The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1859-02-05

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saw more unforgctable face--pac,
serious, loaeiy,* delicate, sweet, without
being what we call fine. She looked
sixty, and had on a mutch, white as
snow, with its black ribbon; her silvery
smooth hair setting off her dark gray
eyes-eyes such as one sees only twice
or thrice in a lifetime, full of suffering,
but full also of the overcoming Of it
her eyebrows black and delicate, and
her mouth firm, patient, and con,ontcd,
which few mouths ever arc.
AS | have said, | never saw n more
beautiful countcnancc, or one more sub
dued to settled quiet. "Ailc," said
James, 4" this is Master John, the young
doctor; Rab's friend, We keen. We
often speak ABBOTT you, Doctor" She
smiled, and made movement, but said
nothing and prepared to come down,
putting her plaid aside and rising. Had
solomon, III all his glory, been handing
down the Queen of Shcba at his palace
gate, he could not have done it more
dainty, more tcndcrly, more like gem
tlcman, than did james" the lIowgate
carrier, when he lifted down Allie, his
wife. The contrast Of his small, swarthy,
weathcr-bcatcn, keen, worldly face to
hers-pale, subducd and bcautilul-was
something wonderful. Rab looked on
concerned and puzzled, but ready for
anything that might turn up-were it to
strangle the nurse, the porter, or even
me. Allie and he seemed great friends.
"As | was sayin', she's got kind O.
trouble in her brccst, doctor wull We
tax Il look at it :" We walked into the
consulting-room, all four; Rab grim and
comic, willing to be happy aud contiIen-
tlal ii cause could be shown, willing also
to be quite the reverse, on the same
terms. Allie sat down, undid her open
gown and her lawn handkerchief round
her neck, and, without word, showed
Inc her right breast. | looked at and
examined it carefully, she aud james
watching me, and Eab cycling all three.
What could | say There it was, that
had once been so soft, so shapcly, SO
white, so gracious and bountiful, $50
full Of all blessed conditions hard as
a stone, center of horrid pain, making
that pale face, with its gray, lucid, rea-
sonable eyes, and its sweet, resolved
mouth, express the full measure of sui-
tering overcome. Why was that gentle,
modest, sweet woman, clean and loyeablc,
condemned by God to bear such a
burden?
got her away to bed. &" May Ral
and ne bidc - said james. "Iou may,
Rab, if he will behave himscIf.'' "rse
warrant he's do that, doctor,' and in
skunk the faithful beast. | wish You
could have seen him. There are no such
dogs now he belonged to lost tribe.
AS | have said, he was brindlcd, and
gray like Aberdeen granite his hair
short, hard and close, like lions; his
body thick set, ike little bu!l-a sort
Of compressed Hercules Of dog. lie
must have been ninety pounds weight
at the least he had u large blunt head :
his muzzle black as night his mouth
blackcr than any night, tooth or two
being all he had-glcaming out of his
jaws Of darkness. His head was scared
with the records of old wounds, a sort of
series Of fields of battle all over it one
eye out, one car cropped as close as was
Archbishop Leighton's tather's-but for
different reasons-tle remaining eve had
the power Of two and above it, and in
constant communication with it, was a
tattcred rag of an ear, which was for ever
unfurling itself, like an old flag; and
then that bud of a tail about one inch
long, if it could i'll any sense be long,
being as broad as long-the mobility, tic
instantaneousness Of that bud was very
funny and surprising, and it's expressive
twinklings and winkings, the Intercoul-
munlcatlons between the eye, the ear,
and 1t, were Of the subtest and swifest
Rab had the dignity and simplicity Of
great size, and having fought his way
all along the road to absolute supremacy
he was as mighty in his own line "a:
julius Caesar or the Duke of wellington
and he had the gravityf Of all great
fighters.
You must have often observed the
likeness of certain men to certain animals
and of certain dogs to men. Now,
never looked at Rab without thinking of
the great Baptist preacher, Andrew
Fnller.T The same large, heavy, me-
naclng, combative, sombre, honest coun-
tcnance, the same inevitable eye, the
same look-as Of thunder asleep, but
ready-ncither a dog nor a man to be
triied with.
Kit is rot easy giving this losl by one word il
was expressive Of her being so much of her life
| alone.
t A Highland game-keeper, when asked why 4
certain terrier, Of singular pluck, was so much
gr"Ner than the other dogs. said. Oh Sir life
fuIl o seriousness to him-he just never can get
| cnuf Of fcchtin'.'
Fuller was in early life, when farmer lad n
Soham famous as a boxer: not quarrelsome bu
not without - the tern delight IN IN of sfreny
| and courage feels in their exercise DR. Charles
| Stewart of Dunearn. whose rare gifts and yraces as
| physician. divine. scholar and gentlcma n
| live only in the memory Of those few who knew
| and viVe him. liked 10 tell how Mr. Fuller used
| TO say. tn when he in the pulpit aud saw a
| butrttly man. he would nstinctivciy draw himself
| up. measure his imaginary antagonist, AMI fore
cas- how he would deal with him his hands mean
| while condcnsing into fists. He mast have been Il
| hard hitter if he boxed us he preached-wha
" The Fancy would call =" an ugly customer"
Gro BE CONCLUDED NEXT WEEK.
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