New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-04-25

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I by pcivate Contract. and convey her hosae.
1 Presently 10 cones. Mn Pipchins varirobe BE-
iug banded IN and slowed s~sy, Mrs. Pipchin's
chair IS next handed H. and placed N a convenient
corner smong certain tusses OF ray u being the
intention Of ,hs smisble vonsn 20 occupy the
chair during her Journey Mrs Pipchih herself 10
next b.pded in. ard grimly takes her seat There
i,ssnaky CLEAN in her bard grey eye. as Of srt,ci
Gated rounds OF butterrd toas, relays Of hot chops
WORKINGS ard quepes Of ycung children sharp
snsppogs az poor Berry, sad all the other delights
q her Osress,csstie. Mrs PiPctin Amos. laughs
( as the fly van drives Of ard she oomPoses her
black bomoazine skirts and settles herself among
the cushions OF her easy chair.
The house is such ruin that the rats have aed.
and thee u not one lett
Bot Polly, though alone in the deserted mansion
for there 10 no ccmpsnionship IN the shut up
rooms Ia which its late n aster hides his besd-is
rot alone long. IL IL night, and she Is sitting at
work in the housekeepers room, flying - forget
| rhN lonely house u is and what's history be.
longs u IL; when there 10 krock at the hsl door,
as loud sounding az any knock can be, striking into
such an empty place. Opening H. she retarps
across the echons hall accompanied by female
/ figure in close black bonnet IL 10 Miss rox. and
Miss roxs eyes are red
! "Oh. Polly" says MssTox when looked In
TO have little les.on with the children Just now.
/ 90. tire message that you left for me; and a. soon
| could recover my spirits At all, came on sitsr
you. IL there one here but you y
All not q soul" says Polly.
ya"Blea you" returns Polly, no; he has not
been seen this many day. They tell me be usv~
| leaves his ROOM
he said to be mr. inquiries Miss Tox
| No ma'am, not that know Of" returns Polly,
except 10 his mind. He must bs very bad there,
\ poor gentleman y
Miss roxs sympathy is such thatshe can scarce.
ly speak Soc Is no chicken, bat she has not s.own
tough with sge snd celiescy. Her heart 10 very
tender, her compassion very genuine, her homage
| very real Beneath the locSet with thu fshy eye
| in H. Mss Tox bears better qualities than many q
less whimsical outside such qualities a. will out.
live by many courses Of the sun the best oussldes
sui brightest husSs that fall In the hsrvest VI the
Great Resper.
IA Is osg before Miss rox goes away and before
Polly, with candle harng on the blank stairs,
To- Ks after her, for company, down ths street and
feels unwilling to 20 back into the dreary house,
and ar its emptiness with the heavy f,stenlngs Of
me door, and glide away e. bed. But all THE
Polly does and in the morning sets In one of those
daksued rooms such matters ~ she has been ad-
ysed IN prepare. and then re,ires and enters them
no more unit next morning AZ the same hour
There are bells there, but they never ring and
though she can sometimes hear q football going 10
and iro it never comes out.
Miss Tox returns early in the day. IL then be-
gins 10 be Miss rOx's occupation t. prepare little
dsinties-or Whist are such u her--to be carried
iuto these rooms next morning. She derives 10
much satisfaction from the pursuit. that abe enters
on regularly from that time; and brings daily in
her little basket various choice condiments selected
from the scanty stores OF the deceased OF the pow
dered head aud pigtaiL. She likewise brings, 10
sheets otcurl paper morsels OF cold meats, tongues
Of sheep. halves OF fowls for her own dinner and
sharing these colla,ions with Polly passes the
greater part OF her time in the ruined house thattho
rats have fed from hiding in fright, At every
sound stealing Ia and out like a criminal only de-
string 10 be true to the fallen object OF her admra
ton, unknown 20 him. unknown to ali the world
bar one poor simple woman
rhe Major knows 1t bu. no ono 10 the wiser fo
that though the Ne or IL much the merrier. The
Major, in iS Of curiosity, has charged the Native
20 watch the house sometimes, and Ind out what
becomes Of Dombey. The Native has reported
Mss Toxs fidelity and the Ms has nearly cboked
himself dead with laughter He is permanently
bger from that hour. aud constantly wheszes TO
himself his lobster eyes starting out OF his head,
Damme Sir the womsns = bora idiotT
And the ruined man. How does he pass the
nous, slonei
Let him remember IL in that room, years 10
GOMEZ He did remember IT, IL WAS heavy on
bls mind now heavier than sll the rest
Let MIN remember n Ia that room years ~
come The rain that tails upon the roof the wind
that rnourns outside TIE door. may have ipreknowl
edge in their melancholy sound. Let him remem-
He did rememberit In the miserable night he
thought Of ~; IN the dreay day. ths ~retched
dawn. the ghostly, memory haunted twilight He
did remember ". In agony In sorrow. In remorss
| n de. pairl Papa pspsl Speak 10 me. dear
papar He heard tho words again. and saw the
lace He saw it fall upon the trembling hands
and heard the one prolonged low cry 20 upward.
He was fallen, never % be raised up any more.
For the night OF bis worldly ruin there was no To-
mouow's sun for ths stain Of his domestic shame
there was no puri icstOn; nothing, thank Heaven,
could bring his dead child back to life. Bot that
which be mi ht have made 50 different ia all the
Pest-y hich might have made the Past Itself 20
q 1.srent though this he hardly thought of now
that which vas his own work, that which he could
80 easily have wrought into blessing, and had set
himself 80 steady for years to form Into CURSE
that was the sharp grief Of his soul
on He did remember i'll Tho rain that Tell
upon the roof the wind that mourned outside the
door that night had had ioreknQwedge In their
melancholy sound. He knew, now, what ne hao
done He knew now that he had called down tbas
uuon bis bead which bowed it lower than the
heaviest stroke OF fortune He knew now, what u
was % be rejected and deserted now, when every
loving blossom he had withered In bis innocent
daughters heart was showing down In ashes on
bin
10 thought Of her, as she had been that night
when be and his bride came home. He thooghto
her a. she had been, in all the homo events OF the
abandoned House. He thought, now, that OF oil
around him, she alone had never changed. His
boy bad faded into dust. bis proud wife had sunk
mo polluted creature, his fstterer and friend bed
been transformed into the worst Of villains his rich.
20 had melted away, the very walls that sheltered
him looked on him as a stranger; she alone had
turned the same mild, gentle hook opon hn always.
Yes to the latest and the last. She had never
changed % him--nor had he ever changed 20 her
and abe was lost.
As. one by one, they fell away before his mind
nj. baby hope. his vile, his friend his fortuoo--oh
how the mist, through which he had seen her.
cleared and showed him her true self Oh, how
much better than this that he had loved her A. ne
mad bis boy, and lost her he had his boy and laid
them in their early grave together
la his pride-ior he WAS proud yet-he let the
word 90 from him freely. ~ u fell sway DO
shook ie off, Whistler he imagined in face ss ex'
pressing pity for him. indifference TO him, be
snunned il alike. IL was in the same degree 70
De avoided, ia either aspect. He had no idea OF
any one companion in his misery bat the one he
mad driven away. What he would have said to
ner or what consolation submitted to receive from
her he never pictured TO himself But he always
knew she would have been true 10 him, II be had
suffered her he always knew abe would have
loved him better nov, tnsn at any other tune be
was 10 certain that it In her nature, as be was