The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1848-05-23
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was herpresent position. Anything she else
might have borne, rather than return alone
o tue home she had left so proudly, almost
ruinpbanty. De L'Orme wrote re epeaiedly;
bat his letters were returned unopened, and
with all speed Adelaide prepared 10 leave
Paris. Her maid accompanied herio Hayrc;
and was there dismissed; and alone and un-
attended Adelaide embarked on board the
packet The weather was stormy, the yoy-
| age long and wearisome, and health began ID
| give way. Oh, how The stricken one longed
| for home! When she had landed and pro.
| cured carriage, she gave the driver her
| fathers address, and in a state of nervous
anxiety threw herself back in the seat, and
tried TO think how il would Look at home.
The day was drawing 10 close, and
The streets were thronged with mulliiudes
| all bunying homewards. The laborer with
his weary frame and toil-stained garments,
and the successful money-maker, with biz
self satisfied bearing and his fine apparrel,
we're jostling each other in their eager haste:
Their object was the same--to reach their
homes--hov widely different!
With beating heart Adelaide assembled
the steps Of herfather's house. 1t had a
strange, deserted look. There was no lghs
lin The drawing-roou, and the servant who
opened the door was not old Hector; who
had been in the family since her childhood.
She was passing through The hall without
speaking; when the servant asked swho she
wished TO seer ,sf. s.
"'Miss c. replied Adelaide, sis
she not at homer?
She does moi live here, madame
"'Not live here! this is Mr.. G.-'s
residence,is it nol?' e.,....
4" The servant hesitated a moment, and
then answered, ut was, madame, but Mr..
G---- moved away two weeks ago..
"Adelaide was stunned, and leaned against
the wall for support. ss,. =. 4. I. .a,,e,,.w
" Can you iell me where he has removed
tor
"The man gave her the direction, and q
with sad forebodngs Adelaide turned from
the home Of her happy years, She could
scarcely believe that the humble looking
tenement 10 which she had been directed
could be the shelter of her parents and her
sister. Pafents alas she had but one. A
week before her arrival her motherhad died.
even while praying that she might be spared
to see her child. The shock of meeting her
family under such altered circumstances
preyed upon Adelaide's already enfeebled
frame, and in four months after her return
she was was laid beside her mother, leaving
an infant of two weeks old 10 the care Of her
sister.
sFrom the moment that misfortune overi
took the once prosperous merchant, Herman
Hope, the young clergyman TO whom have
alluded, was constant visitor when in the
city. |, was he who stood by the bedside of
Adelaide's mother, when death released her
from her sorrows, and il was his voice which
repeated at the grave the blessed words, 4
am the resurrection and the life TWAS he
who poured the baptismal water ON the brow
of Adelaide's child, and, in her conflict with
the King of Teuors, administered the con-
solatons of religion 10 Adelaide herself 1t
was he who whispered comfort and resigna-
ton TO the sady-si cken survivors, showing
them that the Lord lovelh whom he chasen-
eih,' and that 'those outward affliciions which
are but for moment, worketh for US an ex-
cceding weight of glory
"Herman Hope was the last of family
who had one by one passed away, with
beaming of the eye and burning of the
cheek which was beautiful to the last OF
ten had Mary trembled as the azure veins iii
his forehead grew more transparent, and The
bright flush came and went more rapidly; but
Herman, buoyed by the hope of calling her
his wife, gave no heed TO the disease stealing
stealthily upon him. The knowledge came
too soon. The physician told them his. only
hope for Heman's recovery was a winter res
idence in Santa Cruz.
"Poor Mary how many wakeful; fearful
night, she spent in preparing the many little
things woman's love deems necessary to-
the comfort of an invalid. She could not 20
with him, and smo 9th his pillow, and day by
day watch beside him; speaking tender
hings of love and hope. Her father, and
ner sisters helpless infant, claimed her care;-
md commencing her betrothed TO the pro-
lection of Him who watches over all his
creatures, she turned 10 her home duties
With feeling Of Loneliness greater than she
had ever known be fore. ia 88 .H8H%
"Mary received letter fromuher lover soon
lfier her arrival. Il was written in that glad
md buoyant tone which always marks the
renewed health of one who has been suffer-
ing from illness, and who feels the life-cur-
rent once mere flowing warmly through his
veins. ss1 a-aa
Sand now Mary's sep grew lighter, and
ler heart-pulse beat quicker, as she played
with the child, or administered some gentle
restorative 10 her parent Hwas time she
should receive another letter, but when none
came, she thought it was because Herman
sishedto surprise her with bis presence, and