Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-02-19

There, Rudolph, there
With these words, she FASTENED back.
and again entered her chamber in order TO
lay TO rest in sleep all uneasy qoestionings,
all the pangs Of thought and Of feeling
HERTHA's PART.
Hertha's psrt, as well as that Of Inge-
borg Uggla, was, as we have seen, decided
by the share they had taken in the labors
Of the first morning after the great fire.
DR.. Hedermann called them, with q sort
Of fnthcrly pleasure, bis daughters and a.
manuenses, and evidently entrusted to them
the care of those who received burns and
other injuries during the Gre, lie sup
piled them with medicaments, and laid
down the mode Of treatment, which he left
the young female physicians to apply and
carry ont, having sOon had sufficient proof
Of their skin in doing so, which he had
witnessed, both with pleasure and certain
admiration, though he took care not to let
it be noticed. His highest praise being
merely
Very well done. Only go on as you
have begun. Only persevere 7
The good doctor in fact was so occupied
by the amount Of sickness which followed
the fire, by the colds, the eatarrhs, and the
pleurisies which it occasioned, that he was
greatly in need Of all the extraueous assis.
tance which could be rendered him.
Among these was Yngve Nordiu. He had,
as the reader may remember been carried away
after the fire was extiDguished to the parsonage,
with his left arm. together with his knee greatly
injured by the falling Of the wall. DR.. Heder-
mann took Heriba on his visits to the patient,
and taaght her how to bind the injured limbs
ln the beginning, when Yngve suffered also
from fever, he himself visited him every day.
But when he became coRvalescent be often sent
Hertha alone TO attend to the patient, and came
himself every other day, after that only twice
week, in order 10 ascertain that he was proper
ly attended to- When the young physicianess
FIRST came alone she asked the pastors wife to
go in with her to the invalid The pastors wife
did so, but soon went out again, partly because
Ingve often talked with Hertha on subjects
which made her yawn, or read poetry to her in
language which she did not understand, 4 part
iy because she could not remain long in the
sickroom uninterrupted, being called out per-
petually by many people and for many things.
Butts it well that they are 80 long togeth-
er--thOse two young folks?' said the pastor one
day. little doubtIully, 10 his wife; the young
girl has no moiheri you ought to be that to
heri'
Il would very willingly be so to her. replied
the pastors wife, il could only escape sitting
there the whole time, while she dresses Iii,
wounds, and they talk about things which dom
concern me- and he reads TO her English which
/ don't understand, aud l am Obliged to sii
there like sheep No, that is more than can
do; must look after my house and my SER
wants. There is no danger with those Young
people, you know; think for my part, that
our Lord has them in his good care!'
Our Lord had so; and in much higher sense
than the pastors wife thought Of Yngves in
juries were not dangerous for life or limbs; he
would certainly soon be well and wholly restor-
ed, yet still they were of that kind-the injury
to the knee in particular--which required much
care, much time, and much patience. The young
man had no remarkable share of the latter, he
he lOnged for activity. 1t was u severe trial to
him to be compelled TO bear and to wait. Her.
thas society and conversation became soon,
therefore, as necessary to him as her care. But
his also at the same obtained an unexpected in
fuence over her. They had met and stood BY
each others side in the hour of danger, amid
fire and fame. This, together with the simi-
larIy ia thought which their first conversation
betrayed, gave them, now that they were again
thrown together by fate. feeling OF friendship,
abrOthcrly and sisterly acquaintance, which re-
moved all embarrassment and made their inter-
course easy and agreeable.
In order to occupy Yngve's thoughts turn
them to more pleasing subject, Heriha reqnes.
ted him 10 read something aloud to her whilst
she was engaged In attending to her surgical
duties. lie in this way made her acquainted
with his favorite modern poets, and read to her
in particular those Of his friend the yonny Ame-
rican bard james Il. Lowell, in which all the
ideas of the new world aud the new time, free
dom, labor, pure joy and brotherhood, per.
iecied life for all in the great drama of the
world, found an eloquent expression, and were
presented in bewitcbing form These poems
gave rise TO many questions and much thought
Yngve had spent two years in the United States,
and had deep sympathy with the young upward
struggling life which is in agitation there, as
well as in the free states Of Europe but which
there found a fuller and freer expression. He
loved to talk on this subject.
And the women in the new world inquired
Hertha on one occasion, have they poured
forth no song, no lofty and large hearted desires
aud aspirations. as the men have doneY'
Tngve told Hertha of the noble women he
had become acquainted with; whose religious
earDestness and liberal minded fellow citizen
ship had greatly Influenced the development OF
his own mind. He made her acquainted with
the movements in the Free States which are
there known under the name of "Woman's
Rights Conventions read to her many large
minded sentiments OF progress, from the lips OF
women during these assemblies. He justified
them against the misconceptions with which
they we're regarded by prejudiced eyes, and
showed that what women on these occasions
demanded beyond everything else, was their
right TO an education aud freedom, which aE.
forled TO every one possibility aud a means OF
becoming that which God, by the gifts which
be has bestowed upon her, calls upon her to be.
Hertha's heart beat high, proudly and joyful
" Mt The same time, when these communications
were made TO her She felt proud on behalf
OF her sex, proud Of the words which women
had uttered, aud Of the future in which they
were the pioneeFs; she felt humble when she
thought OF the great responsibility which was
laid upon them, and happy when she saw men
combating for this object, as il il were their
own; and when she heard young man, as now,
advocating these views with earnestness New
er did Heftba feel less inclined 10 insist upon
the dignity Of the rights Of her sex than now.
She only felt q strong desire TO be worthy of
noble justice. Often did the two young friends
imagine together pictures OF the future which
would dawn; Of the beautiful and the pure life
which would exist when man and woman should