The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1826-11-09

AT length hc camo to me one day, and rclat-
ed his whole situation in a tone Of the
| deepest despair. When heard him I in.
quired, does your wife know all this =
AZ the question he burst into an agony oftears
For Gods sake cried he. if you have any
P,ty on me don't mention my wife it is the
thought OF her that drives mo almost 10 mad.
ness
and why notH ssId I. 'She must know il,
sooner or later you cannot keep II long from
her; and the Intelligence may break rp0h her
! ~ more startling manner, than II impaired
by YOURSELF for the accents Of those we love
soften the harshest tidings Besides, you are
depriving yourself of the comforts Of her sym
pathy and not merely that, but also endan-
gering the only bond that can keep hearts to-
gethor--an unreserved community Of thought
sAd feeling. She will perceive that some
thing rs secretly preying upon your mind /.
md true love will not brook reserve, but will
feel undervalued and outraged il even the
sorrows of those IL loves are concealed from IL,
oh but, my friend, to think what blow
] am TO give her future prospec ts--.how am
20 strike her soul to the earth, by telling her
that her husband is a beggar !--.that she is to
foregc all the elegancios Of life, all the plea.
sures OF society.--to sink with me into indi.
gonce and obscurty To tell her that havo
dragged her down from the sphere in which
1 WIG HllHhl nave COnlluNeu TO move IN con-
slant brightness---the light of every eye---
| the admiration of every heart !---How can
she bear poverty she has been brought up
! W all the rehnements of opulence. How can
she bear neglect she has been the idol Of so.
| ciety. Oh il will break nor heart!
saw his grief was eloquent, and let it
have It's flow, for sorrow relieves itself by
words. When his paroxysrh had subsided,
and no had relapsed into moody silence, re-
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break his situation at once to his wife. He
shook his head mournfuiiy but positively.
But how are You TO keep it from her II is
| necessary she should know it, that YOU NAV
take the steps proper TO tho alteration of your
circumstances. You must change your style
dr living---nay, observing pang pass across
his colintenancc, don't let that alIlict you
am sure you never placed your happiness on
outward show.-.you have yet friends, warm
friends, who will not think the worse of you
for being less splondidly lodged and surely il
does not require palace IN be happy with Ma
ry Il could be happy with her. cried he con.
vulsivoly, in hoyel !---l could 60 down with
her into poverty and the dust I'll could-.-I
could. d.--God bless her cried he, bursting in.
to transport of grief and tenderness
And believe mo, my friend, said I step.
ping up and grasping him warmly by the
hand believe me, she can be the same with
you. Aye, moro twill be a source of pride
and triumph TO her. u will call forth all the
latont energies and fervent sympathies of her
nature for she will eioce to prove that she
loves you for yourself There is in every
true woman's heart spark Of heavenly fire.
which liea dormant in tho broad day light VI
prosperity but which kindles up, and beams
and blazes in the ddrk hour of adversely. No
man knows what a ministering angel she is,
until he has gone with her through the fiery
trials Of this world
There was something in the carnestncss of
my manner, and the hgurative style Of my
language, that caught the excited Imagination
of Leslie knew the auditor had TO deal
with, and followed up the impression had
made finished by persuading him to go
home and unburden his sad heart to his wife
must confess, notwithstanding al had
said, felt some little solicit udc for the result
Who can calculate on the fortitude of one
whose whole life has been round of pleas.
ures Her gay spirits might revolt at the
dark downward path of low humility, sudden.
ly pointed ont before her, and might cling TO
the sunny regions in which they had hitherto
revellcd. Besides. ruin in fashionable life is
accompanied by so many CALLING Inortiiics.
tons, to which, in other ranks, IL ia stran-
ger. In short, could not meet Leslie the
next morning, without trepidation Tie had
made the disclosure.
.'And how did she bear itr
Like an angel II seemed rather 10 PC
relief 10 her mind, for she threw her arms n.
round my neck, and asked me if this was all
that had lately mado mo SO unhappy--but,
poor girl added he, she cannot realize the
change we must undergo. She has no ,dea
of poverty but in the abstract, she has only
read of il in poetry, where il is allotted 10
love. She feels as yet no privaton sho eX-
peTences no want of accustomed convenicn.
cies or elegances. When we come praoti.
cally To experience its sordid cares, its petty
humiliations--then will be the real trial
But" said l, " now that you havo rot
over the scverest task, that of breaking il TO
her, the sooner you let tho world into the so.
cret tho better. The disclosure may be NOR
tiiying but then il is single misery, and
soon over whereas you suffer il, in antcipa-
ton, every hour in the day. II is not power
"; SO much as pre,ence, that harnesses ru.
med man--the struggle between proud mind
and an empty purse-the keeping up hollow
show that must soon come TO an end. Have
the courage to appear poor, and you dsaTm
poverty of its sharpest sting" On this point
| found Leslie perfectly prepared. He had
no false pride himself, and as to his wife, she
was only anxious to conform TO their altered
fortunes.
| Some days afterwards he called upon me in
the evening. lie had diSfosed of his dwelling
house, and taken a guall cottage in the coun-
TRY, a few miles from town. lIe had been
fhusied all day in sending out furniture. The
new establishment required few articles, and
those Of the simplest kind An the splendid
| furniture Of his late residence had been sold,
excepting his wiics harp. That, he said
was too closely associated with the idea Of
| herself; II belonged TO the little story Of their
| lives for somc of the sweetest moments cf
their oour,ship were those when he had lean.
ed over that instrument, and listened to tho
melting tones of her voice. could not but