Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1843-04-15

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hi. frpwning look and stern words seeming
ever to be present 20 her imagination.
Her friends al length began 10 despair of
hor life, and when the physician pro-
nounced that the crisis had come. they
watched tearfuy at her bedside through
the long night. dreading every minute TO
see the awful change begin. But, almost
against hope. she fclItoward mnrning into
gentle sleep. and when she awoke in her
right mind they saw that the danger was
past. Kneeling by her bedside they poured
out their gratitude amid grateful sobs and
tears.
To Lucy, perhaps. death would have
been as welcome as life; for wha, had she
to live for, now that all her fond hopes Of
happiness were destroyed? Thus she
thought, in the first weeks of her GONZALES.
cence. All expectation Of her lovers re-
turn was now given over. for Immediately
on his quarrel with Lucy, he had departed
for Washington, and accepted the Office
of private secretary to his uncle. the then
minister at st. Pelerburg, post which he
had refused only week before. In three
DAYS afterward he had sailed But, though
the blow fell with stunning effect on Lucy,
she gradually recovered from it. We are
not writing fiction, but telling a story of
real life. Lucy was saved from broken
heart and early grave, apparently by a
miracle; but those who read more closely
the human soul will attribute her recovery
10 the sympathy Of her friends, and the
consultations of religion. For a great
change had come over her. She was no
more the Lucy Of other days Meeker
and kinder, and therefore better and more
beautiful, she shed around her an influence
| like that which the dews Of heaven impart
to the painting earth. To the poor she
was the kindest of beneiactresses, and 10
those in misfortune the sweetest of sym.
pathisers, for she had felt Sorrow herself
Al loved her, as they would have loved an
angel, sent down on earth TO do good.
When, about eighteen months after the
fatal interview with her lover, Lucy heard
of his marriage to an English lady of rank,
whose father was the British convoy at ST.
Petersburg, the poor girl had to conquer
the last lingering hope Of a reconciliation,
if indeed such thought had Iurked in her
bosom. For two or three days she was
much alone, and, if she felt her resolution
failing, she sought and found consolation
from on high. From the fiery furnace Of
trial she came out purified; and every one
said how gentle and loving Lucy had
grown. Nef very voice had caught de
fr.ent accent, and inits low. swee music
thl listener often fancisd he heard & rc-dv
not Of earth.
Time has tirc'ess wing. and like the
angel OF the Apocalypse, flies forward
ceasele,sly. But how few remember tina,
every wave Of that wing sweeps a moment
into eterniIy--or how many. not nnnindsnI
of il, care 10 have that moment carry with
it good report. Alas by thus trAing
with the moments we waste whole lives
anu rare are Nu'SC " no maj IL t"Ch " par =
ing hour with good deed. Bat Lucy had
striven 10 DO this, and thus occupied with
hcnefi ent acts, the years that passed BY
seemed scarcely to leave footprint on her
face; and. when ten summers had elapsed
her fair brow was almost as sunny as If
her earlier youth.
Ten years had passed when. one evening
as Lucy entered the church to which sht
was in the habit of resorting. she saw ;
gentleman before her, advancing up the
aisle, whose figure appeared not unfamiliar
to her. He took a seat directly behind hei
own. When the congregation was dis
missed, and she had left her pew, the
stranger addressed her, and she recognize,
his voice as that of her early lover. Hel
bosom thrilled at those deep tones, and sht
felt sick and faint. But other feelings soor
came to her aid. She had often, of late
years, calmly reviewed the events of tina
morning, and she could not but feel that
however wrong she had been, her love-
had been harsh and quick. He might, a
least, have given her an opportunity I,
shew her reformation. These things re
, CURED to her now, and for a momen
pride whispered to her to make no reply
but her Christian principles forbade thi
, on second thought, and she accepted hi