The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1858-09-09
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silence and closed curtains. Then, with
4 succession Of painful flashes, as if the
pole Of an electrical battery had been ap-
piled to my brain, memory returned-Mar-z
I -aret Flora, Paris, delirium next re-
nen5er hearing myself groan aloud--th5ls Z
seeing Joseph at my side. / tried to
l>peak bet could not. Upon my pillow
glove, aud he placed it against my cheek.
An indesccibable, excruciating thrill shot
through me, still l could not speak. Af-
tterthat camearelapse. Like Mrs. Brown
EiDg'S poet, lay
''IwlXt CLEAN and gloom,
With Life and Death at each extreme"
But one morning was better. | could
talk. Joseph bent over me, weeping for
joy.
The danger is past" he said. "The
doctors say YOU viii get well y r.
" Have | been so i'll then p
" Iil"echoed Joseph. "Nobody tho't
you could live. We all gave you up, ex-
capt hcr-and she"--
She" | said, is she here ?"
From the moment of her arrival, re-
piled Joseph, "she has never left you.
Oh, If you don't thank God for her," he
lowered his voice, aud live all the rest Of
your life just to reward her, you are the
most ungrateful wretch You would GER
taiUly have died but for her. She has
scarcely slept till this morning, when they
said you would recover"
Joseph " paused. Every word he spoke
went down like weight of lead into my
soul. | had indeed been conscious of a
tender hand soothing my pillow, of love-
ly form fitting through my dreams, of a
, breath and magnetic touch Of love infus-
! ing warm, sweet life into me--but it had
always seemed Margaret, never Flora.
? The glove ?" I asked -rr
Here it is" said Joseph ain your
; delirium you demanded it you would not
be without it; you caressed it, and ad-
. dressed to it the tenderest apostrophes."
Aud Flyra-she heard p
Flora ~ repeated Joseph. Don't
you know-haven't YOU any idea-what
has happened? 1t has been terrible" ~
/ Tell NE at oncer' | said. keep
: nothing back p
r Immediately on her return from Mar
!, seIlIcs-you remember that ?"
Yes, yes. 90 on. y
She established herself here. No
! body could come between her and you;
and brave, true girl she proved herself.
+ On. but she was wild about you. She
offered the doctors eztravagant sums-she
o would have bribed Heaven itself, if she
cyuid-not 10 let YOU die. Bat there came
F, a time-one night, when you were raying
+ about Ha~-aret--I tell you, it was terrible.
: She would have the truth, and so | told
, her-cver, thing, from the beginning. 1t
: makes ne shudder now to think Of it it
. struck ne. - ike death -
~ hatdid shesay what did shedo?"
She didn say much--"On, my God !
my God something Ike that The
! next morning she showed NE letter
which she had written to Margaret
- To Margares?' started up bat fell back
>, ag..a. helpless, with groaa.
YES said JosePL-.a and i was letter
{ worthy OF the n0blest wonaa. I wrote an
stler, f)r | thought Margaret ought 70 know
everything. Il might save her life, and yoa-s,
! To- Ia rae mesu.l1l=, / had got wo-se news
+, rom Lsr s-54t--.ast a9r hrasth continued %
: decline, aaI thai her pIgs.claa saw 10 hope
1 tsr 4er except n =. Yor1ge % IEaIY. B,t t1.-.
{ >Ie ras1.rtelr refused - undertake. until she
: ~ t.is=e letters. Tou know the rest.
- inc res. = sad a. 2 horrible suspicion
lasaei u9,l me. 'Y0a told nc something
-e-g.J.= haE Ia7ps1c5.'
... Ie.-,1 Tlo-a. Be-: yol have heard the
worst She i gone; she is BY this tim. in
Rome
e. El9-a gone? Bat you said she was here
.Sse2 - 5is Is Bat did you think
meant Florsz ! supposed rou knew. Not
E-5ra-but Margaret Margaret
-. / shr5ekei OUT. .Iar-a-esp That's the
/ asst rencul5ez,-at least. the last can tell.
sac was tlere,-I WAS in her arms she had
i crossed -ue sea, no. % save her own life, but
}m.aa. All Flora had g0aa, AMI nv dreams
were t-us 1a5 the breath an magnetic touch
d gf love, which infused warm, sweet life into
me, ana seemed not Fla7a.s but Nargaret's,
were 10 Illusion. a1d-What more can tel?
IRON the moment OF rece5Tiag those let
tiers NzrzaEets energies were reused, and she
had begun TO gain lsr health. There is 10 -
,uch potent medicine as hope s11 lore. !:
had saved her. and AZ saved me. Mv recovery
vas sure and spsedy. TIE happiness which
had seemed 10 great JCo dear 70 be ever pos
s.ble. was now mine. Sa= was with me again,
! ali ny ora Ol.- the convalescent, who feels
sbe glow Of love quicken the pare pulses OF
returning health, knows what perfect bliss il.
/. As soon Is was strong enough to travel,
we set out f5- Italy, the faithful Joseph ac-
!. companying Us. We enjoyed Florence, its
z palaces OF art, the quaint old churches. aboQ:
which The religious sentiment OF ages seems TO
hang Ike an atmosphere, the morning and
( eTaainE clamor Of musical bells, the Arno, and
the olise-1soEaed Tuscan hills.-al 80 de-
fLEl,fal 20 the senses a1I the soul. Altar Flo
ren - Naples. With liz beautiful dangerous VOL
cau.c cenTirons. where the ancients aptly lecsted