American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1845-07-24

adieus were rendered He promised to write,
and sail that sort of thing" Helen had a
presentinent of something, (people often
have,) but she dried her tears and took break
fast.
"fTis said that absence conquers love, ~ and
it is u melancholy fact that experience goes far
TO prove the truth of the assertion. One letter
came, full of life, fashion and affection, anoth-
er IN which the latter was not quite so evident,
and third in which it was scarcely percept-
bic. This was aarming-to tell the truth,
Helen had vanished from the doctors mind
We must tell how this happened.
All know the merits Of those resorts Of
sense, folly and fashion, called "Springs.'-
There must be some beauty where there is so
much Of the reverse, and the handsome and
brilliant Miss b. had suppanted poor Ellen
All, tickle man aud suffering woman!
We have, as yet said nothing about the mo-
raj Of this tale. 1t is in tins piece of advice to
our female triends--avod conGdantS. BE sure
they are as ready TO speak as TO hear; and
"what goes in at one ear, goes out" not tat
the other" but at the mouth. All the teaIS
and fances of Helen were duly promulgated
by kind friend; and all that the town could
say, however unpleasant, was told her. Such
are the services Of confdants.
1t was Il calm summers evening; and Helen
was sitting at her window, weaving a web of
fancy, and a silk purse commenced long before
for her now faithless lover. A carriage passed,
in 1t Miss B. and the young doctor This was
her first knowledge of his return; and her
friend, dropping in, revealed many dark traits
in her lovers character, and fresh proofs of his
tathlossness.
The next evening the recreant lover called,
10 IInI, q
displeasure. Never did she appear more hap
py to see him. She was all gentleness, kind
ness The guilty doctor could scarcely credit
the evidence of his senses Helen never SEEM
ed half SO lovely, and he muttered an inward
felicitation that he had not gone too far
"She must love me very much after al;''
thought he, "and now will choose between
the two beauties"
But unfortunately for this pleasant schems
early the next morning he received a note from
Helen, stating in a very few and entirely in
telligble words, that the engagement was at
an end forever. The doctor thought of suicide
and Miss b., hestating for some time between
the comparative merits of prussic and oxalic
acid. de finally concluded not to take poison,
so he took his curricle and drove round to sec
Miss B. He offered himself and shop, and
was-rejscted!
Then in revenge he commenced violent at
tentions to ''good sort of a grip in the neigh
borhoed and married her; having at the same
time half notion that both Helen and Miss
| b. would go into mourning. But Miss H. in
stead of going into mourning went into the
country, found a new lover, and forgot ell
about the Young doctor. Helen thought at
first of becoming a regular nun: next believing
that to be sister of charity would be going far
enough, and finally concluded to live single
life in the ordinary way, and pet cats and Gull
tivate dahlias. She also collected various snail
children, called them her infant school and
taught them part of the alphabet; she Joined a
ladies' missionary sewing society, and instead
of knitting silk purses for her admirers, knit
baby-socks for Juvenile Sandwich Islanders.
Some two Eonths after all this new clergy
man was called to the church of which Helen
was an exemplary member. He was young
and eloquent: wore whiskers for fear OF bren-
chits, and eschcwed white cravat. He soon
began to see Helen home from the meetings of
the sewing society; and the old maids had hard
ly time to say it was "setted NATTER" before
they were married. Candor compels us to say
that the young clergyman was fine fellow,
and worth dozen of the young doctor.
| In q comfortable looking parlor, at the wa
tering place before mentioned, about year st-
ter the marriage, might have been seen ccr!-
cal gentleman with a happy looking young
lady by his side, la her arms rosy, laughing
little cherub. 1t was the husband of Helen,
with his family; AID the eyes Of his wife were
as black and her locks as glossy as when first
introduced to the reader as only Miss Fl. And
in another parlor Of the same hotel, there was
very unhappy gentleman, with very cross,
and highly dissatisfied wife. She was at that
moment lecturing him in tone and manner
far from agreeable. 1t was our hero and his
wife.