Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1858-01-29


At this moment the servant raped yio-
ently at the door, crying out that the beg
gar was dying.
"Come, Edward, Jour skill can save him
| know said his wife, fastening from the
room.
The doctor did not refuse this appeal
to his professional vanity for be immedi-
ately followed his wife's flying footsteps
as she descended to the abasement. They
found the mendisant lying pale and un-
conscious upon the carpet where he had
slipped in his weakness from the chair
where Mrs. haywood had seated him.
ale is handsome fellow" muttered
the doctor as he bent over him to ascer-
tain the state of his pulse.
And well he might say so. The glossy
locks Of raven hair had fallen away from
a broad white forhead his closed eyelids
were bordered by long raven lashes, which
lay like q silken fringe upon bis pale bronz-
ed cheeks while delicate aquelne nose,
and square massive chin, displayed a
model Of manly beauty.
as he dead2' asked the young wife
anxiously.
"Oh, no. it is only q fainting 6t, induced
by the sudden change of temperature, and
perhaps the first stage of starvation" re-
piled the Doctor sympathizingly. He had
forgotten for the moment his cold maxims
of prudence, and added, "He must be car
ried to room without fire, and placed in
comfortable bed"
The coschman was called in to assist in
lifting the athletic stranger, who was soon
carried to a room in the chamber, where
the doctor administered with his own
hands strong doses of port wine sangaree.
The young man soon became partly con-
scious, but all conversation was forbade
him, and he sank quietly to sleep.
"He is doing WE'LL let him rest as long
as he can; should he awake in our absence
give him beef, tea and toast adimitWn,,
said the doctor professionally, as he left
the room.
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In less than an hour afterwards DR..
haywood and his lovely wife entered the
gorgeous church of 'the most Holy Trini-
ty.'
Amid the hundreds Of fair danes that
entered its broad portals, dressed with all
the taste and magnifcenoe that an abun
dant wealth could procure, mot one rival
led, in grace and beauty, the orphan bride
of the rich physician. Her tall, graceful
figure was robed in violet silk, that only
heightened by contrast her large azure
eyes, bright with the lustre of youthful
happiness; yet, there was touch offender
pity in their dropping lids that won the
confidence of overy beholder. The snowy
ermine mantilia which protected her from
the piercing wind, rivalled, but could not
surpass, that delicate purity of her com
plexion. Many admiring eyes followed
the fauftless figure of Mrs. haywood, as
she moved with unconscious grace up the
central aisle of the church, but none with
more heartfelt devotion than the young,
wayward, but generous man who had
recently wed her in spite of her poverty
and the sneers of his aristocratic acquein-
tance.
The stately organ had pealed its last rich
notes, which we're faint echoing in the dis
tant arches, when stranger Of venerable
aspect, who had previously taken part in
the services of the altar, rose and announe-
ed for his text, the oft-quoted, but seldom
applied words of the Apostle, "Be not for
gctful to entertain strangers, for thereby
some have entertained angles unawares"
Dr. haywood felt his forehead flush pain
fully: it appeared to him for the moment
that the preacher must have known of his
want of charity towards strangers, and
wished to give him public lession but
he soon saw, from the tenor Of his remarks
that his own guilty conscience had alone
made the application in his particular case.
l have not space, nor indeed tho power to
give any synopsis Of the sermon but that
it, combined with the incident of the morn
ing, effected happy revolution in the
mind of at least one of its hearers. Somueh
so that on the rctun of DR.. haywood from
church, he repaired at once to the room oi
the mendicant to offer such attentions as
he might stand in need of. But the young
man seemed to bo much refreshed by rest
and nutricious food, and commenced CRATE
fully thanking his host for the kind at.
tentions he had received, which without
doubt, had saved his life. But | will re-
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