The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-05-03

.l0kNGS Of GOOD IHkH6Sl
~ :, 1865.
| Mr.. INetterville could not help thinking
which she had administersd the night Be-
fore, might have hsd - m1eh a. any
special Interpolation ~ Prcvideace to ray
| to his seascAable slumbers; but the timel
were too much out Of joint TO permit Of hel
making, however feverentlly, such An oh.
seryation, 90 she merely touched his bro"
and hand, and saids .
~ am right glad, at all events, that you
seem in no wise to have suffered from my
neglect. Eat now. and drink, / pray you ;
for + perceive by this refteshing moisture
on your skin that all danger has passed
away, and that you need at present no
to restore yOu to your former strength"
"Nay, madam said the soldier, with
great and hardly repressed feeling in his
voice and manner. :" Eat OF drink l cannot,
or many way refresh myself, until I have
pourtA forth my song of gratitude, first to
the Lord Of hosts, who hath delivered me
from this great danger, and then to you,
who have tended me (even as the widow
of Sarepta might have waited on Elias)
through the perils of sickness from which
my very comrades and fellow laborers in
the vineyard fed, trembling and afraid"
said Mrs. Netteryille. Mand all the more
readily, because this disease, from which
Won have 40 marvelously recovered. is. men
say, in it's rapid progress and almost sure
mortality, akin, If not indeed wholly simi-
lar, to that terrible malady the plague,
which lie the scourge Of the Eastern nations,
and leaves crowded cities, once it has en-
tered ia. as silent and deserted as the sep
ulehres Of the dead. You cannot therefore
wonder. and YOU need not feel aggrieved, if
men who would have risked their lives for
You ON the battle-field, yet shrunk from its
Unseen. and therefore, 70 poor human ma
tire It's more awful dangers.n
q Nay, madam, blame them not per-
hans even in their place should have done
the same. Nevertheless and though have
no ill feeling toward them cannot forget
that you, Popish woman and an enemy
dren Of my, own household have shrunk
from doing, and 1 would rain show my
gratitude It could"
You can SHOW 1t, and tnat f19ns easily
it you will" she answered klnoly, ny eat
ing and drinking heartily OF tne pnovlsions
1 have brought, and SO regaining strength
to wait all the sooner on yonrseH. FOR
shall soon, as you dou0tless know alreaoy,
have work in hand which VIII comPei me 20
make my visits FEWER; ana YET snaii noc
like to risk other lives by sendlng any OF
the household to wait on you In my steaa.
"Alas! madam, fear nave oeen DpSa
troublesome and Improbable, though not
altogether, do assure you, a$hankiess
guest" the man answered, IN somewhat
sad and deprecatOry manner.
!" Nay but now you mistake me alto
gether,n she answered earnestly. You
have been most patient sufferer, and that
trouble (which is altogether unavoidable in
any <sickness-has been, you may believe
me, pleasure rather than an uneasiness to
me. 1 only meant to say that, though shal!
still continue to visit you morning and
evening, shall not be able to come 80 often
in the daytime as I have been used to do
for all matter in this sad affair of the trans
plantation having fallen into my hands, you
may we'll imagine it is as much or more than