The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1846-02-19
THE YOUNG WIFE.
By EMILY II. MAY.

$50 Ellen Osgood has refused Mr.
Livingstou!" said pretty girl of slA-
teen TO one of her acquaintance, during a
morning CALI "Wbal can be the red
soneh
II do not know, unless it is his well
known imperiousness OF temper"
"But what is that 10 fortune such
as his? | am sure ! should overlook a
great many taiIings in a husband, who
could give me the finest house aud most
splendid carriage in town."
"Bur, my DEAR said her elder friend
"you forget that happiness cannot be pur,
chased with gold. There are sad hearts
10 fine houses as we'll as in humble cot
,eges. If there is no, mutual love and
esteem 10 the married state, no gay equip.
age can bring felicity or even afford con.
lent"
"La! you are so old fashioned in your
notions, my dear Miss Thornton, but then
sure you are older, and ought 10 know
more than l do. YET am certain
should be happier if | was r'chg'
"You think SO now, my dear. because
having loving parents and afftctIonae
friends, your heart has nothing further to
ask for in that way; but let your friends
be taken from you, lie, you be alone in the
world with no one to cling 10, and you
will long for some one TO love, more than
now you long for riches. Affection is all
in all to our sex; take care, my dear child,
how you fling it away"
swell, Pm sure | never thought of
these things before; but you must be right.
They say Ellen is going TO marry young
Harry Moncklon."
81 am glad TO hear it. Harry is in
comfortable business, and can give his
wife a neat, though it be comp rativeIy
humble home.-Then his character is
everything that wife could wish; his
principles are excellent, and his heart in
the right place. Altogether Ellen has
made happy choice.'
"Yel still should think she will some.
times regret her choice, when she sees the
rich carriage of Mr.. Livingston dash by
her humble home"
tShe will never think of it my dear"
"WelI, suppose Caroline Willing"
said the youthful speaker, after pause,
"wiIl now be Mrs. Livingston. She has
been trying 10 get him these two years,
they say"
"CaroIine is different girl from Ellen;
she has less heart, and places her happi- |
ness chiefly on external show. ", she
never seems happy"
"How she will triumph over EIIeu!"
"But with little cause my love. Wait |
for two years and see the result"
Two years had passed away siuce this
conversation. Ellen, meantime, had mar
Iied, and removed 10 a neat collage which
her husband had rented on The outskirts of
the village THE house was not large, but
it was convenient, and every thing within
and around was in excellent taste. A
pretty garden was attached 10 the cottage.
This was a source of great pleasure 10 E.
len, for she was passIonalely fond Of flow
ers; and every morning, while her husband
was absent at his business, she might be
seen watering her plants. singing with a
carol as ligh: as that of the birds who
warbIed from The neighboring boughs.
Caroline Willing had become Mrs
Livingston, and thus obtained the prize
for which she had schemed and labored
Her house was The fine old mansion OF the
Livino stons, which had been remodel ed
and newly furnished on her marriage
Her equipage was the most snowy in The
place; for the first time since the revolu-
ton liveries had been seen in the village,
Her cabinet ware, her drawing room cur
,ains, and her magnificent set OF silver,
were the talk Of town. But was she hap
py2 Iflhese things could haze besto we'd
felicity on any one, Caroline would have
been happy; but those who saw her faded
looks, or who heard her querulous com.
painngs, shook their heads and sighed.
Mr.. Livingston, it had now become no.
torious. was a most dissipated man. Idle
ness, that curse Of the rich, had early led
him into evil company and as he had
married without love- he now lived with.
DOT restraint, TO the tears of his wife he
was Indifferent; from her complains he
turned sarcaslically away. 1t was said
that he was not only running his own
health, and destroying his wife's comfort,
bu, squanderng his fortune.
1t was just two years after the CONVEX
salion with which our story begins, when
the two persons who had participated in
that conversation, called together on
morning visit a, the mansion of the Lv.
ingstons. Everything was in confusion
there. Servants were running to aud fro,
the carriages oftwo physicians were at the
door, and from the upper chambers came
loud and successive shrieks, as of some
person in mortal agony, The ladies saw
that their visit was NAL a propOs. They
soon learned the cause of the confusion.
Mr. Livingston the night before, had lost
the remnant of his fortune in a gambling
house, where large portion of it had al
rnndu uanished he had rainrned hnme