Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1846-04-25

paha bosom, answhIsPerng just above
her breath, and so will our dear children.
Ililit should please our Heavenly Father
10 grant US children
Perhaps
Perhaps, Charles. Your uncle is rich,
and so is my father.
True, But both are in business, and
business men, you know, are always in
the way Of terrible vicisstudes.'
But you are young and healthy-and
oh, | cannot but believe, with a long life
before YOU
Tears! Nay, my dear girl, think no
more Of it, be cheerful and trusting, and
whether / live or die, it shall not be my
fault, is to the bitterness Of death and the
bereavements of wdowhood there should
be added the trials and temptations, the
sorrow an abasement of poverty
'What do you mean, Charles?-you'll
break my heart if you keep talking so.
A plague on this life insurance, | say |
shall never hear the last Of it; am sure,
now that uncle Joe has taken it up
assurance, my love not insurance.
assurance wen IL never entered my
heaa before, tnat you wanted assurance
Not so bad Kiss me and then, il you
nave no olher engagement ana holhIng
better to do, and will promise to behave
web you may 60 10 oed with me-
ImPef'lhehce
i've years a''er this, Charies HardJ
went luto business win the Ialher.ih-iaW
anu "l'n'h eiBnI years Doth ialied. Un'
cte zoe married the mistress OF a board
my mousse win large family, ana died,
loa'ths nls "ho!o property with hefj ana
not e"ou6h 10 MS hePhs" 10 pay loF me
Chiha ne broke on me evening nc SPen'
mere IaOoflnS WIN MN 10 get MS ne
ensured -,
anG "nG n ne't"o' Vnt mo' 'oGp,
struggle with The cares aud miser,es thai
besel him, a struggle of which his poor
wife knew nothing till long afterwards,
his constitution gave way all at once. and
he fell from his chair at the desk of q
wealthy merchant, who knowing his
worth ana deceived by the resignation
and cheerlulness of the poor fellow, be,
Iieved he was preparing him with certain.
ty for sphere of great usefulness while
he was dying by inches in his very pres
ence
The poor wife met the bearer of her
husband at the door, without cry or a
tear. The children gathered about him,
but even their wailing did not disturb him.
and for many long and weary day there
was no hope none whatever; but one eve
ming, late in the summer, as he lay there
with his lighted eyes fixed upon the OPEN
window grasping for breath and evident
" struggling with some great change atI
work with him, he turned suddenly to-I
wards his wife, and knew her, and pres
sed her had between both Of his, and
then while her heart was briming with
terror and Joy, fearing that every breath
would be his last, and full Of thankluness
that reason had been vouchsaled to him
to know his dear children and their mo-
her once more--he lifted his thin hand
owards the Western sky, and whispered
oh. that we might all 90 toretherr
Andthere was nothing TO he heard in
reply, that the humble breathings of
,raken hearted wife. repeating the same
PRAYER; and sobbings of little children
yailipp 10 take leave Of their diving father
If could only be certain, my dear
wife, he added ailer short pause, could
oniy be satisfied that YOU and the chill
lren we're provided for-that YOU were
,evond The reach of want should die
amy,
sH5npv !--oh Charlesr
As nanny mean as YOU could be, a(-
ar we had been separated BY death--at