Sweetbrier, or the Flower Girl of New York (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Sweetbrier, or the Flower Girl of New York Car. Tell me all! Mike. Well, ould man Hendricks is dead. Car. Saul? Mike. Ther same!; the pelice shot a nate little howl in the ould man last night. Bad luck to them! Car. What was he doing? I´ve been a bad man, Mike, but Saul Hendricks has been ten times worse. Mike. He was dodging the beaks with a mighty purty lady what he was a takin´ ter board. He had been boardin´ her at the ´sylum, but somehow her husband got on the scent an´ come down on the ´sylum with a lot er beaks. But it happened that the ould man an´ his nephew, Nick, was makin´ a call on the mad doctor, an´ they got off with the leddy, but not before Hendricks got a chunk er lead. Car. The lady, Mike, I must see her! Mike. Hey! Car. Can´t you manage to bring her here? Mike. I suppose I might, but Nick is sot in that direction. Car. (groaning) Oh, if I could live, how much evil I would undo; but my repentance has come too late. Mike, I´ve been writing. Mike. Yes, an´ a mighty bad job it is for ye too! Ye´ll be for having another hemorrhage. Car. These papers are for Sweetbrier. Everybody had supposed her my child, but she is not. Mike. What! Car. She is not mine. Her father was Ralph Lindsey. Ralph had a twin brother, Roscoe, who looked much like him; but Roscoe was a bad one, and in a fit of anger struck his mother so that she never recovered from the effects of the blow. The old squire, his father, turned him from his house and never allowed his name mentioned. After the death of his wife, the squire moved to a country village where nobody knew of his troubles. It was there that Ralph married Alice Hunter. When the old gentleman died he left the bulk of his property to Ralph and a small sum in cash was also left with him for Roscoe, who was in South America. Ralph went to Chilli, where Roscoe was imprisoned for a crime against the government. While visiting him, Ralph was knocked senseless by his brother, who escaped, by donning Ralph´s clothes, leaving him to serve his sentence. Roscoe went to Ralph´s home, but Alice, Ralph´s wife, refused to acknowledge him as her husband, and she was pronounced insane. A few weeks later Sweetbrier was born. And Roscoe laid a plan to get rid of both mother and child. He hired Saul Hendricks to abduct the mother and imprison her in a mad house, which he did; and hired me to kill the child, which I did not. I threw the baby´s blanket into the water, and both Alice and her child were supposed to be drowned, and that little unnamed baby is my only earthly treasure, Sweetbrier. (lies back exhausted Mike. (giving Carlos drink) Begorra, ye think it´s the gal´s mother that young Nick´s got here? Car. Yes. Mike. Faith, an´ so do I! but begorra, ye shall see! (exit L. Car. Shall I have a chance to undo the wrong I did Alice Lindsey sixteen years ago? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state o
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