Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1841-06-12

Out"dIu SllOW--yOu nave yet IIlCnuS, warm
friends, who will not think the worse of
you for being less splenddly lodged; and
surely it does not require palace to live
happy with Mary"
81 could be happy with her. cried he,
convusively, sin hove! could 90 down
with her into poverty and the dust could
i could-God bless herl God bless her"
cried he bursting into a transport of grief
and tenderness.
"And believe me, my friend" said I, step
ping up and grasping him warmly by the
hand, "beIieve me, she can be the same with
you. Aye, more; it will be source of pride
and triumph to her; it will call forth all the
latent energies and fervent sympathies of
her nature, for she will rejoice to prove that
she loves you for yourself There is in
every true woman's heart spark of heav-
emily fire, which lies dormant in the broad
daylight of prosperity, but which kindles
up, and beams, and blazes in the dark hour
of adversely. No man knows what the
wife of his bosom is; 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 earnestness
of my language, that caught the excited
Imagination of Leslie. knew the auditor
| had to deal with; and following up the
impression | had made, finished by per-
suading him to 90 home and unburden his
sad heart to his wife. must confess, not
withstanding all have said, felt little
solcitude for the result. Who can calcu-
late on the fortitude of one whose whole
life has been a round of pleasures! Her
gay spirits might revolt at the dark down.
ward path of low humility suddenly point
ed out before her, and might cling to the
sunny regions in which they had hitherto
revelled. Besides, ruin in fashionable life
is accompanied by so many CALLING mortif-
cations to which in other ranks it is a stran-
ger. In short / could not meet Leslie the
next morning without trepidation. He had
made the disclosure.
"And how did she bear it,
like an angel. II seemed rather to be
a relief to her mind, for she threw her arms
round my neck and asked if this was all that
had lately made me unhappy. But, poor
girl" added he, "she cannot realize the
change we must undergo. She has nc
idea of poverty but in the abstract; she
has only read of it in poetry, where it is al.
lied to love. She feels as yet no privatior
she suffers no loss of accustomed conve.
niencies nor elegancies. When we come
practically to experience its sordid cares
its paltry wants, its petty humiliations, then
will be the trial"
But" said |, "now that you have got over
the severest task, that of breaking it to
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secret the better. The disclosure may be
notifying, but then it is single misery,
and soon over; whereas you otherwise
suffer it in anticipation every hour in the
day. 1t is not poverty so much as pre-
tcnce that harnesses a ruined man-the
struggle between a proud mind and al
empty purse-the keeping up of hollow
show that must soon come to an end. Have
the courage to appear poor, and you disarn
poverty of its sharpcst sting On thi:
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 disposed of his
dwelling-hou and taken a small cottage
in the country few miles from town. He
had been busted all the day in sending out
furniture. The new establishment re-
CURED but few articles, of the simplest
kind. All the splendid furniture of his late
residence had been sold excepting his
wife's piano. That he said, was too closely
associated with the idea of herself-it be.
longed to the little story of their loves-fOl
some of the sweetest moments of theil
courtship were those when he had leaned
over that instrument, and listened to the
melting tones of her voice. could moi
but smile at this instance of romantic gal
lantry in doating husband.
He was now going out to their cottage
where his wife had been all day superin
tending its arrangement. My feelings haC
become strongly interested in the progress
Of this family story, and as it was tinC
evening | offered to accompany him. HI
was wearied with the fatigues of the day
and, as he walked out, fell into a fit o
gloomy musing.
"Poor Mary" at length broke, with hea
Wy sigh, from his lips.
Sand what of herr" asked l, has any
thing happened to herr"
"WhatP' said he, darling an impaten
glance, is it nothing to be reduced to thi
paltry situation-to be Gagged in a misera
bic cottage-to be obliged to toll almost il
the mental concerns of her wretched habi
tationl"
HAS she then repined at the changer"
"Repined! she has been nothing but sweet
ness and good humor Indeed, she seem
in better spirits than | have ever known