Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1850-08-22
IFrom Peterson's Magazinc.l
The Runaway Match.

IFrom Petersons MagazncJ
The Runaway Match.
" Caroline, wish you would remain moment, %
said Mr.. Warren, as his daughter was about to leave
the parlor.
''Well, papa, what is it ?''
She str0ve to look unconscious, but her varying
color and the movement of her lips, betray
ed secret agitaton; In fact she suspected the pur-
pose Of her parent.
sI thought said Mr.. Warren, &c that when
forbade young Collins my house, you were prepared
to submit to the prudence of my decision. We
talked the matter over, Caroline if you remember,
and was at considerable pains to convince you that
he was idle, wasteful, and / feared, dssipated-in
short, very unfit person for any to trust her
happiness with You silently agreed to what | said
at least you said nothing in reply. fancied had
persuaded you, for thought your own good sense,
similar to that in which your mother and myself be-
held it. Judge then of my inexpressible pain when
| saw you walking arm-in-arm with him in the out
skirts of the city, to-day
He paused, and Caroline hung down her head
abashed. &C was not Mistaken she said 10 her
self, GO 1t was pa whom saw.''
Mr.. Warren waited for more than minute for
her reply, but she continued silent, he went on.
''Now, Caroline,'' said he, &c wish you to look
on what | am-the best friend you have in the
world and one who has motive, much less any
wish, TO advise you wrong II is mistake of people,
especially of those of your to suppose that parents
wish to tyrannize them i'm the affair of marriage
Believe me, nothing is generally further from pa
rents thought. Ii is not unfrequent, indeed that
father differs from daughter 10 the wisdom of her
uniting herself with certain sutton: but in such
cases, the father is, nine times out of ten right and
the child wrong. The parent, from his knowledge of
men-from what he heard in the street, and
from other sources, usually arrives at juster
a daughter, who has little means of ascertaning
the truth. In the of this young Collins know
him TO be extravagant, idle, occasionally intern
perate in his habits, and head over ears in debt.
Besides this, he has a violent temper. beseech
you, Caroline do not give way further to this nfa-
tuation of yours
As Mr.. Warren spoke he approached his daughter
and took her hand. She burst into tears looked up
in his face, and said Oh, but, papa, love him,
and he loves me- he says he will throw hmselfaway,
if | do not marry him. Surely, surely, if can, |
ought TO reform him.
| Mr. Warren shook his head. Caroline" he
said, severely, this is sheer folly, miserable natu-
alton |! No woman reformed whose
principles so loose those of Collins wretch,
who in his own words will throw himself away if YOU
do not marry him. Listen TO my words, child, for
you are weaker than | thought, and must rule
where would prefer to persuade; If ever you mar
ry Collins, from that hour this house is closed against
you"
The tears of Caroline flowed faster. Mr. Warren,
after turn two the room, softened again,
and addressed her in kinder tones
" My child" he said, I" | speak thus for your own
good. know if you marry Collins, that you will
regret it; and would by interdicting it, spare you
much future sorrow / will not urge you TO unite
with any man you do not fancy, however excellent
may think him TO be. This promise you: and on
your part, | shall expect you to give up this ac-
quainance. Tomorrow / will look for your pro-
mise TO this effect Go now, and think Of it.; am
sure you will obey me''
He stopped down and kissed her tenderly; and
then Caroline, still weeping rushed from the ROOM
But was il TO think as her father desired, of her
duty?
Alone, in her chamber, she recalled, at alternate
moments, the words of her parent and the inSdious
persuasons of her lover; and alas! the latter had
most influence with her.
Caroline not exactly weak girl, but she had
fallen into bad set at school, and from it many
hurtful notions of chids duty to its parents,
especially in case of supposed affection. She had
read, not good novels but visionary romances; and
these had strengthened her mistaken ideas. Her
present sutton was handsome, designing libertine,
who knowing her father to be rich desired to possess
the daughters hand; with it went large fortune.
The finished manners of Collins had easily won her
liking-for cannot call it love-and, imagining
herself to be in similar position TO her favorte
heroiness she regarded the opposition of her father
as oppressive and unreasonable
| That very day her sutton had urged her to elope
with him, and she had consented to do so. But her
parents kind expostuatons had for time shook
her purpose. Finally, however, the vanity of being
the heroine of runaway match, well as her based
views respecting the supposed injustice of her father
induced her 10 fulfil her promise; and at the dead OF
night she left her home forever.
We say left her home for she never had another
Mr. Warren proved true to his threat, and was the
more nllexible because Caroline had eloped on the
very night he had pleaded earnestly with her. She
left me with my kiss still warm upon her cheek he
said; she preferred another and stranger, to me
she treated me, not like her best friend, but like ar
enemy, and hencelorth she is banished from my
heart''
Yes. she never again had home Her husband
took her to hotel, where they remained severa
weeks, hoping daily TO receive summons from hel
father, but as none came, they forced at las
to cheap clearinghouse Here, amid indheren
society, Caroline, who had been tenderly nurtured
learning TO feel acutely the advantages of which
she had deprived herself and learned TO long for he
old home.
) II her husband had really loved her, or if sh.
could have continued to persuade herself that he
father had been unjust, she might have found som.
alienation in her altered fortune But her husband
angry that her father inexors5le now began (.
punish Caroline for her fathers frmness, by neg
lecting her; and left her, evening after evening L
!; amuse herself, while he spent the hours at In,
billiard-table, in the theatre, or with some ga,
friends over bottle or two Of wine. II was nov
that Caroline saw the correctness of the judemen
which her father had expressed respecting Collins
: She not only learned that he was both idle and [,
spendthrif but discovered that he was incorporate
passionate and unprincipled
Often, when he came home excited by wine h
would address her in most brutal manner. chargin,
their present poverty her, rather on her eng