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

hand s4sinst her iscs ashei 70 have her mother
called
Harriet called - b-r more thsu once but ne ODD
woman -ss .o absorbed l.ahirg oct ~ the open
virdor % tha darknrs- tlst sine do gnt iasr. lt
"a. uos ro,i Harriet rsut t0 Der snd tnao1-d her
tnsr s5e rcs- up ADD came
Mother" ssif Alice. ticking the hand azain. snd
firing her iuttrrus eyes lovincly upon Der sr-r.
while eNs merely yfGrrsssn ~ ;iun &C her iIgsr
,,ih- Old EsInsn. tell her what you kuoy.'
Tonight my desry
aAv. rn9tbe-.' sa,serei Alice faiut.y and SOL
EMMY, d" 70 niefti
Tn. Old F,ssI. Ttose wits spp. srci III sor Erred
bv alarm rsrors-. Or srief. came creeping along
the si1e If the hes. opposite % TIA. winch Hlr
,is, ssi: sud kueens down. 60 70 bring her
u-,,bered fac up0l levei Eith the coger'st and
str.t.hing on. Der hard - ~ touch her daugh,srs
am. began:
Ny hsndsome gal
Heaven phsl cry was thai, With which she
sto3ped there gazing a. t1e poor fora wing on The
bed
Changed. long ago. mother Withered long
AGO. sad Alice. without ioos ng at her " D. at
griave for tha. u0U.
-. Mv daughter" faltereA the old woman. my
gal Who ID sooa set better, and shame EN- all With
her good locks .,
Alie. smiled mournfully at Harriet. ard fondled
her hand little closer, bot SAID nothing
Wall soon get better. | say repeated tn.
old woman. mensci0g the vacant air win her shrv
ellef f,r " and who 10 shane EN- all With her coed
ooks-she will ! say she vii she shall - a.
# she we're IN passionate contention win some IN
seen opponent NJ the bedside who contrahict-d nef
nv daughter mas been turned Swsv from and
c,s. ont bur 49, co4d boss relationship - proud
folks TOO. II sine chose. Al To proud ioh -
There = relat op.hiD without your clergy and your
Il e1ding ring--they may make u, but they can
b,esk it-and my daughters well related. Show
me Mrs D)mbey- aud % shov you my Alices
first cousin
Harriet glanced rom the cd woman % the las
t-ous eve. intent upon her face, and derived cor
roboration from them.
1" What cried the old woman. her holding head
b-idliny with a CHASTITY vanity; Though am old
and ugly now.--inuch older 10y life aud habit than
wears thought was once SIS young IS any An
az pretty too IS many l.wss ire'h country
.ench in my time dar ing" stretching out her arm
10 II ariel across the bed. sud looked IT, too.
Down in my country, Mrs. Dombey's father and
his brother were the gsyest gentlemen ami the
best liked that come a visiting from London-they
nave long been dead, though LORD, LORD thls
long while TIE bro:herwho was my Allysis
longest Of the two
she raised her head little, ADJ peered ~ her
daughters face as IT from the remembrance 81 her
Own youth she had hDwn ~ the remembrance OF
her chids Then, suddenly. she lad her tace
down on the bed. and shut her head up IN her
hands aud srms.
They we're as like said the old woman. with
Ous looking no. as you could see two brothers 81
near an age--thers wasut much more than year
between hem as / recollec,-snd If you could
have seen my gal, as have seen her once. SIDE by
side with the others daughter You - have seen
~ all the difference Of dress and life, that they
we're ike each other! On u the Likeness, gone
and is II my gsl.-oaly ny gsl-thats change
sor
d. ~ i III III $780, .-o,te- 4, mr. turn said
Alice.
"Turnl" cried the old woman, bu. why not
hers a. soon as my gals The mother must have
chaneed-she looked ~ oil as me, snd foil a.
srinkied through her paint-but she was hand
some What have I dons / what have I done
worse than her, that only my ga to lie tbare
fadingi"
Win another n those wild cries, she went
running cut int, the room from which she hsd
c.ne but Immediately g. her uncerte q mood r.
turned. snd creeping up - Harriet, 'aid;
"Tns,'s What \ ice babe me tel You deary
That's riL 7 ioo1d It cus when ! began 70 ak
who she was and all about her, away ~ War
>ickshire there, one Slmmer time. sdca rs.a-
tons was DO cooi to me, then. They wouldn {
nave owned nc. Ind had nothing u give me.
should have ssked EN-. maybe, for litte money,
.fie-ward II it hsdn [ been flr my Alice she d
a'most have killed me, II had. | think. obe was
as proud IS L other m her way" sad the old wO
nlGu, touching tIt lhCt "a hAl hhN-iifNA
and Withdrawing hey hsnd " for AL she s 80 quiet
COW; bu, she II shame EN- with her good looks,
vet. Hs. hal she'll shame em, wil my baud
some dsue hter :"
Her laugh, as she retreated, was ~o'se than her
cry worse than the burst of imbecl'e SIN sntatiou
IN which II ended worse than tie oolns air WIN
which she sat down In her old sea: ani stared out
AZ the dGrkness.
Toe eyes Of Alice had MI this time been fixed on
Harriet whose hand she had never released. she
said now
81 have felt, lying here. nat should Ike you
70 knOw this. 10 nigh, explain l have though.
something that used - help t. harden me. daa
heard 50 much, Ia my w-cng-doins. % NY neSiec.e
duty. that took up with the belief that duty had
cot been done q me. aud that as the seed WAS
Soon the harvest grew ] somehow made It our
tnat when ladies' had bad homes sud mother' they
went wrong IA their way. too but that inelr way
was not 50 fool q one as mine, ana tney hau nee'
70 bless God Tor II. That all past IL IS hhe
dream. now. which cannot quite remember or uii
oerstsnd /, has been more aud more hae scream
every day. sinc6 you began to .it here and u re.a
to me. l only tell it you. rs / can rec0Hec' It
VIII you read to me ittle more y
Harriet was Withdrawing her hand to open the
book. when Alice detained i; for a moment
You will not forget my motherl forgive her
IL have any cause. know that she iorsives me.
and il sorry in her hears You will not forget herr
"A moment yet Lay my bead 80, dear N a.
ss you read may see the words a. Your Aind
face
Harriet complied aud resd-resd tne E,ernni booh
Tor all the weary and the heavy laden; for al the
wretched fallen. and neglected OF tlis Garth
read the blessed history, in which the b!ihd
Jane pssied beggar, the criminal the womE"
stained with shame, the stunned OF al our
dainty clay. has each e portion, that no ndmsh
pride indifference Or sophistry through .hthe ages
that ths wor shall ass, can Jake A~sy, or by 'ne
thou. sndih atom Of grain reduce-read the MINIS
try Of Him. who. through the round Of human me,
aud all its hopes and srieis, from birth u DEAN
from infancy 20 age had sweet compassion Tor sa1
interest IL. IL. every scene and stage us every
suffering a1d sorrov.
Il snail come, said Harriet, when she snut me
book very early ia the mOfn,g
The lustrous eyes Yet fixed upon heriace' cioseo
for moment, ,ben opened aud Alice k''sed' INd
blest her.
The same eyes followed her 70 the door, and 10
their isht and on the tranquil face, there vas
smile when u vas closed
raey never turned away. She lard her hand
upon her breast. murmuriug the Sacred \ ime tnat
mad been read 10 her; and life passed rom hs'
face like shtremoveJ
Nothing lay there. any longer but the ruin OF the
moral house on which the rain bad beaten, and the
black hair that had iGttered IN the win.ry vino.