Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1855-08-10

continue 20 God-the thought well nigh
crushes me y they will be like a mill
stone, bearing you down Then the
friendship now offered you by convivial
spirits, will be turned to soorn and they
will despise rs they once courted your
company"
"You hold friendships IN light estima.
ton" replied he in tones OF bitter irony
"No, my husband. Blu, true friendship
never placed the wine cup into tn hands
of another and bid him drink the foam
ing draught. 1t is as as,ardly as "a stab
In the dark, and often as faal. The
members of the Club pride themselves
on their respectabili,y, do they 10, -
II should be 10th to minsle will them,
If it were otherwise, fair censor mine
"WelI, i, may be fashionable to sip
wine, but is not
"Hod Allie, do not 90 too far. You
Impugn the motives Of those connected
] with the Club and thus, indirectly, YOU
,,impusn me. hold too highly the posi-.
ton iav e won. to allow myself to asso.
ciate with other than true gentlemen.-
But you have been too has,y in your
conclu>ions-I, too hasty in my speech
Let US forget it. trust while life lasts
TO love you as strongly and sincerely as
| did when / brough, you to new home
and value your happiness to highly, to
destroy i, in such manner. Think a
little over the matter and you will come
To the conclusion that 1t 5 not SO bad as
you have faucicd."
And SO he left her, after their first
quarrel.
Bu, day by day she saw unmis,akeable
signs Of the passion fast absorbing his
soul She pra yed Warned en,reated-
ted--but IN vain.
- Yet at the social board when
hllarlty reigned, why did he start and
turn pale wien his glass was raised -
/ Why did II fall aud sh,~ar To atoms -
Why dad he reply, to the banierincs OF
associate reveers at is only a moment
ary spa >n when he knew the hand OF
his wife seemed staying his arm-lhat
her image was before him-her impor
in.s rang III his ear
I.y and bye little stranger came and
! Allie was mother.
Glad hoy name. the tiny trcmulous
wal OF the infant touched c !ord IN the
bosom oil It's father and for awhile his
evenings We're spent at home, III the
company Of those he held most dear.
The babe seemed to draw hiu from his
lcompanlon, nearer TO her ~ lived IN
his life, smiled in his smiles, wept when
i, he desponded But the weeks flew by
and-he was once more absent Again
the wife and mother waited anxiously
for his coming. His companions had
prevailed on him to favor them with his
company aud in an evil hour when the
love chord had waxed weak, he yielded.
Thus must he fail 10 honor the trust to
his babe /.
oh. Clarence; were not the express
SONS falling from the lips of your as
soclaies false when they pledged the To-
tnre happiness Of the child, as they led
lis parent from the path OF sobr'e,y in
order to do it 4! Was 1t true friendship!
Did he dare reveal to his wi fe as he
returned home after the solemn tolling
of the hours OF midnight fell s,ar,lingly
on the still air, that he had drank her
convalescence and the boys prosperity 4!
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but not the iendlsh appetite tina, single
draught had aroused from its slunber.-
Thus i, went on-the descent so gradual.
that he saw not, nor could be made cou-
scious of, his danger. Another babe
nestled in the embrace Of its mother,
but could not unlink the chain fast wind.
ing itself, as serpen,s evil, abou, the
! fathers form.
But another trial was in store for the
afflicted wife.
Mr. Jack son, Allies father. was a
proud man and to have his name, through
his daughter, coupled with drunkard's
was prospect anything but pleasing
True, he had taken his single glass. after
he denied for twenty years. hut tina, in-
jured him none in the eyes Of the world.
But the whisper tina, was already waited
about on ar evil hreeze would tain, him.
he feared, so he visited his daughter, for
purpose that will eventually tsanspire.
Change had stolen over her once love.
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