The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-01-20

done with Britain, and SO have /, till our
next war. Pray God that may'nt be
longv
1t was like lions roar of anguish. | saw
my dear fathers heart was bursting with ag-
Ony and rage at the insult to his daughter,
and shed tears for him those wretches had
never drawn from me.
had cried at being insulted by scholars,
in the Press; but what was it to ME that the
scum of the medical profession, which is the
scum of Gods whole creation, called me
words did not know the meaning of, and
flung the dirt of their streets, and the filth of
their souls, after me? I was frightened lit
tie, that is all. But that these reptiles could
wound my darling old lions heart across the
ocean- Sir, he was man that could be
keen and even severe with men: but every
virtuous woman was sacred thing to him;
had he seen one, though stranger. insulted,
as we were, he would have died in their de-
Tense; he was true American. And to think
the dregs of mankind could wound him for
his daughter, and SO near the end of his own
dear life! Ohp' she turned her head away.
my poor grip said Wizard, and his own
voice was broken.
When he said that she gave him her hand,
and seemed to cling to it little; but she
turned her head away from him, and cried,
and even trembed little,
But she very soon recovered herself and
said she would try to end her story. 1t had
been long enough.
"Sir, my father had often obeyed me; but
monials in Edinburgh, and started south dl-
rectly; in week I was in the south OF
France. Oh, what change in peoples
minds by mere change of place! The pro-
fessors received me with winning courtesy;
some hats were lifted to me in the street
with marked respect; flowers were sent to my
lodgings, by gentlemen who never once in
truded on me in person. L was in a civilized
land. Yet there was disappointment for
me. I enquired for Cornelia. The wretch
had just gone and married professor. I
feared she was up to no good, by her writing
SO seldom of late.
I sent her line that an old friend had re-
turned, and had not forgotten her, nor our
mutual VOWS.
She came directly, and was for caressing
away her crime, and dissolying it into croco-
die tears; but played the injured friend and
the tyrant.
Then she curled round me, and coaxed,
and said, Sweetheart, can advance your in.
terests all the better. You shall be famous
for US both. shall be happier in your sue
cess than in my own
In short, she made 1t very hard to hold
oPiIc, duu IL cuucu Ill lccUle-uluutu Gill;
braces. Indeed, she auds of service to me. l
had favor to ask; 1 wanted leave 10 count
my Scotch time in France.
My view was tefIable; and Cornelia, by her
beauty and her popularity, gained over all
the professors to it but one. He stood out.
Well, Sir, an extraordinary occurrence be-
frlended me: no, not acknowledgements
al.
lodged on a second floor. The first floor
was very handsome. A young Engisbman
and his wife took it for week. She was mu-
sical-a real genius. The only woman I ever
heard sing without whining; for we are, by
nature, the medical end phmusical SEX"
$50 you said BEFORE"
81 know I did; and mean to keep saying
it till people see it. Well, the young man
was taken violently and mysteriously i'll; had
syncope after syncope, and at last ceased to
breathe.
'.The wife was paralyzed. and sat stupe-
fed, and the people about feared for her rea-
son.
''After time they begged me to come
down and talk to her. OF course went. I
found her with her head upon his knees.
sat down quietly, and looked at him. He
was young and beautiful, but with feminine
beauty. His head finely shaped, with curly
locks that glittered in the sun, and one
golden lock lighter than the rest. His eyes
and eyelashes, his oval face, his white neck,
and his white hand, all beautiful. His left
hand rested on the Counterpart. There was
an emerald ring on one finger. He was like
some beautiful flower cut down. I can see
him now.
"The woman lifted her head and saw me.
She had noble face, though now distorted
AMI wild.
s'She cried, Tell me he is not dead! tell
me he is not deadv and when did not re-
ply, the poor creature gave wild cry, and
her senses left her. We carried her into
another room.
an official came TO insist on the interment
taking place. They are terribly expeditions
In the south of France.
"This caused an alteration; and the poor
lady rushed out, and finding the officer per-
emptory, flung her arms round the body, and
said they should not be parted-she would be
buried with him.
''The official was moved, but said the law
was strict, and the town must conduct the
funeral unless she could find the sad courage
to give the necessary instructions. With this
he was going out, memorable, when all of a
sudden [ observed something that sent my
heart into my mouth, and 1 cried 'Arretezp
so loud that every body stared.
Il said. You must wait till physician
has seen him; he has moved finger.'
II stared at the body, and they all stared
at me.
''He had moved finger. When I first
saw him his fingers were all close together;
but now the little finger was quite away from
the third finger, the one with ring on.
81 felt his heart, and found little warmth
about it, put no perceptible pulse. ordered
them to take off his sheet and pat on blank
otc hut not FL fouob hin, t;1I ANNA hooI,
with learned physician. The wife en-
braced me, all trembling, and promised obedi-
ence. got a .fdcre and drove to Doctor
Brasseur, who was my hostile professor, but
very able. burst on him, and told him I
had a case of catalepsy for hint wasn't
catalepsy, you know; but physicians are fond
of Greek; they prefer the wrong Greek word
to the right English; so 1 called it 'cata-
lepsy,' and said believed they were going TO
bury live man. He shrugged his shoulders,
and said that was one of the customs of the
country. He would come in an hour. 1
told him that would not do, the man would
be in his coffin; he must come directly. He
smiled at my impetuosity, and yielded.
81 got him to the patient. He examined
him. and said he might be alive, but feared,
the last spark was going out. He dared not
venture on friction. We must be wary.
"Well, we tried this stimulant and that
till at last we got sigh out of the patient;
and shall not forget the scream Of joy, at
that sigh, which made the room ring, and
thrilled us all.
'By-and-by was so fortunate as to sug-
gest letting a small stream of water fall from
height on his head and face. We managed
that, and by-and-by were rewarded with a
sneeZe.
81 think sneeze must revivify the brain
wonderfully, for he made rapid progress, and
then we tried friction, and he got we'll very
quick. Indeed, as he had nothing the mat
ter with him-except being dead-he got
ridiculously well, and began paying us full
some compliments, the doctor and me.
$50 then we handed him to his joyful wife.
''They talk of crying for joy as if it was
done every day. never saw it but once,
and she was the woman. She made a curl
Gus gurgle; but it was very pretty. I was
glad to have seen it, and very proud to be the
cause.
''The next day that pair left He was
English; and so many good-natured stran-
gers called on him that he fed swiftly, and
did not even bid me good-by. However, I
was told they both inquired for me, and were
sorry was out when they went.''
''How good of them!' said Wizard, turn
ing red.
"Oh, never mind. Sir; made use of him.
scrubbed an article that very day, entitled