The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1849-08-03

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come to make US ready. AS Peggoty was wont
to tell me, long ago, the followers Of nv father
TO the same grave were made ready in the same
room.
There are Mr.. Murdstone, our neighbor Mr.
Grayper, Mr.. Chillip, and |. When we got ou
10 the door, the Bearers and their load are in the
garden; and they move before us down the path
ana past the elms, and through the gate, and in.
to The church yard where have so often heard
the birds sing on summer morning
We stand around the grave. The day seems
different TO me from every other dav. and the
'lght not OF the same color. Now there is SOL
emn hush, which we have brought with us from
nome with what is resting in the mould; and
whlle we stand bare headed, hear the voice oil
the clergyman, sounding remote in the open air,
ana yet distinct and plain, saying 81 am the
Resurrection and the Life, saith the Lord !''.-
Then hear sobS and, standing apart from the
lockers on, see the good and faithful servant,
whom OF all people on earth love best, and unto
whom my childish heart is certain the Lord will
one daysay swell done''
There are many faces that know among the
little crowd; faces that knew in church when
mine was always wandering there; faces that
nrss saw my mother when she first came to the
| village IN her youthful bloom. | do not mind
thenl-l mind nothing but my grief-and vet |
see and know hem all, and even in the back
ground, far away, sec Minnie looking on, and her
| eye glanclog on her sweetheart, who is near me.
| 1t Is over, and the earth is filled in, and we
turn TO come away. Before us stands our house
SO pretty and unchanged, SO linked in my mind
with the young idea OF what is gone, that all nv
sorrow has been nothing to the sorrow it calls
ioith But they take me on; and Mr.. ChiIlip
talks TO me; and when we get home, puts some
water to my lips; and whe ask leave to go to
my room, dlsmisses me with the gentleness OF
woman.
All this say, is yesterdays event. Events
oil later date have fioated from me to the shore
where I'll forgotten things will reappear but this
stands like high rock in the ocean.
knew that Peggoty would come to me in my
room. The Sabbath stiffness OF the time (the
day was so like Sunday | have forgotten that
was sui ed TO US both. She sat down by my side
upon my little bed and holding my hand, and
SO ne;mes putting it to her lips, and sometimes
smoothing it with hers, as she might have com
forted my little brother, told me, in her way, that
she had TO tell me concerning what had happen
She was never wel,' said Peggotty "for
long time. She was uncertain in her mind, and
not happy When her baby was born, thought
at hrst she would get better but she was more
delicate, and sank little every day. She used
to like to sit alone before her baby came. and
then she cried; but afterwards she used to sins
10 It-so soft, that | once thought, when | heard
her, 1t was voice up in the air, that was r;siny
away.
81 think she got to be more tirnid. and more
irlghtened-like, OF late; and that hard word was
like blow to her. But she was always the same
to me. She never changed TO her foolish Peg.
gotty, didn't my sweet girl.''
Here Peggotty stopped, and softly beat upon |
my hand little while.
''Ihe last time that saw her like her own old |
40 "a fhn ni.rI.F
GEAR The day you went away, she said to me,
! never snail see my pretty darling again -
Something tells me so that tells the truth. |
know
''she tried to hold up after that; and many
time, when they her she was thoughtless and
! ght-hearted, made believe to be so but it was
all bygone then. She never told her husband
what she had told me-she afraid of saying
it to anybody ese-tl one night, a little more
than week before it happen, when she said to
him: sMy dear l think am dying
"'lt's of my mind now, Peggoty,' she told
me, when laid her down in her bed that night.
sHe will believe it more and more, poor fellow,
every day for few days to come and then it
will be past. | am very tired. If this is sleep,
sit by me while | sleep: don't leave me. God
bless both nv children God protect and keep
my fatberless boy'
81 never left her afterwards said Peggotty
"She often talked TO them two down stairs for
she loved them; she couldn't bear not to love any
one who was about her-but when they went
away from her bedside, she always turned to
me, as il there was rest where Peggotty was and
never fell asleep in any other way.
"On the last night, in the evening, she kissed
me, and said: III my baby should die too Peggot-
ty, please let them lay him In my arms, and bury
us together Git was done; for the poor lamb
lived but day beyond her.) Let my dearest
boy go with us to our resting place. she said,
and tell him that his mother blessed him not once
but thousand times
Another silence followed this, and another
gentle beating on my hand
cit was pretty far in the night, said Peggotty,
when she asked for some drink and when she
had taken it, gave me such patient smile, the
dear so beautiful
"Daybreak had come, and the sun was rising
when she said, how kind and considerate Mr.
Cooperfield had always been to her, and how he
had borne with her, and told her, when she doubt.
ed herself, that a loving heart was better and
stronger than wisdom, and that he was happy
man in hers. 'Peggotty, my DEAR she said then,
'put me nearer TO you,' for she was very weak
Lay your good arm underneath my neck she
said, 'and turn me to you, for your face is going
far of, and | want it to be near put il as she
asked; and oh Davy the time had come when
my first parting words to you were true when
she was glad to lay her poor head on her stupid
cross old Peggoty's ARMAND she died like child