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Updated: June 2, 2025
And then anon I would say to myself, "Oh, what if it wuz my Tirzah Ann! What if it wuz the Babe! Oh, that villian; may the Lord punish him!" And that is jest the way I sot, and wept, and cried, and cried and wept.
"Think of the case of the pretty Chinese girl of twelve years jest the age of our Tirzah Ann, when you used to be a-holdin' her on your knee, and learnin' her the Sunday-school lesson, and both on us a-kissin' her, and a-brushin' back her hair from her sweet May-day face, and a-pettin' her, and a-holdin' her safe in our heart of hearts.
"Let us go on, my child, because" the mother hesitated and trembled; then, with an effort to be calm, continued "because when morning comes they will put us out of the gate of the city to return no more." Tirzah sank almost to the stones. "Ah, yes!" she said, between sobs; "I forgot. I had the feeling of going home. But we are lepers, and have no homes; we belong to the dead!"
They took everything from him everything even this house!" "Poor!" said Tirzah, vacantly. "He will never be able to help us." "And then, mother?" "To-morrow to-morrow, my child, we must find a seat by the wayside, and beg alms as the lepers do; beg, or " Tirzah leaned upon her again, and said, whispering, "Let us let us die!" "No!" the mother said, firmly.
He had given them over as dead, and time had accustomed him to the bereavement; he had not ceased mourning for them, yet, as something distinguishable, they had simply dropped out of his plans and dreams. Scarcely believing his senses, he laid his hand upon the servant's head, and asked, tremulously, "Amrah, Amrah my mother! Tirzah! tell me if I see aright."
Lodema wuz too mad to find fault or complain or anything. She jest marched up-stairs and didn't come down agin that night. And the young folks had a splendid good time, and the old ones, too. Tirzah Ann and Maggie had brought some refreshments with 'em, and so had some of the other wimmen, and, with what I had, there wuz enough, and more than enough, to refresh ourselves with.
And who was it by her side, if not Tirzah? fair, beautiful, perfect, more mature, but in all other respects exactly the same in appearance as when she looked with him over the parapet the morning of the accident to Gratus.
His letter wuz full of gratitude to heaven and his ma for his dear little boy's restored strength and health. He and Maggie wuz lookin' and waitin' with eager hearts and open arms to greet us, and the time wuz long to 'em I could see, though he didn't say so. Tirzah Ann's letter contained strange news of our neighbor, Miss Deacon Sypher.
The older children away to school wuz doin' first rate both in health and studies, but Tirzah Ann's health wuz such that Whitfield had to keep a girl and pay doctor's bills, and I sez to Josiah: "I am sorry for 'em as I can be, and if this goes on much longer there don't seem much chance of Whitfield's buildin' his house on Shadow Island this summer."
Well, Josiah would come home Sundays all wrought up and enthusiastick boastin' what a model house it wuz, jest perfect, and what new and magnificent discoveries he had made to lighten labor, which he wuz goin' to git patented and probable make our everlastin' fortune, as well as make Tirzah Ann perfectly happy.
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