Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1858-03-12
lRAsBURGH, VERMONT, FRIDAY, MARCH u, 1853,

Toulouse was fought In the returns
sent home, appeared these words: Sc
verely wounded, but not dangerously,-|
Lieut.. Richard Doublediek.'
At midsummer time, in the year eigh-
| teen hundred and fourteen, Lieut.. Rich
and Doubledick, DOW Drowned soldier.
seven and thirty years Of age, came home
to England invalided. He brought the
hair with him, near his heart. Many a
French officer had he seen since that
day; many dreadful night. in search
ing with men and lanterns for his wound
ed, had he relieved French officers lying
disabled but, the mental picture and the
reality had never come together.
Though he was weak, and suffered
pain, he lost not an hour il getting down
! 10 Frome in Somersetshire, where Taun-
tons mother lived. In the sweet, COM
passionate words that naturally present
themselves TO the mind tonight, he was
the only son of his mother, and she was
; widow
1t was Sunday evening, and the Ia
; dy sat at her quiet garden window, read
ing the Bible; reading to herself, in a
trembling voice, that very passage in it
as I have heard him tell. lie heard the
words, Young man, I say unto thee,
> arise
! He had to pass the window; and the
bright dark eyes of his debased time
seemed to look at him. Her heart told
her who he was; she came 70 the door
! quickly, and fell upon his neck,
! He saved NE from ruin, made me a
human creature, won NE from infamy
and shame. 0 God, forever Hess him
: As He will. He willr
i He will? the lady answered. j
know he is in heaven ? Then she pite.
> otisly cried, But o, my darling boy
Il my darling boyr
> Never, from the hour when Privat,
, Richard DoubIedick enlisted at Chatham
] had the Private, Corporal, Sergeant
Sergeant-Major, Ensign, or Lieutenant
i breathed his right name, or the name Q
j Mary Marshall, or Z word of the stor,
i Of his life, into any ear, except his re
{ claimer's That previous scene in hi
9 existence was closed. He had firmly re
j solved that his expiation should be, tt
= live unknown to disturb no more tn,
: peace that had long grown ore his ole
!. offences to let it be revealed when h
was dead, that he had striyen and suffer
81 ed, and had never forgotten and then
: if they could forgive him and believ
IS him-weIl, it would 5e time enough
u time enough.
: But, that night, remembering til
words he had cherished for two year:
/ Tell her how we became friends. ]
will comfort her as it comforts me-
. related everything. Il gradually seen
ed to him, as if in his maturity he ha
recovered a mother it gradually SCENE
to her, as if in her bereavement she ha
found son. During his stay in England
the quiet garden into which he had SLOW
Iy and painfully crept, a stranger, bt
came the boundary of his home, when h
was able to rejoin lis regiment in sprin)
= he left the garden, thinking vas this il
deed the first time he had ever turned b
face towards the old coIors, with a wc
- mans blessing.
He followed them-so ragged 50 pie
m ced and SCARED now. that they woul
= scarcely hold together-to Quatre Bra
and Ligny. He stood beside then
in an awful stiffness of many me-
shadowy through the mist and drizzle
a wet June forenoon, on the field Of vi
terlco. And down TO that hour the pi
ture in his mind of the French offic,
had never been compared with II
reality.
=. The famous regiment was in actic
early ia the battle, and received its fir
check in many an eventful year, VIII,
he was seen to all. But, it swept on
agenge him, and left behind no 50,
- creature in the world Of consciousne.
- as Lieutnant Richard Doubledjek.
Through pits of mire, and pools
III rain; along deep bitches, once road
ie that were pounded and ploughed
ne pieces by artillery, heavy Wagons, tran
ny Of men and horses, and the struggle
hg every wheeled thing that could carr
lie wounded soldiers; jolted among the d
IN ing and the dead, so disfgured By bio
Ter and mud as 70 be hardly re-cognisat
ne for humanity undisturbed BY the moa
4 ing Of men and shrieking Of hors
ite which, newly taken from the peacei
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