Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1860-12-04


overw helming grief-grief that will prove
as lasting as it is deepl But here we drop
the curtain too sacred this woe for the
common eye Suffice it to say, he utters
the sentiment of the submissive job
The Lord hath taken away blessed be
the name of the Lord"
"How pious how touching what path
os ~ and Anabel raised her eyes, sparks
ling with ill.concealed mirth.
"You must admit Rachel was no oroi~
nary woman, Anabel."
81 never knew another like her." said
Anabel.
"She was too good for me-" sighed Au
gustu
20, my dear brother, why say so ?" eac.
ulated Anabel
81 can never cease to mourn, poor Ra-
chel but feel | must soon follow her. -
/ cannot live without her." moaned Au-
gustus.
"You must make an effort to do so,
Augustus-you positively must. It is
your duty to live You must rouse your
self from this heartrending state. You
are not very old, only forty. Why, there
may yet be world of happiness in store
for yol,"
"None, none" moaned Augustus, "my
heart is buried ia my RachePs grave"
you must make an effort to get it
out from there, dear brother; indeed you
must"
Ono Would were there too !'
"This is p ositively wicked indeed it
is. You must not talk so; Rachel would
not approve of it,"
"Ah, dear Rachel" moaned Augustus,
piteously.
Come, now, take something to soothe
you, and then 60 to bed. Good night I;
don't despair, you will be happy yet"
| Augustus answered "Never, never" and
he continued repeating, like Poe's dis
nal raven, Never nevermore /" until
the door closed upon Anabel, and he vas
left alone with his everlasting grief and
the dismally draped portrait of the lost
Rachel looking down grimly from the
wall.
On reaching her room, Anabel threw
herself into chair, and laughed more
heartily than was becoming, considering
that dear Rachel had only been placed in
her grave that morning.
really do believe that, after all, Au-
gustus will die Of grief You have no
idea, Myra, how devotedly he Was attach
ed to dear Rachel.
Indeed % and Myra raised her proud,
calm eyes, and looked at her.
"He enjoyed such bliss with his poor
Rachel that his married life was per.
petual feast Of 'neotared sweets"
When did he make that discovery"
"a few hours ago, dear sister He is
perfectly inconsolab.e, assure you. !
tried my very best at soothing him, but it
is of no use. He will not be comforted, =,
but is hopelessly wretched."
"rme is powerful soother, " respond
ell Myra. Leave the work to him; he
will do it most efiectually, no doubt. As
the poet expressed it,-'rimc, that aged
nur,e, rocked me to patience"
80, never, never. Why, my dear sis
ter, you don't know how dearly he loved
her. IL never will get over it, assure
you he will not. How we must have
wronged him in supposing be married
Rachel for money! o no, it was genu-
inc love that induced him TO take tor his
father.in-law that vulgar, fat old plebian,
Peter Smidt, Esq. And he's grown so pi-
Gus, too know he will end it by becom-
ing a minister; this terrible grief has
turned all his thoughts heavezward. "
4 am happy to hear it" responded
Myra quietly, " for they were very far
from that direction before.
Week, progressed, but Augustus re-
maiued shrouded ia woe not one ray of
peace had warmed up his deadened heart.
He would write on nothing but black
edged paper covered every article that
had belonged to dear Rachel with black
Grape shut up her chamber, and every
time he passed the closed door snuddered
as if he saw her pale ghost stalking about;
read her printed obituary at night, before
retiring, and raid his devotions to her
pictured form almost hourly. He kept
the last pocket handkerchief carefully
folded up in tissue paper among his shaw
ing articles. His sisters began to think
that he would never get over it, and as to
his marrying again--neyer, neverl
Don't even hint at such thing, An.
abel, 4" he said with horror, when she
ventured to suggest that, perhaps, one
day he might replace the lost Rachel
81 meant years and years of, dear Angus.
tus, >" she said, almost timidly, "OI
course, not for twenty years, or perhap,
fifteen. +"
"Hush Hush venerate Rachel,
memory too deeply. / loved her most
devotedly. Pray, never speak in thi,
heartless strain agsin-it is very repulsivC
to my feelings.
ii only meant to console you, Angus
tus." II"
"You take most remarkable way o
administering consolation, when you
know my sorrow is as deep as the day
when buried Rachel"
" But you must feel SO lonely" per.is
ted Anabel.
F" Lonely? Have no. my sisters anc
Rachel's treasured memory2 No, Ana
bel, | can never marry again. All | ask
isa quiet rest beside Rachel's coffir &c
form.
"How shocking. Don't, pray, in
duige in such gloomy thoughts. F"
"You ask me to be gay, said the dis
consolate widower; "but you ask an im.
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