Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1851-05-30

seated herself at the piano, she sang them
again in clear, calm tone.
| had determined when thesongs were fin
ished to seek reconciliation; but the de-
mon, pride, whispered will you be less firm
than she this cannot last why humiiate
yourself?" Alas, listened, and obeyed =
| suffered the last opportunity to recall our
lost happiness to escape. Pride, the tyrant,
was obeyed, and suffered her to leave the
room with a cold goodnight" Invent up
into my own lonely chamber, and sat down,
and pondered on the events of the evening,
regretting, bitterly regretting my folly in
suffering my pride again to master me.
heard my wife moving about her room
which adjoined my own, and then, sudden
| ly, heavy fall and a low groanl rushsed
into her apartment and found her extended
on the floor. raised her in my arms, and
to my horror! her white night-dress was
covered with blood, which was streaming
from her mouth. The truth flashed upon
me at once; she had broken blood vessel !;
she would die! l sprang to the bell. In a
/ few minutes-Ininutes which seemed an
age, the servants entered the room, but stop
ped horror-stricken at beholding their be-
loved mistress apparently in the agonies OF
death!
"The doctor! doctor, quick" shouted
=" she will die-she will dier
In a second they were all gone save her
maid, who was sobbing and praying, while
she wiped the blood from the blue lips oi
her expiring mistress. o, what agony suf
fered during the interval which ensued be-
fore the arrival of the physician! l called
her by the dearest titles; begged her but
, to speak one word, | entreated her TO for
give me-only to smile once more 1? She
slowly opened her large eyes; slight smile
| passed over her face, and she was-dead
Just then the physicians entered. woult
mott could not believe that she was really
no more-that God had taken her from me
begged and PRAYED of them to exert thei
| skill-to save her!
2 1t will be useless to attempt ii" was thei
r passionless reply; no human power car
e restore ifer'
did not believe them. My wife was no
: could not be dead | clasped her in ml
0 arms; l kissed her brow-her lips and al
! became blank
What passed afterward know not. Whel
) awoke TO consciousness found myself ly
/ inc on bed in adarkened room. A strang
;. female was standing by its side, talking in
o low tone of voice to another stranger.
He seems better to-day, DOCTOR" sal,
2 she, much better"
HI / asked for my wife: they told me to b
q quiet, that had been very i'll, and inquire,
f how felt! | answered not, for gradulll-
n past events came back to my recollection.
:. remembered every thingzeven nv last ks
! on her clay-cold ips. / knew that she wa
a dead, and asked them what they had don
d with her? At first they hesitated, but a
,t length they told me that she had been bun
l led. Buried! my Emily my wife A
lr gain ceased to remember. The deliriur
s which accompanied the fever that had attack
: ed me, returned All was chaos
II Several months elapsed ere [ recovered
If and since that time my days have beenpas.
n ed in tears, and in prayer, at her grave m
p nights in dreaming of her goodness, her a
" fection and my terrible sin. Years hay
# rolled away since she was consigned to th
d tomb-years Of sutfering-of remose-i
which clothed my spirit with sackcloth an
% heaped ashes on its head. My deep reper
:: tance has at last procured forgiveness. La.
: night She smiled upon me in my dreams an
If beckoned Inc away. | most joyfully a,
N knowledged the summons. Ere many DAY
q l shall pass the portals of that mystic Ian
as where sorrow comes not, and forgetting a
: my crimes shall abide with my angel 70
- ever and forever