The Texas Republican. [volume] (Marshall, Tex.) 1849-1869, 1854-08-12

happy MS could be expected To none OF
my immediate friends was she or her fami'
" known. save BY The prattle about school
affairs in which used 10 indulge during
r holvday time; aud during these years re-
ceivsd but two letters from her the last,
indeed. sad one. ard shall never forget
the circumstances under which il reached
m, hands.
Three wears sometimes embrace within
them the principal period Of a human life.
With myself, know briefer space of time
has compromised events Of such personal
magnitude as to mske all the other Incl,
derts OF life sink into insignficance. with
nv friend such WAS the case, too and the
letter To which have alluded. 6rst gave me
an idea that one nay live an age in less
than lictim
I, was delightful evening at the close
Of June. and had Just returned, after en-
josing a walk with one whose presence
had awakened feelings in my breast, tina,
even then bid fair to throw of nv childish
attachments into allowance. You will
smile. perhaps. gentle reader. at mn old
womau's confession" hut even so--the
fac, /. Just as | have stated II. Nv spirits
were more than usually buoyant and was
At peace with the world. OF al had read
or imarined of human misery heretofore,
no cloud remained to fling its shadow over
my existence. when my friends melancholy
epis,le was handed to me. II was brief,
indeed, hut contained volume. few
weeks before its date her father, already
dropping from the effects Of toll incurred in
his endeayors Ia prop M falling business,
had received intelligence Of the sudden
death from fever Of his only and idolized
son, ia foreign land, far from any who
might soo,he his last moments. Iuable to
bear up against this new and unexpected
visitation the old geutl. man had resigned
hi. .treah. and my poor Harriet was left
alone in the world. under the protection MS
she put it beautifully herself, OF "our Father
in beaven"
Few persons moi afflicted with extreme
+ sensibility viii he able 10 form an accurate
contention of how completely my view of
worldly eceidents was affected nv the re.
ciial. Where bn, a momen, before all was
sunshine now all WAS cloom. and when
call In ,y mind lhc goodness and oen,le.
moss vlicb were tbe characteristics of my
friends di.nosi,iop. | conid not helm feeling
that !, i M, ,te uu,vn,tbv eiona " ho snfrar
and y,ordoroj Ih,dnot then ,earned
tho heanly Of the consolation involved in
tho n.ssn,,a "Nborn tina Lord loyeth he
, cbas,euetb " and | fear | was still too
wo,lnv In revert +, /, in n Inhalation
ubi,h bovover pearlv II annroached my
Golf Ion Ga many Of my dav Areams upex>
,Lor.d Jb,, svmrstbisod deorlv with
,ho STRICKEN oneis trna and His sentiment
. Underwood in ror,,av to her in lanruaee
os consolinr as could command: hu, |
, lad se,se Will. shsnj,o ont tb. farm. in
which should address her. Of the barren
uess Of the comfort which this world cso
supply
have already stated that, at 'he period
of our fret parting. Harriet gave promise o.
great beauty Of person; aud from what T
afterwards saw Of her. am enabled to
Judge Of what she must have looked aud
been when, full OF energy. hope and hap
I pincss, she prcsidod at her fathers table,
That such being, placed in such posi-
ton should create sensation within her
own circle. was the most natural thing IN
the world, that an impression should be
made IN some quarter, too, most probable
More than one Of those who cniovcd the
hospitality Of the father. sought Il tina, they
miph, share the society Of the gifted but