The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-01-26

sought it; who unknowingly received a curse of
which they had no warning, and had no power TO
| shun; can do nothing %
! 9 Nothing" said the Phantom
| II i cannot, can any one -
| The Phantom, standing like a statne, kept its
| gaze upon him for a while then turned its head
suddenly, and looked upon the shadow at its side
| An! Can she Z! cried Redlaw, still looking
| upon the shade.
| The Phantom released the hand it had retained
till now and softly raised its own with gesture of
| dismissal. Upon that, her shadow still preserving
the same attitude, began to move melt away.
Stay" cried Redaw, with earnestness to
| which he could not give enough expression. For
moment. As an act of mercy, l know that
| some change fell upon me, when those sounds were
| in the air Just now Tell me, have lost the power
Of harming herr May go near her without dread
| Oh, let her give me any sign of hope ~
| The Phantom looked upon the shade as he did
| not at him-and gave no answer.
AT least, say ths-has she, henceforth, tie con-
| seriousness OF any power to set right what ] have
done9''
She has not, the Phantom answered
| . Has she the power bestowed on her, without
| the consciousness %
The Phantom answered "Seek her OUT And
| her shadow slowly vanished
They were face to face again. and looking on each
other, as intently and awflly at the time of the
bestowal of the gift, across the boy who still Law on
1
Terrible instructor said the Chemist, sinking
on his knee before it, in attitude Of supplication
| by whom was renOunced but by whom am
revisited lin which, and in whose milder aspect,
| would fain believe | have CLEAN of hope | will
| obey without inquiry, praying that the cry have
sent up in the anguish of my soul has BEEN or will
| be, heard, in behalf of those whom have injured
beyond human reparatiOn. But there is one thing -
| You speak to me of what is lying here the
Phantom interposed, and pointed with its finger to
| the boy.
Il do returned the Chemist "You know
| what would ask. Why has this child alone been
| proof against my influence, and why, why, have
detected in his thoughts terrible companionship
with mine %
"This,'' said the Phantom. pointing to the bow.
g is the last, completest illustration of human
creature, utterly bereft of such membranes as
you have yielded up. No softenng memory of
sorrow, wrong, trouble enters here because this
wretched mortal from his birth has been aban-
dOned 10 worse condition than the beasts and
has within his knowledge, no one contrast, no hui
| manlZng touch, to make grain of such memory
spring up in his hardened breast. All within this
desolate creature is barren wilderness. All within
the man bereft Ofswhat you have resigned, is the
| same barren wilderness. Woe 10 such man Woe
enfold, to the nation that shall count its monsters
such as this, lying here, by hundreds and by thou
sands ~
Redlaw shrunk, appalled, from what he heard
:" There is not said the Phantom, one of
utSo-HOt OLt-Dut sOWS IL harvest tTlat mankind
MUST reap. From every seed of evil in this boy,
field OF ruin is grown that shall be gathered in,
and garnered up, and sOwn again in many places
of the world, until regions are overspread with
Wlckedness enough to raise the waters of another
Deuge. Open and UNPUBLISHED murder in city's
streets would be less guilty in its daily federation,
than one such spectacle as this
1t seemed to look down upon the boy in his sleep.
Redlaw, too, looked down upon him with new
emotion.
"There is not father" said the Phantom g by
whose side in his daily or his nightly walk, these
creatures pass; there is not mother among all the
ranks OF loving mothers in this land; there is no
one risen from the state of childhood, but shall be
responsible in his or her degree for this enormity
There is not country throughout the earth on
which 1t would not bring curse. There is no re-
ligon upon earth that it would not deny there is
no people upon earth it would not put to shame''
The Chemist clasped his hands. and looked, with
trembling fear and pity, from the sleeping boy to
the Phantom, standing above him with his finger
pointing down.
Behold, say" pursued the Spectre, " the per-
feet type OF what it was your choice to be- Your
influence is powerless here, because from this
childs bosom you can Danish nothing His thoughts
have been in terrible companionship' with yours
because you have gone down to his unnatural level
He Is the growth of mans Indifference you are
the growth of mans presumption. The benefcent
design OF Heaven is in each case, overlhrown. and
from the two poles ofthe mmateria world you come
together
The Chemist stopped upon the ground beside the
boy, and with the same kind of compassion for him
that he now felt for himself, covered him as he
slept, and no longer shrunk from him with abhor- |
renee or Indifference. |
Soon, now, the distant line on the horizon bright
ened, the darkness faded, the red and go-
rous, and the chimney stacks and gables of the |
ancient building cleaned in the pure air, which |
turned the smoke and vapOr of the city into cloud
of gold. The very sun-dal in his shady corner,
where the wind was used to spin with such I'M |
windy constancy shook off the finer particles of |
snow that had accumulated on his dull old face in |
the night and looked out at the little white wreatls
eddying round and round him. Doubtless some
blind cropping OF the morning made its way down
INTO the forgotten crypt so cold and earthly where
the Norman arches were half buried in the ground,
and stirred the dull sap in the law vegetation hang
ing to the walls, and quickened the slow principle
OF life within the little world of wonderful and deli
cate creation which existed there, with some faint
knowledge that the sun was lp
The Tetterbys were up and doing Mrs letter
by took down the shutters of the shop, and strip by
strip, revealed the treasures of the window TO the |
eyes, proof against their seductOns of Jerusalem
Buildings. Adolphus had been out so long already
that he was half way ON TO Morning Pepper
Five small Teterbys, whose ten round ewes were
much inflamed by soap and friction We're in the
fortunes of a cool wash in the back kitchen-Mrs
Tetterby presiding. Johnny, who was pushed and |
hustled through his toilet with great rapditv when
Mooch CHANGED to be in an exciting frame of mind
(Which was always the case,) staggered up and |
down with his charge before the shop door, under
greater difficulties than usual the weight of Mo-
Loeb being much increased by complication of de-
fences against the cold, composed of knitted worst
ed-work, and forming complete suit of chain
armor, a headpiece and blue CATERS.
1t was the popularity of this baby to be always
cutting teeth Whether they never came, or
whether they came and Went away again, is not
in evidence but it had certainly cut enough, on
the showing of Mrs. Tetterby 10 make hand
some dental provision for the sign of the Bull and
Mouth. All sorts of objects were impressed for
rubbing of its gums, Notwithstanding that it al
ways carried, dangling at IFS waist (which i'm
mediately under his chin bone ring large enough
to have represented the rosary of young nun.
knife-handes, umbrella-tops, the heads Of walk
ng-sticks selected from the stock the fingers of the
family in general hu, esneciallv of Johnny |