Kenosha tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1855, 1855-03-29

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might seem to be a likeness which occasion
would perhaps serve to establish. there wa!
really no affinity between herself and these
others. Their holiness was a different
quality from Kits courage-their perse
verence in iil-doing was not Kits stead
fastness, was nothing like it.
A stranger pausng on the threshold Of
the room in which she, with scores of pris
oners, sat, would not have chosen her from
the rest as far above them in excellence OIL
act, or exaltaton OF sentiment, in virtues,
or in ca2acity--but discriminating eye
had hardly failed TO detect loftier stvle oil
being in her than in the mass around her
Milder faces. gentler manners might have
been discovered there, but not heart more
accessible, nor soul more alive to its
wants. s
She had little to say to those by whom
she was surrounded. and less and less. as
days went on. There was, at first. some
spirited declaration. some powerful resis-
lance to the position in which she found
herself, but the coarse sympathy and pro-
fame utterance which the statement of her
case excited, yielded no great consolation,
and presently it was not merely undesired
but positively unwelcome. II was another
sort Of comfort than that the blind girl
would have impaired. and she yearned for
the embracing arms, the softly uttered
words of Jenny. z.s 5,s.g = -
Kit had but begun to think at the time
when awakened & will not while It's excitant
remains, be lulled to sleep again. Here
hour after hour went on moaotonously
slow, and nothing could she do but think and
mediate, and in her meditations, as the
start!ingness fit. appeared before her own
resemblance 10 them, and dissimlarity to
Jenny broke upon herconsciousness with the
bewildering force Of great physical shock
the last sight Of herself as a guiltless
prisoner, and OF tic consultations she had
sontinued TO draw out Of the fact of her in
nocenee. If innocent Of the offence with
which she was charged. had she not re-
peatedly broken that law of peace with
whose violation she was now accused?-
There was no palliation OF the case. The
words of indignant sel;justi6cation died on
her lips. and found no further utterance
She attempted no more excuse. could think
Of none Day aud night she fel. those eyes
which never had bchelI her, those blinded
eyes, fixed on her soul, and before their
miraculous insight she shrank. conscious Of
gult and Of il;-deserving, as before no 9th
er gaze. The pity that was in them did
not insult her. Even their condemnation
was the condemnation Of love.
Not chance alone was Influencing Kit in
these days. Until she came to the peni.en-
;iary, she had never been even so shorts dis
lance as this from the turmoil and crowd of
the streets of the citS--the effect OF the tran
guilty and beauty Of the prospect opening
here before her was deep and abiding: for
her the lovely river did not flow in vain-not
in vain did the unobstructed, unbroken arch
of heaven spread before her sight; day and
night broke upon her in all their wonderful
beauty, with a charm AS new and strange as
if she had been born blind. She was besides
fed e. clothed-and the labor required ofher
relieved the quie. of its monotony; for her
the sun now shone-and rose. and set in
splender- her the moonlight fell upon the
river, on distant towns, and villas. and gar
dens. ard on the great city, whose myriad
trees Of June were full Of leaves, and birds
and melody. She had come hither as a pris-
oner, but the prison was fairy land, was
Eden TO poor hit.
Nor uneventful had her brief journey to The
island been. In the same car with herself,
opposite Kit, was blind old woman, attend
ed by lad, who had in his charge hand
organ, and Kit overheard one oflhs passen
ger sayin. to another, that the old woman
was born blind, and that the boy was her son.
Sherecollectcd this. andi it was of use to her;
for leng before her sentence had expired.
Kit plans forfeiture conduct were all made.
She would return to the alley, she would re-
sumo her suddenly interrupted labor, and
when. BY street-sweeping, she had earned
sufficient to rent an organ. she and Jenny
would set out together in search of their for
tune they would go away into the beauti-
full country, and in its quiet and refrsshment.
forget all they hadlearned in the dreary city.
Thus twas, and for this purpose alone. that
Kitreturned othe alley where she ha1 spent
her wretched childhood-thal she might in
some manner be the protector OF Jenny. as
hereafter. SO she had resolved, her support.
Changed. and greatly for the better. she re-
;urned-shanged not by the discipline to
which she had been subjected, so much as
by the peace and comfort that there encom-
passed her. and the new aspect in which ma
ture and lifs appeared.
Her own family had disappeared from No.
Ten; it was not their residence she sought,
nor yetthat ofJsnny. Fur,herdown the lane
she found shelter, and night and morning,
AS she went TO fro, was she compelled to pass
by the place where Jenny lived; and ne yer
did she pass BY without first waiting to in
quire after the blind girl. or. if the hour was
late. without climbing The stairway, to see
with her own eyes how life went on with
her protege.
And thus for weeks together did Kit come
and go. and by the end of summer, so had
she labored. sohad she hus banded her earn
ings, that she was ready to carry one part
of her stout-hearted plan into execution; to
procure the organ and tambourine of the
Italian who kept on hand a stock of such
,h,n.rS whioh MARA r.pt.b ut aart.,r r,to.