To My Mother It Was
Peculiarly Distressing, And Became More So When, In One Of His
Repentant Fits And Touched By Her Words, He Gave Her A Packet Of His
Mother's Letters To Read:
- The pathetic letters of a broken-hearted
woman to her son, her only and adored child, lost to her for ever in a
distant country, thousands of miles from home.
These sad appeals only
made my mother more anxious to save him, and it was no doubt her
influence that for a while did save and make him able to succeed in
his efforts to overcome his fatal weakness. But he was of too sanguine
a temper, and by and by began to think that he had conquered, that he
was safe, that it was time for him to do something great; and with
some brilliant scheme he had hatched in his mind, he left us and went
back to the capital to work it out. But alas! before many months, when
he was getting seriously to work, with friends and money to help him
and every prospect of success, he broke down once more, so hopelessly
that once more he had to be got rid of, and he was sent out of the
country, but whether back to his own people or to some other remote
district in Argentina I do not remember, nor do I know what became of
him.
Thus disastrously ended the third and last attempt my father made to
have us instructed at home.
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