The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1849-01-27
san, said the spectre. Is h donel'

ory is fraught with sorrow and trouble. My
memory is as the memory or other men, but
other men have not this choice. Yes,
close the bargain. Yes! WILL forget my
sorrow, wrong, and troubled
Say. said the spectre, is it doneP
1T ISL
1T Is. And take this with you, man |
whom | here renouncel The gift that
have given, you shall give again, go where
you will. Without recovering yourself the |
power that you have yielded up, you shall
henceforth destroy its like in all whom you
approach. Your wisdom has discovered
that the memory Of sorrow, wrong, and
trouble is the lot Of all mankind, and that
mankind would be the happier, in its other
memories without it. Co Be its bensfac-
.or! Free from such remembrance, from
this hour carry involuntarily the blessing of
such freedom with you. Its diffusion is in
separable and inalienable from you. Go!
Be happy in the good you have won and in
the good you do"
The chemist Is scarcely endowed with his fatal
gift before he is required to illustrate Its conse-
quencss. Before he has recovered from the sur
prise incident TO his change of heart, he hears a
shrill cry, as of one who had lost the way.
He looked confusedly upon his hands
and limbs, as if to be assured of his identi
ty, and then shouted in reply, loudly and
wildly: for there was strangeness OF terror
upon him, ss if he too were lost.
The cry responding. and being nearer,
he caught up the lamp, and raised heavy
curtain in the wall, by which he was accus-
toned to pass into and out of the theatre
where he lectured, which adjoined his room.
Associated with youth and animation, and
a high amphitheatre of faces, which his en-
trance charmed to interest in moment, it
was ghostly place when all this life was
faded out of it, and stared upon him like an
emblem Of Death.
'Halloal' he cried. 'Halloa! This wayl
Come to the light When, as he held the
curtain with one hand, and with the other
raised the lamp and tried TO pierce into the
gloom that filled the place, something rush.
ed past him into the room like wild cat
and crouched down in corner.
w nat Is IL. TIC
He might have asked What is il" even
) had he seen it well, as presently he did,
when he stood looking at it, gathered up in
its corner.
A bundle Of tatters, held together by a
hand, in size and form almost an infants
but in its greedy, desperate little clutch, q
4 bad old mans. A face rounded and smoth.
a cred by some half dozen years, but pinched
: and twisted by the experience of life
: Bright eyes, but not youthful. Naked feet
+ beautiful in their childish dehcacy--ugly IN
!, the blood and dirt that cracked upon them
d A baby savage, young monster, chile
# who had never been child, creature who
o might live TO take the outward form Of man
= but who, within, would live and perish ;
n mere beast.
IS Used, already, TO be worried and huntet
e like beast, the boy crouched down as h,
e was looked at, and looked back again, am
II interposed his arm TO ward off the expected
d blow.
'lll bite, he said, IL you hit mel
If The time had been, and not many min
e utes since, when such sight as this woul'
10 have wrang the Chemists heart He look
h ed upon it NOW, coldiy, but with henv,
h effort to remember something--he did no
know what-he asked the boy what he di
re there, and whence he came,
re Where's the woman he replied. :
S, want to find the woman.
b. .Who?'
Sc The woman. Her that brought m
lie here, and set me by the large fire. Sh
was so long gone that went to look 70
to her, and lost myself. don't want you.
he want the woman
o, He made a spring so suddenly to &c
a. away, that the dull sound Of his naked fee
I'd upon the floor was near the curtain, whe
it Redlaw caught him by his rags.
os Come! you let me 60! mutiered tn
boy, struggling. and clenching his teeth
10 I've done nothing to you. Let me 60. Wi
A you, to the woman?
III That is not the way. There is neart
N one, said Redlaw, OBTAINING him, in tn
At same blank, effort to remember some ass
m citation that ought, of right. TO bear upo
10 this monstrous object, What is you
10 name?
II Got none
Where do you liver
Live! What's THAR
n The boy shook his hair from his eyes
Is look at him for a moment, and then, twis
"a ing round his legs and wrestling with hin
ed broke again into bis repetition of You Il
IS me go, will you? want to find The w
"a man.
m The Chemist led him TO the door. 'Th
re- way he said, looking at him still confuse
u.s. ly, but with repugnance and avoidanc
Ike growing out Of his GOODNESS, I'll take yc
to to her.
The sharp eyes in the child's head, wal
to dering round the room, lighted on the tab
ut where the remnants Of the dinner were
i'll give me some OF that he said, cove
ously.
1g Has she not fed your
/ d shall be hungry again tomorrow
nd shan't 1! Amt hungry every dayl'
to Finding himself released, he bounded
/ the table like some small animal OF pre-,
e. and hugging to his breast bread and mea
or end his own rags, all together, said:
Is There! Now take me to the woman
ny As the Chemist with newborn di
like to touch him, sternly motioned him
h. follow. and was going out Of the door /
nd trembled and stopped.
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