The World As I Have Found It / Sequel to Incidents in the Life of a Blind Girl

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anion; hence it became necessary for me to find another to fill her place. She came in the person of Miss Kate Fowler

ia, meeting with greater success than we could have hoped for while

a cloud, the Massachusetts troops having been stoned by a mob collected from various points, and for which she bore the undeserved odium. These I sent in their tri-colored dress, expecting only a silent reception. But, as I sat at dinner in my hotel, there came a singular and unexpected response in the person of the General himself. He was introduced by the landlord, and was

would not publicly tender. The landlord handed me a box from him containing a handsome plain gold ring, ever since cherished as a mem

e magician's wand, for such he seemed, to evoke the spirits of generosity and love, and through these all of my volumes vanished, as well as much of the bead work. At General Anderson's request I took my work to the parlor, and amid a group of wondering ones, many of whom were members of his own family, I showed them how the blind could deftly weave these little trinkets, the fashioning of the "bijou" baskets needing no sight to arrange the colors, with celerity and s

and purchasing the home they then occupied, a tasteful, comfortable domicile. It was well for me I selected this spot, for it afterward proved "a City of Refuge." I was soon prostrated with a severe typhoid fever, and was so kindly cared for by this d

be said. It was to her assiduous attention I was

Lutheran minister, who constantly visited me, and gave me many a word of comfortin

pathic physician, and was then a professor

gly ministered to me during the m

, and in the vernacular of the Society of Friends, of which he was a member, he said: "Mary, Rachel and I have been talking it over, an

tention without remuneration, but since you have so willed it, I can only say I thank you for having saved my life." Whereupon th

his door, lifted me from the car, and carried me in his arms into a luxurious bed-chamber, where I was met by the sweet-voiced Rachel, who gave me

natures, and how fondly do we recall in after years the sweet

my traveling expenses if I would accompany him. The temptation of seeing one from whom there had been an eight years separation made my cousin's entreaties irresistible, and I yielded, receiving from him all the devoted attendance his kind nature could dictate. So, after the lapse of so many eventful years, I turned my face westward.