The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-05-12

ments and fashionable frivolties OF the place
but it was apparent that settled melan-
choly had taken possession Of her mind, aud
she moved among, but was not Of the gay
throng. With loss Of love, loss Of fortune,
loss Of friends, and loss OF health, she was
finally induced, rs mere refuge from her
own wretchedness, to yield to the invitation
Of Dame Lindsey, who desired TO secure
so much beauty, as an additional tempta-
ton to those who resorted to her gambling
rooms Although she yielded TO Dame
Lindsey's invitation, Fanny Braddock is be-
lieved never to have been tainted with any
other vice than that Of presiding at the
hazard table for the advantage OF others.
She could not long, however, endure this
disgrace, and preferred the humble condition
Of housekeeper in gentleman's family, to
which her poverty now reduced her. Here
she remained, always sad, but faithful to her
duty. The gentleman with whom she lived
now went up to London with his wife,
leaving the children and the house to her
care On the day when he was expected TO
return, Fanny after the discharge Of her
daily household duty, went into the dining.
room and wrote these lines upon one oi the
window panes
20 Death thou pieaslos .ud o, human woe
Thou cure for lite. ibough greatest good he 'os
stll may ST thou ny the ard and the slave,
And ihy soft sumbers only bless the brave
Some visitors coming in, she entertained
them cheerfully, and, on their going out, she
went to the library, where she had ordered
supper: Here she spent the remaining
hours preceding bed time in dandling two
Of MIR. Woods (the gentleman in whose
family she lived children on her knees. In
retiring thence TO her chaIaber. she went
into the nursery, to take leave Of another
child, as it lay sleeping in the cradle
Struck with the innocence OF the little
babes looks, and the consciousness Of her
medtated guilt, she could not avoid burst.
ing into tears, and hugging it to her arms.
She then bade her old servants good
night" for the first time she mad ever done
50, and went 70 bed as usual.
at is probable she soon quilted her bed.
She then dressed herself in clean linen and
white garments Of every kind, like brides
maid. Her gown she pinned over her
breast Just as nurse pins the swaddling
clothes Of an infant" She then took pink
silk girdle, and, lengthening it with another
made OF gold thread, she made moose at
one end, and tied three knots OF small dis
tance from each other.
She now sat down to read that passage
in Ariostos Orlando Furioso" where
Olympia ia abandoned by her bosom friend,
and ruined Having laid aside her book,
she arose, took the girdIe she had prepared,
and throwing the end Of the grdle over the
closet door, attempted TO hang herself. The
eirdle however, broke with her weight and
she fell with such noise that workman,
who was passing the night in the house,
was awoke He, nevertheless, thinking no.
thing more OF il, turning over and fell asleep
again. She now made another attempt
with stronger girde, made OF silver thread,
and succeeded Her old maid. next morn
ing. waited as usual the ringing OF the bell,
and protracted her patience hour after hour,
till two o'clock in the afternoon, when the
wOrkmen, at length entering the room
through the window, found their unfortunate
mistress still hanging, and quite cold.
Such Is the history Of Fanny Braddock,
for the most part as related by Goldsmith.
Hundreds in high lite." says he, " lament.
ed her fate" Her brother, when he heard
Of it, remarked, Poor Fanny! j always
thought she would play I'LL she would be
forced to tuck herself up" Horace Wal
pole might well say Braddock is very
IrOqu0is in disposition