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

wi iVc your own master anu NINE. surely
e. sno hardship 10 be for six months VIII
YOU mean 10 be all The rest Of your ife!'
F., 'Richsrd was forced 10 submit and {,
d|Ihree Of The six months behaved better tina
IS Ssver.- Bu. habit, as Mary said, is ever
!, hing. and his habit for yesrs set the wron
way. With The summer came fairs an
8 ideness, and pleasure parties, and worst O
lall, races, into the neighborhood Die
first sIaij away with a bad gracei he went
Illus, to show how we'll he could behave
and ended by losing his money and ge,iinl
n,o scrapes, just as bad as ever. For
llime he was much ashamed. and fe, rea
sorrow, and feared Mary would never for
lgivs him. Bu. when she did so, swee
gentle soul! several tmes-ihough her pal,
sad face was reproach enough to any maj
he soon began to ge, hardened, and sc
laugh at wba, he called her silly preci
ness.
'Mary was twenty times near giving
him up; but his parents hung ab oul het.
md told her she only could save hln
rom perdi,ion. And, in truth sh'
Thought so herself, aud those who love
from the heart, know how much il cat
bear before i, let's 60. Tha, though,
Joined to The love COZ him, which wa.
the deeper for lie slow g'ow'h, made
ner sill ready TO risk her own welfare
Tor his.
IL s moi 10 be told what she bore of
hleness, extravaganza, and toliy lo'
guilt was never ye, laid 10 lis door, IN
the hope that when these wild oats were
.own, Richard would settle again into a
.obei workingmso.-A, last, however,
to crown all, there came players 10 The
town, aud Dick was not 10 be kept from
rrIi IN with or b. bind The GU! tain. IN e. e
css, who persuaded him that 10 mar
poor farmers daughter was quite
beneath him, and 10 he kept in awe by
1er more contemplate sill.
In short, sir, to make an d OF q
long story, Dick, after trying in va'n,lo
orce his poor hes,l-broken Mary 10
I'VE him up, that he nigh, lay his ruin
It her door, had The cruelty TO tell heI
one night as he met her going home
% her fathers from nursing his
.'ck molher--lhat he saw she was not
Fl, match for him either in birth or man
,ers, aud that if he ever married, ~
should be wife Of more liberal ways oI
thinking.
'He had been drinking a good deal, IT
: tru., and put 10 this base conduct by
lis new stage lavoriIe, but when h'
found that, instead Of storm OF re
proaches, or even food Of tears, poor
Mary only stood pale and shaking, ard
kept saving, Poor Richard! oh, Poor
Richard!' without bes,owng a though
IN his behavior TO herself, he grew
sobered, and would fan have soilened
matters lrlle. But she summoned al
,er strength, and ran as fast az she was
able, ill she came 10 her fathers gar
den, and two days after, when The old
MarshaIls drove out in postChsise 10 Try
and make it all up, and get their sou pu'
once more on his trial, Mary was Oh.
her parenrs would MOI ieII whit er'
"A nd where did she 60! said ! f."
he first time venturing TO interup, Nh
borderer's con dmOre narrative.
1T came out sir, afterwards that be
fore her marrIsge was agreed on, Al
uncle in London had invited he 1t
coms up and visit him; and as she hat
anorher sister now quite ready to taxi
her place al home, she told her parent
il would save her much misery 10 leave
home for while, and even go 10 service
10 keep our Of the way TIL Dick Mare
hall should be married,
'Or hanged! said her father ( n hi
pas,lon as afterwards acknowledged
which is more likely little thInkln
how near i was being the case. Tner'
was a salmon smack lying IN The ha,
bor iust then whose master was M'ry''
counu, so she slipped quietly on ooSro
and go, le 10 London
IIow long was this ag' " asked l.
'Oh, about four or five months per-
oaps,' answered my vis-9-viS. 'Le' me
see, it was October, and this is Ap"
Well, SIR, Mary stayed but lew hay'|
with her uncle, as idleneSs was 'hInt
she never liked, but through hIs wli'
Iwho had been housekeeper 10 noble
man, ,he got deIish'fuI place 10 M
same family as under nursery mao
which her g'ntle manners, and stead!
,empsr, and long experience N net