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Chapter 4 - There Go the
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On reaching home he went to his studio,
and put his impressions of the scene upon canvas, finishing it
at his leisure. It was called "Innocence," and he would
not part with it. Many years passed away, when a friend called
upon him and asked him to go with him to the prison, to see a
man under sentence of death, who was suffering an agony of remorse,
having in a drunken fit killed his young wife. It was heart-rending
to see his agony from remorse. It so impressed him, that he also
put it on canvas, and when finished called them " Innocence
" and " Guilt," making them companion pictures;
and soon after the found they were pictures of one and the same.
The innocent child had grown and bloomed into it drunken murderer.
Alas, what a change What an awful shipwreck of the future! Glorious
institutions are our Bands of Hope, to save our youths and maidens
from the dreadful perils of the drinking customs of the country,
that their future may be brighter. On this voyage steer clear
of the intoxicating cup. |
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© Peter Smith 2009