Indiana American, Volume 4, Number 49, Brookville, Franklin County, 2 December 1836 — Page 1

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It is Irulya fearful thing to look backward through the chequered vista of our by-gone ,faisaiul find no green spot wherein the merr.orv c.in dwell with pleasure nothing in the sonin dreams of youth which can compensate for the thickly-coming infirmities of age nothinc over which we can linger with a :i ef regret, and exclaim with the gifted pcte; of the Passison, "Would 'twere to do aiia : ' IN nowever, we near wun us an .- i i -.1 inward monitor, who, ever and anon, erects the solemn finger of reproof, mid says, in terms too cmphalica! to admit of mistake, i.fiie crime was thine be thine the punishment!"' e have no plea of justification to enter upon the record; we must wear the remainder of our days in repentant sadness, and jo down in very sorrow to the grave. Hut if we enter upon the world w ith a graceful confidence, with a bosom overflowing with love for eTery human tie, to which the common air, the generous earth, and all the mighty adjuncts of the visible world are but so many jiolv links, connecting this sphere of existence with another infinitely more exalted, and meet a blight in the very outset cf our carter, a mark which brands us as the children of an unhappy destiny, then, indeed, may we veil our eyelids in the waters of fruitless rcgrchand weep with unfeigned sorrow over the barrenness of the past, and the almost Wlessncfs of the future. In the days of my early manhood, while the wrl J was but as a shower of sunshine, I led a friend who was as dear to me as name or reputation; and from the first hour of our intercourse, to the gloomv period of its close, Clement Kennedy showed himself worthy of mv idolatrous regard. There are many ordinarv ties which link hearts together in happy unison, and I may say, that we added to tl.esc every thing which could stimulate or cement reciprocal affection. With a similarity of professions in view, our studies were (he same; and we advanced to our respective degrees of attainment like brothers, not competitors; an honour gained by Clement Kennedy would have set painfully on his brow, il not shared by Robert Blandford, and if Robert was ripe for examination on the morrow, he would have declined the opportunity, if Clement ni ght not tread w ith him the path to distinction. Thus inseparable in our studies, it will not be supposed that we w ere divided ia our sports; as we proceeded hand in hand in the field of mental cultivation, w e did not relax our hold when wc sought the recreations of civil society. Clement Kennedy was blessed with a mother and two angelic sisters. It is perhaps well forme that I had neither; but the home of mv friend was frequently mine. Mrs. Kennedy was a fine and high-spirited woman, who existed in the welfare of her children. Catharine, her eldest daughter, was deeply impressed with a lofty, and almost chivalrous ense of honour, imbibed, it was said, from her fuller, who fell a willing sacrifice in the lerviccof his devoted country. Marian, the joungest daughter, was of a timid, gehtle nature, and w as more beautiful than her sister, at least she always appeared so to me. She had none of the imaginative enthusiasm of the former, but she was full of the gentlest auctions, and the tendercst feelings, w hich couid adorn and beautify the female character. I cannot say, at this moment, what she ;iwinme; but I saw-in hern world cf perfection, and I loved her for the 6W eet and unobtrusive virtues of her character. She was formed, too, for woman's saddest, most domestic, offices. 1 remember when her brother lay delirious in a fever, neither entreaties nor Payers could keep her from his pillow. The lofty enthusiasm of her eldest sister ventti ifself in tears and passionate cxclamaiwis. She w ept for him as for one already lost, and her grief grew moody and impatient instead of being shifted into affectionate solifitude. What a contrast, in comparison w ith the gentle Marian! While her sister wept n hysterical agony, Marian watched in anxious silence. Perhaps, too, she did weep, but 'twas in the still midnight, when none were nfar, when very weariness had passed the eveliJs of her suffering charge for a few moments into fellowship. She sought rather to soothe, by an example of chastened endurance, than augment the sorrow of others by the obstreperous lamentations of her own; and when she saw him restored to health and strength, when he was nigh overpow ered by t'w boisterous cladness "of Catharine, she st'-l maintained the beautiful equanimity of ""character. She felt, indeed, irradiated b.v his manly presence; but beyond that her bosom seemed as tramiui! as a sheltered lake. "llO Would nnl liavn rnrplpil Slich H sister? )Ho would not have sighed for the surpass-! "S ministrations of such a being, in hours uen sadness sat too heavily on the humiliateJ spirit, or sickness applied its withering Power to the exhausted frame? May I be PerniiUed to avow that I gloried in such perfection that I loved her with a tenderness almost ennal tnlit-r nwn and. finally, that 1 "3-c-quai to ner own ami, nnain , ui.u beloved with a deep, but r!cH devotion, j

sach as might only be manifested by an incomparable being like herself? Why do I dwell upon these things with a spirit which almost seems to exult in their contemplation! Alas! because 1 know they are beyond recall. Why docs the mourning mother graze, again and aga'in, through her streaming tears, on the couch which contains the lifeless form of her dear, and only child? It is to have the fearful certainty more indelibly impressed upon her heart, that she will ho more see the warm flush of life on its in.iocent cheeks, that she will never again behold the brilliance of its sparkling eyes, or hear the murmuring music of its voice, as it tunk in balmy slumber on her bosom. Even in such a spirit do I gaze on the mental vision of Marian Kennedy, and the few short hours of sunshine which her presence shed around me. At the period to which I now allude, cur beloved, but unhappy country, was the arena of civil dissension, and party spirit raged with a vehemence not often exceeded even in that degraded and misgoverned land. It is not for mo now to enter into any history of the indignities which were heaped upon wronged and insulted Ireland; she has had her advocates, proud and triumphant ones. She has had her victims, loo; and it is melancholy to think how similar has been the fate which awaited both; the most triumphant advocacy was merged in oppression, and the most sinless of her victims overwhelmed in the grave. My friend and myself did not come into manhood without a share, perhaps a liberal one, of indignant feeling at the miseries which our common country had sustained, and was in all human probability doomed to sustain. It may be pardoned in us that we were sanguine in examining schemes by which she was to be lifted from the mire of pollution, and placed in the rank of free and enlightened nations. Vet, may I say it, we were not firebrands in the cause of faction: though anx

ious to light the ilrnae of liberty on our native altars, we sought not to accomplish it by desecrating the fanes, and trampling on tie shrines of others. It was in this time of 6trong excitement that a number of my countrymen began to assemble in secret, for the discussion of themes which it w as no longer practicable for them to debate upon open i!y. Societies were formed, and a correspondence entered into, which, for the secrecy with which the former were maintained, and the extent to which the latter was pushed, even in the heart of an agitated country, were perfectly appalling to the minions of misrule, when they became aware of the precipice, on the brii k of which they had been pausing. It is almost needless to say that Clement Kennedy and myself were joined to one of these societies, and equally unnecessary to add, that almost from that moment we became marked men. There was a wretched creature but I will not stiin my paper with his name nor fling additional reproach upon his memory. This being was entrusted with our secrets; and candour obliges me to confess, that some of them were of a nature which the prudent amongst us deplored. Such, however, as they were, they were confided to his faithless keeping. JMouth after month rolled heavily along, yet still we seemed to be gaining ground, till at length, as the eastern traveller sees the mimic fountain, we thought we discovered the dawn of restoration gleaming over the desert of tyranny and wrong. 1 had spent an afternoon with my friend, in the society of his mother and her daughters. That nameless creature, loo, was there, and in despite of reiterated hints to the contrary, he seemed obstinately determined on the introduction of the civil agitation of the time. On this theme, Kennedy and niyseif had made it a rule to preserve the most profound silence, whilst in the presence of Lis only remaining parent. With all her goodness, she had a weak point en these topics. She had already experienced some little dilliculties with her husband, and she determined not to encounter a repetition of them in the person of her son. She believed that it was quite possible for men to move in their proper sphere of action without mingling their hands in the settlement of grievsnces, of the origin of which they were guiltless; and, whatever ot duplicity may be charged upon the act, we studiously withheld from her the slender share we had in hat we deemed our country's destinies. I know the 'emon now which promted the wretch to act as he did on that occasion, although at tho moment I could scarcely refrain from considering him as deranged. He not only persisted in his attempted conversations, but had the fatuity to produce some printed documents which had only been perused in secret. I rose from my chair. "'Jonie, Clement, said I, "our friend" ay, I said friend then "our friend rebukes us wisely; we have indeed transgressed too far upon the ladies' leuure. and these newspapers w ill confirm our ill behaviour." "Uiht, right! ' said Clement, "fold them up, Mr. , and we will take a turn in tho garden till little Marian tells us tea is ready." "Gsntlemen, it is too late!" said he, with an emphasis absolutely startling. And it was too late! A herculean personage entered the apartment, and formally arrested "Clement Kennedy and Robert landlord on separate charges of high treason!" We assured the bewildered ladies that the whole had originated in some awkward mistake, which the explanation cf a moment would rectify, and departed amid a scene of indescribable confusion and alarm. We now became aware of the peculiarity I may say awful peculiarity of our situation. A mine had sprung beneath us, and where we might alight, when its disastrous whirl subsided, the tJod above us could alone divine. To add to inquietude, we were sepaaled; the friends who had been indivisible for years were subjected to the rude severance of a common prison-keeper. Distinct apartments were awarded to us, and we had tho further infliction to endure, of knowing that new additions were making hourly to what was triumphantly termed the "new caught band of petty patriots!"' It becomes me, however, to be just. We were not kept in ignorance. Copies ot the charges to be preferred against us were furnished, and time .. I c .lv.. ...... t-hirli f,1ir a lOWCU lor prt-parilis; urnrn.c iu mot ,. Liwlimr cantors proudly deemed indefensible.i.'or mvself. I must candidly confess that I felt the novelty ef my situation somewhat oppressive. I knew the extent of my participation too distinctly j to rlatter myself with the hope of a triumphant verdict; and yet I felt that I had never engagea in the depth of guilt which was about to be publicly charged upon me. i lfntrti, pvprv tliin?r arransred, and the "coramission," as it was specially termed, was opened. --- - j c with mere than usual gravity. I had reccved none ot ma am on ineprci ous. evening i was smnij m lu uu.mus my apartment, in one of those musing and mourn -

ful moods which the mind oftentimes takes refuge! to mv fellow in adversity, when I thought I in, when it is too much distracted to entertain aHW s coour fli;iinr or his fine counteneome distinct principle of thought. I sat in a spe-1 , ,i ',- , , r , , i, o-o r ,i- i i , 'auce relax ng in the firmness of its heroic exCie or wakingdream, pondering over many thing, i . i i r i and I beheld the past, and the present, and, with ; prcssion ; but in that short space I found mysome degree of solicitude, the fului e. all mingled self perfectly unmanned a thousand i)Jein chaotic indistinctness, and leaving- akerate im- finable sensations crow ded over me, and preseions of pain, pleasure, ami anxiety. ''drove me into imbecility. It was near mid1 am almost willing to believe now. even st this' - i . i . 4i i " ret i . J r.,v,,t i ti.i .i . k . - night when the arbiters ot late returned, remote hour, that I was that night the subject ot p . . . spectral and demoniac visitation. It is scarcely j I h candles that here and there lent their possible for me to conceive that the heart of mail reluctant light, threw a feeble glare upn was capable of such desperate wickedness ss wasjthem as they entered one by one, which that night revealed to me, or that one being be.ir-mnje (ltm secn, pcna fpjrjig doomed to ing the form of a man, would have dared :o have! i i i ! . i,- : i l LrL,,, , . , , ., , ,, , scourge mankind. J tit myselt sinking. J oreuthed such counsel in the ear of another, who! . r . . . J . . . - had, at least within his reach the power of at-! grasped the front of the bar with the lervour tempted retribution. jofa drowning person. As their names were The chain fell heavily from the door of my apart-, (old over, I literally gasped for breath. The mer.t, and the form of that now execrated being: jjr,tg quivered before my eves. A noise as

eniereo. l was not prepared (or such a viait;uit,i ,. i i , t ..,(,- i,,.. . .. . . , ..ot rapid and midnight waters w but lie saluted me with gavetv. I will not detail 1 ,r , .

what passed between us 'twere rain and profitless. I complained of his intrusion, and taxed him

with his pertidy. He laughed aloud at the nccu- cd to verge upon suffocation, yet sustained by sation. and inquired if I knew him I thought the gome ,Upertor power, which held me back to wretch inebriated, and ordered Liio to leave me. COI)sciou,nt.s,. At kngth, in the dead li"No!" said he, "we must have another scene . erue n tI;e cour(j I heard -Clement KenneJ?!evrrPrmV, fd- 11 'V",,'"?. I'0Wer l J)'. eui'tv," and I fell stunned and instable sive you Irom an ignominious death; it is in uiy j . '

power to con.'er on you happiness which you haveii coveted for years. Nay, do not start, nor look so tiger-like; we are but man to man, and if I am worsted, one call of my voica makes all even sain. rl , '-TV . , f , "tocn. said I. scarcelr cnn.-ihle nf i'nntrol.

"Clement, his family, and yourtelf, s.r usw1 "av ho;uJ d)ln3 agonies but tlie completely in my power." j throes of returning life are awfully severe. I ground my teeth in convulsive egony. That midnight scene of horror w as not well

"I-or you I have some regard. There is yet a way tor your escape." j "Nkr.ie it' ' -You mi.! l.;-.w.1" I shall utter, sn.l vmi.ro. i i.mw irH.- ih, deeds of the family estate in mv possession; we'il discard the old fax, take the girls into companion ship, and live like princes!" I rre tocrush him out of the shape of humanity, but he e.'uded my grasp; the door closed with a quick, hars-J.' soul'd, and I was left alone iu darkness, and a tumult of indignation. It was long before tiy L.;cd began to Low

with its accustomed equanimity e;'r faint smile of satisfaction; but, while the awseemed yet to tingle with the tones 'u which. fu sentence wui being pronounced, he trcmthe monstrous prepositions had been mae tojj violently it was then that he was obme to me! a devoted lover and a fast fricnii; served to raise his hand to his lips il was of the family! "Gracious Heaven!'' T cx-!i,xn thnl he had determined to remove his

claimed, ' What is he or n-hed am I? Has ' my conduct been so very ambiguous as to' warrant him in daring to offer me an indig nity so degrading? To stoop at once to sub ordination and seduction-to plunge from the

. I. r I I. . j 1. i c ed our hands in salutation, seemed to possess;

j.aiiis o! kucuuu uououi, iu me i;ur oi m-"- was not got over; 1 was seized with maand crime!"' It was too shocking for reality jur,ant fevcri a1j conveved from the apartand yet it was real. , ment m deirium. I he morning crime at length, whose eve- Some wefti elap5ed before I was again ning might see us doomed to a miserable enabeiJ lo ni;ngle ju society. Poor Kennedeath. 1 thought Kennedy looked palerij had been laid in a felon's grave, unblest than usual, though his grasp, when we join-i Iwi imn5 ,.., iiP ... hurried at mid-

more than Us wonted lervour. We talked;, family not even allowed the informaw ith cheerfulness of the ordeal we were toun-jtiou ull W!ii0ver. had a farewell letter dergo, and fervently prayed for righteous ( , f , . ino.her but t knew not low

judges of our cause. He knew that orne ofjlo

our compatriots were to be sacrificed, yet we advanced to the tribunal with manly cotifi-L,,

uence. blood, would be shed on either side. The day was considerably spent befcrc we were called upon to plead, 'and I thought, as Whilst I thus hesitated betwixt duty to the I looked upon some of the faces which fccl-i and feelings of regard for the living, 1 ing or curiosity had drawn around us, thaljuecame apprised of the fact which deierthey seemed already tired of the occupation, mined me to make the visit at every hazard. The siht of two uew victims, however, gave l'roni the time of my illness, some secret en-

another impulse to them, and they renerved themselves to hear yet more of crime yet more of terrible retribution. Why should 1 detail our trial? It was but a simple addition to the already oft-read records of that period of heart-burnings and blood-shed. The witness whose testimony lold most bitterly against us, was my Judas visitant of the previous night. I owned, when first he stood i..i.i i i i i upon tlie Witness i.ioic, i longtru 10 fj - iu.g! from the dock, and perpetrate murder even I before the throne of justice; but my reason returned, and I beheld him quit the table with a feeling of mingled pity and abhorrence. I saw that the tide was setting in rapidly against poor Kennedy, and his pale but earnest features seemed to tell a tale scrupulously similar. My implication was not so fiercely emblazoned a his, but lhe i ;,w, ,-lr.i.iA rr m.-i n nr he , hid the act of one w as the act of all. The case for the crown was over, and Cle ment Kennedy was called upon for his de tin in ii 1 1 ki .i""'" n fence. This was one of the most interesting moments of mv life. He began in a low and uneven lone, to denounce the charge gener

ally: but as he acquired confidence, and his! weep yet more with a newly awakened in- - . - . ,. - . . , . .

voice hegan to make a aeciueu impression in the court, he gradually rose into a strain of lofty impassioned eloquence, which arrested every ear, and turned every eye upon inm. He piinted, in fervent colours, the moral degradation of his unhappy country, and asserted the right of every tree-born native of the soil to wrest her liberties from the grasp of oppression, and place them in immutable security on the sacred altar of freedom. 'Tor my part ,"' said he, "I know not how others may fed, but my dying cry shall be. give my country liberty, or give mo a speedy . ,.- . - i .. death ! ' A murmur ot approbation appearcd to pervade the nearer spectators, but it wa5 speedily hushed in what I considered to he ()s Qf 'gcnuine pitv, breathed over misapplied accomplishments. Mr defence was brief. When the jury had heard the comments of the venerable baron on tne bench, they re (jrClj fQV cons(ation. and then came the tor I mf.nt nf tnsnnnsp! I rensidercd that 1 had manfully throuch that eventful , . . i r i 1 day. I had even spoken w ords of k.ndnes. -

as rushing in

mv ears, jin tongue was draw n in an agony of thirst to the roof of my mouth, and I seem ,i,s I felt that cold water had been thrown over r;e, ana tliat a load a ot millions oi j mountains was pasiinjr sbwly from my soul ! The pains of resuscitation must be dreadful. . . . . . . 'calculated to aid a b.ililed intellect I shriekd a,ouJ f Kennedy. The human heart is .... . , , J , r . ., . wildly unstable and fearful thing; now brave as the sprit of all-cndurinc hone, and now suak in weakness and despair. Kenne dy had anticipated his fate he was dying in the arms ol the prison keeper! I learnt that during my fearful trance, lie was calm and apparently collected; he heard himself pronounced guilty without emotion. He heard me termed "uot guilty" wilk a C;tUse from the unrighteous hand of men, and rush with it to the bar of his creator. They bore him sadly to his cell, where I determined to render the last services of his romiint! hut mv trail, nr rather the effect of J - , t b t, aUcnjailts 0f the his unannr0ach her in it delivery. I was yet wrak aild i lrtmbled for the consequences of interview, at which 1 knew tears, even of eiiiy nad leen most industrious in unarr mining: my character in (he family of the Kennedy's, and so successful had the tale of fraud been administered, that, by all but one I was believed to have been actually the seducer of young Kennedy into crime, if not wholly his betrayer to punishment! Where was this species of punishment to end? Oh! there is nothing so bitter iu all the cup of human calamity, as the lot of a vouni? and - - - - ji . 'i i .1 generous heart biuised and trampled in the dust of misrepresentation and ingratitude throbbing in the pride of injured innocence, for rigid investigation, yet becoming more and more inextricably entangled in the meshes of imposture and dissimulation. What are the boasted barriers of innocence to the successful aggression of inordinate viljin " With w hom was I to plead my cause? I lie ear mat w ouiu njien to me was ciotcu by the cold eaith! Was I to be eloquent in the presence of the weeping mother, who already believed mc the most abject the most faithless of mankind? Catharine Kennedy, 1 knew, would spurn mc, and Marian w ould look at me with her tear-dimmed eyes, and ctmne iu.uhuw. With a heavy heart I proceeded to the de monstration of my innocence. The daughters were sitting in deep mourn ing. On my approach, Catharine rose and left the apartment with every mark of impa tient disdain. Marian did not attempt to stir; she neither spoke nor looked. 1 look her hand in mine; I looked steadfastly upon her pale but beautiful countenance, and pro nounced her name in a voice choking with emotion. She fixed up in me a glance which shot like litrhtninff through my frame; she saw I did not llinch, and she seemed about lo speak. "Not to him! not to that sycophant and reducer shall Marian Kennedy ever speak more. No! in this family that task must now be mine alone." I turned, and beheld the commanding form of my poor friend's mother. She did not lave mo a moment to explanation. "Double fraiior. ' she said, traitor to your friend w hat seek you here? 1 have no more j . ii nlo sons, and my peer girls are bej ond the pale

of your paltry machinations. Begone, sir! Yet, before you go, bear with you the bitterest course ef a bereaved a broken hearted mother!'' I raised my hand in silent deprecation. Wretch!"' she said with ungovernable fury, would you seek to stay the thunder! Oh may you be doubly cursed by bed and board; in the field or on the hearth; in the hail or in a hovel; on shipboard or on shore. May the mothers curse mix with your dreams, " hauntyour waking foot steps, till your heart be crushed and withered, like my own! May it cling to you and yours forever; to wife and child, and every living wretch who shall dare to claim youralliar.ee; and should you miss the caU'old , may it fall with ten fold weight upon your death-bed! Come my children, kneel down beside your miserable mother! Clermont Keunedv, thou art avengcd!" She tl.revr herself with frightful violence upon her kncr, ami strained her clasped and

uplifted hand. In an instant, the obedient girls complied. I saw my beloved Maiian kneeling by her mothcr-her ev es streaming w ith tears, iz. her white hands trembling in the air; but wbethin an agony of remorse or supination I know not. My heart died w ithin me; I turned from the appalling spectacle and lied! There was not one word of this fearful malediction that did not sink like lead upon my soul. l'ale and trembling I passed through the street like tlie spectral perpetrator of some ghastly murder. Men seemed lo avoid me as if by an instinct that should ay, "come not into collision w ith the accursed?" 1 entered my chambers I turned the key w-ith feverish precipitancy threw myself upon my couch, buried my face in my hands, and we pt long and bitterly. When I next came forth among mankind. I was scorned, remonstrance or refutation was of no avail. I w as loathed and shunned by all who knew me. I thought my heart would break as I returned once more lo the solitude f my chamber, to accrtainif I might devise a mode of relieving my soul from the incubus which dwelt in fiend-like authority over it. sought relief in books in silent communings with the master minds, whose rery words have been termed sparks of immortnlly. I sought (o forget the real world in the throned grandeur cf the ideal. Dut the books in w hich I formcily delighted had lost their charm or rather, 1 had lost the relish which made those charms engaging. I saw that books contained but records of oppression 5c histories of wrongs; huge catalogues of crime, and infamy, and persecution, which made the cheek blush cv t he heart sick for the share they had in humanity. liut above all, I was constantly reminded alas! I stood in no need of remembrances! of him with whom these bocks had been perused: and that was enough to turn every enjoyment to the bitterness of gall. I had risen from my fruitless occupation, and had stepped to the window. The busy world was moving on as if there w ere neither grief nor duplicity, nor oppression known amongst rr.cn. The common laborer here his burden happily, and the humble artizan held up his head w ith an air cf cheerfulness. Hut they were unsfricken the shaft had not reached ,m; the iron h-d not entered their souls. They had net been maligned like me oh! agony and frenzy they had not been cursed like mc! How unhappy is the heart which even the apparent felicity of others render wretched. I was turning in disgust from tlie living world, when my attention was arrested by the approach of a funeral. "Ah!"' I said, "thou art happy, whoever thou art! The last pang is over; and if even disgrace should attach to thy memory, thou must still remain in deep unconciousness of the appalling fact." It drew more near it was the funeral of a female. It come nearer she must hare been beloved nay adored; the very attendants were in tears they buried their faces in their handkerchiefs, and their solomn steps and heaving bosoms told that they were not fcining a sorrow which they did not feci. I was interested. Perhaps she was snatched away in the blocrn of beaufy and innocence, w hen life and hepe was in her eye and health and vigour in her step. Perhaps she had lingered till release Ix eanie a blessing. The procession was suddenly in peded by the approach of some vehicles; and the bearers paused beneath my window the wind at that moment blew back the rich velvet pall, and the sun streamed full upon the guilded memorials on the lid. Oh! these rays were basilisks. I read MAltlAN KENNEDY, Ac ED 21. And they bad murdered hrr ! Too loving too faithful girl! She could not she dared not vindicate her opinion cf my innocence, but she could die! H i' what horrible thought flashed across my brain the fatal words! ran they not so! "and every living wretch who shall dare to claim your alliance!" Oh! most unhappy mother then hadst spoken words of fire against thy darling child! It moved away they bore her from me the faithful even unto death and I beheld her no more. Respect and honour be with i her. beloved name. The last link was broken that bound me to the worlJ. I would have been content in that moment to have yielded up my spirit and shared the grave cf my poor Marian. I