THE VICAR'S DAUGHTER. It would be difficult to decide which of the sufferers endured the most at this dreadful moment. The old woman would have run for a physician; but how could she leave the helpless babe and her distressed mistress? Without knowing what she did, she endeavoured alternately to soothe the screaming infant and its weeping mother; but all in vain. The little innocent, who missed its nurse, was terrified at being with a stranger; and the wretched Charlotte was insensible to every surrounding object. The old woman at length, losing all patience, threatened the poor babe with the black man, and conjured the mother, for the sake of ber |