The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1845-08-02

u give you habit OF goodness before 20,
10 are your own master and mine. Surely i
e. no hardship to be for six months wha
You mean TO be all The res. ofyour Iifer
y, Richard was forced to submit and for
d Three of the six months behaved better than
5 ever Bu, habit, as Mary said, is every
l. hing, and his habit for years set the wrong
sIway. With the summer came fairs and
6 g|dleuess, and pleasure parties, and wors, Of
l. Iall, races, into The neighborhood Dick
II first slaiJ away with bad grace, he went
Just to show how well he could behave.
y and ended by losing his money and getting
INTO scrapes, jus, as bad as ever. For a
dI.ime he was much ashamed, and fe, rea'
E sorrow, and feared Mary would never for
elgive him. Blu, when she did so. swee'
a aIgen,e soul! several times-lhough her pale
sad face was Ieproach enough 10 any man
he soon began TO &c, hardened, and to
d laugh at wha, ne called her silly pfec
s slness.
r MARY was twenty times near giving
him up; bul his parents hung ab ou' her,
md told her she only could save him
rom perdition. And, in truth sh'
:" Thought so herself, aud those who love
i" from the heart, know how much it can
e pear before il let's 60. Tha, thought,
nioined 10 The love Cor him, which was
10 the deeper for its slow gow,h, made
her sill ready tc risk her own welfare
Tor his.
- Il, is not TO be told what she bore OF
dleness, extravaganza, and toliy fo'
k guilt was never yet laid 10 lis door, IN
a the hope that when these wild oats weIt
5 sown, Richard would settle again into
er .obe, workingman. "A, last, however
w to crown all, there came players 10 ih'
town, and Dick was not 10 be KEEP, iron
- either before or bthud The curtain. II
" fell IN with a gay madam Of an &C
e' -ess, who persuaded him ,ha, 10 mar
" " a poor farmers daughter was quit
e, beneath him, and to he kept in awe b
lie her more contemplate still.
a, In short, sir, 10 make an OF
long story, Dick, after trying in vsin,l
=. ,orce his poor heart-broken Mary Il
s,ve him up. tha, he nigh, lay his rul
Nv It her door, had the cruelty TO tell he
one nigh, as he me, her going hon
10 % her fathers from nursing h
ng sick molher-lhat he saw she was not
,r La, match for him either in birth or mat
nc ,ers, aud that if he ever married,
.hould be wife of more liberal ways
~ thinking.
" 'He had been drinking good deal,
u" tue, and put 10 this base conduct b
as mis- new stage favori,e, but when t
he found that, instead Of storm OF r,
GEL prosches, or even food Of tears, poe
ry Mary only stood pale and shaking, an
ssJkepl SAYING, Poor Richard! oh, Poe
Richardn without beslowing a thougi
,s on his behavior 10 herself, he gre'
-, 80 bered, and would fain have sotient
Wv matters a little. But she SUNNI oned a
,er strength, and ran as fast as she wi
er BILE, til she came 10 her fathers Ga
ny den, and Two days after, when The o'
II. Marshslls drove ou, in postchaise 10 'r
no and make i, all up, and ge, their son pu
as once more on his trial, Mary was o.
- lhsr parents would not tell whittier >
-. And where did she go!' said Il
80 he first time venturing TO Interrupt u
borderer's con amOre narrative.
ry Il, came out sir, afterwards that b.
ad fore her marriage was agreed on,
ok uncle 10 London had invited her
ID come up and visit him; and as she h'
ke another sister now quite ready TO tai
i. her place al home, she told her paren
-. il would save her much misery 10 lea
Ihome for while, and even 90 10 servl
as' 10 keep oul OF the way ill Dick Mar
en' hall should be married.
by 'Or hanged! said her father (in }
On. passion as sftewsrds acknowledge
for which is more likely little thinkiI
how near il was being the case. The
!, was 9 salmon smack lying in The hs
49, Dor Just then whose master was Mary
o" cousin. SO she slipped qule'ly on boa
'o' and 90, fe TO London.
on How long was this ag"F ssked !.
or. sOh, sbou, four or FIVE months pr
you hsps,' answered my Vis.a-piS. 'Let
all, see, il was October, and this is App
~. Well, sir, Mary stayed but few ds
49,, with her uncle, ss idleness was ,hl
NV " she never liked, but through his W
ar who had been housekeeper 10 q NOT
-. E..l Il