The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1840-12-11

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gitations he eagerly accepted, and, strange
10 tell, soon became not only marked ia
vorte, but among the most constant and
welcome guests at her table. The rich wi.
dow was surrounded by suffers who were
dismissed one by one, and it was SO brought
about that before the end of fortnight the
young clerk had an interview by her lady
ships own appointment. Marriage was
proposed by her and Of course accepted
by him, in a delirum Of love and astOniah-
ment.
Frederick dc la Tour stood before the
small glass in his modostly furnished attic
and locked at himself from head to foot
He was uot certainly an ugly man, hut he
could not consider himself handsome; his
dress was such as became clerk with sa-
larry Of as many dollars only as there are
days in the year, and he could not there
fore attribute his good fortune to his tailor.
He concluded he must bo loved for himself
alone, or else that lady Melvil was under
some strange and unnatural delusoa. When
the marriage day arrived, and when the fu-
tuve husband was in presence Of the netary,
his astenishment was re-doubled. he would
be worth millions. He would have (sad
the marriage coatrao0 country seat in
BargUnda, domain in Normandy, house
in the street of Saint Honere in Paris, and
"arious other goods and chattles Of which,
until that day, he had never heard sylla
Bile. Lady MeIyl had riches across the
channel also, mines in Wales, and grazing
lands in Deyonshire.' Il was to the young
man golden dream from which he dreaded
to awake. The mayor had sanctioned and
the priest bad solsmnly blessed the uDien
yet with religion and tho laws to aid his
reason the feeling that it was but splendit
dream, would not leave him even at the fee
of his lawful wife in the bridal chamber
;. he pressed her hand 10 his lips, Ae5 ggasPee
eonvuIsiveIy the embroidered night dress,ir
his fear that all would vanish.
Rise,m dear Frederick again said hi'
wife, draw that easy chair close 80 mine
and let me talk to yOu.' The young MAI
did SO, but without releasing the hand of hi
wife, and Madame de Ia Tour began thus
There was enCe upon a time-
. { Good heavens, cried Frederick, an
ret wrong then, 1t is! 1t IS! fairy tals.'-
Listen, my dear sir--there lived once
young girl whose family had been rich, bu
when their daughter was but fifteen, they
had no other means ofsupport than the daily
labor of her father. They lived at Lyons
and krow net what hope of betterinI
their condition made them remove to Paris
Nothing is So difficult as retrieving our fall
en- fortunes, and again filling the place ii
society, and moving in the circle that WI
have been obliged to give up. The faAo
Of this poor girl experienced it, for afte
struggling four long years with poverty ant
neglect,he died in hospital. Her mother
= death soon followed, and the young cir
remained alone in eheerless Rarret a Ions
arrear of rent unpaid, with the chillling pre-
sence Of the two miserable untenanted beds
to increase her sense Of grief and desolaior
If there was to be a fairy in my story shr
should, without doubt, at this moment ap
pears but there was not a shadow of one
The young girl was unknown in Paris
without money, with no friends or protec
tor, to sustain and cherish her, and she as
ksd iR vain from strangers that mploymen
which makes the riches of the poor; guilty
pleasure, it is true extended its arms to al
lure her, but there are minds so formed az
, inslinctvsly TO leVe virtue, and TO detes
vice, and hers was happily of this stamp
! but she must eat, and the hunger Of the day
: was increased by slsepess night bringing
r second day without feed. You, Freder
/ ick, have just left tabls groaning under tht
weight Of luxuries, whore the rich vine
, have mantlsd in the glass, aad, although
, you were made rich but yesterday, yet yol
have no conception of the deep misery o