The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1860-02-08

! tnah WAS so Ill as to be unable 10 move,
aud added that the man begged wildly
that they might be permitted to stay, as
his wife, If sent forth shelterless, would
surely die.
She was very i'll, the girl added, and
lay upon her low bed moaning with pain
her eyes very bright, and two great red
spots burning in her sunken cheeks
The man was hanging over hs wife,
wringing his hands, talking in u strange
tongue, and gazing about like one dis.
| tracted.
And Miss Bray = said Mrs. Bray, now
thoroughly alarmed.
Miss Amy is in the garden, and the
poor child who looks so sweet and pre,.
ty YOU could hardly believe it mama, is
playing with her. Cook has dressed her
IN Miss Amys clothes, and she looks
quite little lady, only brown with the
sun, and something Wild like"
But this womau's illness may he con
trgious Good Heavens, Wilson, what
shall ] DO? II Miss Amy should take
some dreadful fever OF these wretched
creatures! Go, send her here at once,
and tell John TO 60 for DR.. Brown. |
cannot turn the poor woman into H. C
street, bat | must know what /, her dis.
ease, and If anything can be done for her.
Send the child to her parents, and bring
Amy here
The hour that followed was one Of the
deepest anxiety to Mrs Bray. She paced
the floor rapidly, impatient for DR.. Browns
arrival, angry with herself for listening to
her charitable promp,ircs the previous
evening, and DISTRACTED hy the sounds
| that came from the nursrr3 where Amy
was crying violently at being separated
from her playmate. The hl,e one was
not old enough to appreciate worldly dis.
! uncIions, and the child of the trnmps was
AS welcome 10 share her sports AS though
she had arrived surrounded hy all the ap.
| pliances Of luxury.
lhe doctor came, saw the sick woman
and pronounced her dy;nL, thoagh she
might live week or month, consump.
ton WAS fast finishing is work, and tie
cold taken the previous day. AS she tramp
ed the wet roads in dieuching rain, had
aggravated her worst symptoms.
There is no contsgiou in her disease,
Mis-. Bray, and you need not fear to har
Tor her, he continued. This family are
""' ordinary ""ggarS' | am sure. She
SPEAKS "e''' ana says She was u snail
trndc>man's daughter in an English coun
! try town, and was legnilcd into marryin .
I tins mana wandering ltalian-a street
musician. She has been We. reared, ev
"''",y' "Hd mas done her test for her
I"I'". II;. r"t tne man has Tie vagrn"t
n"%,'' OF ms c'aSS' ana "her they banded
~ ~ We" "'k' me other day. ana had all
."'" "'',o SOCK OF money stolen from
;'.I: ".''i "'',' 'n''f 'n"'''rd INSISTED on Keep
LUZ "'' 81 s""' n"" even '"e'r clcthing' his
""e ,e'I' me- mat nothing would conten,
""t Out |" s'ro'' away INTO the country,
' ""n sue ''ke patient creature as one
ma! see sne mas ever been, followed hlm
D"t .;T sue nas t"Nen her last Journey. She
WI. a., "e'e' ''''ow MIN more
H., "e" 20" '"'hK IL safe TO Keep her
''''e M'S' p'ay asked her eyes 'ni' OF
/ =! "'","e'c 'eafS, Us she listened l" Tie
,n S""' IT. to'n her. Inc man
ho was ""', starved anu weary my
''''''""' s"ou'u say he WAS nov
''S NWSn =.
.,,,,:, "e.' y r' oee'"S cruel '"aeed' 10 s'pa'
rave MN ,'o,p h's dy ng "'te' Let them
S'"!I S:, ana VIII see mat 'hey lack no
'''I',S. .TT.,
I: ""' 'ieh'' Mt.. pray nohof you
" III '"'o ,S,'" ueI'''ou' IS"D iou know always
s"'" o i, uTi ''"'' was !" inc hght pace u
L"u', T"Y s'''Se you nP "''ie I"
49,. ."" T' o'a'nsS: vi'eu me "ot'hy
' "no"' 'o"S '"'",''"''y had Pri'h'
seu - "t'e' nome ruins. 'And no" 10
P 'n'' 'o"''"g' ""'ch may Tor "ueht
l. 80, o' r'o'e "2'ee"o'e 1" our ears
NJ NJ a'"e' "'"h 20" na' oe''sr let
I , n"S ~ Wi', pach , 10 "e' P'"!'n"'e,
- 10, 20 n"',,n' .'i, ,'"geten ,hUh'h oe'
IoJ " onn la. .'i H,"HIl S"e',e,' e"re'u''y Ten,
oaa.." as"' ""'' ",an'ng' oy he' patience ana
: so"SS'"VS", h'eHus among All VINO APP