Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1846-07-09
The Young Wife.

$50 Ellen Osgood has refused Mr. Livingston ?"
said pretty girl of sixteen TO one of her acquan-
lance, during a morning call "What can be the
reason !
al do not know, unless ii is his well known i'm.
periousness Of temper"
"But what is that to a fortune such as his! | am
sure should overlook great many failings in a
husband, who could give me the finest house and
most splendid carriage in town"
"But my DEAR said her elder friend you for
get that happiness cannot be purchased with gold
There are sad hearts in fine houses well as in
humble cottages. IL there is no mutual love and
esteem in the married state no gay equpage can
bring felicity or afford CONTENT
LA you are so old fashioned in your notions
my dear Miss Thornton, but then sure you are older
and ought to know more than do Yet am GER
tain should be happier, if was rchW
"You think now, my dear, because having
loving parents and aiectionate friends, your heart
has nothing further to ask for in that way but let
your friends be taken from you, let you be alone in
the world with to cling to, and you will long
for some one to love- more than now you long for
riches Affection is all in all to sex; take care,
my dear child, how you fling it away"
"Well, ! am 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 neat though it be
comparatively humble home Then his character
is every thing that wife could wish his principles
are excellent and his heart in the right place
Altogether Ellen has made happy choice
yet still | should think she will sometimes re-
greet her choice, when she the rich carriage OF
Mr. Livingston dash by her humble home"
"She will never think Of it, my dear"
"Well, suppose Caroline Willing" said the
youthful speaker after pause, Twill now be Mrs
Livingston. She has been trying to get him these
two years, they say"
"Caroine is different girl from Ellen, she has
less heart and places her happiness chiefly in exter-
nal show. Yet she never seems happy"
"How she will triumph over Ellen p
"But with little cause, my love. Wait for two
years and see the result"
Two years had passed away since this conyersa-
ton. Ellen meantime, had married, and remove d
to neat cottage which her husband had rented on
the outskirts Of the village The house was not
large but it was convenient, and everything within
and around was in excellent taste, A pretty garden
was attached to he cottage This was a source oil
great pleasure to Ellen, for she was passonately
fond of flowers; and every morning, while her hus-
band was absent at his business she might be seen
watering her plants singing with carol as light as
| that of the birds who warbled from the neghborng
boughs.
Caroline Willing had become Mrs Livingston
aud thus obtained the prize for which she had
schemed and Iabored Her house was the fine old
mansion of the Liyingstons, which had been re
modelled and newly furnished on her marriage
Her equipage was the most SNOWY in the place; FOL
the first time since the revolution yeres had beer
seen in the village Her cabinet ware, her draw
ingroom curtains and her magnihcent.set Of silver
were the talk of the town. But was she happy
If these things could have bestowed felicity on am
one, Caroline, would have been happy; but those
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