Never Despair; or, from Misery to Happiness

Never Despair; or, From Misery to Happiness

Never Despair; or, From Misery to Happiness (1910)

Mary Wilson is Doctor Brown&apos;s housekeeper. There is something quiet and kind about Mary which makes her liked by everyone. She is nice and friendly to all, and although she is admired by the young men, still she does not show pref...

Mary Wilson is Doctor Brown's housekeeper. There is something quiet and kind about Mary which makes her liked by everyone. She is nice and friendly to all, and although she is admired by the young men, still she does not show preference for any particular one. One day a young man working as a painter where Mary is employed, falls in love with her, and, strange to say, he succeeds in winning her for his wife. Dr. Brown also has a great admiration for his housekeeper, and intends to make her his wife, but on the day he proposes to her he learns, to his great sorrow, that she is lost to him. Mary is happily married, and her happiness is greatly increased by being the mother of a very pretty little girl. But her luck was too good to last. One day her husband is brought home dead, after having fallen from a scaffold, and Mary is left a widow. She fights hard to get an honest living, which she manages to do, with the help of her sewing machine, which she obtains on the rental system. But matters are very unfortunate, and she cannot keep up the payments. The man from whom she bought the machine will not wait longer for the money, and as she cannot keep her promise, he sends men to lake the machine away, thus depriving Mary of her last means of supporting herself and child. Driven to desperation, and tired of fighting misfortune, she cannot bear the sufferings of herself and little daughter any longer, and seeing no way out of her misery except suicide, she places the last few pieces of coke in the stove, closes the damper in the chimney, and is now ready to die, with the aid of the poisoned fumes. A neighbor of hers who has been watching her for the past few days, is rather suspicions, and so when she smells the fumes, which penetrate through the apertures of the door, the neighbor knows that her suspicions are justified. She procures help to break the door open, and finds Mary and her child unconscious on the floor. They send quickly for a doctor, and, strange to say, the nearest doctor obtainable is Doctor Brown, Mary's former sweetheart, who arrives on the scene at once. His heart nearly breaks when he sees the misery of the woman he had formerly admired, and whom he still really loves. After doing his best to bring her hack to consciousness, and succeeding, he thinks of his old intentions, and asks her to come back and be his wife. With tears in her eyes, Mary accepts the generous offer, and she is happy once again.

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