Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1852-12-02
Affect lion Roster ed.
BY rs. N. a. pEyslsoS.

"You don t love NJ y n other," sai'
: little Ellen Crosby, slowly retreatin!
from her fl ther, Will her hands be
hind her, ai d her Lips quFvering a
she spoke
"What ID you mean, pc t?' he cx
claimed, springing after her, AM
: drawing her resisting to RI n towards
him: chat is very strange thing fol
a little girl to say; what put it into
Your head that flther don't low
mother?" be continued, smoothing
back her soft hair fl 0 N her white
forehead, and looking earnestly iptc
hes downcast eyes
"Because when mamma went away
from the table you spoke cross, and
said she was always sick and she has
got a headache" added the child ear
nestly, while the tears triekled down
her cheeks. II have been sitting
beside her all the afternoon, and rub
bing her forehead, and she is sick and
tired very often, and you never tell
her you are sorry, nor kiss her as you
do me- =
Charles Crosby drew bis little girl
closer to his bosom. Her ariless
words lad fallen like fire upon his
heart. Hofelt instantly that he had
spoke harslily more than once to the
gentle being who had never given
him an unkind word. Seven years
Of bis welded life had passed calmly
and hestly+ Being young and an
impulsiYeman wLel he married, lie
could hardly appreciate the deep, he
II love which his sweet bride treas
ured COT him only. After the TO-
nance Of tie affair, is itIsecmed to
him, he settled IN quiet, peraaps,
l9cality his r-stiess spir-
il yeayned f3r some fresh. and new
novelty To work through the day |
to come home at night and spend
the evening hours, by the side Of his
wife and infant Child whose beautiful
ACE gleamed Ike a rosebud upon the I
ynite pillow in hey little wicker bas-
5et- t-cradle, became tircsomo to
nm. lie wished his Ellen bud more
Fiyacity, more brilliaucy, forgetting
hat these might accompany Il v'lria- /
9lcness Of temper mcnt tEmt .woulIl 4
rudy have made his homa unhappy. H
Ellen vas a most excellent wife.
,ers was that inward purity which
tamps upon the ieatures a lowell
less far beyond mere beauty; nobody (
lesitated 10 call her hand some; her
yays we're winning, her foIm slight
nd fragile; withal she hay SO much
prudence and w;is SO good II manager, :
hat from the tins of his.Imarriage, i
Charles Crosby had been accumala-
ing riches. But she needea affection
md much care;shc was deliqhte and 50 |
ensitire thata wordof reprpach from
me esteemed, would cause. almost a
erious illness. The languhge Of her /
oil blue ewes as thev were Sometimes
4ed upon the noble face of her hus- t
alnd was, love me; oh! hoN y earn {
oE your foil, uhrestrained love! then S
hey would fall to the floor while. the
onsciousness hat be was not towards s
dr.in manners as lie had ohcc been,
nd oh, she feared not in heart, would t
oad an icy thrill through every fibre +
her frame. Of late, Charles Cros- t
y had often become an alien to his 5
ome,. until the midnight hour be n
ad found, as he, thought, choice aud IA
1agenial spirits, and with them I'the c
,irlt Of wo,' that is .the spirit of b
inc ?" But alas! his fine man ners n
ere disappearing; his homo was not p
> earthly paradise to him now he b
nd grown very cold and worldly, in S
ecd he knew not the extent Of the Ii
lange himself. a
He worshipped his lovely c hid: h
ID called herby the names Of fairy, U
,et, aud edarling;' she wa$ in t ruth d
icl as few parents are BLESSED With; f
child of neither ordinary beauty orfc,
tellect; and but for her moth hers h
dicious care and teaching her pow a
fal mind, might have tcd wlftly Ii
.panded, and ripened quicker than w
6 growth Of this world will How, o
less the rare exotic is to be trans b
anted into heaven. Il
Mr. Crosby sat with his cheek fest- O.
Z upon little Ellen's head, the dear b