The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1850-01-09

| nOunce tldlnIS grclv0us such as these.
Poor little thing!' She was silent
moment, passed her hands across her
eyes, struggled little for composurc,
and then rcsuming her own noble and
con6ding air: What l wish to ask
you,' said she, resting the ends of her
fingers upon my black coat sleeve, is,
to find inc the means to preserve my
poor unborn child from the influence of
these horrors, these suftcrings. | am
in terror for 1t, poor little being. You
mcn-cvcn you, physician as you can
never know the pride and tenderness
which fills woman's heart at such a
moment = She raised her eyes to
heaven. Good heaven! what a divine
terror ! what fresh and continued rs.
tonishment Another heart beating
within my own !! An innocent, angelic
spirit, in union with my own harrasscd
and ayitatcd being! y double myste-
rious iiic and sympathy, known and
shared by me alone But to think
that my agitation is: perhaps, intense
suffering to this tender, invisible crea-
turc-that my tcrrors are of this, l
dare hardly breath II dare hardly
think--I am afraid to novel am
afraid Of my own thoughts-I reproach
myself with my love, with my hatc--I
dare not be agitated-I treasure my
self as if | were asaint-I do not know
where to turn-this is how l fell. She
looked as an angel as she thus spoke,
with 4 sort of divine terror and anxiety
i'll her large eyes. '1lelp me, doctor!
furnish me with some idea that can
keep fixed here, i'll my mind, looking
earnestly. Save me from iniuring my
child. You arc sorry for me; see you
are. You know, alas that it is all in
vain; nothing can harden our poor
hearts; they will hurry, pause: trcmblc;
oh, they will And what will be the
fate Of my child p However, said
she, attcra pause, and letting her beau
tiful head fall with an air of dcspondcn-
cy upon her bosom, 'onc thing is ccr-
tain. It's my duty to carry this poor
little creature to the day Of its birth,
which will be the eve of that of my
my death. I am only allowed to re-
main on earth for that. l am the frail
shell which surrounds the precious fruit,
aud which will he broken as soon as that
is disclosed. l am nothing else! No.
thing else now, doctor But do You
think laying hold of, and pressing
my hand-'do you think they will let
nc see it?-Do you think they will let
it he with me just for few hours after
it is born? II they were to take and
kill me directly it would be very cruel,
wouldn't it oh ! if they only give
me tine to hear it cry--to kiss it and
nurse itjust through one day think
could forgive them al! the rest; ! do
50 excessively long for that one hour =
| could only press her hands; could
only bend down and kiss them with a
sort of religious reverence. I could
not speak, and was afraid to intcrrup.
her. She smiled through her tears,
with the sweet radiant smile Of a pretty
woman Of two-and-twcnty, and then she
went on.--'I always fancy that you
know every thing--that | have only to
say why! and you have an answer ready.
Now, tell me, why is women more a
mother than she is any thing else !?
friend, daughter, wife cvcn---lcss vain,
less delicate, perhaps less rational, than
is her nature That a child, who is
yet as nothing. is every thing? that
those living already arc less than it :?
This is very unjust ? But so it is !.
Why is it so | am angry with my
SELF Gently! gently = said L. You
have little fever. You speak too
quick and too hurrcdly. Gently 'Ah,
Heaven = cried she, 'and | shall never
nourish it at my breast! And, turn
ing suddenly away, she flung herself
upon the little bed, and, burying her
face in the countcrpano wcpt bitterly.
Her heart was ovcriowing.
The Physicians servant, or rather,
as they were dcnominated in those lev.
elling days, his associe, Blaircau, was
a thorough Republican and staunch
friend to the sovereignty of the people;
he, therefore, nad considerable intlu-
cncc with the ruling authorities, and
managed clcvcrly to purlon from a
commssary who was reading the death
warrants of several prisoners, list, up
on which, amongst the names of other
parties whom hc knew his master was
desirous of saving, was that of Madame
dc st. Afghan. The following thrill
ing scene took place in wretchcd
apartment of St. Lazarc. In the cen.
tre OF this room was placed largo dirs
ty wooden table, with food of the corr