The weekly mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif.) 1861-1862, 1861-09-14

SuppObe Stic uOuSS - SStlt TIC pTOpGIty VI
that poor Captain O., she continued,
after pause.
Yes, so | understand
1t is very well we brought servants
with u.s. resumed Emily; i fancy we
should have found Il difficult to get any
to live with US from this neighborhood.
| hope nobody will try to frighten Jane
and Sarah
1t would take something more than
four deaths in q family from typus fever,
cne case Of insanity, and one Of suicide,
however dreadful, 10 frighten Jane ! fancy.
She looks to me the sort Of woman to
serve a fever hospital, make round Of
the cells at Bedlam, and behold oil the
horrors of the Morgue with unmoved
countenance. Of Sarah don't feel quite
so sure
But | must not dwell on our conversa-
ton further, or | shall never get to the
end Of my story. Time passed on, Au-
tumn laid his fiery finger on the trees,
and found us still in the doomed cottage
at Aberport. The Merwyns were amazed
that we could know all and yet think OF
remaining, though they seemed truly glad
to have us for neighbors. We got to know
othcrfamilies Everybody was very kind
TO us, and no i'll happened to US. The
poor began at length to open their hearts
and their cottages to us; whGther il was
the nice jellieS which Emily sent to those
that were sick, or the frocks to the chill.
dren, or the flannel PHticoats for the old
women, or her own bright smile and gen.
tie words, which found the key thereto,
have no means Of knowing, but am my
self rather inclined to believe In the last.
| believe it 10 be calumny that the poor
only love you for what they Gun get, as
some persons maintain. sometimes
looked back with regret to the active lief
| had led beyond the seas, sometimes but
not often, for the thought would then steal
over me that it might not be so very long
before I should be free to return to it,
and then, | doubted not l should in turn
regret my sweet sister and our happy
English home, where We two had lived
together. Our intimacy with the ApdleyS
had progressed, and | saw what was hap.
pening under my eyes. 1t was the old
story, as old rs the hills, as old as the
world itself. What brought Herbert Aud.
ley so frequently to our house? Was il
friendship? ! am not one Of those cynics
who profess TO regard that sacred tic as
moonshinc, but this l do believe, that
where friendship will bring a man two
miles, love will carry him twenty friend
ship rides at n gentle canter, and love will
bear no other pace than gallop. And
why did Emily look so much oftcner in
her glass than she ever used to do? Why
was the color in her cheek so much more
variable? Why was she so much more
capricious about her dress?
And thinking this viii please him best,
She takes q ribbon or q rose;
For he will see them ON tonight,
And with this thought her color burns,
And having left the glass, she turns.
Once mere TO set q ringlet right
And what said the Squire and Mrs. Aud
ey to this state of affairsp Could it be
they did not perceive it? Parents have
commonly as many eyes as Argus wher'
their sons and daughters are concerned II
these matters. Could they think such AZ
alliance suitable for the future head Of thu
house Of Audley? The Audeys were az
old family, were proud Of an ancestry
which in unbroken and untarnished link!
they could trace up to the time Of him O
the name, who came over with William
the Norman, and covered himself with
glory on Hastings field. And we?
have kept back our family name; hav'
not thought il necessary to state the call
ing by which our father was supporting
his family at the time when the choler
snatched him untimely away from them
have no intention Of going back 10 ou
grand father; 1t is better to confess u
once we were nobodies. These thoughts
and such as these hopes and fears abOu
my sisters future happiness, often wer
in my mind.
One day, Gt was bright. warm day
such as is rare in the month Of November)
Emily and were sitting on the cliff to
gether, on the seat have referred to be
fore, looking at. the great water which
stretche3@ftsek calm as . mirror ut on
feet, and counting the milk white sail
which were dotted numerously upon th
blue surface.
'Hark = exclaimed she, suddenly, di'
you not hear cry in the distance?'
The sound had struck my ear at tn
same instant, and as we paused to listen
We heard it again-a long, shrill, ringing
cry, like that Of child in distress. W
rose and began to walk quickly in tn
direction whence 1t proceeded, to the righ
in the opposite direction from the village
being guided all the way by constan
repetition Of the cry at short intervals
In less than u quarter of an hour we reach
cd the spot where little boy, about eigh
or nine years Of age, was bending in al
agony Of grief over the PROSTATE form Q
another some two or three years younger
We recognized them Immediately as tn
children Of the village blacksmith. Th
elder boys voice was SO chokcd by sob
that it was sometime before we could lear
from him what had happened. 1t seemed
while playing in field at some distance
the children had been frightened by bull
and were running at full speed toward
home, when the younger lost his footing
and fell to the ground, hitting his hea
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rock, which all along the cliff broke tn
surface Of the grass grown ground at in
tervalS.
Can you carry him home, brother
asked Emily.
l lifted the poor little fellow as gently
as could, and bore him in my arms to
wards OurNhouse, Emily and the Othe
child walking silently at my side. Hi
sobs were now exhausted, but as W
reached the gate and raised the latch t
enter they burst forth afresh, and seizipI
hold Of my arm, he cried:
'Ohl don't take him there! He vii
not get betterl He will die if you TAX,
him in that housel'
But, my dear Johnny, it is the near
est place, and We will send Immediately
for doctor, and do all we can for you
brother. It may hurt him to remove
him further indeed, must carry him in
the house cannot hurt him.
Again he implorcd that would take
him home Itwas hard to disregard hi
entreaties, but home was mile further
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