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

her hands in pleasant wonder "Oh, dear, how
| delightful this is -
More shouting from the children, more kissing,
| more trooping round her, more happiness, more
| love, more joy, more honor, on all sides than she
| could bear
! "Oh dearn said Milly, "what delicious tears
| you make me shed. How can ever have deserved
this What have done to be so loved ~
| Who can help it, cried Mr.. Ttterby
| 'Who can help it's cried Mrs Utterly
| Who can help it ~ echoed the children, IN a
| joyful chorus. And they danced and trooped about
her again, and chung to her, and laid their rosy
faces against her dress, and kissed and fonded it,
| and could not fonde it, or her, enough
| 81 never was so moved said Milly, drying her
| eyes, g as have been this morning. must tell
| you, as soon as | can speak. Mr.. Redlaw came to
me at sunrise, and with tenderness in his manner,
| more as if had been his darling daughter than
| myself, implored me to go with him to where Will
| Hams brother George is lying ill. We went to-
gether, and all the way along he was so kind, and
SO subdued, and seemed to put such trust and hope
IN me, that could not help crying with pleasure.
When we got to the house, we met woman at the
door somebody had bruised and hurt her, am
AFRAID who caught me by the hand, and blessed
| me as | passed.
"She was right 70 said Mr.. Tetterby. Mrs Tet
terby said she right. All the children cried out
| she was right.
All, but there's more than that" said Milly,
hen we got up stairs, into the room, the sick
d
no effort could rouse him, rose up in his bed, and
bursting into tears, stretched out his arms to me-
and said that he had led msspent life, but that he
was truly repentant now, in his for the past
which was all as plain to him a great prospect
from which dense black cloud had cleared away
and that he entreated to ask his poor old father
for his pardon and his blessing and to say prayer
beside his bed. And when | did so, Mr. Redlaw
joined in it so ferventy, and then so thanked and
thanked me, and thanked Heaven, that my heart
quite overlooked and | could have done nothing
but sob and cry, if the sick man had not begged me
sit down by him-which made me quiet of course
As sat there, he held my hand in his until he sunk
IN doze and even then, when withdrew my
hand to leave him to come here, (which Mr.. Red
law was very earnest indeed in wishing me to do
his hand felt for mine, so that some one else
obliged to take my place and make believe give
him my hand back. Oh dear, oh DEAR" said Mily,
sobbing, g How thankful and how happy l should
feel, and do feel, for all this!'
While she was speaking Redlaw had come in,
and, after pausng for moment to observe the group
OF which she was the centre, had silently assembled
the stairs. Upon those stairs he now appeared
again remaining there, while the young student
passed him and came running down.
Kind nurse, gentlest, best of creatures" he said,
falling on his knee to her, and catching at her hand
" forgive my cruel ingratitude ~
"Oh dear, oh DEAR" cried Milly innocently,
here's another of them! Oh DEAR here's some
body else who likes me. What shall ever do!''
The guieless, simple way in which she said it,
and in which she put her hands before her eyes
and Wept for very happiness was as touching as it
was delightful.
:" was not myself he said. 81 don't know
what it vast was some consequence of my disor-
der perhaps-l was mad. But | am so no longer.
Almost as speak, am restored. heard the chill
dren crying out your name, and the shade passed
from me at the very sound of it. Oh don't weep
Dear Mllly, If you could read my heart, and only
know with what affection and what grateful hon.
age it is glowing, you would not let me see you
weep. 1t is such deep reproach.'
No, no." said Milly, It's not that. It's not,
indeed. It's joy. It's wonder that you should
think 1t necessary to ask me to forgive lite and
yet it's pleasure that you do'
"And will you come again! and will you finish
the little curtain %
"No,' said Milly, drying her eyes, and shaking
her head. 6 You won't care for my needlework
now''
/" Is it forgiving me, to say that %
She beckoned him aside, and whispered in
his ear.
'tThere is news from your home, Mr.. Edmund"
"News! How7''
Either your not writing when you were very
i'll, or the change in your handwriting when you
began to be better, created some suspicion of the
truth; however that is-but you're you'll not
be the worse for any news if it's not bad news 20
"Sure."
60 Then there's some one GOMEZ said MilIy.
My mother9' asked the student, CHANGING
round involuntarily towards Redlaw, who had
come down from the stairs.
Hush No. said Milly.
I" 1t can be one else
Indeed :" said Milly, are you sure %
" 1t is not" Before he could say more, she
put her hand upon his mouth.
Yes it is ~ said Milly. "The young lady (she
is very like the miniature, Mr.. Edmund but she is
prettler) was too unhappy to rest without satisfy
ing her doubts, and came up, last night, with
little servant-maid. As you always dated your
letters from the college, she came there; and be-
fore | saw Mr.. Redlaw this morning, I saw her
She likes me too" said Milly. "Oh dear, that's
another ~
"Ths morning! Where is she now1''
Why, she is now" said Milly, advancing her
lips to his ear &c in my little parlor in the Lodge
and waiting to see vou.''
He pressed her hand, and was darling off but
she detained him.
Mr.. Redaw is much altered, and has told me
this morning that his memory is impaired Be very
considerable TO him. Mr. Edmund; he needs that
from us ALL
The young man assured her, by look, that her
caution was not ill-bestowed and as he passed the
Chemist on his way out, bent respectfully, and
with an obvious interest before him.
kedlaw returned the salutation courteously and
even humbly, and looked after him as he passed
on. He dropped his head upon his hand too, as
trying to re-awaken something he had lost. But it
The abiding change that had come upon him
since the influence of the music, and the Phantom's
temperance, was, that now he truly felt how
much he had lost, and could compassionate his own
condition. and contrast it, clearly. with the natural
state of those around him. In this, an interest in
those who were around him revived and meeN
submissive sense of his calamity was bred, resem-
bling that which sometimes obtains an age, when
Its mental powers are weakened, without insens
bty or sullenness being added the list of its in
firmities.
He was conscious, that, as he redeemed, through
Milly, more and more of the evil he had done, and
as he was more and more with her. this change RI
pened itself within him. Therefore and because
of the attachment she inspired him with (but with
out other hope,) he felt that he was quite dependent
on her, and that she was his staff in his affliction
So, when she asked him whether they should go
home now, to where the old man and her husband
We're, and he readily replied Eyes being anx-
ious in that regard-he put his arm through hers.