New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-08-23

otb.rfov We snail not TALL cot any mure PefnsP'-
wentsrsv a girl, and have come back "on-L
] went away ubdutifol enough ana nsse 0D ,o,,
back no better. you may swear D"'
been very dutiiul 70 me ,.li
j T. cried the old WOMAN =" ny o.
A mother ouiiinl 70 her Own cnho' ., 5000 -.
II, 800, unnatural DO Mt II returned me
4.,as,., licking coldly Oh her With her stern r
g.,fisss hardy beautiful face DIX pave tno-sn,
e~-s,;,,e. in the course Of M lone wears. al
I have got used % il have heard some tax about
49,, s,sr and last: bot il has always been OF ny
80, IN other people / have wondered now and
,bsn-to pass awsy the tirne-whether no one ever
owed any duty % me
Her mother sat moving and mumbling. and shak-
ing Der head, but whether aDgrlly, or remorseuliy
or in denial, or only IN her ysicsl inhrmity oid
not appear. ,,.,
the daughter. with laugh. and looking down al
berself in terrible derision Of herself ~oorn among
poverty and neglect and nursed IN IL NOBODY
taught Der. nobody stepped forward 70 hep nef'
nobody cared for her
NOBODY e. echoed the mother, pointing 10 her
self and striking her breast.
=. The oply care she knew" returned the dsugh
ter. was % be beaten and stinted- and abused
sometimes and she might have done better with
out that. she lived 10 homes like this, and In the
streets with crowd ofIit;le wretches IKE herses,
and vet she brought good looks out 81 THIS cnio-
hood. So much the worse for her She had better
have been hunted and worried TO death Tor agl
ness"
.Go on 20 on exclaimed the mother
Il am going on" returned the daughter. " There
was a girl called Alice MarwoOd. she was hand
some She was taught too late, aud taught al
wrong She was too well cared for too well trained
too well helped on. too much looked sitter you
were very fond Of her-yOu were better on then.
VIVA, came 70 that girl. comes to thousands every
year 1t was only ruin, and she was born TO H.
After all these years whined the ola "o nan'
NV gal begins with this
She'll soon have ended" SAID the daughter
There was a criminal called Alice Mr"oO'-a
girl still but deserted and an outcast Ans sne
was tried and she las sentenced Ano iOro 1oN
the gentlemen in the court talked about ~ and
now grave the Judge was. on her duty and on her
having perverted the gifts Of Nsture-ss II be
did int know better than anybody there. thst they
had been made curses To ber,-and how he
preached about the strong arm Of the Law-soNery
strong 10 save her. when she was an innocent and
helpless little wretch and how solemn and TELL
eious it all was have thought othat, many times
since 10 be sure =!
she folded her arms tightly on her breast, and
laughed in tone that made the howl OF the old wo-
man musical 81.
$50 Alice Marwood was transported, mother,
she pursued and was sent 70 learn her DUTY
where there was twenty times less duty ana more
wickedness and wrong, and lniamy' ttlsn mere
And Alice Marwood is come back a womiln. So n
a woman as she ought 70 be, after al this In good
time. there will be more sOlemnity and more hne
talk and more strong arm. most likely, and there
will be an end of her but the gentlemen needn l
be afraid Of being thrown out OF work. Inere
crowds Of little wretches boy and girl. growing up
in any Of the streets they live in that II keep them
TO il TIL they We made their fortunes.
The old woman leaned her elbows on the table,
and resting her face upon her two hands. made a
show of being in great dstress-or really was
perhaps. IL
There | have done mother said the laugh
ter with motion OF her head. as If IN dismissal Of
the subject Il have said enough. Don let you
and talk Of being dutiiul whatever we 90 our
childhood was like mine, | suppose 90 much the
worse for both of u.s. don, want 70 blame you
or 10 defend myself why should That's all
over long ago. But am woman-nOt girl
now--sDd you and needn't make snow OF our
history like the gentlemen in the Court We Know
all about il, well enough.
r., ard degraded as she was there was a
beantv IN her both Of face and form, which, even
in Us worst expression, could not but be recognised
"a such by any one regarding her with the least at
tention As she subsidized into silence, and her lace
which had been harshy agitated, quleted down
while her dark ewes, fixed upon the hire, exchanged
the reckless light that had animated them for one
that was softened by something like sorrow there
shone through all her wayworn misery and fatigue
a raw of the departed radiance of the fallen angel
Her mother after watching her for some time
without speaking. ventured 70 steal her wlthered
hand a little nearer TO her across the table and,
6uding that she permitted thus, TO touch her lace
and smoothe her hair With the feeling, as II
seemed that the old woman was at least sincere In
this show of interest, Alice made no movement %
check her so, advancing by degrees, she bound up
her daughters hair afresh, took OIL her wet shoes,
M they deserved the nance spread something dry
upon her shoulders and lowered humbly about her,
muttering 10 herself she recognized her Old lea
lures and expression more aud more.
"You are very poor, mother. see, SAID Ahce,
looking round when she had sat thus for some time
Bitter Door my deary, replied the old woman.
She admired her daughter and was afraid OF here
Perhaps her admiration. such as It was, bad orgl-
mated long ago when she hrst found anything that
was beautiful appearing In the midst OF the squad
fight of her existence. Perhaps her lear was re
ferable in some sort 10 the retrospect she had so
lately heard Be this az it might abe stood, sub
missivelv and deierentally, before her child, and
inclined her head as If in pitliul entreaty TO be
spared any farther reproach
How have you lived 7
by begging. my deary
" And pilfering. mother 7
Sometimes Allyn a very small way. lam
old and timld. have taken trifes from children
now and then, my deary, but not often. have
tramped about the country, pet and know what l
know have watched.
Watched ?" returned the daughter looking at
her
have hung about family, my deary.' said
the mother, even more humbly and sumissvely than
before.
What family p
Hush daring. Do nj be angry with me.
did IL for the love of you In memory of my poor
gal beyond seas" She put out ner hsnd dePrecat
inely and drawing it back again laid It on her bps
Years ago my deary," she pursued glsncine
tmidly at the attentive and stern face opposed to
her. Il came across his little child by chance.
Nv hose child T.
Not his Alice, desry do Mt look at me like
that; not his How could II be hisi You know he
has none
Whose them" returned the daughter. You
said his
Hush. Ally; you frichten me. deary. Mr.
Dombey's-only. Mr. Donbey's. Since then dar
ling. have seen them often. have seen him
In utterinS this ast word the old woman shranA
and recoiled AS It with sudden fear that bel
daughter would strike her Bat though the daugh
ters face was liked upon her. and expressed the
most vehement passion, she remained still except
that she cieuched her arms tighter and iighiei
within each other. her bosom. as If u RESTRAIN
them by that means from doing ali injury % hersel
ir some one else IN the blind fairy OF the wrStl
.yI9anlN nosxassad her