Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1845-07-31
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( y twining her arm around his neck and
kissing him.
/ He looked up with sad smile and re-
piled:
81 am almost out OF heart, Mary. /
think Of all pursuits a profession is the
worst. Here have ! been, week after
week and month after month-and may
soon say year after year-waiting for
practice, yet without success. A LAWYER
may volunteer in a celebrated case, aud
so make himself known: but physician
must sit patiently in his office, and, if IN
known, see men without half his acquire
ments rolling in wealth, while be perhaps
is starving. And it viii soon come 10
that" he added bitterly. "if | do not get
employment"
An unbidden tear started into the
wile's eye, but she sirove to smile, aud
said !:
DO not despond, Earnest. | know
you have been unfortunate so far, but
you have talents and knowledge 20 make
your way. as soon as you get start
And, depend upon il" she added with
cheerful look, "that will come when you
least expect IT.
$50 you have told me offer but the
lucky hour has never come" said her
husband despoadingly. "And now eve.
ry cent Of my little fortune has been ex.
pended, and our credit will soon be gone
when /, is found we do not pay. What
| then is 10 become of US
| Earnest was in a mood which the most
sanguine sometimes experience, when
disappointment after disappointment has
crushed the spirit, and the voice Of hope
is no longer heard within. His wife
would have given way TO tears, if she had
been alone; but she felt the necessity OF
sustaining him aud answered cheerfully:
"And what if every cent as gone -
| Have no fear that we shall stsrve. God
sent ravens to feed Elijah, and he will yet
interpose for on- aid. Trust in him,
dear Earnest"
The husband felt febuked, as she :hus
spoke and answered less despondingly:
| "But really Mary, this want Of success
would try the sloutest spirit. The me-
chanic, the day laborer, the humbest far.
mer is sure of bis food and ra,nent, but I,
after having spent years in study, have
wasted years besides waiting for practice;
and now, when all my fortune is gone,
| II | resort 10 other means of livelihood
lose all have spent, both Of time and
money, and must forever abandon the idea
of pursuing my profession. 1t is too
hard ~ and he arose and walked the
room with rapid strides:
II.
But after a moment or two she arose,
went up to him, and fondly cncirc!ing
him with her arms, said
"Dear Earnest, you must not worry
yourself so. You think it painful for me
TO bear poverty, know, or you would
not take il 50 hard but woman never
regards such things when she loves. A
crust OF bread, log cabin would be pre-
lerable to me if | shared them with YOU,
than palace with any other. But il
will not come to this. Something within
assures me you viii yet be great and
rich. Have patience only for little
while longer. There--there is knock
at the door now-it may be for you"
AS ii her words had been prophetic,
tho little girl, their only servant, appear.
ed at this crisis and said the doctor was
wanted in a great hurry. With an ex-
uiting smile his wife ran for his hat and
then sat down, with beating heart, to
await his return.
1t was almost the first summons that
the young physician had received, though
he had resided in the village for more
than a year. The place, 900, was large
and popular, but there were several med.
/ zeal men of large practice, and all them
combined to put down their young rival.
- More than once heretofore Earnest
would have abandoned the field IN des.
pair; bat his young wife cheered and en-
couraged him, though sometimes her own
heart felt ready to give up. Mary Lin
wood was, indeed that greatest of all
blessings, a good 'cVe; she sympathjzed
with her husband, economised to the ut
most, and by her sangune words chased
dependency from his heart.
Hour after hour she SAT there, await.
ing her husband yet still he came not.
At last darkness set in, aud she began TO
feel uneasy. She was about rising to 90
TO the door, whes she heard her hus-
bands foot on the step, and hurryng out
she met him in the hall.
"God bless on, Mary, for an angel az
you are" wero his first words. Ell il
had not been for you [ should have given
up long ago, and now my fortune is
made.
Breathless wish anxiety to hear all, yet
not unm,ndfui Of his probably weaned
condition. Mary hurried her husband
into the little sitting room where the tea.
things were LAID and began to poor out
the refreshing beverage with trembling
hand, while Earnest told TIE history Of
his days absence.
"a found" be sai1, ~ was sent for to
old Governor Huston 's-the richest and
most influential man, you know, in the
country-and when got there learned
to my surprise, that the Governor had
been thrown from his carriage and was
thought to DO dying. All the physicians
of the town had been sent for one after
another but none could aid him. la
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