Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1855-04-05

nave come 10 tnIS =! anu sue ClhSpeu UeF
hands in transport Of agony. 81 was. !
was" cried she. 81 was once an inmate Of
- Asylum, and shared Sister Ms
bounty, end see how have repaid it,"
Her excitement had now become so great
lha. she attempted to rise from the bed, end
i. required much gentle persuasion on my
part 10 restore her again to anything like
tranquility. !. was no, for me 10 crush the
wounded spirit, which Providence, in its in
scru'ibe ways, had permitted TO wonder
from the paths Of virtue, and which was
now wrlhiug beneath the agonv of the tor.
lure her brief life in sin was infic,ing upon
her, and endeavored by the kindest and
fgen,lest language TO resssure and strengthen
the budding germs of returning virtue. If
ever exerted myself in the whole course
Of my life, by mild and soothing means, to
win the confidence Of fallen being, i. was
while thus attempting to restore to God and
society the hu,,ering spirit Of her who lay
before me so young, SO beautiful and yet
SO degraded.
reminded her Of the happy and innocen.
years which she had spent in - Asylum,
under the mosherly care of those devoted
beings, the Sisters Of Charity, who had torn
themselves apsr; from every Tie to which
nature had bound them, to devote their self
sacrificing lives in an unc easing endeavnr to
aid The humble and unfortunate. spoke
10 her of the mercy Of that God who was
so happy at the. peniten.'s return to virtue,
and assured her that the very Circumstance
OF her sending for me, was en- assurance of
the pangs Of remorse, end an evidence tho,
God would no, desert her in her u,mos,
need, and lha, ! believed her rather victim
than guilty person.
EYES," exclaimed she, empha,icary, 81
me the steps by which her ruin was accom-
plshed. She had been placed with mllli-
ner to learn trade, by the managers Of the
Asylum, about five months previous, end
while there had frequently been accosted by
a eond looking elderly female, who spoke
of her sfeclion for her, and Of her beauty,
which she said should make her lady, and
finally ended in prevailing on her to permit
her to adop, her ss her own daughter She
accompanied her future parent TO her home.
to find, when imprisoned beyond the power
to relieve herself, lha. she was brought
thither for the most diabolicsl purposes
She was now told ,ha, her return 10 society
was impossible, and was thus forced into q
life Of ckedness, in which she had sltemp.
ted to stife the psugs of regre. by pIunging
10 the very centre Of The vortex Of guilt and
dissipation. but that having exposed herself
in light dress with some of her compan-
ions in gull, at late hour Of the q Oh, she
had contracted the disease, 10 remove which
she had sent for me.
Her disease was pneumonia, or an nf1a-
nation Of The lungs, which had commenced
with unusual severity, and had continued
for upwards Of ,wen,y-four hours uncheck-
ed bv medical aid before was called TO al
tend her. There were now present besides
the acute pain, almos. amounting to thai
met with in the severest cases Of pleursy,
grea. difficulty in breathing. and extremely
rapid respiration, cough attended with .
scanty but dark colored expectoration, and
an extremely rapid and ,hread-ike pulse,
and crepi.a.ion in the lung dIscoverable by
The s,elhescope. The .hrobbing Of the tem-
pies, injected eyes, and rapid speech, served
to indicate that the brain was likewise COM
plica,ed in The sffecIion.
So rapidly had the disease proceeded 10
its development, that the period for large
abstraction of blood seemed to have passed;
however, with some foreboding as 10 The re-
suit Of the disease, ] opened a vein, from
which drew as much blood as desired,
without abating the pain. ordered leech-
es and medicines to arrest if possible the
inAamalory action, and promising TO call O.
her, when she seized me by the hand and
excaimed, "Ob. do no, leave me here, doc
tor, | csnno. stay, indeed ] canno.!"
Iexplained to her that | had other patients
whom j. was necessary that ! should visit,
and that must leave her for little time.
eyes," said she releasing my hand, "you
mus, 90. how could expec, that you would
stay with such wretch as ! am. But, doc
tor, excuse me, you have uttered the fire.
kind words which have fallen on my ear
since entered this miserable den, and felt
that could no. let you CO."
! offered on my return to bring Sister
NJ with me TO see her.
"No-no," said she emphatically, "no.
for worlds. ! would no, have SO pure an
angel even breathe the polluted cir OF this
den Of infamy besides, you know no. the
Struggle which it has cos. me 10 send for
you. Spare me the anguish Of letting her,
who was more than mother 10 me, see The
wrelched state 10 which crime has reduced
me-"
My succeeding visits, which were repeat
ed al intervals Of seversl hours for the mex.
three days, found her steadily and rapidly
sinking und' the influence of disesee which
medical aid had failed TO check, until the
foreboding which had 8, first entertained,
concerning the issue Of her case, now gave