The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-04-08
BY Alfred =. Horsley.
leave my dear father in his great
trouble and she looked earnestly at

a situation he will do very WELL"
OF cannot leave my father,n said
Lucy, more firmly. " My poor father!
/ co uIdn,t be 50 ungratefnl, 20 wicked y
"verry weli,o he said. "Ah! l see,
YOU don't care for me. You choose be-
tween us; you stay with your fatHer.
/ release YOU L wish you Joy. You'd
not wish to marry; you never loved
me. You English are like your eli
cold, nothing but frost and
snow-not like sunny France. Once
more wish you joy. kiss my hapd
to you; I say farewen."f The ddor
closed aud he left the house. =
Poor Lucy sat very still, looking at
the fire, and / crept out of my corner
to look at her. The bright freight
played upon her sad, quiet-looking
face, and lighted up her beautiful hair,
and tears were falling from her soft
blue eyes, and some of them fell up
on my little brown back, and was SO
grieved (you will, perhaps, hardly be-
Iieve it, but I was indeed so grieved),
that I actually trembled, and shrieked
with pain. sNS
The old gentleman never missed the
count, and never asked any questions
about him, and I could see that Lucy
was glad that it should be 80. And
when everything was settled up, he
and his daughter found that there was
enough left from the wreck of their
fortunes to take them to foreign land.
"We will 60 to America, my dear, |"
said Mr.. Harrison. awe will begin
life over again; everything is SO chang
ed with me, cannot stay here"
"Yes, father" was Lucy's cheerful
reply, "we will go whenever you
please. In that glorious land, SO noted
for its plenty and its hospitality, two
strangers, such as We shall be, may
make an honorable and perhaps sue
cessful effort to retrieve our fortunes"
And SO Lucy began to pack up her
little treasures (gitts of affection which
had been presented to her from time to
timel, and her own and her fathers
wardrobe. She brought these articles
into the parlor, and knelt upon the rug
before the fire as she arranged them and
put them all in order. You may be
sure that sang for her, and gave her
all the encouragement possibly could.
One night, as she was kneellng there
she picked up a newspaper that her IA
ther had been reading the had dropped
it on the floor), and she read in it an
account of her lovers marriage. The
count had married an English lady OF
fortune. He had been dividing his at
tention between her and my Lucy from
the time that MIR. Harrison's wheel OF
fortune took its first turn in the wrong
direction. Well, he was quick OBJ
server, and he knew as soon as the
merchant did when the first stroke of
came.
My Lucy's face was a study as she
read the little paragraph. There was
the deepest crimson in her cheeks !
ever saw, and such look Of grief and
soorn in her bright eyes, really didn't
think they were capable of taking that
1 never, saw them look
like that before. "And so,n she said
:. he has married, and gained ten thou
sand pounds. 1 wish him joy" and
then she laughed, but there was no
music in her laugh; I didn't like to hear
it. And then, after while, she cried
a little, but not for him. Pm quite
sure the tears fell not for him. They
dropped silently and heavily for lost
trust, and hope and faith. She knew
that these had gone back to her happy
and would never brighten
her life again.
Well, We sailed. I couldn't think of
being left behind, and so l snugly set
tied myself in one of the folds of Lucy's
dress. We sailed; and /
must say that never saw an English
sky look more beautiful than it did on
that morning when we slowly steamed
down the Mersey. The soft white flee
cy clouds were pure and lovely, as
taking many a fantastic form, they
fioated gracefully beneath the deep ozark
blue. And the air was fresh and
balmy, and had that wonderful prop
erty in it of bracing and Frightening
up to that degree, that even
l. poor, sorrowful little cricket, felt
its influence, and almost betrayed my
self to Lucy by quite dnconsciously
chirping out little. The Mersey itself
was beautiful sight to see, with its
ships of every size, all outward bound,
and with their white sails gliding along
all shining in the sunlight. All! it
was well for each and every one OF us
that We couldn't know all the sorrows
of the heavy hearts, over which smil-
ing ewes kept watch and ward, as the
shores of England slowly receded from
our sight. a..s-,-stsv
CHAPTER IL.
We settled down very comfortably
i'm a small house i'm tire city of New
York, and were very well pleased with
the house and with the city; though l
may say with perfect confidence, that
the house was little too small, and
very inconvenient, and was situated in
a rather out-of- the-way place; but then
rents were high, and as our means
were really very limited, We had to put
up with these little drawbacks, and be
satisfied.
Lucy declared that she was more
than satisfied; that it was perfect lit
tie bandbox Of a place, and that she
didn't see bow any, person could feel
but glad after coming safely
over the great ocean5an enduring all
the anxieties Of its uncertain perils;
/" indeed" shes continued, 81 don't
think such ingratitutle iS possible; and
really our housei is very nice, and the
hustle OF. the great city is cheerlngy and
the bay is magnificent" -sf2a
"Yes, my love, you are quite right
to make the best Of everything" said
her father, rather despondingly.
Iglistened to Lucy's remarks and
thought that in speaking of e;place
as a bandbox, she had done 1t justice !;
although for my own part 1 don't like
bandboxes, not that I'm at at all par
ticular about myself-a cricket can be
as cozy i'm one chimney corner as ano-
ther-and If dhadn't quite as much
hearthstone to walk upon as ! had
been accustomed to, couldn't blame
any body for.thdt; and if | was y stran-
ger in a strange land, Ibecame one OF
NV own free will and there was one
great advantage to me in the Snali
room, / could cause perfect Hood OF
melody to fill 1t without straining my
Voice in the least. But then my poor
Lilcy. fancied that she really didn't
like itAtllat She missed the handsome
parlors, the well-fifled dhrar the
broad stairMaTssandz the eoH fegsssand
lIixuries OF 1Ier Fiigl1sh home; and
that a. her cheerful ways and pleasant
words were only-to use a homely
pbrase-make believe.
Well, if they were. / never saw
person able to do up that kind of thing
TO such perfection as she did. She
u,ite imposed upon her father; he be-
Iieyed at last that his failure had been
a blessing to her, and that its Ill con-
sequences had passed harmlessly over
her head. / knew better than that
bat then, as she said, she was young
and strong, and hoped she would DC
strong enough to bear the burden she
had taken upon herself.
As to Mr.. Harrison, he sank into
I-;,d of latbarov for while. and then