The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1855-02-09
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81 But you are rich enough, Lauson. LIE
Sus leave the great city, and seek som,
Anofe quiet home,H
No, no, Lydia, Business is my yer,
life 7 must make 'littIe more money be,
fore ! give It up ~ A'A SF'' ~ ~.
ssssssWill 'ss you tell me- my husband, how
much you would have now, ifyou were Il
setdegour business all up?'s ~ 'll'.'s,
!. 20, g, Perhapstw.o ! bundled I'm thousand dol
sssAnd think, Lauson, only think, how
sumptuously WE could live uponithe inter
estof that, and have much, too, to bestoS
upon those who need our charity. Come
<me that you will leave your business al
once. Lcan,see whatyou do, not see.--
You aresundermining your constitution,
and your health is fast leaving you
ss'Rshaw, Lydia, you croak like araven
Ishcuh lose my health we're I toleave
my business: Don'tsay any more now,
for you see am busy. ''a a.'.'.l ., I
As the husband spoke, he turned to the
little ebony escritoir which he kept in his
parlor, and commenced ,overhauling and
stadying the various papers which lay
there. ~ '.
eLauson Watkins had seen his thirtieth
year. and young as hewas, he had become
what theworld calls rich. AT an early
age he had entered the mercantile busi-
ness, and fortune had smiled upon him.
He had already amassed an abundant COM
potency; but while he had been doing
this, he had been losing his health. His
organization was one of those which will
not bear great mental excitement His
brain was large and active. and his excita-
bility intense, and his. mind easily worried
and tortured; and, on the other hand, his
physical constitution was slight and, of 4
highly nervous temperament. For years
he had applied: himself to business without
taking any respite, and the faster money
came In uponhim, the more an xiods aud
nervous did lie becdmein his laborss. Night
and day he hbored over his shipments and
invoices, aud gradually but surely the Joy
Of health was departing from him. ~ y
Poor Lydia Watkins saw all this. She
saw the fdarEsl Disease marx / .siat were
growing upon her husband scopatenance,
but she could nat persuade hia to Geel as
she fela A Ifclaisheda at her fa fears, IS "a and
yet, while be laughed, he felt the disease
gnawing atlis, vitais. AS the. merchant
sat there at his work, his anxious. wife
watched him with painful interest. q His
face was pale in the sxTeme.5 and the blue
veins stood staEilglysoat upon hisshighi
while brow and temples This eyes were Ssi;
lsssj,e and d.bfilIlsHt. but their bFiilliancYiwas
was .false, nervous light
gleamed there Aslleppured over ale9hz
plicate1 invoice reducing to his own cllr11
rehc,t large antiints 81 foreign iacney, sy his
lohgS white fingers worked e.nervously.
through, his hair, and lriswife heardi hihi'
breathe hard.a o, she knew Chat lie could
notlive long, ~ N'5.s9 y ,.e,sg W.
When 81 a late hoars Watkins arose from
llis task, he complained ofaca headache;
butJn had :cleared' d'temthoasand dollars by
the oaagoshe'had been disposing Of, andhe
was pleased. That ten thousand, did mob
help 70 give ,him content+--it only helped
to spur him onto renewed excrtion. 't'sse'
Lydia j'said Mfg. Watkins, after he had
cleared his sescritoir5 Asae- YOU, yysoiu seen your
uncle Lapdgraye to-day W, se.'. .7,-'a
No. Sses n =. sas ~ ''rs' ,a'' B
4 am afraid he is going rather deeply.
into dangerous speculntions, for 4 week
past have'been endorsing papers iorhim3
to considerable amount. q He helped me
without stintwhen l commenced business,
and | suppose | must help him now; but |
hope hewill be careful ,a ses
Adam Landgrave isa careful man. re-
turned Lydia, and / am sure he would not
do that which would make you suffer
o, no, | don't think he would said
here the conversation dropped,
for the young mans mind become buried
in his business. et.,. ~
Adam Landgrave was an old man, and
had been the foster father of LYDIA. The |
girl had been leftan orphan at al, early are,
and her husband had commenced his ca
reer as Landgrave's clerk, and thus he. be-
rame acnuaintnd with tba f,;r ,,;.t,,o,,,