Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-04-28
CONSEQUENCE

VII.
COSsEoUENCEs.
| The world takes no count Of the manner In
wh1en populations are lost. L sees only the
fact, and does not amuss itself by looking for
the causes. Virtue and vica. when miserable
have precisely the same weight In the balance.
ITHADEUs IL REssUsCIrE-
The diseussioss I'm Cosquer's case had re-
vealed the eulpable dealing and trickery Of
BOrdenson, in relation to the lowering Of wages
he was eensured for It, and the testimony had
created bad impression against him, with the
Fubic and the jurors. He NeItit necessary to
rsinstate himself, by means OF some good ac-
tion- He he'd not lived 50 long without learn
ing that one must occasionally resign himself
to do a little good out OF dsceuey. He knew
that pub ie opini@n regarded goodness a. a
lady whom It Is not agreeable TO see habitually,
butwith whom one ought not wholly to break,
and Who should be honored. at rare intervals
with visiting-card. so he offered Margaret
the plsee Of door-kespress n his yard and this
act OF fneheance. towards The wife OF the man
who hsd robbed him. Was deemed By every
body sublime deed OF eharitsble kindness and
generosity.
80 Margaret came to be an inmate Of Borden
sons establishment -
But the title OF vile OF a convict branded her
like red-hOt iron, and she had to undergo
every humiliation that can reach life so hum
bic end 50 obscure. In the absence Of other no
bi ity, the people has its aristocraey OF probity
as unjust, as insolent as the Others! Margaret
had to renounee her old eezrains sancss and hsr
former associations. She had to bid adieu to
those cross street pleasures, as attractive for
the poor class, as, for US, the parties and balls
OF wiz ter; Sunday gOssippings or the door
steps; tales recounted at the bakers, by the
neighbors; songs sung while spinning, after
dinner, in the shade; childrens dances OF au-
tumnd evenings; all were lost for Cosquer's
family When Catherine and her little sister
wished to Join in the dances Of Ike other chill
drsn OF the street, all hands closed against thesr
hands stretched out 10 form the ring snd they
were constrained 20 go and sit opposite, On a
stone watching, with big tears on their cheeks,
the others laugh oct their JOY in the sunshine,
snd frOlic without shame. 1t was long long
while before Margaret could accustom herself
70 such change, and accept her lot Of infamy.
As to Catherine, she bore her position more
bravely. Once the first tears were shed, she
resoluteIy wiped her eyes, and learned TO take
life as It was given to her. There was In this
child somsthing OF the nature OF Cosquer,
something Of that facility in Drawing opinisn.
which makes great characters or low rascals,
&C ording to the direction given actiGns. she
crew up, and beeoming a young woman,
showed herself still more Indifferent to the
disdsin OF others, more bold in meeting scorn. |
This soul, bravely tempered, easily per uadsd I
Itself, that where honour vas lost, virtue was a
useless luxury. RepElsed for a fault not her /
Gwn, she eloss her course, and instead eI a /
useless "a Sc against the prejudices that branded
her, she cheerfuilv accepted infamy, and com .
fortably Installed herself IN shame.
This sort OF dsprsFed philosophy eoEId not .
bat glther stren 9Th in association web de I
bauched young men and disreputabIe girls, the .
only company which It was allowable for her
to keep. Her heart wss delivered ard pres /
titu'ed by this impure contact, and she soon I
came to need only an opportunity to . lost /
The occasion offered.
She was handsome with that sold vigorol1 .
beauty which 80 ss5onSly tetGpts mea rul hy I
'hs ir seAsss. Berdenson had not failed 10 no. /
tice H. There was a nature within his reach, I
and suited To his Tastes. He had no trouble In [
succeeding. Soon she was in a condition TO re-
luire her paramOur to send her, secretly, to a /
town.
Catherine learned the dishonour other daugh-
ter, and her departure, at the same time.
SIC .bstaiaad from rspreach6s, wnicn you'd 1
have been laughed at but she was thencefor- I
ward resolved TO leave Brest and retire to some /
place where the faults of her husband and I
child would be less known.
But year elapsed, before she carried her pur- /
pose into execution.
During tnis time, Catherine had followed her /
rosi and found herself ct the end Of it. she (
had become prostitute.
This was too much shame at once. Cosquer's 1
wife sold all she had at Brest, and went 4.
wi h the little Marie to Plondalmezeau. where I
lad leased her an ina which be /
owned. The wsrtby msSter-builder gave the 4
last touch to hi ldndnesses, by giving the poor 4
woman letter OF recommendation to the .
wine-merrhant o. that country. Besides, he /
promised TO stop with her, whenever he should .
have business over lheIe.
AZ bottom, he was IN excel lent man, was N. /
BOrdens)n
ITO BE CONTINUED NEXT sUSDAY.1