The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1855-10-26
becauseit will enlarge the sphere Of your use.


becadseit will enlarge the sphere of your use.
fulness.
"All this will come with time. Don't get
discouraged as YOU sometimes do; plod OF,
cheerfully, and don't neglect the little duties
now, that you may hasten on to do great
things hereafter. And this reminds me of
poor Widow Blair. wish you would stop
in and tell how well w iiiie is doing here on
the farm, and while you are in Elm.street.
call at Mrs. O'Rielys and see if Nora needs
anything--I shall like to hear from all INV
proteges. II will be only three weeks be-
tore am at home again so keep up good
courage, and will soon relieve You of your
uuprofessional visits at these places.
"You are a dear, kind John to do il but
l always knew that under that rough exteri.
or, flor you are rough, my dear nutmeg,)
there was something gentle and good. You
only needed sort of crater, to get at it, like
the humble individual who now bids YOU
faerwell, and informs you that she is your
ever affectionate.
"FLonA"
Robert Tracy sighed as he finished the pc.
rusal of this letter. What would he not
give for the love Of such being I something
more than mere butterhy-a cheerful. ac.
tive woman one that would lead him on to
something nobler and higher, instead OF
dragging him down to an existence that
could hardly be called life.
DE could see Flora Young, she certain.
ly was sprightly, pretty, he was sure; per-
haps not regularly so, but with an elastic
step graceful figure, clear complexion smi-
ling mouth and quick, yivacious eyes-fresb,
guileless, frank and affectionate. OH what
would he not give to meet her |! to know her.
to gain her heart
Pshaw! somebody else had won her nj
ready, and if it had not been 80, how could
he hope to be beloved by q such a girl
Neither his wealth nor elegance of manners
would be sufficient to gain the heart of
Flora. She would despse his indolent aim
less life, as much as, just now he himself did.
But why should he not be worthy of her,
or some one like heri He, too, had talents
and might do good. The letter had inspir-
ed him, he would exert himself and some
day, perhaps, he might meet Flora, and tell
her what her letter had done for him. Car
Isle was not so large that he could not find
her out; at any rate, as John had not got the
letter, he would go to Elm street and attend
TO her commissions.
There might have been something besides
pure benevoence in this resolution: he
might have hoped to get clue to the un-
known but it isn't best to pry too closely
into motives when the ocfis good.
AT any rate, Robert Tracy was soon in
Elm street, among n lot toftumble.down, of rick
ETY. Old buildings swarming with dirty pigs,
and equally numerous and dirty children
IL inquired for Mrs. o O'Riely's residence, and
was shown house little farther on he en-
tered it, making his way through the dark
pas,as" with difficulty, but, guided by the
loud AMI an9y tones ofa female voice, he
reached at last a small room, and rapped al
the door, which WAS a little ajar. His sum.
mons was obeycl by stout, red faced yira
go, who answered in tho affirmative to hi.
iE9 ,lry,. il she was Mrs O'Rsily.
What to say next was the question he
mustered up courage, aud declared that Inc
WAS sent by Miss Flora to see her sick daugh
ter Nora.
Och, thin, it's a doctor that yeez is.p re-
pied the woman, to whom Miss Flora's
na'ue seemed familiar, .bnt its me first cous.
IN that ye're after fiDdiu', Bridget Brady. and
~. N'sS'~ii' ~ "'if Ut b'. 5iSt 90 up Lnefn
stairs, and when yor git to the tap, it's the
door foremost yerz"
Robert gladly e-caped from Mrs. O'ReilIy,
who cxllaled n perfume OF rum and onions
not at all agreeable to bis delicate nostrils,
and, at the risk OF breaking his neck, ascend
ing the broken staircase.
a gentle voice within babe him enter, in
answer to his rap, and he obeyed the request
| The room-was small but scrupulously clean,
and in the young girl who lay on a small
pallet he recognized Nora. He approached
her, and stated, as before that he had been
cent by Miss Flora.
"And is it Miss Flora Mason that We
namel"
"Yes," replied Tracy, delighted To find out
who he did mean, and then he went on to
question the girl as delcately as possible as
to her wants.
She was not at MI reserved told of the
kindness Of Miss Flora in supplying her
wants, and said, that now her mother had
got work again, though it was rather lonely
for her while she was out washing. they
would get along very well.
Is was evident that the girl was in con,
sumption, but she was very cheerful, and wi.
pid away the tears that would como when
she spoke Of 'beiug burden TO her old
mother"