Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1841-05-29

Romance iEs Real Life.

Romance fI Real hIec.
The following details are as strange
as they are true. In the neighborhood
oi Gloucester, a young lady of highly
respectable connections, has cXperien-
ccd "A series of reverses in the cause of
the hearts best affection, seldom equal
led. A gentleman of some station in
society, became by accident acquainted
with the maiden to whom we allude.
and, their affection becoming recpro-
cal, the day was fixed for their union,
which was TO have taken place in the
city of Gloucester. Agreeably with
this arrangement, and as the match was
a desirable one. her parent parted with
a lucrative business in the country. on
which she and her mother lived in re
spectabilty and comfort, aud went to
Gloucester, intending TO settle. The
day for the celebration of the wedding
arrived; but. alas the bridegroom
came not: his parents had peremptori
" forbidden the match, and he was al
ready by their contrivance, Oh the seas
bound for jamaica. A letter reached
the poor girl, but 10 confirm her fears
his parents consent had been withheld,
and he had suddenly left the seaport
town in the West of England, where he
resided, not a failhless, but an unhappy
lover. Time passed, and industry on
the part of the hapless girl but i'll sup,
piled the loss Of the comparative indie
pendence herself and family had left
when they came TO Gloucester, with the
views of indulging the hopes to which
we have alluded, and though bIightcd in
| heart, she cheeriully succeeded in helps
ing to support her decrepid mother and
aunt in comfort.
Time, the gentle softcncr Of aifiicton,
had many long day cast its dlmmng
shadow over the great event of her life,
and nothing more had been heard of
her absent lover, till week or two ago.
when to her astonishment and delight,
she received letter from him, breath
ing the devotcdncss and constant at
tachment, and vows of unaltered ailec>
/ ton, not the less welcome, though waf-
ted across the seas. Another and an
other followed, begging forgiveness for
! the former apparent neglect--and still
another, the last accompanied by the
consent of the parents Of the absent one.
The poor girls hopes were at the high
est point OF anxiety, when she received
a still more welcome epistle, assuring
her that her lover has landed at Fal>
mouth, and was Fastening 10 perform
his neglected promise. The day was
looked forward TO with delight: it came:
and with it the dark udings OF the
grave her lover had been suddenly
seized with illness the night before his
departure for the city of Gloucester
he was a corpse before the morning
As a melancholy satisfaction to the poor
disappointed girl, The mother ofthe in
tended bridegroom visited her immedi-
ately, when his mother confessed that
her son had been a voluntary exile, and
would have remained so, bad not his
parents, whom he loved and respected,
given their consent to his union: after
frequent communications his parents
assented, and he instantly Quilted ja>
maica to claim the had OF his first love {:
Fastening to meet her, death ruthleSsly
arrested his progress before he had
been many hours on his native shore.
As a proof of the sincerity of his at
tachment, the lover, in the hour of dis
solution. bequcathed to his bride elect
2,O0O.- Hereford Times.