Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1874-04-16

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and'siete b fcasonfls s6sSs
10 his.uiml il yens ~ uot.
! teQsiaHaKx .aheorfs2rr1l -
! I wept at BIS wofdg.. IEy e..
he wanted. He did not Ia y d. until i
/. promised to,do better, 1aHd Eaade tho Of,
fort and succeeded. The adoctor sevei
complained of me sgain. sw - sc -
Acting BY his advice, I went 10 Europe
/ that vcry Summer. to consult an eminent
occulist upon Hcrbcrfs case. l'returned
with him in the AUTUMN. aud eladdcned
the doctors heart by showing him my
Herbcrt's bcamiag eyes, restored TO SIGH,
! once more .' aa fisai 3-f
Now commenced the education so long
delayed. Fearfully aud tcnderly watched
lest hs should ovordo himself; and all that
could do to save his sight by reading to
him his exercises, I j"yfully performed
4. first be was unwilling that should te
thus taxed: but when told him of ose
great historian. Prescott. who by thus
carefully abstaiaiug from using his eyes,
was enabled to give SO much to the world,
he was satisfied and content to hear me
read his lessons. 1t was no hardship 10
me. 1t kept me from bitter thou ghis.
and did me good as absolutely as it did
good to him, 49,.
It saved his poor eyes for Eve years, at
any rate-and then they had become
strong enough for him to enter college.
with \ fair prospect of being able to 60
i through credi:ably.
But oh. bow lonely the four college
/ years were to make me had not the
resources which most lonely women have
that Of possessing an Intimate friend vino
could have shared my home. Ny life had
been SO couccntrated-so FULL of IN wonted
cares and duties tha: young girls seldom
have 20 pegform-tha, had neither time
nor Inclination to foster such intimacics
and my habits were so fixed that any al
tcration from their usual course would be
:n,olerable. Even any change Of servants
in my Household gave NO unuiterable pain,
and could not bear to see a strange face
at all.
After Herbert went away was really
ia. The-rescsi0u- nmS1aensn2s,
Life seemed very strau&S 4
Wardwell came again with his W. 4ystell
Of cure. He told me of many sufferers in
our town-people who lacked help in va
rious ways-and he ordered mo to put on
my cloak every morning. aud fnd ou
their individual wants. aud supply them.
He had prescribed for me before sue.
cessfully. and did not dare to refuse his
protferej aid now. So braved cold and
storms. and did some good. perhaps. e
others. an! more to myself-but oh, the
long. dreary evenings! could not read
for those five years of perpetual reading
to Herbert had weakened my own vision,
and must save it now for future use: SC
| sat Tor hours in twiligh. or by the faint
glimmer on the hearth. folding my hand.
and living over memories that ought to
have bseu buried out Of sight long be-
fore.
had headache one morning and wa,
Obliged to !ie down for several hours
Once tell asleep and dreamed confused
dream. in which it seemed as If all tn,
people had ever known were sirangel,
mixed MP. | awoke with . great star
just as Fanny was bringing a letter int
the room. The letter seemed part ant
parcel of the dream. and opened it lik
one in deep sleep. l, was a telegram. an,
its contents for years impressed ihemsclve
on nv brain at every new waking from
slumher. Each morning that drear,
message addressed itself anew to my fac
, uties, weighing them down with miscr
J lal ts.S n p. 4 20. l. 4
, eating into my heart like the teeth of ser
pents.
My last light on earth was aarkcned. m
J work on earth vas done. Thus though
} when i read the words that seemed drea
rier than those ot death warrant The
did not condemn ne TO dea,h-bus the
condemned me 10 live alone. uerbei
; was dead!
\ week Of unusual hard study at tb
Law School. where he had gone i;nmedi
ately after graduating at college. ha
: worn him completely down. He had gon
to bed, and was found dead in the morn
ing. This learned afterwards. when
: al oused from the siupor into which fe
on reading the dispatch. knew moth
: ing more uptii what had been my He.
bert lay in The coiiia in \ darkeued room
| canno, dwell upon the scenes of TIA;
week. Oue thought was in my mind b
day, by night. sleeping or waking. Hcl
bert was dead could not then realiI
that lie had lived his whole life-,bat
had sot been cut of prema,urel,- |
had wrought out the full rurose of
| being in tha, short space allowed him.
: Now, | know that. although he died
yOuar. lie had Known larger life al
= hope than those on whoa Genius has II
= affixed her stamp; that bis death "
u only life prolonged-enlarsed, and MAJ
= beautiful aud divine.
All thai DR.. Warduell could say to n
0 now. about sIousing myself 10 the ne,
of others. fell urou unhcasing ears.
mat,ercd no, to me. Why should n
u others suffer as well as +! Must Fa
c sharpen all her arrows sgainss nv hear
aud others have only the son corners
o the woTld-only the balm Of life:
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