The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1849-01-27


built such hopes upon, and that never
breathed the breath oil liie-lt has made
you quiet-like, Milly.'
i am very happy in the recNlectop OF
lit, William dear, she answered. Il think
of ii every day. i
4 was afraid you thought of it good
DEAL
Don't say afraid; it is comfort to me;
il speaks to me in 50 many ways. The
innocent thing, that never lived on EARTH Is
like an angel to me, William. i
1 You are like an angel to father and me,
said MIR. William, softly. Il know that:
when | think of all those hopes built
upon it, and the many times | sat and PIC
tnred to myself the little smiling face upon
, my bosom that never lay there. and the
sweet eyes turned up to mine that never
, opened to the light, said Milly, Il can feel
greater tenderness. think, for all the dis
, appointed hopes in which there is no harm:
\ When see beautiful child in its fond
: mothers arms, love it all the better,
! thinking that my child might have been
n like that, and might have made my heart as
proud and happy
! Redlaw raised his head, and looked to-
II wards her.
sAll through life, it seems by me-, she
a continued, TO tell me something. For poor
is neglected children, my little child pleads
as If it were alive, and had voice knew
r, with which to speak TO me. When ! hear
y, of youth in suffering or shame, think that
E. my child might have come to that, perhaps,
and hat God took it from me in his mercy.
= Even in age and gray hair, such as father s,
it is present; saying that it too might have
n lived to be old, long and long after you and
lie [ were gone, and to have needed the respect
and love Of younger people,
Oh Her quiet voice was quieter than ever, al
,n she look her husbands arm, and laid heT
lis head against it.
70 Children love me so, that sometimes
ar half fancy-it's silly fancy, William
"a. they have some way don't know OF. o
id. feeling for my little child, and me, and un
d. derstanding why their love is precious Il
lid me. II have been quiet since, hav'
m, been more happy, William, in hundred
Of ways. Not least happy, dear, in this-tha
. even when my little child was born am
er. dead but few days, and | was weak ant
dy sonowful, and could not help grieving
no little, the thought arose, that if tried L
lol lead a good life, | should meet in Heavel
a bright creature who would call me mo
lg, theTp
net Redlaw fell upon his knees with lou
M cry.
to % Thou he said, who, through th
ng teaching Of pure love, has graciously II
nd stored me to the memory which was tn
lus memory Of Christ upon the cross. and {
nd all the good who persisted in his cause, II
ap- ceive my thanks, and bless her.
me The way Milly restored peace and happinei
iu to the hearth Of the distracted Tetterby'ss vi
AIN questionaby the most dramatic passage in d
whole book, and full OF the Characteristic GENT
ih Of the author.
Ioh While negotiating with the phantom for tn
&c restoration to the dominion Of his better natur
/ 10 the lesson of that wicked and ragged taiterd
hh' malion, whose introduction TO the Chems, v
have described, and whom he afterwards ell
us plOys as guide, is unfOlded
ace why asks the Chemist. has this chi
alone been proof against my influence, al
why, why, have detected in its thoughts
Mr.. terrible companionship with mineP
This said the phantom, pointing to Il
on. boy, SIS the last, completest illustration
at human creature, utterly bereft Of SUE
,ht remembrances as you have yielded up. \
Itch softening memory Of sorrow, wrong,
4. i IL. A..
mortal from his birth, has been abandon,
said to a worse condition than the beasts, al
and has, within his knowledge, no one contra
no humanising touch, to make grain
nus, such memory spring up in his harden
$. breast. All within this dissolute creature
my barren wilderness. All within the no
berelt Of what yon have resigned, is {
re- same barren wilderness. Woe to such
man! Woe. tenfold, to the nation Ii
ara shall count its monsters such as this, lyi
Gle here by hundreds and by thousands
. for Redlaw shrunk, appalled,. from what
He heard.
the There is not said the phantom, one
,hed these-nol ohe-pul so"s harvest u
mankind MUST reap. From every seed
nod evil in this boy, field Of ruin is gro,
};nU that shall be gathered in, and garnered 1
amS and sown again in many places in I
and world, until regions are overspread W
,ast wickedness enough to raise the waters
The another deluge. Open and unpunist
her murder in city's streets would be /
NED guilty in its daily federation, than such sp
wn tacles as this
res 1t seemed to look down upon the boy
his sleep. Redlaw, too, looked down up
nall him with new emotion.
- There is not father, said the phanto
by whose side in his daily or his nigh
rent visits these creatures pass; there is no
0iny mother among all the ranks Of living n
ous theirs in the land; there is no one risen fr,
rom the state of childhood, but shall be respor
i on bic in his or her degree for this enormi
the There is not country throughout the ear
and on which it would not bring a curse. Tn
n N is no religion upon earth that it would |
king deny; there is no people upon earth
+ he would not put to shame.
,,er Thk Chemist clasped his hands, a
looked, with trembling fear and pity, fr,
,,o,. the sleeping boy in the phantom, stand
III the above him with its finger pointing down.
, 90 Behold, | say pursued the spectre, :
Q nerfect TYNE of what N u-,,s vonr choica