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Street and Smith's New York Weekly : a journal of useful knowledge, romance, amusement, & c. , v. XXIV, no. 14, February 18, 1869.
Contributor
Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia), 1810-1886.
Date Added
9 January 2014
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Newspaper
Language
English
Publish Date
1869-02-18
Publisher
New York : Street & Smith
Alternate Title
New York Weekly. Curse of Gold; or, The Path of Thorns / by Mrs. Ann S. Stephens. Path of Thorns.
Topic
New York (N.Y.) > Newspapers. Popular literature > United States > 19th century > Periodicals Story papers > Specimens.
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asmBy Watt, nged down cach sido of the room, with just {in the chill of insensibility sho hold the little be- | you? Nothing, but try my best ‘to bring you to. ) more from its mother’s arma; but, for the firet
fpnco enough betweon to allow a sort of footpath | ing into which hor own seemed to have merged, W Why i «limos i dead you've been, I don't know time alia seamed 1 nervone and Heroes to touch
' BY Lo BILLINOS 1S SPALDING. in which the nurses could pass from oue ‘bod to clasped tc to her boso: the dead, . ‘The doctor startled ‘saying, /
the dai ae I, nurse came into the ntl: v
Brery cot was ocguptod, oung face, her tsndl. dauntlees. atop, but |i be quick, or the woman will die? ‘That
so pale and mov nil that ‘sour heart nohod whit) steaihily andeamting sidelong glancce from, oot | bs will don tow luc me see if anything can put life
gazing o1 i turned sadly t toward ‘you on the 49-c0t 1 lke » panther fearing prey. into her, Poor tbing, pot thing. Ita « pity the |
straw. puto ‘ora feeblo hand would meke on fopped 01 fwico nad atu pil- aby is doad—but then what chance has ad or- at
Stfort tb draw up tho cover we ‘that you might not Inve i her sien with a ort of cajoling atten- and pie in this world ?—better dead, if she can oe
ark te Atast of shame ti a ‘atolo over her fore-.| tion leat hoi fa urned from the be brought to think so!”
And As gloomy lord ts Ray; neat usu of that shame which corner 3b two Young creatures suffered. Wily he was talking, the nurse lonly,
we fluds a pastime in the A: lay. atid in he ‘bosom. ‘Then she stole somtly “patwocn the two cots, avd | The nu ro put hor hands down and touched the | to the floor and snatched up a. eae ‘uben “tae,
: on the on of hair, ant the meat Fone exe, Ocher met yonr ¥: ‘iow, coarse and frame bending down her face till her soiled curl papers | infant. Tie poor mother folt thowe poaree hands | which, oepente dod iby a bred d chain, bad been to .
aj Bat yonder, cout in the rou slow, r Taggerd with long 'entfering; and_s¢ simost ‘touclied the dead, listened, folt the cold aking againnt b hor own. and shri way with | from the invalids neck Wi babe was frat
Tho od wife aluunbers dee tanged upot you oyes 00 full of gentioeabmission, | haud on the coverlet, aud cautiously turnod dow inetd aa they had sneted | romoced from Ber azmis- the doctor turned his“
i that you wondered why human beings so oppo- | the clothes. ound 9 pon a bore eyes that we 7.
And when the moon Its ras snow, site iu their pature should be crowded togetnor at the head of each cot a square wooden Iabol qt was some moments befor n spoke. |” ** Lam al ropping this pin-cusbion from
. Is sifting o'er the nuptial ia one room, even by the terrible levcler Poverty. | waa hung against the wall, on which was painted | When “she did, it was with Score of anuevural sho said, ring at gathering up the .
i It ne'er forgets to drop a glow Sounds, in paintul harmony with the. scene, iho name apd number of the ‘occupant ‘The oreo quickness, sec ccomnpanied with hurried glances a i her hand; “there is no keeping avything ‘
: 7+: Oath ioney loom of hat othe ef, greeted your eutrance, "Murmure of sharp impa- | took down these labels when quite wure that down the in its place.
ips re ihe old wife sambers sold and dead thence, tinprccations auppromed t only bs fear, and} of these young w 3 dead, and rep! placed ‘Sheree the doctor? It might have bee * Don ‘t stop for such nonsense,” cried the
: nar her dhoee in 0 fond ecabra ‘open complaints from dl radek, inj them again, ooking MMurtively around ae she did | pect Fainting fits all bight overasd ad physician, impatiently, “or the woman will
©, gather her close in @ fond e: at Sie : lates, “fbwaed the ighe and timid | ‘wh ispors of Shotered it. Half on your tace in Ender ‘our bands.”
| ‘And what if thy woaings werseatt pelre hal at gavo a breath of hearen even “after making herself bary with'tho lab gasped around it hke a ‘ee *Novaonder |The nurse thrust the silken chain and ite ap-
|. That white face set in Its ghastly seal, that ie Whi, the nurae atood over the cot of the ‘ead | its cot pendag sr bosom, and began in earnoet to =
jothing to thee, nor thine, any more esto Gocein die Your both standing in a remote | women # ng took a rapid survey of the ECOL” Ta that all—oniy oot? cried the mo- | ronde Feealstance a
4 v hee hor else totby fd, fon breast corner, were occupied Lke the rest, but gave forth { _ All was quiet eav of anita, far thor, trembling Li over, “only col
tho old wife {a her grave-clothes rest. hay atgod cloud together, and keep its “Cola bs a stone, and: dead 8 door nail, that hay mancaner DILLOX.
| +9 it seemed impossible to wh ict | place te bat it we the nurse, she ‘shai ply, f for, wh from
1 10 Act of Congres ¢ which was actually dead *. coldly sound. we | that moment the pl oaeae of ‘thi a Pa ,
if ee according to in a tr veh SPE |p yale wore i Yo Tacos that gleaned nnen, you het time for breath, The Fustlo of her wa droos | sight, and the ‘nutes adged well of The olfest het ae Shek Dad served pon Rett Suk, ane
j 1 -d States fro llr Both w ad one waa | goemed loee atartlin ed to tho otber | brutal apecch ‘on the young creature. | wiinese of ach ino one Lunipre
! wond besa fal oven in th ray sate ter baad stove sil more fovel ly, and laid OS very. A at ee iy . ; ner in te ueyine
; when forelread hands aad ipa were blanched 16) uer band down apon the heart of the venvelos| a vo wall eho rfectly wenveleys | of trouble. of rd. herself eb spe
: CURSE OF GOLD; fetsee tee = : he ire ne
"The other was fova besuiital, bat vory young, | "Sie ‘halt rose, fate aaharp, glange over, ber | | Whal is the trouble hore? ingtured tho doo-| over mmblog. neat
dnd ao Fragile that you wondered whs death had shouktor, and tang each of the Jar hands, clasp | tor, coming forward “Ol, pected thin” he | ot lack a te tua att ga
waited to find her in that mixorablo place, for she | ed 80 fond!y aroun A ieeping io fant, forced tl added, glancing at the Eercely ‘® breat a uae
THE PATIL. ‘OF FP THORNS. ma cit nadine, setting ko | gently apert and ited tho cluld trom emotions ot ih her trom the ret The baby, too, Tsup-| ™ wien feve Rae re betes wi a het
| Matance uke imperceptible suifening of hor white | A shnddor paseed through the frame of that “Nol” answered the arse, quilt | four air hour she kept up these mec ral wander.
: hand ‘ipo the covorlet, all proclaimed, this truth qoong m other, as: fe had creature has lost her ers, tugs ad then sunk amy pgeio,
| with terrible dist:nctn was’ yet | Gorm fromm hor bent cid sett wish they soukiat send sucl antl ry restless unider the
| reath of life close to her heart, tao Aer a her lips were, for ao insane faint crentore here, It's er ag &. destroy . on
i ifa wounded bird had folded ite wings fore ‘The nore turned su jeuly ‘acter to nave them
i and, then all was, quiet ‘as if sloop were ‘ere, OE and back agaiu, while ae Life- tre si pt sh 1s mot dead,” ple ‘ne doctor, pacs-
4 death had come twice, ». Without alos ing vet 6 two cots, and taking tho little
] IN BELLEVUE. rinter's morning crept thre reached for or hab the tad “ailea away from the child; al-
} The sick ward of a hoe ital mockingly.§ ie would aghboring | again with @ sig! igh neff ble: ht . ‘and eu most as bas gh; & bard cull 3 gue have. a tl ni
com, cated Bellow. Tue 2 * € pauper | atiay motiontese without a percopipte'b Port wee Tate the child « muder | vbr purery 1 the (oon,
4 lighted by « range of Ho et the muttering. of a tients rest-} Tat it was nor for joy. A the lui, am she feoin cold How long has it Tien ads ects, bud grets tat for
i ry the wall, rei overlooked the East | less with feven or clamorous for Myuritan ent, | before, had see cop the vitality in ree tect when Lene i et provide WS ber In tine of o I
River fuk an oxp oxpanre of Long Island that curved | the wail of sickly infants, and the outeries of) beart ‘vith ite own rrarmtha, £0 tow tone outward ove aye have it removed. She will nover te ree te cynares 0 we
along the oj posite shore, healthy ones, this poor young creature died aud shill Grove back the blood {ots centa Witt cone to ‘with that freezing her to the heart.” Wof'wovg wage be *wacd :
juw poverty-stricken women, and bome wor grew cold, awaten d and nowept. joan, and a struggle, she ¢ opened nd the other baby ?” “questioned the narso, | typ su bal ae ough te Sep cae ere
than that, Leosuse bo owed down ‘by shame as wel ell ‘he ther, ie who lay 80 hke on exqnisite stat. her great bluo eyos, and fixed thom wiltiy ‘on the angi wat in Wn *
4 as poverty, had sought this ward as tuo onty place { ae on the néiglibaring couch, would no life ever | nese. it to one of those women to nurse, till iene ° eee anna tneaktarlg. wie 20
{ in which their auguish and sorrow could find | return to fer? There max afaine motion of the | L om cold, oht so coid,” sho said shivering, something can be done; Xk Ore to ot for wany of gear work = ome echier ee hele?
bholter. ed-cluthes, as if breath «till lingered there: but | and co g down in the bed; ‘what have you | They moen't he here. or ave & panic caer ‘Mharparet Dill-o. had Do prion in te atier
‘Narrow, auper cots forniehed with straw beds on it exist in that fair young mothor or in the | dono to fining te patients.” we she, sive. 1a nee cniumetion, bowpged to ts
\ and oovered ree, cueckered cotton, were | child, for she, poor thing, was a mother, and even "Dane to you ?" said the nurse, faintly, “done to ffort to tak peopl i