The Greenville enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1870-1873, 1872-10-30

she was SO busily plying her
needle, as the thought of her fond
father passed across her heart.
and smote it for it's rebellion
against her will to whose care he
had So solemnly entrusted her on
his death.bed. The mother was
also silent for a fewmoments.
Well, love-" she at length re-.
sumed, "you were but a few
months old when, one day l was
sitting with you in = small arbor
in the garden of the dwelling
where we then resided. On a
sudden I heard the latch of the
garden. gate raised, and a poor
man toiled up the sunny walk
He appeared in the last stage OF
,,wretohedness, and sickness seem,
ed to add its heavy load of misery
where already there appeared to
be an accumulation of ills. / rose
with an intention of inquiring in.
to his condition, and relieving him
as far as my means would permit /;
and. taking you in my arms, t
stood before him. But, Grace, /
suppose that time had not 80
changed ME as it had done him.
for he instantly calculated my
maiden name! Yes, love, YOU
may we'll drop your work and
raise yonr eyes. 1t was indeed he
whom l had loved, and persisted
in loving, in opposition to my pa
rents judgement. At that mo.
ment your father appeared at the
door, and when I looked Oh YOU
and him, contrasted with the
wretched mass of filth that shrunk
before me, my heart leaped with
gratitude to God for teaching me
to subdue my own evil passions
Your father had known, before
our marriage, all the circumstan.
ces concerning him and myself, 90
that a few words made known TO
him the cause of the surprise pic.
tured in both our countenances
and to make me love and reyer.
ence him still more, that good
man relieved his present wants
and provided for nis future ones.
Yes, Grace. your father fed, cloth.
ed, and lodged that repentant
creature in a neighboring cottage
till he recovered health and
strength-nay, more, he consealed
his name from all inquiring ears.
and not an eye which had once
known could now recognize
George May p
o." George May, mammal"
Yes, love, George Mayi The
same who used to pay us the year.
~ visit from London, 70 evince
his gratitude for your fathers
kindness. The same who died
in our village of decline seven
years after, leaving you the Bible
and pray er.book as the only lepa.
cy which could be bestowed by
poor, but repentant George Nav.
But now, dear, it is growing quite
dark | will go and see onr even.
ing meal prepared, and when we
have taken that, pray to your
Maker, and then retire to your
pillow"
And so Grace did; and the
next morning, when she entered
the breakfast-room, che threw her
arms around her mothers neck
and whispered that she had gain
ed the victory she, too, would
try if her mind might not over.
come the erring indications of her
heart.
Yes, and Grace succeeded; and
twenty years after, when she saw
a daughter of her own growing
up, she remembered how mildly
her own mother had won her from
her folly; and she felt that, to be
obeyed by that daughter, she must
remember that size herself had
once been a wild and wilful being.
and that it is only by placing our
own hearts in the situation of
others that We can hope to infiu.
ence them by our own precepts.
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