Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1857-05-28

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gram, Esq. !. At the mention Of names EACH
started. but soon the recognition. was COM
plete and the, intimacy Of youth justified
mutual and instantaneous intimacy now
That night Charles escorted her to her home
at Mrs. RandolphIs, 80
On the next day Charles called upon
Mary and. was soon made acquainted with
all her movements, her trials and crosses
save those connected with Laura Stanwood.
He listened with eager attention and a tear
drop coursed down his manly cheek at her
simple recital he told her how, about a
wear ago, he had returned to ". found
the little cottage of her mother occupied by
strangers learned Of the death Of her moth
or, and that Mary had left the village in
company with strange lady-but no one
knew whittier she had gone. Laura Stan
wood intimated that, she had most probably
gone with pulled nobody, and was from
all accounts now in New York most aban-
doned character. He told her bow Laura
had tantalized him on his galantry towards
such girl, and much of the same strain
how he had searched for a long time fruit
lessly for shade Of intelligence from her,
and ended by telling herof hisextreme happi-
ness in thus meeting her as it were by chance;
that be was simply on visit to one of his
old college mates and had found his long
lost and much prized treasure-how happy
he was in thus at once finding an angel and
escaping woman who, FROM his own expe-
rience, had rendered herself unworthy his
love. The lateness of the hour compelled
him to leave for the present and he retired
a thrice happy man-so also Mary a happy
woman .fs - e.~,
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1t is now ten years since Mary Emerson
became Mrs. Charles Ingram and the hus-
band and wife, happy in the society Of them
selves and their two children, are seated be-
side the pleasant fire, in the comfortable andi
richly furnished room on one of the princi-
pal streets in New York listening to the
bowling blast as it sweeps by and the hail
as it patters upon the easement, thankful
that they are protected from the pitiless
storm raging without and plying from their
inmost soul the poor who this night may be,
hungry and exposed to the lashings of the.
merciless storm king, as q servant enters
and informed them that a poor, half frozen
woman and her child are upon the door step
unable to move In a moment Charles and
Mary, moved by the sympathies Of purely
generous hearts, FASTENED to the door in or
der that such assistance as might be neces-r
sary be rendered the poor woman and child
without, delay. As the servant had inform
ed them. there. sat, or rather lay, the form
Of a woman covered but partially by rags.
and tatters, and by her side the nearly fro
zen child. 49,. III
To. lift them from the door step and con-
vey their almost lifeless bodies into the house
to a, fresh and glowing CRATE Of Goals was
but the work of a minute. Restoratives
and cordials were promptly administered
and in the course of half an hour they were
fully recovered The woman was about
twenty-seven or eight years of age. and
though covered by rags and worn down by
care and poverty, exhibited every trait Of
one who had seen far happier hours. The
little girl was about six years old and de-
cidedly handsome, and even at her tender
age and amid dire poverty shew signs Of
naughty spirit within. :. 3ss1d
But bark Is not the sound Of these
voices, though changed by time and eircum-
stances, yet familiar? Are there not OUT
lines in these features familiar to the eye
Of each as they intently, earnestly gaze each
upon the other in mute wonder? Oh, the
deep absorbing reflections of this moment !
The going back into the past-the deep.
agonizing research into the hidden treasures
of old Memory's store-house for some solu-
tionof the dark mystery overhanging them.
A rapid, further glance, and the recogni-
ton is complete-but what the efect?-
Mary, true to her angelic disposition, with
wide spread arms, rushes to embrace-the
stranger woman ?-no, not the stranger
now, but Laura Stanweod, who, falling up
on her knees, weeps loud, deep and longt
for the memory of the past awakens the long
slumbering and hardened conscience, and
now proves sting keener-an anguish
greater, than she feels able to bear but the
warm ardent, burning kiss Of pure christian
love, impaired by Mary, dries her every
tear and soothes to calmness her troubled
heart The hour Of retribution had come,
and in permanently providing for, and COM
forting, the once proud and naughty, but
now fallen Laura Stanwood, all her i'll treat
ment received from Laura was at once can
celed, and Mary's revenge was indeed
sweet.
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