Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-10-01

| q.IF a entity sensation IN respect to his
diQht-he met his Overseer5 VINO asked
for his presence in the englne-room a
| moment to Witness the opera ion Oh
some new machinery. MECHANISM had
previously been in a muen rnder state
than then, and the new arrangements
were somet hing wonderful when COM
pared with what they. had displaced;
d and rendered incautiO0s by transport
Of qualification at their successful
4 working, and filled with curiosity, Mr..
Knight went bending too near the mex
orable monster, whose shiniDg sinews
| were sliding to and fro as If reaching
for something to crush; bis clothing
| was caught, his arm drawn In by the
sleeve, clubehed the more tightly de-
spite of cries or struggles. and IN q mo-
ment more he was SnrIek4uG and Ghen
silent in the terrible embraces of those
tremen iOus arms. Another single sec
Oud and the water gate had been shut
down aud the machinery had been
stopped death-stilI, but between the
TWO instants the Dangleda man had
/ found the mercy of insensibiA1ty.
Wnen Mr.. Knight was again con-
scious he lay wit hin his own bed curtains
/ beneath the smIle of the gilded eherubs'
heads from which they were suspend
/ ed, chaos of pain and ban0ages. AT
the foot of the bed the drapery was
| drawn away, and he saw Horteuse sit-
ting there riEidly, her face as white as
1 the marble Of Il statue, her burning
/ eyes fixed upon and never leaE1ng him.
/ Suddenly she rose and sprunG TO h1~
| side pulling the curtains apart there
/ and sfooDina over him, her 1aces her
| ewes. her lips, alive with one gao smile.
| GfOb he Iives!'' she cried, and tell to the
! floor where she was found. It was The
/ only weakness that HOrtense ever be-
! traved. From the moment when the
singing hartshorn wakehed Der she
was herself, and all herself. with the
| exception Of his servant and the doc
/ tor sue shut out every other soul from
| his room, she dressed his wounds and
/ soOthed his pain when 1t coutG be sooth-
/ ed at all, she prepared his nourishment
and Quieted his feYerish fancies, and en-
dured the multidue of his sick freaks
and WhlmS: all that time she did not
1 know what sleep was, for she did not
/ know fatigue. By-and-by pain had
! diminished, there were Lonesome hours
| to while away, food to be made dainty
enough to tempt the blood back TO its
channels, sunshine and flowers let in to
/ brighten the room, friends to be Judi
ciously admitted and judieiously dis
| missed; it was HOrteuse who directed
! all, on whom his eyes constantly rest
/ ed as she moved pale, smiling, and with
/ all her life shining in her steady eyes
like a beacon fl i4me that bids the wan
| derer home. Gradually, frOm the first
| moment of reawak ened consciousness,
| his mind enfee bled by suffering and ny
exhaustion, had no distinct image in 1t
but the image Of Hortense. eIre Der hi
! pby s clan told him he owed bis Hfe-
He felt as il it were she who gave hiui
! both his breath and his ease. His heart
Lad nothing in it but gratitude.
! One day of his slow recovery, as he
reclined among the pillows of his eX-
tension-chair, he looked at her for a
long time, bent above some household
ed that she should be constantly in his
/ presence. The sunshine sparkIed on
her needle glancing here and there, on
| the gloss of her black hair, on tn
| depths ofbeI9great luminous eyes lifted
every now and then to him. "Hor-
| tense" said he at last, "I think you
! love me-"
She burst into tears
| But she was married to him that
| evening; it was Mr.. Knights instant
| determination. And as there was no
| absolute necessity for refusing, and as
/ the physician advised her not to cross
| his wish especially when mention Of
resistance brought, as now, the fever
back to his cheek, she did not think Of
| herself. of delieacY, or of delay, bu'
Welded. She never dreamed but that
| he loved her, nor that from any other
! thing than love he wished TO marry her
since, for her part, she adored hlm'
now more faithfully than sheshad nurs-
ed him before; but she could relieve
/ her heart, at least, of a part of all its
/ load of love. The servants crowded
/ round her with their fervent blessings
| when she went out to them after the
i brief bridal, thanking Heaven and for
time that she had come into her king
dom; but the acquaintances of Mr..
| Knight, making presently their visits
! of ceremony upon his wife, declared it
/ 3, eE,- boT c rf hfF7or 10ut
witched.
Perhaps he was bewitched. Perhap~
| he had mistaken thankful emotions fOI
more enduring ones; perhaps not pas
! RiOnatelY and absolutely loving her.
/ he vet found her so necessary to his ex-
| istence that he must needs make SUR
of her forever; perhaps on the other
/ hand, he was more noble than ever af-
! terWard in his life. Not even the neigh
! bors can say how that was. But atany
rate though he never said much to her
about his love, Hortense was content;
| and whether or not, as health returned
/ he ever felt how precipitate his conduct
| had been this much was certain, that
since it was she who had given him his
| health again, in his caress that always
was remembered; and if assurance of
/ speech were wanting, no lovers kiss
| was ever tenderer than his.
As for his wife, with the doors OF
heaven open on her already while she
lived. she beamed and gladdened as if
vitality were doubled and redOublpd in
Il her being: before others the embOdi-
ment of dignity, alone with him she
| was so CAV and charming that 1t SEEM
4 ed to him she was new person whom
he had never known before. In dull
weather her smiling face was like sun
shine. falling whichever way she turn
ed. When her husband tested her about
her happiness, as she went singing up
and dowu-the house, which one had
| uayer heard her do till now, she quot
ed in repIv, from "a poet she had lately
read aloud to him, and said she could
not help it, for her heart was like a nesr
of nightingales.
Hortense. in fact, was an abject slave
glorving in her chains, and ignorant ot
her chiefest power as yet. AS tor Mr..
knight, he felt vaguely within himselI
the raDtureS were brief and elusive
r and always ended at last in this salts
fed submission on the part of one OF
other. If he had not married the one
soul that mated his, there were very
few that did His wife was handsome
intelligent. living only with his breath
: He found h1mSelf caring more for hel
every dav, and on the whole he also was
contented, His material affairs occu-
| pied him a great deal more than mat
'ers of sentiment did. His mill was
r clearing him that season three Thousand
| 0OllArS u WoFk uAS ith1lNOSY r0bJiiA
. | in the region, had incorporated thu
: township under his name; already 8
millionaire, and, therefore, NECESSARILY
n power among men, his thoughts were
? used upon large calculations, leavinl
? but little time for hrnoding over emo
= tional PHILOSOPHERS; and he bad, In
short, no idea, during all the SECOND
p year of his marriage, that he was moi
t as happy man as lived.
It was at about this period that Fe
> liciia arose on the horizon.
She was little Italian singer-wheI
Italian singers we're not SO common a
Z now in this country-with whom Mr.
Z knight and his wife chanced to b com,
= Acquainted during their brief stay at III
I hotel Of one of the great cities, anC
Q whom, on her husbands notion, Hor
: tense invited to be one among her sum
5 mer guests in the hospitable house
0 which was too DELIGHTFULLY."- placed no
to he always filed with friends, an,
which Mr.. Knight liked especially t.
e see owe -dow with cheerful company
e And Hortensa added a warmth to he
g invitation, thinking that the under