Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1841-06-10

tIlC WOIlu.
AT length he came TO me one day al
d related his whole SITUATION in tone
the deepest despair. When heard hin
through | enquired, I" does your wi
know all this Z" AT this question h
burst into an agony Of tears, !" For God
> sake J" cried he's, (" if you have any pit
on me, don't mcntion my wife ii IS III
thought Of her that drives me to alnos
madness y
y And Why not Z" said /. "shc ma.
know II sooner or later. You cannot kee
Q i long frem her, and the intelligence ma
break upon her in a more startling man
ner than if impaired by yourself 70
, the accents of those we love soften III,
J harshest tidings, Besides you are depriy
J ing yourself Of the comforts Of her sym
PATTY, and not merely that, but also en-
dangerlng the only bonds that can keen
hearts togcther-an unreserved commu.
nlty of thought and feeling. She will
soon perceive that something is secretly
IPreyIng upon your mind, am! true love
viii no: brook reserve il feels under
valued and outraged, when even the sor.
rows OF those it loves are concealed from
| it,"
sob, my friend, but to think what a
blow am TO give 10 all her future pros.
pects-how am to strike her very soul
to the earth, by telling her that her hus-
band IS a beggar--that she is 10 (oreqo
all The elegancies of life, all the pleasures
OF society, TO shrink with me into indi>
gence and obscurity. To tell her that
have dragged her down from the sphere
IN which she might have continued ia
move IN const ami brightness, the light Of
every eye, the admir- alton OF every heart
How can she bear poverty She has been
Drought up IN all the refinement of opus
ience. How can she bear neglect (? She
has been the idol of society. oh, il will
break her heart--it will break her heart y,
saw grief was eloquent, and let it
have It's flow, for sorrow relieves itself by
words, When his paroxism had subsidized.
md he had reapsed into moody silence,
resumed the subject gently, and urged
lim TO break his situation at once to his
wife. He shook his head mournfully, but
positively said
No, cannot ~
But how are you to keep it from herr
I is necessary she should know it, that
'ou may take the steps necessary to the
Iteration OF lving-nay," observing
'ang 10 pass across his countenance,-
don't let that afilict you. am su re YOU
ave never placed your happiness in out
'ard show--you have yet friends who
al not think the worse of you for being !;
'ss splendidly lodged and surely it does /,
OF require a palace 10 render you hap :
with Mary" !
! could be happy with her," he cried, =
'nvulsIvely, "in howell | could 90 :
own with her into poverty and the dust .
i could--l could-God bless God bless .
3r" he cried, bursting into transport :
grief and tenderness. "
And believe me, my friend.' said /, !,
coping up ard grasping him warmly by y
Q hand, " believe me, she can be the
me With you. Aye, more it will be a =,
nrce Of pride and triumph TO her, it r.
II call forth all the latent energies and j;
ryent sympathies of her nature, for she ~
y rejoice g prove that she loves you Il
yourself. There is in every true wo- III
ans heart z spark of heavenly fire, RI
llch lies dormant in the broad daylight q
prosperity, but which kindles up and ~
ans and blazes in the dark hour of adj. d.
rsity, No man knows what the wife IN
ms bosom is no man knows what vi
nls;erlng angel she is, until he has w
ne with her through the fiery trials of do
Is world ~,
There was something in the earnesiness mr.,
my language that caught the excited Ma
aglnatlon Of Leslie. knew the auditor ton
lad TO deal with; and following up he
impression had made, finished BY
'suadlng him to 60 home and unbur- III
his heart to his Wife must confess IN
wlihstanding all | had said, felt a Ill ed
scIcltude for the result Who can OH
culate on the forlitude Of one whose foo
o'o ne mas been round 81 pleasure pin
: gay. spirits might revolt at the dark IN
inward path Of low humility suddenly ers
pted out before her, and might cling bio
inc sunny regions in which she had cou
lerto reyelled Besides, ruin in fash ney
e !. llie Is accompanied by SO many <
ing morlifications 10 which in other SO I
rs " isa stranger In short, could Ing
.ueo :. Leslie the next morning without dow
''ualIon. lie madelhe disclosure. 1 Ii;
And how did she bear Il ~ free
Like an angel II seemed rather to aatl
relief to her mind, FOR she threw her stro
Is around my neck and asked me ifEtheI
was all that had lately made me so and
Apply. But, poor girl, h he added, /" she Oh,
nol reailze me change we must under and
She has no idea Of poverty but in we
abstract she has only read Of ii III i
ny, where it is allied TO love. She her