The Shreveport weekly news. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1861-1861, 1861-07-08

made me suffer as it the world OF the
dead had been disclosed before me.
"Such she was for >some four or
five days-it might have becna whole
wcek--l'll not dispute that, for was
in u manner myself aelncnted but
change at last began to manifest
itselt-and such Il change
Mrs. Winsom was deeply affected
by what she had related, and she
told it with so much dramatic pro-
prictv, that | wondered at the talent
She displayed. l have, however.
since often observed the same singu-
lar faculty in other illiteratc persons,
and have seen them rising i'll the
course of u narration to the supposed
beautiful eicaucnce of the higher
minds of whom they discourscd. |
ought however, to acknowledge that
| was melted with more than ordina-
ry sympathy for the doom of the
unfortunate Young lady, which the
motherlv zeal of my worthy landla-
dy had evidently precipita'rd; and
any curiosity WAS SO excited. that l
. could not repress the desire to be in
formed of the sequel OF II story ="
t3Sic,rl.
.Whcn," resumed Mrs. Winsom.
"when the dcsolatc creature came to
true sense of her torloru situation
for in her panic she was tho wild
to have Il right disccrnmcnt--it WAS
freezing to hear how she 'amen'"d
she didn't plead that she had been u
resisting victim nor did she take all
the blame upon herself. Their" was
II fatterry III her heart that she had
been BETRAYED by the condition Of hor
fathers house more than by her own
weakness. or that the accomplished
of her ruin had a prcmcditatrd pur-
pose. Still. however, she w"p, and
walled until her hoprIessness became
incurablc.
1T was soon manifest that Death
had laid his cold hand upon her, in
defiance Of all medicine and doctors
skill.
"f'rom morning to might ia" sat
hy herself on he sofa. her one hand
on the other resting on her knee. and
her eyes reading, rs IT We're, the loaf
of a curiouS page of vacuity III the
threads and pawtrou OF the carpet.
She thought of nothing but OF time.
"NNhcu | went into her room IN
the morning, She would say, l. not
this Wednesday, or Friday : a. II
might chance Ia be. And ~ often
as went again during Ia, rc.; OF til"
dav. she would ask the hour. II
was melancholy to So. h.rdc-pondcn-
.v, and how pleased she WIS when
the time seemed To have rru Il little
faster than she expected How pa
ticnt and how beautiful sIr" WIS IL
all this; but nI how plainly her
heart WAS breaking.
! when more than eight mourntui
months had come and gone. surilIg
that. hv the course OF nature. 4h" was
soon ,n become a mother. thought
/ il my duty. in :" iar-cti Way, /" re-
mind her that il WIS HrcdtUl +" pre-
pare for = stranger
..She looked at me. | thought r.
proachfullv, but her eyes wrrr full
of tears. and She ans Nrr'd, no, |
have here within. Il conviction THAI
my sin and shame will pass from this
! cruel world together. drramt lat
night that | behcld my venerable
erandtather-he WAS Il holy and -
@i"uS man-standisr at Il gate t.
which had come with baby AT my
bosom, and lac took ~ 10y the hand.
led me in and made me known !" al!
nv anccStors.rvcn Ia Adam and Eve.
No; the life that should be Is, not: j,
becomes my condition: a lushandlcss
wife, childlcss mother
/ II reasoned against her despair.
and entrea.cd herto he OF good cheer
but she sInote her bosom and said
How can that hc! am no, guilt
less; bur there was no other but him
self III all the world 10y whoiH could
have been undonc. stars ot light
and purity, eyes and orarlra Of hcay
EN- We know my chastity. But how
can he believe it! bh, ScoImc! tx
him. W hat Is left! where NOW l. m '
place in the world! The grave.
After Il -eason of some day, the
wild laueutium~ and continual cIir,
of a spirit in agony began TO mode
rate into Sigh- and inw h"art-inu7nur
ings. l entrcated her to let me send
for her father, or for cue of her si~
!, tiers; but she was absolute an! woulc
not have them, At last the mother,
= time arrived, ard she became, as SIN
, .foretold, mother without Il Child.
place" she cried, the mute wit
ness of my intirmity before me. |
E was not III sin, but in the full cont
, dence of faithful love, that tlIi. MON
ument of frailty had a being
I'VE accordingly placed the deaC
born baby upon apillow, covered b.
n damask seryits, an a chair by tn
! bedside. 1t was punishment enougI
for many sin to see what then cn
sued.