Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1840-09-12
FROM THE BRISTOL MERCURY.
The Bristol Banker,
,ohraiion

1t is not in royal circles and in noble mansions
that the materials of thrilling romance excu-
sveiy deposited. The natural dspos on of IN n.
kind to look upwarls--lhe common spring of our
reverence for the Deity. well as for exalted hu-
man greatness, has taught the writer's Of romance
to choose the more ell waited scenes of life for the
creation Of the most durable and pervadng in.e
But the lower regions of life hav also their pecu-
liar attraction in The eyes of The poet AID genu
Inc painter; and high-born dansrls have wept al
reading, and men distinguished in the Senate and
the field, acknow dying the Claims OF kInd cd hu
manity, have heard, with sympathy,
"The short but simple annals of The poor"
The middle paths of hie have also their romance
Not even he inve,rate and soul-crushing pur-
suit of gain can wholly extinguish cling; and
hearts will still he found to throb with te der or
violent emotion, amidst The clink of money
bag; for the tides of human passion, like those of
the mighty Ocean, will continue TO fow to all
time; and though Mammon may blunt, he cannot
wholly deaden, the maser-power of love.
Edward Walton was rich banker of Bristol
Young and handsome, and of an ardent tcmpera-
ment in spite of all his wealth he never knew
real happiness. OF dark and suspicious charac-
ter, of strong passions, excessive in his love as in
his hatred, he man whose existence hung
upon slender threads. breath might ruf1le il for
ever. Like the moons sphere. it had d rk and
sha ows side; and it depended upon crcnnst n
ces altogether extrinsc, whether it shene forth
brightly and checfuly. or ended in otal eclipse
Mr.. Walton but recently married to Sc
cnnd cousin of his, the daughter Of an Engshman
long engaged in extensive banking transactions a,
Nantes. In a worldly point of view, this was an
excellent match. Eliza Somtrton a charmng
woman, well wealthy heiress; bu Ez
was belOp we'd W young Vendean, named iienr
de Cormon, the son Of French noileman Of lhs
ancient school, fgil of arisloc attic pre;udices Eli
"a had loved him in turn. Brought up from in,
fancy at Nantes, her sympathies aud manner
were entirely French; and Henri, one of the no
best and bravesi youths in LA Fendee, had hu
d tie difficulty in wnnDg her heart. But hi
father rigid old coulter, was inexoiable; 1t was
not in his nature 10 stoop 10 pehian cuiInexIon
even in consideration of a large accession o
wealth, and the proposition of marriage wa
peremplorily broken of.
This crude nrsouation was speedily succeed
by an arrangement between The Nantes banke
and the elder NJ Wallon who were in constan
correspondence, for the union of the hopes OF thei
respective houses. mystery hung over the ca
reer of the latter. His character precisely resem
bled that Of his son. He sonibre and suspi
cious to an extreme. lie had been deceived, SON
years before, by his wife, who bad disappeared n
!. one knew how; and, though suspicious wer
darkly hinted as to the circumstance, Walton
great wealth. together with the loose mode il
whicA Go oners discharge their functions in tn
last century, prevented ii from becoming the sub
jec, df judicial inquiry. Young Vision resides
for two months al Nantes, in the house f Mi.
Somedon's father, subsequently to fhe msrriag,
which wa celeb ated shortly sffer his arrival. Y,
ring that interval he heard bat little of ,,s d.e
mon; yet even TIM ir.ie was enop.s % 10 awak,
dark thoughts II. the breast Of nan of his tel
YAaGsnt. II was as he's 10 him TO suspect tn