Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1840-12-10
NO. 81

- f'ob'PNd nun thdl l IlFAeT WOutu marry
without his consent. thought when he
found 1t necessary TO my happiness to mar
ry Wayland, should obtain il, but was mis-
taken ; his ambition aud inordinate love of
wealth supplanted every other feeling
And learnt-bnt too Iate-that had sac
nilced all my hopes of happiness to it. For
weeks and months labored with him but
III vain. lie sternly refused to release me
from my promise, and bade me Danish all
thoughts of Wayland. resolved to SEQ
hlm-tell him all, and then bury my love in
oblivion, sent bun note requesting hifa
TO meet me in the arbor, at the foot Of the
garden. He came-but why dwell upon
that hour Suffice it to say il was one of
anguish unutterable to me. I have meyer
seen him since. | heard tho next day he
had sailed for India. have never heard
from him. and suppose if he is living he is
there still
In six months from that time married
Bernard Westerman, your father. | re-
spected and obeyed him a my husband
admired his noble mind and generous dis
position, but could not love him as I
ought He married ne because he loved
me, and years elapsed before he found that
Twas not equally disinterested. When YOU
were five years old, some circumstance re-
vealed to him my early and strong attach.
ment to Wayland, and the circumstances
tina: forced my marriage with him and
from that time there was marked differ
ence in his conduct towards me. He treat
ed me as the mistress Of his mansion, but
not as the wife of his bosom. When my
brother died, it almost broke nv heart, for
| loved him, and his affection for me, sup
piled in some degree the want of it in my
husband. He offered me no sympathy but
merely remarked that if it had happened
ten years earlier, l should have been left to
act my own will. | felt the injustice that
had done him in giving him my hand when
another possessed my heart Iendeavored
to compensate him for my want of affection
by careful and assidious attention to all his
wants but he told me in his last sickness
that he thought he should have lived much
longer, could he never have known that I
did not love him. Thus it seems, that the
happiness oil both were sacrificed j; and far
be 1t from lne, my child 10 blast your early
hopes as mine were blasted shall wiling
ly entrust your happiness to Mervile Cln-
Ton, for know OF no one better calculated
to secure it,"
Emma thanked her mother, while the
tears flowed down from her eyes at the re-
cltal of her story. land have you never
heard from Albert Naylend since 20 she
inquired.
No" replied her mother, " and should
have succeeded well in burying ell thoughts
of him, had not MervlIle Clinton SO forcibly
reminded me of him. Did he possess his
name, should certainly think he was his
son. Every air and expression are SO like
him.
:" lie does not hold his fathers name"
continued Emma, " but was named for an
uncle of his who wished it. and promised to
bequealh to him his properly. Aud per-
haps he is his son. How strange that he
never should have told me his fathers
name. And mother" she added her coun-
teuance Frightening, he has no mother
and perhaps and then as suddenly recol-
lectIng herself she paused.
FAINT smile passed over Mrs. Wesier-
mans counlenance as she replied, II think
II would not affect my happiness to learn
that II was or was not him for although
have not yet attained the meridian Of life,
yet the romance of my disposition is too far
gone to dream of what can readily guess
was in your mind when you broke off
your conversation" AS she spoke, she
unlocked casket and took out pair of
diamond bracelets. "Ihese," continued
she, " betrayed me to your father. They
belonged to the Wayland family and neck
lace was with them, and descended to AL
bert. At Que time he entrusted them all
10 my keeping, though never wore any of
them. The style of setting was not then
as fashionable as at the present day. re-
turned the casket containing the whole but
when | entered the Dor the morning after
our parting, found i: there. The first
thought that struck NE was that they had
been left but Jaw that the key was in it.
| opened ii and found the bracelets and
note. In il he requested me to keep them
ii could consistently with my views of
right; and If not, told me 10 leave them.-
considered, aud reconsidered it and final
iy concluded that no evil could come of it,
but an unforeseen circumstance brought
evil about. was alone in my room, and
had the cuskrt opened before me. A SER
want entered and told me you had fallen
from this balcony and iorgettul OF all else
FASTENED to you and left the box in the
situation it was when was called fear
ed YOU we're seriously injured, aod remaia-
ed sometime in the nursury before thought
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