Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-11-06

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0, no, doctor, three weeks at the out.
side.'
There, now, you have fairly avowed and
confessed yourself to he ill.,
But it is no: impossible to lose both sleep
and appetite without being i'll !; one can suffer
SO, generally, without having any decided
complaint
Do you know that you distress me ex-
tremely? p? but, thank God, s,ll feel conf
dent that | shall be able to restore you 10
health and happiness. have NOT so blind
confidence in the drugs and the remedies Of
my profession, but that am truly reioiced
TO treat you rather tos mental cure than for
cerporeal indisposiion. Forget tha, am a
doctor; look upon me as your old friend, and
tell me what is weighing so heavily on your
mind: Perhaps may be able to tighten
the burden for you
You are very kind friend, bur YOU cam
mol restore me 10 sleep or appetite; l must
bear my fate
Your fate, madam lnothng puts me out
like soapcon OF romance y you ought TO be
continually grateful for so happy fate
7 The adored wife OF one of the most distin-
suished, handsomest, and best men of the
day, possessing very large fortune, moth
er OF the most promising boy in the three
Kingdoms =
And is it not a hard fate TO break that no
bic husbands heart, 10 abandon nv darling
Cecil on the threshold of life 90, merciful
God, il is indeed too cruclr
At the words, began TO fear my fair pa.
renr had listened TOO long TO The houied words
OF some deceiver, who was striving TO induce
her 10 abandon her happy home, and all its
vlrtuous joys, 10 embrace a life of misery and
shame; but there was so much real anguish
in her looks and voice at the idea Of separa-
ton, That, though most sincerely grieyed, |
was no, much alarmed.
! God will exact no such sacrifice from
you. lie demands no severins of such sa-
cred ties; in the twenty-five years during
which have been engaged in soothing and
healing my fellow creatures, have gained
much experience, and with il some power
TO advise; nor have I been SO unobservant
TO have marked the perils 10 which youth
and beauty are exposed even when guarded
by a husbands watchiul care bu, believe
me-
Stop, doctor: blush for The mistake
have thoughIlessly led You INFO. To clear
myself from suspicion have given rise 10,
see mus, contide 10 you the cause Of my
illness aud depression: bu, before do so,
must receive your solemn promise not to
communicate what | may tell you 10 Col.
Delaware until after my death
readily gave the desired promise, which.
indeed, cost rne nothing: for have invaria-
bly, found. in all anxious aud trying cases,
husbands and mothers very troublesome con-
] tidenls. Mrs. D. .hen related The following
circumstances
1 A month previously, she awokc rather ear
ller than usual: and, not wishing 10 rise i'm
mediately. passed an hour in reading Letters
on Animal Magnetism. She then laid the
book aside, and fell asleep: she was reused
\ from her slumbers by her bedroom door
opening, The clock OF the mantle piece strik-
ing ten al the moment, and two men in black
entered. Asronishment kept her silent as
they advanced 10 the table in the centre oi
! the room. One, an old man, kept his hat
on, and leaning one hand lin which he held
rule and penciD on the table, turned round
10 address his companion, who. hat in hand,
appeared 10 be deferenrialy awaiting his or
ders, which consisted ia minute directions
respecting the making Of the cofiin-the
length, breadth, thickness, lining, etc., being
all accurately described. When he ceased
speaking, his subordinate inquired what the
inscription was 10 be: the old man replied,
speaking slowly and impressivelv-'C Claru
Delaware, aged g, deceased ar midnight on
the 10Th of April 1885, AT these words
both, for the first time, looked earnestly al
Clara, and slowly left the room. Shaking
off in some degree The spell that had hiIher-
10 bound her, she rang her bell: and heI
she found, TO add to her consterna lion, that
this maid had been sitting for the last three
hours IN the room through which thess men
must have passed. Finding on further in.
vestigation, that no one in The house had seen
her lugubrious vIsirers, she gave herself up
! 10 the supernatural terrors, aud, conceivinc
/ that she had received a warning that she was
TO die at midnight, on the 10Th of April, she
had lost appetite and sleep, and was, in fact
fast sinking under the impression that the
hour indicated was fa,ed TO be her last.
\ AT first, was quite rejoiced to find it was
not worse; and rubbing my hands with even
more apparent glee than | really felt, | asked
how she could possibly have allowed an uneasy
dream, engendered, no doubt, by the mystic
! nature of the book she had been reading, 10
I disturb her so much, adding a few jes,ing OBJ
serva,ious but the mournful expression OF
her countenance checked me, and at last, TAX
ing it up seriously, ! endeavored by every ar
gument that suggested itself TO me, calling in
the aid of religion, philosophy and common
sense, to demolish the monster her imaglna-
ton had raised. In vain; could not fiatter
myself that even for moment her belief wa
vered. When arose to depart, which did,
promising myself to return again and again.
when had considered the case little, she