Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1839-07-18
From Chambers Edinbg Journal,
LOVE AT ONE GLIMPSE.

Some years ago, there used abe pointed Out
upon the streets Of Glasg COW, nan whose in
tellect had been unsettled upl very strang
account. When youth Hhad happened t
pass a lady on a crowded thoughfare-a lad,
whose extreme beauty, thogh dimmed by the
intervention Of a veil, andeen but moment
made an indelible impreson on his mind
This lovely vision shot radly past him, anc
was in an instant lost amid the common pac,
crowd through which it owed. He was 81
COMPOUNDED by the tumult dis feeling, that hi
could not pursue or even tempt to see it a
gain. Yet he never a(teryrds forgot it.
With mind full of distried thoughts, anc
a heart alternately filled WI gushes of pleas
ure and pain, the man sicily left the spo
where he had remained fopme minutes as i
were thunderstruck. He sn after, withou
being aware Of where he h, stood when the
lady passed, unused for see time about it
went little distance, andhen came up as
when he met the exquisite sheet of his reyer.
ie--unconsciously deludnghimself with the
idea that this might recall er to the spot
She came not, he felt disapEnted, he tried a.
gain, still she did not pass. He continued to
traverse the place till evenir when the streets
became deserted. By and he was left alto
gether alone lie then savthat all his loud
efforts were vain, and he lelhe silent, lonely
street at midnight, with sd as desoale as
that gloomy terrace.
For weeks afterwards hewas never out Of
the street. He wandered tther and hither,
often visiting the place whet he had first seen
l,h IF hctr tod hpt, NH 20 If he
considered that he had a betr chance of see.
ing her there than any wins else. He fire.
quented every place of putc amusement to
which he could purchase the Omission, and he
made the tour of all the churhcs All was in
vain. He never again placehis eyes on that
angelic countenance. She W, ever present TO
his mental optics, but she ev'appeared again
in tangible form. Without lr essential pre-
sence, all the world besideswas to him a
bank--a wilderness.
Madness invariably takes Tssession Of the
mind that broods over much, DIVER long upon
some engrossing idea So didit prove with
this singular lover. He grew nocent as the
people Of this country tenderyalled it. His
insanity, however, was little mre than mere
abstraction. The course Of his lind was stop.
ped at particular point. AlteAhs he made
no further progress, no new idea His whole
soul stood still He was like lock stopped
at particular hour, with something's too a
bout him which like the motions SIS ndices OF
that machine, pointed out the dat of the inter
rup;ion; as for instance, he evefalIer wore
peculiarly longbacked and hlgiheckcd coat,
as we'll as neck-cloth with a partlplar spot, be-
ing the fashion Of the year wha he saw the
lady.
Indeed, he was sort Of livingmemorial OF
the dress, gait, and manners oil Tormer day
1t was evident that he chung wiIhl degree OF
londness to every thing which borS relation to
the great incident of his lie. NY could he
endure any thing that tended to eyer up o.
screen from his recollection, that Curious ye
melancholy circumstance. He had the same
feeling of veneraton for that day, tn circum
st ances, and for himself as he thci existed