Show an oratorio Ora toro fact words brilliant anda eloquent S S prentiss was the idolized lawyer of the southwest almaine boyhe mado himself a place in the hearts of those who liked not the yankees iaia fascinated and manners won thom in spite of their prejudices been their political but a brief ia congress go him with practical politics that ho refused io lenoa A fortune awaited him from it because ho would not abandon social pleasures nor practice self denial at last he to work himself out of debt and provide for abo education of his I must work I jie said to those who advised rest because they saw that liis good resolution had come too late the spirit was now willing but tho body enfeebled by disease and dissipation refused to obey its commands why good sirs a man cannot lie inbe dand make uis livine liv lne be en to friends who macje him leave new orleans and rest on a plantation nerving himself ho appeared jn a caio winch drew out the culture of the city to hear him never was he more brilliant in wit and eloquence ho did not know but his friends did that it was the swan s death song they shaded their eyes for they saw that tho vigor of tho intellect made moro apparent the decay of alie body take me home lie whispered to a friend when recovering fraai alio prostration in which ins eloquent alc plc i had left him iio was borne homo on a riverboat river boat to die on the of the arrival the family smiled mournfully to sea his old self return gather me half a bushel of roses with the clew on ho aid to a re dative tut them in a basin and stand it by bed was the as die roses were brought in during liis illness Ibo thought that he was leaving his family destitute cluade him talk much about bulls and money now and then the great orator beo atrie a boy again anu wandered to liia maine hw fa dear mother do you love ino that her tc again showed were in hia j in the of was much at the ideta of death mary liis phoua wife urged ani you liow bricked I have boon oo 00 il nover forgive roe he replied i though your sins lio as they shall bo as enow re the if tyvi will but turn to the loru fray dear wont you pray dont you rc your mother taught you aho continued oh yes but I want you to pray with me the lords prayer bo responding at each petition anian I agod gle heard linn whisper as it ng to recall taft petition poti tion litany O god tho son redeemer of tha world havo mercy upon us miserable I on evening the wife wats busy in tho roaro hla eyes wistfully following her mary I ehe heard and hastening to him received an embrace and lii ai it wag tho last word uttered on earth by th eloquent advocate |