New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-11-10
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blue OF the groundwork.
Older eyes than Maggie's, and those
more accustomed to luxuries, might
have dilatAd in delight at sight of go
beautiful a gift.
"And it is mine-for true?" she
said, at last, as if such great good for
tune could not possibly be hers.
eyes. all your own, to do just as
you choose with"
"Oh! obi was all the delighted
child could say, but there was such
world Of love and gratitude in the
depths of the soft, dark eyes, that
DR.. Jay turned away with suspicious
~ wet eye-lashes.
"You have made heaven for little
Maggie" the head nurse said, upon
his nextcall. II never saw such pleas
ure as the child takes with that bit of
ribbon. She has certainly made a
hundred different combinations of
bows and dolls and all sorts of fancy
fixings out of it. She is aqueen, fairy
princess, and every thing else by turns.
Once l offered to cut it for her, that
she might make bows more convenient
ly You should have seen her. She
Rugged it up to her, and looked at me
with such frightened, pleading eyes,
one would certainly have thought it
/ was some living creature vas going
to harm. There, just look at her!
isn't she picture?'
She certainly was a most lovely pict-
ure, as the doctor came up to the lit
tie bed. The dark eyes were bright
with happiness, and the pale cheeks
flushed delicate pink, rivaling the
roses on her beautiful gift. Pain and
sorrow were all forgotten in the de-
Eight of her new possession.
She had evidently exercised all her
taste and skill in arranging her below
ed ribbon to the best advantage, in
anticipation of the DOCTORS visit. It
was looped and bowed and festooned
in a most graceful manner about her
head and form, for, all unknown to
herself, Maggie had inherited all the
taste and skill of the loving, gentle
little French mother who. deserted by
the one who should have been her pro-
tector, had died broken-hearted at the
! birth of her child.
eff she could but see how pretty she
| looks!" the nurse said. softly.
The next day when, from the capa-
cious pockets of his overcoat, DR.. Jay
Brought forth q small hand-mirror,
| and held it before the eyes of the de-
lighted child, her cup of happiness was
Overlooking.
Every night the beloved gift was
carefully smoothed and folded IN
tissue paper. With one bunch ofro ses
turned on the outside of the pack
age, and with tender pressure of 1t
against her cheek, and loving good
night kiss, Maggie would fall asleep,
her hand resting lovingly upon its
soft, lustrous folds. At her first wax
ing moments it was unrolled, and the
delight of manifold manipulations re-
commenced, with ever fresh delight.
But there came day when even
the possession of her hearts treasure
| could not overcome the terrible pain
which racked her slight frame.
For days she had beengrowing worse,
and the physicians saw no hope save
in an operation--difticult and danger
Gus, one which if unsuccessful must
result fatally.
They had postponed it from week
to week, hoping for favorable results
without it. But one morning DR.. Jay
found Maggie lying SO white and ex-
hausted from pain and sleeplessness,
he saw clearly that there was no
alternative.
She seemed unconscious of his pres
ence, even when he pressed the thin
white hand as he felt her pulse. The
pallid, pain.marked face, the
limp, wasted little form, appealed
most pathetically to his kind heart,
and bending over her he pressed
kiss of fatherly tenderness on the
white forehead. Her large dark eyes
suddenly Enclosed, the warm blood
flushed the pale cheeks, and smile of
tender, loving delight flashed over her
face.
"Is the pain so hard to bear, dear
child?' he asked, sympathetically.
''Itis better now" was her low re-
ply:
All, how little Dr.. Jay suspected, as
the dark eyes followed him with such
worshipful tenderness, that his kiss
was the first caress the poor child had
ever known! Kicks and cuffs and
drunken oaths had often been show
cred upon her, but a fathers kiss,
mothers tender caress, poor Maggie
worse than orphaned-had never
known.
'There must be an operation with.
out delay" was DR.. jays decision,
after brief consultation with the
house physicians. Tomorrow at
eleven at the very latest. She cannot
live over forty. Eight hours in her pres
ent condition."
I TO. the head nurse whom he
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