New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-01-31

depended upon her companionship, her love; bu
scarcely were they home, ere Mrs K. and daughte
and Helen were prostrated with fever, then epidemic
in that region. Mr.. Z. and the family servants wers
|. the only nurses to be obtained. Twelve miles from
the city, ne physician could visit them more than
once day, and the advice OF Richard Lindaur, who
while in Paris, had from the love Of science, made
. himself familiar with anatomy, pathology and the
adte,ia medca was invaluable. II was unavoidable
that Helen was left during the first severe illness
herlife with no companion but the maid who usually
1 attended her. Her mother, whose soul was all sym
pathy, tenderness and love, was afar of, entireiy
ignorant OF the condition of her beloved daughter
oh, how deeply then, did Helen feel her absence
from the patsrnal roof for there is no love- no self
sacrificing IS chat which is bestowed by parents upon
4 sick child, be it youth adult. A 1iotAers
LoUe i often the theme Of the writer but we believe
that 10 not deeper or more tender than that of the
father The fever rose higher and higher until deli
rum caused Helen to believe that she was again in
the paterna mansion, and in her wanderings she in
cessantiy called for the dear Of that home. To
any one this would have been affecting; to Richard
Lindaur it was intensely and during the long, long
night he heard it with emotions too deep for utter.
ance What would he not have given to have been
the dear brother she so tendery but earnestly called
Although he had not seen her during her illness, he
knew her danger, and that the attending physician
had abandoned all hopes of her recovery and forget
ting everything else he entered her room, and saw
her fever bad spent its power and she was sinking
into the arms Of relentless death. In the agony OF
his soul he prayed for her life and prayed that God
would give her to him. The Almighty heard his
prayer, and remedy not then in use by the faculty
in this country was administered (the TRANSMISSION Of
bloody With instruments made in France for this
critical and dangerous experiment, after opening
vein both in his and her he conveyed into her sys
tenn his own blood. his anxiety for few hours was
intense, for immediate death would result il in the
blood there particle of foreign matter or if the
precise temperature Of animal life was lost but every
moment strengthened his hope. The imperceptble
pulse became perceptible and regular, though feeble
love and science had triumphed There is sacred
ness approxmating almost to perfection in our graft
tude for the restoration Of loved ones when once we
have felt that they were gone. With his own hearts
blood comminged with Helens, restoring her to life
and to himself, could Richard ask for more Press
ing his lips to hers he exclaimed, "she is mine mine
forever" Helen, imagining him her brother return.
ed the kiss unconscious OF its value to the receiver
This precious secret was his alone; Helen was con.
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until she had quite recovered She was seated in the
family carriage with her loving pupil, Mary r. about
to start for church, when Mr.. Lindaur, without any
apology, entered, and as the coachman drove of,
placed in her hand prayer book, most elegantly and
extensively bound; not suspectng it was designed as
present to her, but merely for examination, she
opened it, and found it contained most costly and ex
quiste pictures Of scrptural scenes which she had
never before seen. They gems of art which he
had obtained in Italy, and that book had been got IN
especially for her thrill of delight and Management
accompanied her knowledge of this fact. Oh, how |
unearthly beautiful, how unreal are the imagnings
OF young unsophisticated girl, when she feels for
the first time that she is loved by one whom she re.
veres for his wisdom, esteems for his goodness and
admires for his accomplishments and manly beauty
Alas alas that these imaginings are SO often base.
esq. In the mighty revulson of feeling consequent
pom the knowledge Of the fact, that her unfathom-
BILE love, her sonlabsorbng anticpations are based
pom the msts of her imagination, woman often says,
there is no God "no Providence and from this r,
oint Of desperation thousands have rushed to
ilainous deceiver, heartless tyrannical husband,
hottgh earth affords ,coman redress, in thy NOR a
there Ia I,.live h.
Ween thee and her mock not at Jehovah assevera
ON: vengeance is NINE" Parents look at your q
aughters in moral susceptibities in personal beauty
be Creators masterpiece, and while sheterng them
every blast with their earliest and your latest
Consciousness teach them to fear, to trust the Al
Mighty, the compassionate Saviour Of SOULS and their
aith shall be to them talisman every trial. when
ou and every other earthly friend shall have passed
way. But Richard Lindaur was all, and far more
xcellent than Helen imagined. II
For few weeks they were happy, superlatvely 80,
nut their happiness, like the brilliantly beautiful
White clouds Of the heavens which precede storm,
vas soon turned to darkness and misery. Helen was
pure girl, and she could love nothing impure, and
soul almost paralyzed with grief when there
before her mind incontrovertble proofs that Mr.
4indaur, though deemed an honorable, even pious
nan, was the slave OF passion, devotee to vice.
jould she look for that seadast love, which was to
tand the test Of lfe's vicssitudes, in heart that
ad treated thing Of naught that most holy most
eautul and merciful provision of his Creator, the
les of kindred, the basis Of all that is beautiful in
uman relationship, human affection, or valuable in
uman intercourse? Could the pulse of heavenly
I'VE, that vital principle of marriage, throb in heart
Utility of q crime, common or uncommon, which gives
D slavery its darkest hue? No! The thou ght was
revolving to her, that she could not even see him
gain She could give no explanation, and as she
onsidered the proof postive, she felt he deserved
lone !; he who had profered her his heart, and in re-
urn sought hers he who professedy the disciple
# Him, who condemned even an unclean look, and
ret the perpetrator of crime that degraded him be-
heath the brute. Almost overwhelmed by this mex
,cable, but positively unaterable determination of
aelens never again to him, he resoutely sought
n travel temporary diversion, but be was ever sus
aimed by the belief that she was his by gift from
Tod. As Helen felt that he was utterly unworthy