The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1852-10-06

lie seemed afraid to speak more, lest |
should be agitated !; but as he kissed me,
felt on my check tears-tears that my
own eyes, long sealed by misery, had no
power to shed.
| have done all wished 10 do.
| have set my house in order. Now,
whichever way God wills the event, am
prepared. Life IS not what it once was:
yet for Laurcncc's sake and for one be-
sides-Ah, now dimly guess what that
poor mother felt, who, dying, left her child
to the mercy Of the bitter world. But
heavens will be done. shall write here
no more-perhaps forever.
x 1t is all pastand gone. have
been mother-alas! hare JccR; but ]
never knew it. awokc out of a long
blank drcam--a dclirium of many week,
to find the blessing had come, and been
taken away. ONE only giNeth-one only
takcth. Amen.
For seven days, rs they tell me, my
babe lay by my sidc--its tinny arms
touched mine--it slept atmv breast. But
| remember nothing-nothing. was
quite mad all the while AnI ,Len---;,
dicI-opJ I have ro Tttro f,co - Lr.,,,,
of-no memory of the sweetness that has
been, it is all to me as if | had never seen
nv child, ~
III onIy had my senses for ono dov-
one hour: if | could but have soon Iou-
renee when thcv n,yc him his h,L,. ho,.
Bitterly he gricyre his notLcr s.ys NO,
o,,,,, J. ''' = w
Cause ne ;. mas no he''S' .
H. MY NY HIS, "'h'''g il!, ,''r was hoFr'-
p'T: LII" ''L :'T"d anything "UllhG my
ID! Il" '"v '''"J S''I"'' "".I' ana o'" not
"o',.e '''' ~. III! '"Io'"'' 'no"T,' he tch'
@ o,v' INC ''N' M I"t % ,,sI''ctG' I:., "or LAT"
''"I' r' '"' ''"'' % "'',' no" nh'I
"'' ,'o' S','''' me- IL Is perhaps wen
IouI'' '"' '''I' "'T S'",' ana M own TWO
,"'s'' "'' oo ""'' % N''P "'E Se'fc'
''''''
S "I"' E'Tt''"'G +" 'ooN "c 'i'' u""l
''ro"' '' '''"' =, ''i' ~ me o' my "''"'!
" ''o'''',''"",'' -, .2"''' " h"lPy cream
"">' W. ii"" II 'oi''"''C'' nc ''''I'!
I'r "I" ",e'' ~ o'' anu ''!'.N .! ny
u"I'.''9 'll"' was 10 come 10 picture II y
I1s It: NY I'S, "'''',- paying 1T my 'eel-- %
S'o%'nS III oG""'! -, o"iy!"fho"'i'" " man
N"u .'''S 10 "''--'I''S niue grave.
,iS I'"IlS m''i never nave "h''hc'
,"''I' II 80 al 'te 't'P A"N' '''"' mature
'c"','S' "'': "''''', "''"'' mas even no"
am"NSne' ;o. s. III my nI"''' must HE" Il" "o
yIHs, St ..; %,'c su "'.sS. -. |m%. n,S OF n, "
that Shall never be | will not rmbi,t,r III,
BLESSINGS have NV mourr;,,, o,.,, ,Ins,
denied.
In Mr. Shelmerdine's absence 7 hay,
ACCOMPLISHED NV rlop. hoyn con,rvcl
to visit the place where lives that bnI,Ics,
chiId-mv husbands cLil1
do believe that my love 20 Torro,c,
must bc such as never before was BORNE r.
man by woman. 1t draws me even TO-
wards this little one forrcttinr MI wife
like pride, seem to ycoTn Over tho how
But is this strannc9 In my first ,,;r,;.l
dreams. many time had Ia Ken a book
he had touchcd-a flower he bod ro,Lnr
cd-h;d it from nv sisters. kissed + and
wcpt over it for davs. Il WAS foIIv. Inn,
it only showed how precious | held cvery
thing belonging to him. And should
not hold precious wha. is half himself
his own son!
will 90 and see the child tomorrow
Weeks have passed. and vet | have had
no strength TO tell what that to-morrov
brought Strange book Of hrmnn fare
each leaf closed until the appointed tim,
if we could but turn and read. Yet j
is best not.
went to the cottare-alone. of course
| asked the old woman TO let mo come II
and rest, for was a stranger weak anG
tired. She did so kindly, remembering
perhaps, how had once noticed the boy
He was her grandson, she told me-hc,
daughters child.
Her daughter! And this old creatur,
was coarse, rough-spoken woman--a In.
l,.o.,, &c, o,,,o,,ly, S,l, .I...-.l..- Il