Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1850-03-07

sick girl, were real source of pleasure to
! the gentle child "For | am not a burden"
she would say, "and l can help you yet,
mother"
And so the winter passad; and when the
decked the little green banks above the
garden wall, she laid her angel-head upon
her mothers shoulder, and yielder her ten
der spirit to her Maker"
"Dear Emma's sickness was great COM
fort to u.s." He,ty would say to her sympa-
thizing friends for great part Of the time !;
ait was not heart sickness and then, we
saw all our friends so often, and they were
SO kind, and | always had her near me, and
now know that she is safe y; and perhaps
had she lived, she would have left us, and
had care and anxiety to distress her."
Thus she was ever distilllng sweets from
bitter fruit; thus did she show the meek
ness Of content and the humility of a true
Christian. Not so with Susan, having at a
late period in life connected herself with a
person of estima5le qualities, and settling
herself upon one of the most desirable loca-
tons of the beautiful East River. She rem
dered those around her SO uncomfortable by
repining at her lot, that her society was a
burden to all. Her husband was man, as
l have said of estimable amiabIlities, and
in selecting his second partner, he had hop
ed in Susan Layton TO find companion
and friend who would fill up the vacancy
left in his heart, by the death of most be-
loved wife, at the same time giving TO his
young daughters a tender guardian for their
future years. Alas, for his prospects the
beautiful paths of his former life ofpleasant-
ness he soon discovered were laid waste by
the spirit of discomfort he had brought in
Their midst the dear haunts, and scenes a.
bout his really picturesque home, the cool
bowers and shaded walks, upon which he
had bestowed SO much labor, and felt SO
much pride, drew no feeling of admiration
from his wife, and the home for which all
his youth had been spent in toll to obtain, a
% home in tie country" was regarded by
his companion as very great drawback TO
her enjoyment "She always had hoped 10
live IN the city; and Low, from her connex-
ION. 1t appeared that her destiny was fixed
she never had enjoyed the thing she deslr-
ed; of course 1t was not to be looked FOR.
And with murmurIngs such Us these, she IL
naly succeeded III rendering her husbands
house SO uncomfortable, that after few
years of their marriage he consented TO
yield his wishes to her and return TO the
city he had quilted with loathIng, in the
hone ofprocuring the domestic comfort of
cheerful helpmate and smile to greet him
by his hearth.
But when did ever change Of circumstan-
ces minister to a mind so 80 diseased. The
maady had grown with the victim from
childhood, aud years had strengthened ii
and now no remedy could be found to apply
10 the full grown incubus. a stranger to
have entered into the beautifully appointed
drawing rooms, all tasteidlly decorated with
draperies and delicate specimens of art,
would be led to the belief that the drop cur
tain held no picture behind the scenes to
mar the comfort apparently showing itself
in all things.
But as each heart knowe;h its own bitter
ness, so Richard Lewis knew the cloud up
on his own doorway would never brighten;
no domestic sunshine would gladden. the
future And his girls, who were fast ap
preaching those years which need the fos-
tering of tender guidance to direc. them
through the mazes of youth, received no
gentle Influences from her, who had assum-
ed the responsibility of Il kind Director
And thus her life passed on, unloved and
unoving, she shed no JOY and nave no COM
fort; those who had trustfully reposed in
the promises of hope, found them like the
apples of the Dead Sea, filled with the ashes
of deception.
And now, in her impoverished discomfort,
we will return to Hetty, v ho moved still in
the ornament of quiet spirit, the centre
of the orbit, her home. And although for
tune had again, las the world would say)
frowned more hercely upon the family of
love, yet why need we mourn over a few
acres gone -
"My husband" she cheerfuly replied, to
a groan which Involuntary burst from
Henry Fielding's full heart, as the ancestral
Halls of his fathers receded from his linger-
ing gaze" have we not the world before
US, and our growing family to prop US, as
our shadows lengthen; and besides, we have
health and strength, and brave hearts with
us, to take to the luxurlant west and these
are all we need, they tell US" And thus,
she cheered the dropping partner whom she
had SO faithfully served and loved, through
good report and evil report, through the
passes of better and worse, richer and poor
err; and she never saw her 60 greenwood
home,' nor the stately lockwood urns, nor
the grave of her dear child beyond the gar
den walls again and when she wrote to her
friends she would say: But we have found
another greenwood, and the trees we used
to think so grand, are children compared to
the venerable forest ones which shade our
cottage, and we are SO happy; we have seen
so much of the beautiful world by leaving
the little one l had always lived in; and
then the fowers-every thing is a garden |
here; and the little borders about us are
bright with those brought out with me,
they grow SO much gayer IN this rich soil
and our boys are all about US, too, and we
live like monarchs in our new kingdom, and |
we have most loving subjects. If we had
our dear Emma with US, just to look through
the long, long dark woods, and to see the
boys with their wives aud little ones about
Them, and to hear the birds singing Just as
gay as she was herself, sweet cmldl
And so. from the day she was first rock
ed in her cradle un,II the last ,vheu tho