Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1849-01-10
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- RAVENFzssoHo "WEDNESDAY, JAN TO- S4g

N. 10, lS49.
| to England, h happy wife! Go, and1ake
with you a fathers blessingi God forbid
should cloud your young life with sor-
irow!'
Father, dear father, do not call this
|socrifice!. The spirit OF my mother will
aid me in my dutiiut devotion, to vou.-l
Heaven will smile upon me, and ! shall be
happy e.
Gen. Leroux sat in thoughtful silence
| Tor moment; then, blushing Ike very
boy, he said
| Look here, my daughter as he took
from his bosom miniature. set in brill
Aiiaa1is thsspnr trait Of asypopg and handsome
fWbmah-N fh5 lloDg ddassnolher 81 &.
ri and Eugenie. :
'What does this mean, falher?' said our
heroine, turning deathly pale ~
1t MEANS, he replied, that foreseeing
that could no: always retain you to pre-
side over my household, have provided u
substitute
who and what is she!'
Have patience, my love, and will tell
you all. While on my tour through the
States, last autumn, met with an old
friend and fellow. soldier an emigrant like
myself, and his only child; a good and
beautiful girl she is, who has promised to
fill that void in my heart left by your moth
er, the place by my hearth soon to be LETT
by you. | thought to have told you this
long ago; but it was an awkward subject
to breach; and the marriage has been once
postponed on account of the death Of 4 rel
alive OF Maria's.
'And so my grand sacrifice was uncalled
for? said Eugene. making On effort 10
smile.
Yes, my love, shall grieve deeply to
part with you, but shall not be comfort
less. Now am going out; when Capt
Hamilton calls you will receive him here,
and may explaid to him the change in
your circumstances rs regards me. Don'r
weep, my child-don't, | pray. will
visit you in England with Henri and-and
my wife, in the course OF the summer, and
you will return to Canaoa, some time.
God bless you, my darling,' and the exen-
plary father took himself off
Eugene had hardly time to dry her
tears, compose her face, and smooth her
ringlets, before Captain Hamilton walk ed
into the library. He was somewhat sur
prlsed at meeting Eugene again.. and ex-
pressed much regret at not being able to
see her father. The poor girl was sadly
embarrassed and could bnt utter little more
than brief replies to the questions of her
lover. After few moments Of painful
constrained conversation, the Captain rose,
kissed hastily the hand of his lady-love,
and not trusting himself to look upon her
face. left her once again to her tears. She
stood like statue of grief, and listened to
his every step as he descended to the hall
below. Then, scarce conscious of the act,
Her lover heard-her light step, and turn
ed toward her. She grasped his arm, lean
ed her hend on on his shoulder murnured-
If you must 60, George, take me with
you. am not needed here; shall die if
you leave me!
Under such extraordinary circumstances,
Captain Hamilton soon obtained leave to
delay for short time his departure for
England, and in the course OF u week, his
marriage with Eugene took place, with all
the rights Of the English and Roman
churches.
Of course the bridegroom was pronounc-
ed elegant in white gloves and waistcoat;
and the bride adorable in satin and orange
blossoms. The usual number fjokes and
champagne bottles were cracked, at the
expense Of the former; of gloves and sash
es soiled at the expense Of the later.
Then followed forced smiles, blessings,
tears, the PARTING.
That night, hour after hour, in tho lone
ly room which had once been Eugenie's,
over harp, whose strings the delicate fin
gers of the most loved might wake no more,
leaned pale and fair haired youth weep
ing wildly and bitterly, with the feeling
that his twined heart had been torn asun-
der.
That night, in his own room sat tall
and handsome man., yet in the golden me-
ridian Of life, gazing mournfully on the
portrait Of n beautiful girl, in q skating
costume, which hung against the opposite
wall. There was a strange quivering in
the lip of the soldier, strange glstening
in his eye. Then he drew from his breast
another picture, and gazed on that till the
smile orthe lover through the lears of the
father.
1t is evening-the first evening at sea,
and Captain Hamilton and his bride are on
, deck, watching the last point of American
land, as it fades into the blue of the horizon.
, The wind blows fair-the vessel feels
= The pressure of the rising breeze;
And swiftest of a thousand keels
She leaps to the eareering seas!
Eugenie's sweet eyes were filled with
, tsars, as stretching her arm towards the
dim shore, she murmured-
sAdieu, dear adopted land! father, broth
f. er, adieu, adieub
|, Her husband folds her to his bosom, nnc
whspers-'Yo ou have indeed resigned much
to follow me-
:. Yes, ALL-home, friends, and it may be
nv religion. And now, dear George she
n adds, smiling through her tears, will you
not admit that Napoleon was the creates
hero the world has ever known?'
= Yes, yes, yield at last; but in return
l for the concession, take the liberty, my
: little Bonapartst wife, Of Kissing you or
;, the emperor's cheek.'-Godey's Ladis'