The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-11-12


homo against hte 90. Tho simpss. stuy scs, -
given ali that bad been promised to hsr In sne
s a.ys q ssss .ad 9su.
sssriaily. he yssad IN 81. Ather s bitter
h "; e .s os hsr
poor, young husband was mot strong enougn y
make her bear tho ills Of life. uncomP'ainingiy
She piped for the mimic, brilliant life she
once had known, and reproarhod her HUSBAND
for the dreary, unexcising existence TO VINO"
abe was doomed.
former acquAintances, snd guarded by his
watchful love from all her old associates no
doubt her life was sometimes lonely; but her
foolish heart and empty brain were aion. IL
blame, and not her doting, t0Hing, sei!-sacrr
ficing husband. who had risked aho ios' Do
much for her. -
He had toiled and suffered, borne mp against
many obstacles in order to mako his VIE anu ,
little daughters comfortable, as long as health
and strength were his. His love as . husband,
his anxious devotion as o father, these nao
froa. him but the hour Of TRIAL, Of bitter deg
radiation, camo at last. He besought his iatHeF
to have pity on him, to compassionate ms nap
less family. Paralysis had seizea nun. ant n
1ives depended, almost upon him. .Old az.
Latrobe 40 far relented As 20 give his family
food and shelter under his roof ION cond,tion
L00b Ql@ OeSpl6cO O8uRuVcI.iu-1oW
clude herself from his observation, and that
the two young girls should otherwise support
their parents by their own labor.
The gloomy conditions we.s aec tGs ,va aid
son entered his father's mapsion, helpless,
humiIiated, consoious Of his boyish error, but
|regretting it only because 1t had been the
means OF entailing misery upon others, never;
repining ct his own.
Mrs saS e.. sssss gass
II I~n 1,,p aHnn hnr
dren. Ignoring and disliking sewing, possess,
ing NO household Accomplishments, she had
drifted On through life, upheld upon its sur
face by her hnsbands arT as long as i u nae
to be borne along aS/comfortalst5 rs possible,
by means of Epxha's teaching, and Lenoras
needle work.
Emma inhefited her mothers delicate beauty
aud her frivolous, weak character, with con
siderable amount of vanity which befuuget TO
her as her own special gift, and a large share
of /sel6shness, which must have descended
from her paternal grandfather.
t Lenora, the younger daughter, was the one,
bright beam that shone in their darkened
liveS; the one sweet drop in her fathers chniioe
of aifliction; the one, pure flower whose fra
grant virtues might yet draw down. from
Heaven q blessing upon all.
Emmas aim in life was two-fold. To win
her grandfather's favor and become his heiress,
or, failing in this, to secure rich husband, who
would lift her from her daily routine of poverty
and labor. AtB-
Lon0r1, who mad CHOSEN Co earn mex SuaTo Oh
"daily bread by her needle, because this oc-
cupation allowed hSr to remain with her ia
Their, whose entire care devolyed upon her
hands, had no other thought than to cheer
his heart and alleviate his physical suffer-
Jugs. Night and day she waited on him, or
watched beside him, neither looking for, nor
expecting, aid from her silly mother and selfish
sister, and leaving him only when obliged to
look for work. She had no companions, for
neither Mrs. Latrobe nor Emma synpathiZed
with her deep, refined and holy feelings: No
cept Blanche Dudley and 1b$r Mss.her. The
history : The latter had Heard Of her, and, ad-
saw her Meeting her several times in COM
pany with his sister, he had become most ten
derby attached to her; but as yet the secret
lay untold in his own heart: Lepora, little
dreaming that the rich nerchant'f son ever
thought of the poor seamsffess, toi4ed on for
her beloved fatheresake without CLEAN of the
rose tinted vision that had arisen on William
Dudley's sight.
AS Ellen passed through the hall that day,
after giving her lesson to the elder sister, she
met the poor invalid and his gentle daughter.
Leaning heavily on Lenora and supported by
cane, he was slowly walking to and fro He
was very Handsome man, or rather had been,
tall and strongly built. with high forehead
and dark beard and hair. Lenora resembled
him closely, and as Ellen bowed to tie silent
pair, she noticed the Same calm, noble, patient
look upon the faces of both the father and his
child.
Sau, luuecs, was ouo pictuIc VI Iue paIaiy seu
man, leaning on his pale and delicate daugh-
ter, knowing that every day, nav every hour,
was sapping his feeble hold on life and all it
held SO dear.
Death in life! How truly has this name
been given to the terrible malady which robs
q man of strength and makes him helpless as
child clasping him with q hand of ice, send
ing it's fearful chill from limb to limb, until at
last it freezes the warm current in the heart
itself.
The once tall form now bowed and enact
-ated, the high forehead pale and bloodless, the
dass beard making the finely cut but sttenS
stamped themselves on Ellen's mind and filled
her with sympathy-for him and reverence for
Leuora but had she known the full history
then of the Latrobe household, she would not
have wondered that strange shudder again
came over her she passed the library door
and saw the old man still sitting there, engaged
in the slow and pitiless pastime OF wounding,
crushing siHg-eaett-- insect that
Glanced to come within his reach.
CHAPTER XIV
Hatred.
A few evenings after Ellen's Introduction TO
the Latrobe mansion, Lenora SAT, as usual, by
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