Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-06-10

: presume so.
May l ask you to bring Henry to my hous
this alternoon?'
Il will tell him that you desire to see him a
at any hour you may name," replied Mr. Halarn
Say five O'clock
Mr. IIallam again bowed
His visitor fingered for while, making many
remarks on the subject, all going to show the
pride she felt her sons reputation was the
only incentive she had in claiming him anc
that this feeling entirely obIiterated all shame
and all compuncton at having abandoned him
while an infant
AT five o'clock Henry Oliver called at the
house Of the lady who had desired an interview
in order, as he supposed, to consult him on some
professional business, He found her sitting in
one of her parlors She received him in fer
m" and somewhat embarrassed manner. At
ter both had sat silent for some short space Of
time, the lady said without any preliminary re-
mark, and in a low, rather agitated voice,
Henry, | amiyour motherp
The young man sprang to his feet as suddenly
as if pistol had been fred close to his ear
gave the woman look Of profound establishment.
and then replied in firm tone
No, madam! you are not my mother
But tell you | am !" returned the woman,
rising also TO her feet You are my son, and
my only SOM
Il deny the relationship exclaimed the
young man, Indignantly. i was abandoned in
infancy, know, by some unfeeng monster; but
God gave me mother to love me- and she is
my mother siII-my true and only mother
AS if stricken down by heavy blow, the wo-
man sank upon the sofa from which she had
arisen, and Henry Oliver turned away and rush
ed from the house
Nothing of all this was breathed by the young
man to any living soul. lie locked it up in his
bosom, even from Mr.. IIallam But that gen
tleman saw enough of the effect of the interview
upon both him and the individual who had claim
ed to be his mother, when it was too late, to
satisfy him of its true nature He could not
but honor the young man for his noble indigna-
ton, al the same time that he grieycd for the
Ipang such an announcement as had been made
to him must have caused.
Shortly after this, Henry Oliver was united
in marriage to the daughter of well known
senator Of the United States, and thereby became
connected with one of the oldest and most dis
ungushed families in the country This union
however, did not take place before Henry had
fully communicated to both the lady and her pa
rents all the facts regarding his early and subse-
qnent history, with the single exception of the
discovery he had made of his real parent That
was secret locked up in his own bosom and
one OF which he never permitted himseIfto think,
when he could force the subject from his mind.
Toward Mrs. Oliver, his true and only moth
err as he had expressed it, he manifested to the
last the warmest affection. For her husbands
sake, his young wife paid Mrs. Oliver the kind
est attentions from the first. 1t was not long,
however, before she loved her for the ahectionate
gentIeness purity and excellence of her charac-
ter and when, in good old age, she passed
away from them, she mingled her tears with those
OF her husband that watcrel the grave where
she was laid at rest.
A few years after this event. as Mr. Horam
and Henry Oliver sat one day convelsing in their
office, woman, having the appearance of do q
nestle, came in and asked for the latter. On I
being told which was the person she sought, she
said
%Mrs.---is very ill-and not expected to
i've. She wishes TO see you before she dies.
Tell her that | cannot Henry was speak
ING from first influence, iorgetrul where he was
and OF every thing but the instructive repugnance
he felt to an interview with the person named r
But look and gesture from Mr. Halam caus- t
I'd him to check his uuerance of the words that ii
we're on his lips "
"A word with you, Henry said the latter, ris- u
ng, and both retired into an adjoining room, af h
er the messenger had been desired to wait for -,
ew minutes. ~
AS soon as they were alone Mr.. Hallam said b
Henry, know your seclet-it is your moth il
r who p
mo sir, she is not my motherp Oliver ndip- Il
antIy replied. My mother is in Heaven As IL
SAID this he began to pace the floor in an ar- TT
ated manner. IN
She Is the author of your being, Henry, as fl
on are AWARE ~
80 she says; but she abandoned me, and God "
ave me true mother, Her, and her only W,
ave known and will acknowledge no other. sW
'oeS this woman deserve the sacred name off &c
loiher ! No-my heart will not acknowledge a.
lie relationship, and my lips shall never give the @z
to my heart. | cannot see her, Mr.. Hallam
he is nothing to me-
humanity has some claims, Henry returned "
IT, Hallam, in serions voice. Since the dav
hen Mrs.--cIaimed you
'Mr HaIIam What do you know of all H.,
rs? said Oliver, much excited. u''
i knew all at the time was calmly replied. s'o
'u' as was saying, since the day when Mrs. rod
Claimed you as her son, | have observed her Nh
oSe'y' From that time she has been changed var
greatly changed. The fire of her eyes has an,
own dlm' her voice has lost its fine expression pro
II STEP SO elastic even in old age, has become mr
DIV and deliberate. Your refusal to acknowI. ner
ge yourself her son seems to have broken her tier
rs and destroyed the vital part other existence