The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-01-24

/ can make holVdaV, and when all people VINO nav
! got money like to spend some, did, somehow, &c
little out of sorts, when was in the streets jus
| now. There was so many things to be so'd-such de
cous things to eat such fine things to look at, sucl
| delightful things to have-and there was so mucf
calculating necessary, before could lay out six
| pence for the commonest thing; and the baske
| was SO large, and wanted so much in it /; and my
stock of money was so small, and would go such !
little way. You hate me, do MT you, 'Dophus ?
| "Not quite said Mr. Tetterby, =" as yet.''
| "Well / I'll tell you the whole truth, pursued
his wife, penitenty, sand then perhaps you will
| | felt all this SO much, when | was trudg gins
| about in the cold, and when saw a lot of othe
too, that began to think whether might MT have
| done better, and been happier, if-I-had Mt
| the wedding ring went round again, and Mrs. let
| terby shook her downcast head she turned it,
see, said her husband, quietly; g if you had
MT married at all, if you had married somebody
else -
eyes, sobbed Mrs. Tetterby. "That Is really
what thought. Do you hate me now, 'Dolphus g.
"Why, no. said Mr.. Tetterby, &c do MT find
| that do, as yet"
| Mrs. Tetterby gave him a thankful kiss, and
went on.
81 begin to hope you won't, now, 'Dolphus
though am afraid hav MT told you the worst
can't think what came over me. do MT know
whether | was ill, or mad or what | was, but
could MT call up any thing that seemed TO bind us
to each other, or to reconcile me 10 my fortune.
All the pleasures and enioyments we had ever had
they seemed so poor and insignificant, hated them.
could have trodden on them. And | could think
OF nothing else, except our being poor, and the
number of mouths there We're at home"
''Well, well, my DEAR" said Mr.. Tetterby, sha-
king her hand eDcouragingy, that s truth, after
all. We are poor, and there number of mouths
at home here"
''Ah but, Dolf, Dolf!'' cried his wife, laying
her hands upon his neck, g my good, kind, patient
fellow, when had been at home very little
while-how different! Oh, Dof, how different it
was felt as if there was a rush of recollections
on me- all at once, that sofened my hard heart, and
filled it up till it bursting. All our struggles
for livelihood, all our cares and wants since We
have been married, all the times of sickness, all
the hours of watching we have ever had by one
another by the children, seemed to speak to me,
and say that they had made one, and that never
might have been, or could have been, or would
have been, any other than the wife and mother |
am. Then, the cheap enjoynents that l could
have trodden cruelty got to be so precious to
mech, so priceless and dear that l could MT
bear to think how much had wronged them; and
/ said, and say again hundred times how could l
ever behave so, 'Dolphus, how could | ever have
the heart to do it -
The good woman, quite carried away by her
honest tenderness and remorse, was weeping with
all her heart, when she started up with scream,
and ran behind her husband. Her cry was so ter
tIldl Tie started IcIr sleep
from their beds, and chung about her Nor did her
gaze belle her voice, as she pointed to pale man
in black cloak who had come into the room.
Look at that man! Look there What does
he want2'
my DEAR" returned her husband, :" I'll ask him
if you'll let me go. What's the matter! How you
shake! -
:" saw him in the street, when l was out just
now. He looked at me and stood near me. | am
afraid of him.
''Afraid of him. Why"
don't know why-I-stop husband 20 for he
was going towards the stranger.
She had one hand pressed upon her forehead and
one upon her breast; and there peculiar fut-
tering all over her, and hurried unsteady motion
of her eyes, as if she had lost something.
Are you ill, my dear?''
What is it that is going from me again J" she
muttered In a low voice. "What rs this that is
going away!"
Then she abruptly answered. s. ILL., No, am
quite well, and stood looking vacantly at the
floor
Her husband, who had not been altogether free
from the infection of her fear at first and whom
the present strangeness of her manner did not tend
to reassure addressed himself the pale visiter in
the black cloak, who stood still, and whose eyes
We're bent upon the ground.
What may be your pleasure, SIR he asked,
"with U.s."
:" fear that my coming in unperceived,' re-
were talking, and did not hear me-
My little woman savs-perhaps you heard her
say it,, returned Mr.. Tetterby, that it's not the
first time you have alarmed her tonight
" am sorry for it. remember to have observed
her, for few moments only, in the street. had
no intention of frightening herr
As he raised his eyes in speaking. she raised
hers 1t was extraordinary to see what dread she
had of him, and with what dread he observed it
and yet how narrowly and closely.
My name" he said, " is Redlaw. | come from
the college hard by young gentleman who is a
student there, lodges in your house, does he not
/" MIR. Denham p" said Teterby.
eyes"
1t was a natural action, and so slight as to be
hardly noticeable but the little man, before speak
ing again, passed his hand his forehead and
looked quickly round the room, as though he were
sensible of some change in its atmosphere. The
Chemist instantly transferred to him the look of
dread he had directed towards his wife, stepped
back and his face turned paler.
The gentleman's room" said Tetterby 4" is up
stairs, sir. There's a more convenient private en-
trance ; but you have come in here it will save
your going out into the cold, if you'll take this little
showing one communicating directly
with the parlor, and go up to him in that way, if
you wish to see him.
"Yes, l wish to see him. said the Chemist
g Can you spare light?''
The watchfulness of his haggard look, and the
trouble Mr.. Tetterby He paused and looking
fixedly at him in return, stood for minute or so
like man Supplied or fascinated
At length he said, 'fll light you, sir, if you'll
follow me.''
No." replied the Chemist, 81 don't wish to
be attended or announced to him. He does not ex-
pect me. would rather go alone. Please to give
me the light, if you can spare it, and IL find the
way"
In the quickness of his expression of this DESIRE
and in taking the candle from the newsman, he
touched him on the breast. Withdrawing his hand
hastily, almost as though he had wounded him by
accident, dor he did not know in what part of him
self his new power resided, or how it was commu-
nicated, or how the manner of its reception varied
in different persons) he turned and assembled the
stairs
But when he reached the top he stopped and
looked down. The wife was standing in the same
place. twisting her ring round and round her finger
The husband, with his head bent forward on his
breast, was musing heavily and sallenly. The
still clustering about the mother oazed