The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1868-08-29
HELEN EYRE.

From lights and sh dowa Of Scottish ufe" by Prof
wilson,
In a beautiful town in the south Of Scot
land distinguished by the noble river that
sweeps by its gardens, its majestic bridge,
Its old crumbling tower, and q grandee'
princely domain that stretch with their sin
gle gigantic trees, and many spacious groves,
all around the clustered habitations, resided
for one half year an English officer of caval-
ry and young and lovely woman who was
not his wife. He was the youngest son Of
a noble family, and, with some Of the vices,
possessed many Of the virtues of his profess
sion. That ne was a man Of weak prinei-
pies, he showed by having attached to him,
BY the tenderest ties, one who, till she had
known hum, had been innocent, happy, and
respected. That he was not man of bad
principles, he showed by an attention to her
AS gentle, refined and constant as ever hus-
band paid to wife. He loved her truly and
well. She was his mistress-degraded-
spised-looked on with curious and scornful
eyes unsDoken to but by bis voice, solitary
indeed when he was absent, and revived by
his presence into a troubled and miserable
delight, that even more than her lonely ago
nies told her that she was forever aad irre-
trieyably lost Sc was his mistress that
was known TO the grave who condemned, to
the gay who conniyed, and 10 the tender
hearted who pttied them both, her and her
seducsri But though she knew that such
was her odious name, vet when no eyes were
upon her but those Of MaIlnaduke Stanley,
she forgot or cared not for that humiliation,
and conscious Of her own affection, fidelity,
and but for him, innocent too, she sometimes
adr ta1 int hs4r haarf n fhrah of Inn
and pride in the endesrments and attach
ment Of him whom all admired and 50 many
lad loved. To be respectable again was i'm
possible but to be true to the death uuto
her sedocer, il not ber duty, was now her
4 despair; and, while she prayed 10 God for
forgiveness, she also prayed that, when she
died, her head might be lying on his guilt.
! but affeotiouate bosom. To fiy from him,
wen If /. were to become a beggar on the
4 highway, or cleaner in the fieId, often did
her conscience tell her; but though con-
science spoke so, how could it act, when en-
veloped and fetIered in a thousand inter.
/ tW iste fold- Of affections and passions, one
and al Of them as strong as the very spirit
Of life 7
Helen Eyre prayed that she might die, and
her prayer was granted. He, who should
have been her husband, had been ordered
suddenly away to America-and Helen wa:
left behind, (not altogether frIendless), a.
her health was delicate and she was about t.
become mother. Tney parted with many
tears-as husband and wife would hav,
Darted-but dearly as she loved her Marina
Duke, she hoped that he might never see hei
more, and a. few years forget that such I
creature had ever been. She blessed hin
before he went away. even upon her knees
10 fit of love, grief, fear, remorse and con
triton; and as she beheid him wave hi
white plumes towards her from y distance
and then disappear among the trees, sh
said-"Now | am left alone for repentenc
: with my Godr'
; This unfortunate young creature CAV
birth to a child and al er enjoy ,8g the dee
delight of Its murmuring lips for few day'
during which the desire o. Lie revived with
in her, she expired with 1t asleep on beI b
som. Small, indeed, was the funeral Of Oh
. English officers fair Englisl mistress, bu
: she was deeently and quiz ly laid 10 b.
grave for, despised as she Tad been whe
living, she was only pIiied o W, and no on
chose TO think but Of her youth, her beauty
her pale and melancholy face, her humb
mien, and acts of kindness and charity
= the poor, whom she treated always ~ b,
superiors for they, though in want, migl
be innocent, and she had gone far astra
Where, too, thought many, who saw the fuI
!, eral pass by, where are her relations Ct IN
momentf No dobt, 80 pretty and elegant
. being must have had many who once love
y and we're proud Of her; but such though
= passed by with the bier. She was burie
and plain stone laid over her, according
her own desire: "Here lies Helen Eyre,
orphan, aged twenty 1.-TWO years"
There was one true Christian who b
neither been afraid nor ashamed to visit H'
len Eyre curing the few last weeks Of
life, when it seemed almost cestain that |
was near It's close. This was Mrs. Montg
mery, the widow Of country gentleman
= good family, wLo had for some years resi-
Cd in sthe town. This excellent WON
knew Marmadnke Stanley, and vas not
stranger 70 the circumstances Of this unft
tunate and guilty connexion. On his
parture she had promised 20 take care q
a Helen Eyre should be looked aftsf In
illness and, when the hand Of death
upon the poor friendlsss orphan, she =
lfreduentiy with her at her bedside, admin
%, tering comfort and consoiA. son. Such Kin
nesa from such : person., at such siz
supported the soul d the dying mother vi
il was most disconsolate; u quieted ~
natural fears Of dissolution and Nhen 8
Whose own life hnd bssn modal g IA 4
Twas eooa md bsnntifnl md loily n u