The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-01-13

may repent; you have counted the cost p
II have, Margaret. Night and day since we
parted. I've thought the matter over. l may
have been an expensive, thoughtiess fellow
hitherto; ! can change my habits can 90
without society, friends, everything but you;
"He loves me-" she said-"he loves me "
Then turning 10 me; "Iou hear IT.; he loves
me. He is generous and true" And again
that ipeffabie beauty came into her face.
Henry Cameron looked at her as II, even to
him, Its radiance WAS new. ANA You rove
M, my Margaret You forgive me-you con-
sent /"
81 ~ she said-"T love you, Henry! p Ard
she laid her head down on his breast, ana
passed her fingers through his curing hair
II was pretty picture, as ] saw it through
nay tears, and thankful was to believe tina:
Margaret might yet be happy. But IT did not
last long. When next she raised her head, she
was deadly pale, and her voice quite changed
Forgive me Henry she said. 81 have been sell
| fish but l wanted TO be happy once more.
had so suffered. / had doubled of your love;
| had thought poorly OF YOU NOW, hdce
been happy. l knotc that am dear To you
| your poor Margaret herself, and not her for
tune and my love has all its old pride. And
now can bless you, and there is no bitterness
| in this great anguish OF bidding you farewell
| forever. Hush. hear me 10 the end. MY faith
er-hush Whatever he may BE- he was ten
der always to NE, and would have bought my
! happiness at the loss of his own soul. mu"t
| save my father l must seek him TIL l find
| him / shah find him: shall, work for him in
| some foreign land; there no one knows that
| shame hangs on the old mans name. He, too,
has suffered-his hair is grown white-my
poor father.
| could not resist interposing. Dear girl,
| if as fully believe, all your efforts TO trace
| yonr father prove vain. surely you VIII not
| wreck Captain Camerons happiness as well
| IA your own!
| 81 saaU ind him. she said in tone that
| siienced me by its calm authority.
| sand you can give me up, then, Margaret
| You have not a thought for my happiness
you sacrifice me TO your "a her thus. TINS 10
your cruel resolve" exclaimed her lover.
| This" she said, rs nay unaiterabie re-
solve
| Tie young mans face grew very dark. His
| ardent love was but "A great selfishness, aud
| ne overlooked her suffering IN his OWE. Long
| and vehemently would he have pleaded with
| and rcproach. her, bat that l implored him
10 spare her the further conflict, for which her
| deadly paleness Showed that she was quite
unequal. huldii e out TO him hopes of a change
of purpose of another interview, but III my
secret heart having no hope of either As he
| turned TO leave her, the grandeur OF her nature
seemed TO flash upon him, and he came back
and knelt at her feet. "Iou are an angel" he
said IL never could have been worthy of you:
but l shall never love another woman !!
Calmly the poor girl bent down and kissed
him on his forehead. The clinging WOra4niY
foudness to which she had yielded herself up
SO lately seemed to have changed ntc the holy
pity Of an angel indeed. FrSm that moment
she had done with ear hly happiness.
now a fortnight since the terrible day on
which his daughter recognized him; but she
| never gave up her firm conviction of his re-
turn. Her instinct was true one. One
night, Biddy saw him creep stealthily along
the street, and stand still under the lamp
post looking up at the window. The faithful
creatures grasp was on him at once and
| though he Struggled hard he could not shake
her off. She impiored him by the lost love
and happiness of his young dauEhter-by the
laughter of her chiidh bod, and her weeping
now-by the tears he had himself she'd at the
grave of the wife who bore her 10 him; she
told him that Margaret had given up lover
and fortune for his sake and would he take
from her life as we'll, and leave her alone in
he world The orphan OF u living athor, with
out duty 10 bear her up agtinst her SORROW :
In short, she prevailed over the weak mans
strongest purpose; and that Night. when The
rest OF the household We're asleep, she let i'm
in and he hid his lace his daUgh er's
breast.
Two days later they left England for the
continent. The sale of her mothers Jewels
and her own trinkets brought in Il sum uiii
Gent to detray al! that Margaret we'd in
EideTsiey, and to provide for her Ia her aud
herself ill she could obtain pupils. o. these,
her rare musical talents rendered her secure
Btady positively refused To leave her young
mistress. She had enough, she said, IT, pay
her passage, aad plenty Of clothes. as good
as new, for years and years TO come. She
could not be bothered with wages would
not know what 10 do with them. And sure
MSS. me lflteftf Niit Dr winning StIIit
one 10 look after him ana may be- ne ii fird
il 4 com fort to scOld some one, be used
10, III THIN furrin parts. Aud is il cooking ye
want! Sure AMI I've not been out and In of
the kitchen of one OF the raal gintry for
long without giving an eye to see how things
Gat done. Anyhow, I'll cook Il dale better
than thin furriners; and It's going with ye
am, miss. to the end Of the world. sure rs
my name is Biddy Uaiv. and yours is written
in heaven, glory be 70 God y
They settled III Berlin. Margaret had soon
more pupils than she could well undertake.
and she herself played III morning concerts. in
this way realizing a toierahie income. Her
own letters Wee loving bat short. She never
complained; but | could perceive only too
plainly that her spirits never rallied, that she
was resigned, but cheerful and hopeful no
longer. The great trial il the hourly trial
The very energy required for the prompt de-
cision nerves against the pain. The right hand
cut OF, ana east from lis in Il moment Gf
generous en- tn las m. seems not terrible: it
is the after smart, the sick reaction that is 50
hard 20 bear. Never by tone or glance - re-
proach those for whose sakeS have strip
ped our own life bare: never 10 believe thai
duty had been hest undOne, and SeijshnpSS
more blessed thsn self sacri fGc-not many OF
are Capable OF this. Perhaps even MarSa-
ret was not. Biddy's letters, with their mar
Vicious spelling, We're Invaluable TO me, TOR
they gave details l should never have other
W Use Obtained, of admiration and love laid IT
the beautiful girls feet. Biddy thanked our
Lady that the young mistress to
uefnane nerseiI by icokln' AT L TURNER even
II she'd nau any heart 10 give but sure hers
broke that DAY Cdpt cameron lti his last KISS
on htr li'S, ahu me anseIs toch II 10 Keep ana
mend III heaven. Bu. these letters con taiued too
many dark hint respecting The masters
ways. that gave me- Il sorro"iul insight into
the daily stfuSgieih poor margaret was called
upon to bear. 1t lasted more than fifteen
years-yes fifteen years. Then Mr.. Moores
health began rapidly To decline. Weak and
unworthy as his HE mao been, the pathetic
beauty OF his last days was all that Margaret
afterwards remembered. lie bore his suffer