New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-11-05

Il Although she tried every means of evasion
i yet she was too conscientious to keep back tn
truth. Her evidence was conclusive beyond
doubt: and however much anxiety had hith
crto felt to gain ssmy first case,'' was now viii
ling to lose it for the sake of avenging the out
rage upon the fair sufferer before me.
When we rose to depart, she requested me t
remain behind a short time. resumed my sea
near her bed, and she began:
$ You are my husbands lawyer"
&c am
ssAnd can you save him 20
| g l think not, ma am
ssHe was drunk sir, and did not know what h
was DOING
(" The law declares that instead of being 81
excuse for crime, drunkenness is rather an ag
grayation. But why are you so anxious for M
i to save him!' %
6 He is myhus6asaa, my only friend on earth
6 So much the more outrage his cruelty
wife!''
Yielding to her grief, she wept as only woman
cam who feels that the last thread Of hope i
severed. Her poor children nestled closer t,
her, and joined their tears with hers.
1t was group Raphael might have enviet
that stricken mother, in the graceful aban
don Of hopeless grief, weeping with those lovely
oanes, While with her remaining arm (the Other
had been amputated) she clung to them as the
last solace of earth
MY dear madam" said l, 50 affected by the
scene that hardly knew what was saying
{ IS there anything can do for youa''
g Yes, ifyou will''
!" promise you.''
$ Will you swear it 20
/" AS God is my judge, I swear to aid you by
every means in my power, short of crime!''
bond?"
g / swear it, a.
Should he be convicted and she shud-
dered at the bare mention of it: will you en-
deayer as soon as We are both gone for Ifeel
that my days are numbered, and his constitu-
ton, already broken down by intemperance can
not long endure the damp walls OF q Peniten-
tiary again she shuddered as one racked by
mortal agony. will you, Isay, try and effect
q reconciliation between my poor children and
their fatler9''
g IL my Life is spared will do my best
6 If you will open that drawer,' said she,
pointing to an old fashioned light stand, you
will find a sealed package, without any direc-
ton. Take it home with you and read it; pre-
serve it as q secret, and when I am gone, re-
store 1t to my children"
did as she directed, found the package, and
bidding her adieu, re5urned home.
4 That night | retired early to my room to read
this mysterious manuscript. 1t has now passed
from my possession; but | have read it so often
that can give the substance, and much of it
the very words, suppressing only the names. 1t
was dated some three months prior, and evident
ly under a strong presentiment of approaching
dissolution Tt was nearly as follows:
.sNIy DrAp (,ur .E,.o This falls i,+o vows,
hands you will be without a mother. l fear that
you will soon be deprived of both your parents;
but trusting when we are no more, that your
grandfather may atone by his kindness to you,
sc,int ne NV o9l,, laar- -, ~ .itls
Van NAV sea,cb him o,s ai o ~ e.'"
rphtfni possessions " yuur
Inf little save Whit .o,
ino q women -''A i4'@' ''''0e 'eeoi'i-
& nv fl thar was ~, Tr;sb ro,1o,,,,,, ,,,,o 4,,a
bis aneestors fo t;fn VIZ .r'o e
,nlv child and the last ef tho raaa WIZ naa sie
years old INV fatbe,. w., datootad =; as,,s''; DIN
md eomneiied 10 G bs ~ a ooHs d
80, " L. ~ r. W rs. no COUNTY, 'ie WIS
ated. and NV moor mother tr;yen
ess and friendless moor ,yiliow ,rbor, aho
,ad often haf,iendal toole ne 49, ha XIV o.
provided for MS rs hest sba COLL RI @ wv.
notber ranidlv s,n nnJo,. ho ,sa;l.i+ - ; ;ns
md before was EIGHT Years old 5yas 1no7a,
ess. Lord c., who had been n friend Of INV
ather, then received me into his castle. and !
cared me up among the servants. Here was
cry sad and lonely. Neglected by the family. |
luu lTeaIGu WIN narSLnGSS by the servants. | |
lad but one friend in the world. This was
-ames G., the eldest son of the lord, James
Tas noble, generous boy, twelve years old
nd to him ALWAYS went for consolation in ali
~ childish griefs. He learned me to read and
rite, taught me to ride his pony, and built little
lay houses for me in the park
''But pass over the first five years of my res
dence at the castle, to the time when l was in
ny fourteenth and James in his seventeenth
year. He was then to go to England to enter
college. When the coach drove to the door
which was to take him, ran out to bid him
GOOD bye. | could not help crying, and when
&c came to shakeshands with me / could not
peak to him. lie took both my hands in his
nd spoke kindly to me. He told me not to cry
ut be good girl and learn all could, and he
'ould soon come back again. Just then Lord
- came up, and ordered the housekeeper to
take That little blubbering huzzy into the
ouse.'
'She tore me away from him, and I saw him
. more for three years Long days and sleep
ss nights followed this separation. But | soon
his last words to me, and being al
wed access to the library, occupied all my
ARE time in striving to improve my education.
"At last James returned. Ineed not describe
II meeting. Enoueh to saw. he still loved me
i'm I had always loved: and in snite of his IA
er's threats and mothers tears, in less than n
,ar VIC were married. In a rage his father
owe us from the castle. James he dsowned
I'd disinherited. But by the assistance of his
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