Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1844-11-22
LOVE CHASE.

The Portland Argus gives quite an inter-
esting account of love affair which hap
pened in that city recently, aud which should
be extensively circulated, for the benefit Of
young marrageabe damsels who are prone
to fail in love at first sight. 1t appears that
a stranger, who went to Portland on business,
fell in with pretty, inexperienced girl, and
after few interviews promised her mar
rage, and they agreed to start for Boston in
the afternoon train to have the knot tied
In the mean time the mother-in-law got an
inking of what was going on, and she went
TO the cars to restrain her rowing daughter
from throwing herself into the arms of a
comparative stranger.
The second Act opens at the Depot, with
the train about to start. The mother had
entered the cars, and confronting her daugh-
ter and her lover, by turns entreated the one
to return home, and upbraidng the 9TH
er for stealing away an old woman's daugh-
ter The daughter would not heed her en-
treaties and tears. The lover was cold and
Indifferent to her threats. She told him he
was a married man and unprincipled-an
babe him beware of retribution. To her
daughter, she appealed, that she might re-
turn with her, and make her home glad
which was now desolate. The passengers
feelings were manilestly on the side of the
mother-but her appeals could not draw her
daughter out of the cars
Meanwhile time flew, aud the moment Of
departure came. The mother was still be-
seeching-the daughter poutng--the lover
frowning-when dame fortune for once help
ed the matron and disappointed the maid
The conductor inquired if the girl had
tcket?- She had not--and as the rule re-
quires passengers to be so provided, she was
advised TO step to the Office and obtain one
She stepped out--and the scene being now
quite exciting, some Of the passengers hap
pened to be very much in the way of the low
er, and he couldn't get out SO easily.
Finding his egress thro' the door strange
ly prevented, he rushed 10 the window, and
with SO bill between his fingers, endeav-
ored to convey it to her, She was evident
ly leaving home, in this mans company,
without money. But he could not reach
her. A tall hack-driver, laying his thumb
by the. side of his nose, and twirling his fin
gers, politely Informed him that he couldn't
come it, Here was situation The girl
without, with no means to purchase her
ticket the fellow within, unable TO get out
-and every body laughing at him.
1t is an old proverb, time and tide wait
for no man'--nether does the mail train
nor for woman either. AT this moment the
starting time arrived, the bell tolled, the en-
gineer let on the steam-tIe fireman grinned
the spectators laughed-and off went the
train, Nth the itinerant, but vifhOm his VIC
tim. Then it was that the force of the girls
love broke forth. When she saw the gap
every way widening between them, she could
endure the thought no longer but set off with
frantic speed in .fuu chase after the cars ~
Some shouted, some opened wide their eyes,
some unfeelngly cried put on more steam
my dear few pittied the poor girl. She
soon found that her speed, even when i'm
PEELED by love, was not equal to the mail
train! She returned detected and in tears
TO repeat the thought of the old poet the
course of true love never did run smooth