Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1849-02-22

statue Not for you, beneath whose love-
| ly bosom there beats not a woman's heart
Pass on your way, calm, stately and alone
softened by no grief, touched by no love,
and leave inc to my despair. Martha, am
married p And so saying, he rushed out
of the room. Mrs. Hargrave had just en-
tered it unobserved, and now stood beside
her daughter. Martha remained in the
same attitude, leaning forward, gazing in
tenty at the door, till the noise of the street
door shutting smote upon her ear and heart,
and before her mother could interposc, she
fell senseless on the floor.
1t is said, and said truly that men recover
more speedily than women from love disap-
pointments. The reason is, not that they
feel them less deeply, for the converse is
the case-the strength of the male charac-
ter running through all its emotions but
that the cares and struggles of life, and even
the ordinary contact with society into which
they are forced, serve gradually TO detach
their thoughts from the sorrow over which
they would otherwise continue 20 brood
Woman, at least in the class affected most
by such disappointments, have more leisure
than men. The world has fewer demands
upon them; and they can only exhibit their
mental powers and loltiness of resolve by
making wholesome occupations for their
fevered minds. OF these women was Mar
tina Hargrave. Although stunned at first by
the blow, its very suddeness and severity
compelled her to reflect upon her position
and summon up her energies She did not
permit her sympathies to lie buried in one
absorbing subject, but cast them abroad up
on the face ofsociety; and wherever, with
in the reach of her influence, there was ig-
norance to be instructed, vice reclaimed, or
misery relieved, there was Martha ready, a
ministerng angel at the moment of need.
Under this moral discipline she recovered
her bodily health. The fresh roses of youth
continued to bloom in her lovely checks
long after her hair had began to change its
her descent, gradually, gracefully, gliding
! ly, but still rely-into the vale ofyears.
/ The process was different with Richard
/ Temple; but still of kindred character.
To say that he did not repent his marriage
would be untrue; but still he had honor
and integrity enough to cherish the wife he
had married in return for her love. He de-
voted himself to business and to his rapidly
increasing family prospercd, and in due
time arrived at the enjoyment of at least or
binary happiness. But at length period
of commercial calamity came, and Richard
suffered with the rest His fixed capital
was still moderately good; but he was em-
barrasscd, almost ruined, for want of money.
One day during this crisis he was III his
private room in the counting-house, BROOD
ing over his difficulties, and in the least
promising mood that could be imagined for
sentimental recollections, when letter was
placed before him, the first two lines of
which informed him, in a brief, business
like manner, that Martha was dead. The
paper dropped upon the floor and covering
his face with his hands, he abandoned him
self for long time to the deep and painful
memories of his early years.
Ga emerging from this in the commoner
cares of life, he took up the letter to place
it on the table; when, on glancing over its
remaining contents, he found that poor
Martha had bequeathed to him her watch,
and the whole of her original fortune of
.c5000. This completely unnamed the
man of business and throwing himself
back in his chair, he sobbed like child
Although the money was of infinite impor-
lance to him, freeing him from his present
embarrassments, and paving the way for the
splendid fortune he afterwards acquired, he
attached a far higher value TO the personal
keepsake. When he had become quite an
old man, it was observed that, as often as
he opened the drawer in which the relic was
kept, he remained plunged in deep reve-
RE, while gazing long aud earnestly upon
bic 6rst Iost-Oplv fTogrN or OuAKrR
LOVE.