The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-01-27

| III gray suCu Ii 10 piCsCht
saying that it too might have lived to be old, long
and long after you and were gone, and to have
| needed the respect and love of younger people,"
Her quiet voice was quieter than ever, as she
took her husbands and laid her head against it.
"Children love me So that sometimes half
| hncy-it s silly fancy, William-they have some
way do MT know of, of feeling for my little child
| and me, and understanding why their love is
| precious to me. If have been quiet since have
| been more happy, William, in hundred ways.
| Not least happy, dear, in this--that when my
little child was born and dead but few days. and
| | was weak and sorrowful, and could not help
grievng little, the thought arose that if tried to
| lead good life, should meet in Heaven bright
creature, who would call me Mother.'
Redlaw fell upon his KEGS with loud cry
90 Thou" he said, who, through the teaching
| Of pure love, hast gracously restored me to the
memory which was the memory of Christ upon the
cross, and of all the good who persisted in his cause,
| receive my thanks, and bless hern'
Then he folded her to his heart; and Milly, sob
bling more than ever cried, as she laughed, " He is
| come back to himself! He likes me very much in
deed, too! Oh, dear, dear, dear me, here's an
Other!'
Then the student entered, leading by the hand a
lovely girl, who was afraid to come. And RedlaW,
so changed towards him, seeing in him and in his
youthful choice the sotened shadow of that chas-
tening passage in his own life to which, as to a
shady tree, the dove, long imprisoned in his soil
tary ark, might fly for rest and company fell upon
his neck, entreating them to be his children
Then, as Christmas is time in which, of all times
in the year, the memory of every remediabe sor
row, wrong and trouble in the world around us
should be active with u.s. not less than own ex
periences for all good, he laid his hand upon the
boy, and silently calling him to witness who laid
His hand on children in old time, rebuking in the
majesty of his prophetic knowledge, those who kept
them from him, vowed to protect him, teach him,
and reclaim him.
Io h IL In iI,,t
and said that they would that day hold Christmas
dinner in what used to be, before the ten poor gen
tlemen committed, their great dinner hall, and that
they would bid to it as many of that Swdger family,
who, his son had told him. numerous that
they mig hit join hands and make ring round Eng
land, as could be brought together on so short a
notice.
And ii was that day done. There We're so many
Swidgers there, grown up and children, that an at
tempt to state them in round numbers might engen-
der doubts, in the dstrustfu of the veracty of this
history. Therefore the attempt shall not be made
But there they were, by dozens and scores-and
there good news and good hope there, ready for
them, of George, who had been visited again by his
father and brother, and by NIilly, and again left in
quiet sleep. There, present at the dinner, too,
were the Tetterbys, including young Adophus,
who arrived in his prismatic comforter in good time
for the beef Johnny and the baby were too late,
of course, and came in all on side, the one
hausted, the other In a supposed state of double
tooth; but that was customary, and not alarming
1t was sad to see the child who had no name or
lineage, watching the other children as they played
not knowing how to talk with them, or sport with
them, and more strange to the ways of childhood
than rough dog. 1t was sad, though in differ
ent way, to see what an instructive knowledge the
youngest children there had of his being different
from all the rest, and how they made timid ap-
proaches to him with soft words and touches and
with little presents, that he might not be unhappy.
Rut he kent nv MjV and hppan n love hpr-that
another, as she said and as they all liked her
dearly, they were glad of that and when they saw
him peeping at them from behind her chair, they
were pleased that he was so close to it,
All this the Chemist, sitting with the student and
his bride that to be, and Philip, and the rest,
saw.
Some people have since said that he only thought
what has been herein set down; Others that he
read it in the fire, winter night about twilight
time others, that the Ghost was but the represent
tation of his gloomy thoughts, and My the en-
bodiment of his better wisdom. Isay nothing.
Except this That as they were assembled in
the old Hall, by no other light than that of great
fire-having dined early-the shadows once more
stole out of their hiding places, and danced about
the room, showing the children marvellous shapes
and faces on the walls, and gradually changing
what was real and familiar there, to what was wild
and magical. But that there was one thing in the
Hall to which the eyes of Redlaw and of Miy and
her husband and of the old man, and of the stu
dent, and his bride that was to be, were often
turned, which the shadows did not obscure or
change. Deepened in its gravity by the freight,
and gazing from the darkness of the panneled wall
like fire, the sedate face in the portrait, with the
beard and ruff, looked down at them from under its
verdant wreath of holly, as they looked up at it;
and clear and plain below, as if voice had uttered
them, were the words,
Guro @eep aAp @emurg Green.