The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-12-25

and capable than hers, but wild and worn with
sorrow.
"I am the miserable mother Of baby lately
r ceived under your care. I have q prayer to
make to you"
Instinctively respecting the confidence which
has drawn aside the vail Sally-whose ways are
all ways Of simplicity and spontaneity-replaces
it, and begins to cry.
"You will listen to nv prayer 2" the lady urges.
"You will not be deaf to the agonized entreaty
Of such q broken suppliant IS I am"
go dear, dear, dear {! cries Sally. "What
| shall I say, or can I say2 Don't talk Of prayers.
Prayers are to be put up to the Good Father Of
] All, and not to nurses and SUCH. And therel I
am only to hold my, place for half q year longer,
till another young woman can be trained up to
1t. am going to be married. 1 shouldn't
have been out last night, and I shouldn't
have been out tonight, but that my
| Dick Che is the young man I am going
to be married toy lies i'll, and I help his mother
and sister to watch him. Don't take on 80,
don't take on so !"
80 good Sally, dear Sally, means the lady,
catching ct her dress entreatingly. al you are
hopeful and I q hopeless-as q fair w.y in life
is before you, which can never, never be before
meas you can aspire to become Q respected
wife, and as you can aspire to become . proud
mother-as you are q living, loving woman, and
must die-for Gods sake hear my distracted Pc
titioni"
"Deary, deary, deary me-" cries Sally, her
desperation eliminating in the pronoun, "what
am I ever to dol And therel See how you turn
my own words back upon me. l tell you I am
going to be married on purpose to mako it clearer
to you that I am going to leave, and therefore
couldn't help you il would, Poor Thing, and
you mako it seem to my own self as If I was
cruel in going to be married and not helping you.
It amt kind. Now, is it kind, Poor Thing3"
"Sallyl hear me, my dear. My entreaty is for
no help in the future. It applies to what Is past.
1t is only to be told in two words"
"Therel This is worse and worse" cries
Sally, "supposing that I understand what two
words you mean"
they have given my poor baby! 1 ask no more
than that. I have read Of the customs Of the
place. He has been ehristened in the chapel,
and registered by some surname in the book; he
was received last Monday evening. What have
they called him 2"
Down upon her knees in tho foul mud Of the by
way into which they have strayed, anempty street
without q thoroughfare giving ON tho dark gardens
of the Hospital-the lady would drop in her pas
slonate ~entreaty, but that Sally prevents her.
"Donti Don't! You make me feel as if I
was setting myself up to be good. Let me look
in your pretty face again. Put your two hands
in mine. Now, promise. You will never ask me
anything more than the two words?"
"Never! Never!"
"You will never put them to q bad use, if I say
them ?"
"Neverl Never!" 4
"Walter Wilding:"
The lady lays her face upon the nurses breast,
draws her close in her embrace with both arms,
murmurs q blessing and the words, "Kiss him
fer me-" and is gone.
Day of the month and year, the first Sunday in
October, one Thousand eight hundred and forty
seven. London Time by the great clock Of Saint
Paul's, half past one in the afternoon. The clock
Of the Hospital for Founding Children II is well up
with the cathedral to-day. Service in the chapel
is over, and the founding children arc at dinner.
There are numerous lookers-on at the dinner.
as the custom is. There are two or three COVER
nors, whole families from the congregation,
smaller groups of both sexes, individual stray
glers Of various degrees. The bright autumnal
sun strikes freshly into the wards; and the heavy
framed windows through which it shines, and
the paneled walls on which it strikes, are
such windows and such walls as pervsde Ho-
garth's pictures. The girls ~refectory Including
that Of the younger c%hildren) is tie principal
attraction. Neat attendants silently glide about
the orderly and silent tables the lookers-on
move or stop as the fancy takes them COM
ments in whispers on face such q number from
such a window are not unfrequent many Of the
faces are of q character to fix attention. Some
of the visitors from the outside public are &C.
customed visitors. They have established a
speaking acquaintance with the occupants Of
particular seats at the tables, and halt at those
points to bend down and say a word or two. 1t
is no disparagement to their kindness that those
points are generally points where personal at
fractions are. The monotony of the long spa
cious rooms and the double lines of faces is
agreeably relieved by these incidents, although