Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1862-10-09

prayers fell back upon her heart, and she stood
now, fronting the future, without faith, save
in the workings Of an immutabe fate, hope
| less, loveless alone.
Suddenly pausing amid this inward strife,
she took from its receptacle an antique silver
goblet, curously shaped and wonderfully
carved, such as goldsmiths, long before Ben
venuto, might have fashioned for the tables of
kings. 1t was the heirloom of long line of
ancestors-had been the strrup cup that had
| speeded parting guests from the castle gates
of naughty race and was linked with one
! dark tradition of a sovereign saved from
treacherous draught by the generous act and
! loyal death Of his hcSts wife, who drained the
cup to save her husbands honor and her mon
arch's life. Quietly, steadily she poured once
more into the StOred beaker the sluggish and
fatal drops. Through that long Gay Of pain
she had trembed at the sense of health that
might bear her through slow years Of irre-
/ pressible anguish she saw herself living among
men, yet set apart by grief. She well knew
! that all her days must wear some likeness to
this, and over and over again, in the keenness
OF her despair, the thought had darted through
her brain What shall | do with my life
What shall | do with my life 2" At last this
one feeling grew stronger than all others
the dread OF those innumerabIe hours, dark
with recollectionS that would never sleep. She
knew nothing of the next world She knew
too much Of this And death, auuihilatiou,
any hereafter was preferable to The realiza-
tion OF this fearful anticipation.
She took the cup in her hand and went to
the open window Il lingering and indeG0able
sympathy with Nature, with the night that
. WAS ab0nt To close arauu6 her forever caused
her TO look out once more lnto the blacAnesS
ana space tyPcal OF all that she 81" heyohd
/ the enc perhaps, also, there stole almost an
. consciously into her hcatt vague yeafnlhS
Tor lha SoIace lhat stricken creatures some
t,'he" hhu III t'le Coh,eNPIaooh oI cTeat'oh.-
/ fetnaPS heF last iooA At zoo serene SKY was
10 oe pFoIeSt against tne misery tI1t Nd I'D"
aiar OH everything lo'e'y anu pe"te'ht. Inc
o'ue al" c'ouo'ea' ne"'9nS SPa' Aleu wiz" tne
/ IiSnI ~ n'"'S Ule'' GU" "n" "'S'""' b'o'y
/ "o"'" 'Hi"0 t'iI same ''0 NeA' "'aHO ~" 'ii'
eH"ui" 'e u" ""s C"o e''u7
Inc soiV ar noaIeu over Ile 'e'e'eo "'o"'
ana llitea tRe same "aVy haiF IaaU young
! g'rl hau once before thFuSt away, thaV She
/ ini5ht look win eager eyes upon 'he pcaoIy
o. we cary" p", VHe "IF ho" 'oIe no 'noSS''-
yes tlo'H INC n.9"eS', 'ne eyes Heio "unS'J
/ io' ue"l", "nu It "lISciS c~'DP'" 'o"'' "o0uY
/ heF ihey Haa loidea tbelr wings III olSulay anu
/ pIty' y merry ana iau8hlhS parry paSSeu IL
/ the street "t'o" ihechahicdly sue looNe" "'
ter them tnelr shkeh rooeS' Tue g'''tet 0,
je"eh ha0heu through INe SiooH'' .n7 so"iu
OF young ana gay voices rose up lroth "en'
spirits 10 the sense OF that paIe anu silent "o-
man VINO Watched Cheir lorihS receoe III tue
darkness WIN nouruiul gaze o' PloPhet'c
meaning Oa'eieSS heartS, "ouiu W nave "ePV
iuStead OF smiled amlu the cohieuy Vi you1
pleasure, conid ye nave pehetraVea the 'faStuy
OF that rulned ilte
Ali the SKY was bright, all tne thofough-
lare was stili, all her thoughts were one S,orni
OF oehance' memories IlaoneS' ouuucny
out oI the GepIhS oi lhe h'2u' 'nelo I"n5
through the sliehce single hu'hah cry -"
cry OF the streets IA cry concentrating Tue
want, Ihe wall, Che pathoS'o' Vi PoFe, w. Vi Ivy
raaauoh' 9! nara anu cneetieSS 'aooi
pLerceo 'ne irenAy o. ''ia' 'o' cu,eo o'al"' ou'
o. tne 'aI'y oi tne su"uo" Vi u1".n 0"' nhnl
eu Chrou9h Tue 'n'St ot '.ile' anu Sd" on''u
weeping LOT chlIuhoous tlone'e anu nea1iI a Is
a'n'o nef 'eafS 'iia' Sounu VI SPPo"'' "nu -
the lhuoce"ce anu liesuhess VI d" un'p1'.0u
nature interpreting 'he 'one 'n,o Can " uu1y
QUE felneuioeteu ho" In1 on''o n'u 'o'
ten her grief 10 an oyer%neln'ns 9 son compassion
Iof ,he race 'nat ota'teu l anu sune'eI ~nu
an Slle FemghoeFeu no" Ine pure Sou,' o'aIe ave
III 'gnoFance' ons 70 re'aene anu eN"ury 1"o
PcoI anu ue c Itoa ;.,oif nIi,o
VI '""u'ooN " 'ii0 '''''0 :iI '4"i tLn to',S
more u heF uiii,o rs She p'oIu,e" Iu0 no'I0'
without ioVe' the he''FtS "l.nou' :ooo' ',io
,nrro;,. u'.,o that ,root cit1 oroHmd her
S"aTm!ho III thGC Sieat C''y "louhU H0', :
.,f t'a' ono c.y l"u ~ ''eu oa """' We .n .io
s0" "'lo 1--WE, s sno .L ,,a, of l,i,,,
lah'" 70 snatch lrou tlie :. a"0S ot o.II0
Ic. anI "oanon w. ad'r"G o;,s tn bn cnOoeored
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