The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-10-31
foot as though mentally

| fore her from head TO foot, as though mentally
dressing her for the grave
| .Now whether or not there was something
| unusually repulsiye this day about the old
| woman. or whether she simply desired TO
| ne alone Mary yielded TO an Irresistible in
| clination to dismiss her follower, and, having
done So sat down at the great plate glass win
| dow, which faced the west.
| 1.-The view from hence was both fair and
| sad. First came slip of much neglected
| garden, crowded battle-ground Of weeds ana
foweis-the weeds having decidedly the .psst
OF ii-some leafless elms and fig trees, ana a
high wall, magnitied to an immense size WI,n
sbeaves and coils of everlasting IVY. ,as1
| this was q Roman Catholic cemetery long
since filed and abandoned as place OF inter-
ment. Over and between three or iour noDie
expresses. that shaded the forgotten dead
| might be seen the broad weaiu, green WIN, WI
sprouttpg corn then range OF blue nils, on
tina last W hich fingered the western SUM-
"Half an hour later, Charles was returning
home. When within few PAGES OF MS own
door loud ringing shrek struck him like q
slab In i moment he was In the house, and
dashed into the room from the direction of
which he had fancied the cry proS eeded.
"His wife was on the bed, frightfuily con-
vused -Hephzibah and Charlotte beside her.
She recovered Instantly Gu seeing him, ana a
violent food Of tears completely restored her
tranquility; after which, being left alone with
her husband, Mary related as follows:
She had sat for some time at the window,
watching the purpling clouds, and the som re
tnts of evening calmly enveloping the quiet
scene, when becoming sensible of degree of
lsssitude, and strange inert feeling not usual
with her, she moved 10 the low golden couch,
and lying fairly down, fell into an uneasy
sleep.
'She lay upon her right side, with her face
10 the WALTON that side, distant scarcely half
yard from the bed-and dreamed that, so ly
lag, the wall before her opened slowly, and
that there issued from 1t a skeleton, bearing n
It's hands its own severed skull. As il APP
preached, one feshless hand detached itself
has I'm nd n N - 1 YV -
holes, while the head muttered: See how
| they treat us yonder. Here were blue da-
monds once, my sister, that laughed and swan
like yours. Come, let us compare
| The skull was thrust up into her very face.
She was conscious OF the ear thly, let1d Odour
| her own face was drawn as it were more and
| more into the sister-skull, as though 1t were
| becoming part of it-When, with shrek and
| a desperate struggle, she flung the spectre and
| the dream away.
| although, for the moment, the painful i'm :
| preston appeared TO pass away, 1t was nut
| too evident to Aunesley that the health ana
spirits of his little wife had received serious
1 shock In a few days, her rich color was gone,
| her lips looked dry and feverlsh-she began TO
| complain OF headache, and started, Wheh SUD
\ denly touched, or at the least unexpected
| sound.
"ene day, after making vain efforts to eat
| her breakfast, The poor little thing leaned her
| head on her hands and burst into tears ",
Charles my poor boy she sobbed, i fear I'm
very ill.,
The wistfui, anxious look in those blue eyes
| alarmed her husband far more than even ner
words. He laid her tenGerly on the sofa,
| soothing her to the utmost of mis- power, and,
| not without bitter selt-reproach fer neglecting
| it so long, dispatched HephZibah TO request
Mr.. Mawry's Immediate attendance.
The little doctor acknowledged that his new
patient looked delicate in the extreme, and re-
qaired every attention. The present attack
| was clearly nervous; and he endeavored to
elicit from her whether she had sustained any
rSh anh or al a n =
ashamed 10 confess her dream and MIR. Nav
~ could discover nothing but that she was
ubIsct to a sudden and fearful spasm, which
affected her whole head from the eyes to the
throat. In the latter organ, especially, she
| suffered much pain.
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