Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1843-11-11

left him to neglect aud danger 'shaNinR
off, however, such intruding thoughts sht
mingled In the dnnceaud Tor n time lot.
got that she was still a wllo aud ino'her
there was hand laid on her
shoulder and voice in 'ow bal Impressive
accents asked "Sophiu, what do you
horoW She turned aud met the sad
glance Of Julia Darwin HON sho mao
scduously avoided after her marriage.
For moment Sophia quollcd oonealh hor
searching eye, aud her native pride gaia.
cd the uscendauoy aud she repued, VI
might answer your question oy nno'her
What does tho sain, here where she pro-
(esses never TO come"
81 come to save a friend dear as SIS
ter. come to bid youin Gods name re-
turn to your neglected home, aud may
lie forgive you for this nights work
though your own conscience never VIII |
Subdued and awed, Sophia followed me
chemically and halt an hour found them
within her own dwelling, Julia paused
not but taking lamp from the hand OIL
the evidently terrified servant who had
obeyed the summons of tho bell, passed
with light step TO the nursery but when
Sophia saw the direction IN which she
was proceeding she rushed onward and
throwing open the door, behel scene
which seemed TO still the beatlngs oil her
heart. On the bed, insenslble to all
around sunk in a drunken sleep, lay her
| husband, and beside him, pale, cold and
still as monumental marble, her why,
her darling. Calmly she raised hun up
and chaited his tiny hands and called hun
by every endearing name, and then by
degrees the fearful truth seemed to down
/ upon her and a dea,h-like trance stole
4 over her. She shed no tears, she uttered
no compainings, but with her stony eyes
sat gazing upon the infant and the pow
erless man. On such scene dawned The
morning of night begun IN the tri'otl-
ty of a ballroom. Lille had yet stranger
) contrasts. Julia Darwin, strict to ex
tremes in her views, had learned ny ru
5 mour Chat many-tongued gossip thaI mel
friend had married gambler and an IN
temperate man, and full of pity she na
a fastened to help and console her. NC
3 an hour after Sophia's depar sure she n
reached the house and found that MI
: Cameron had admins tered what ne tern
, ed ssouietus TO the squalling brat"
r the shape of brandy. Inc result wa
+ str ong commissions in one OF when ~
h little bow babe adieu 10 world Ia "hlc
d he mipht have lived to emulate the exam
:. pie of the father who was his muraere
l. TO Julia's mind the fact OF Sophias a.
s sence under such circumstances spok
1t volumes against her, and without caic"''
e t;ng the extent of the senslblllty she wa
'e operating upon she had summoned II
re- mother thus expectedly into me pfeSen'
Ig of her dead babe and lis father, hop'n
of to make an impression, which shou
IN change the course of her alter NE, ~
re that impression was made, Tor oopn
" Cameron was a maniac. No mournif
/? Mother. no Father stricken to the hea
s of this first. born, followed the llttlh Vlct'
l. TO the bosom of our common parent' o
d. strangers laid his in FAINT form deep IN u
n earth. and turned away unconcerne
at But angels clustered around the tiu
at grave, waiting to bear the spirit 10 u
Of land, "Where still in hope aiec'oH
ng thoughts may rise"
Julia's energies were paraIyzed oy u
sb- ruin which she had un'ntehs'ona'
nd wrought and with unceasng aud DIV
,rs selcreproach did she watch over u
ng friend, while Lewis returned 10 hluise ,'
ere chdless man, and worse than Widow
on. husband. Here were the awful cons
hin ouences of imprudence on one side, q
hit, want of principle on both. Had ooPl
nu- listened to the dictates of reason beio
to uniting her destiny with that OF one
ing whom she knew nothing in reality, u
I'VE had never been; or had she possess
firm principles even after such a IN
- rage she might have been ta'th
+" Mother and Wife, thus possessing the IT II
,or sure of a good conscience and inc an
~" ton of dutiful child, 10 compensate
:. some measure for the unworth'ness OF
9" husband. But as it is, what was leit
~ but despairs Conscience whispered
y" hold the effects of your pride ana y
: neglect, aud reason unaided by rellSl'
and unable to point to any source oil
y ISOLATION, deserted her throne
Would you, reader, seek farther
WITH fate of those whom have brought bel
RE, YOU? A few words will sufflce lor
"o who had
s sha "Youth, love and rank aud wealth
an these combined, -,
row And yet was wretched'
re. A lunatic asylum and then grave
not. is this all, excaims some one oil my yo'
With full readers who have hitherto looked
ex- on the future with the romance DIN
her eyes of her who is now numbered