The Illinois free trader and LaSalle County commercial advertiser. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1841-1843, 1842-10-14

could awaken the sympathy even oil ms
foes, what must have been the agony OF
her whose whole soul was occupied by
his immage! Let those who have had
the portals of the tomb suddenly closed
between them and the being they most
loved on earth-who have sat at It's TIRES
hold, as one shut out in cold and lonely
world from whence all that was most
lovely and loving had departed.
70 render her widowed situation more
desolate, she had incurred her fathers dis
pleasure by her unfortunate attachment,
and was an exile from her paternal roof.
But could the sympathy and Offices OF
friends have reached spirit so shocked
and driven in by horror, she would have
experienced 10 want of consolation, for
the Irish are proverbially people OF
quick and generous sensibiites. The
most delicate and cherishing attentions
were paid her by families of wealth and
distinction. She was led into society,
and they tried by all kinds Of occupation
and amusement to dissipate her grief, and
wean her from the tragical story Of her
lover. But it was all in vain. There are
some strokes Of calamity that scorch the
soul--that penetrate the vital seat Of hap
piness-and blast it, never again to put
! forth bud or blossom. She never o6jec-
ted to frequent the haunls of pleasure, but
she was as much alone there rs III the
depths of solitude. She walked about in
sad reverie, apparently unconscious Of
! the world around her. She carried within
her an inward woe, that Knocked all the
establishments Of friendship, aud " hee-
dcd not the song of the charmer, charm
he ever so wisely"
On the occasion Of masquerade at the
Romnda, her friends brought her to it,
There can be no exhibition Of lar-gone
wretchedness more striking and painful
than to meet it in such scene. To find
il wandering like sceprc, lonely and
ioyIess where all around is gay---to see it
dressed oal in the trapPings OF mIrth. and
looking so wan and woc-began, as if il
had tried in vain to chea! the poor heart
iu'aa @0mtn,ary f)rge'tulness of sorrow.
After -uoliug through the splendid rooms
and giddy crowd with an all Of utter alb
straciian, she sat herself downon the steps
ofan orchestra, and looking about fox some
time with vacant air, that showed Insen-
sihiity 20 the garnsh scene, she began,
with the righteousness of sickly heart,
to MARBLE a litle plainllve air. She had
an exquisite voice but on this occasion
il was so simple, so touching, it breathed
forth such a soul Of wretchedness, that SHE
drew a crowd, mute and silent around her,
and melted every one into tears.
The story Of one so true and tender,
could not but excite great interest in a
country remarkable for enthusiasm. 1t
completely won the heart of brave
officer, who paid his addresses to her, and
thought that one so true to the dead could
not but prove aheclionae to the living.
She declined his attentions, for her
thoughts were irrecoverably engrossed by
the memory of her former lover. lie,
however, pressed in his suit. lie solicit
ted not her tenderness but her esteem.
lie was assisted by her conviction of his
worth, and her sense Of her own destitute
and dependent situation, for she was exis-
ling on the kindness Of friends. In word,
he at length succeededin gaining her hand,
though with the solemn assurance that her
heart was unuuerably anothers.
He took her with him to Sicily, no.
ping that change Of scene might wear
out the remembrance of early woes. She
was an amiable and an exemplary wife,
and made an effort to be u happy one !;
but nothing could cure the silent and de-
vouerng melancholy tina! had entered
upon her very soul. She wasted away
in slow but hopeless decline, and at
length sunk into the grave, the victim of a
broken heart