.
Ii.inn. For Il grea, change had cone
over her. She was no moie the Lucy oi
other days. Meeker and kinder, aud
therefore better aud more beautiful, she
shed around her an influence like that
which The dews OF heaven Impart to the
panting earth. To the poor she was The
kIndcst of all Dsneiactresses, and To those
IN misfortune the sweetest oi sympaihI-
Zers, for she hat fen sorry herseU. All
loved her as they would an angel sent
down oh earth to do good.
Wn-n about eighteen months after the
fatal interview wnh her loyei, Lucy
heard oi his marriage 10 an English lady
ut rank, whose father was BRUSH envoy
ut 81. Petersburg, the poor gIrl had 10
Conquer the last lingering hope of II re-
eoncliaiioD, If indeed such ihoDght had
fingered in her bosom. lo, two ur three
days she was mach alone and II She lelt
her resolution fading, she sought aud
jDunJ consolation from on high. From
the fiery furnace oi trial she came out
purified, and every one SAID, how loving
LTey had grown. Her very voice had
had got different accent, and IN lis low,
sweet nnsic, The listener often iancicd
he heard II melody not of earth.
IIue has d trelcss wing, and like the
angel ot the Apocalypse, flies forward
ceasricssIy. But how few remember that
every wave oi that wing sweeps mo-
neni into eternity how many, not un-
miudiul OF it, care TO have that moment
oatry with it n good report. Alas by
this trIii,ng with the moments, we waste
whole lives, and rare are those who marx
each depn',ng hour with good deed
But Lucy bad slrivrn 10 do this, and thus
occupied whh beneticenl acts, thu years
Ihsl passed by seemed hardly to leuve a
i"'tpriai on her face, aud when ten sum
mcrs had elapsed, her fair brow was al
most as sunny as IN her earlier youth.
Ten yeatshad passed when. one even.
ing, as Lucy entered The church to which,
she was ia the habit OF resurlIng, she sd "
a genreaaa before her, advancing up
the aisle, whose Ggure was not unfamiliar