Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1850-04-25

Romance in Real Life.


Romance in Real Life.
The locale of the following romance was
Principally the pretty village of W., in
our State, aud as the deno,en,ent has occurred,
In the recent marriage of two of the interested
parties, we shall be pardoned for giving pub
licity to the gosspings of dame rumor,
A young sea faring man. of respectable, but
not over lattering prospects, was cnamored of
young lady, of the same village, to whom, on
repeated occasions, he offered his "heart and
hand The young lady being in doubtful
suspense between her lover ard another young
man for whom she had a fancy, succeeded in
holding the former Gin allegiance" putting off
her decision from time to time, and finally
claiming t,ro years, in which to determine
liai'imoney was proposed by the young sailor,
who, suddenly coming into possession, by in
heritance, of some $50, 900, the young lady
began to look at it maftc, O. money. A
great distaste for .Goiatioas sprung up in her
mind, and she began to show signs of dispo-
sition to 'close the bargain" Immediately. In
the meantime the young man had made prcpa-
rations to take command of vessel, which he
had in course of completion CHANGED to
fall III with pretty young Miss in the town
of T--, to whom, after the necessary
prerequisites. of course, he made formal of
fer of matrimonial alliance, and being accepted,
made arrangements that they should proceed
to New York, get united in the holy bonds, on
the way, and the bride to become cabin pas
sengcr in the superbly ftted-up cabin of his
new vessel on her first voyage. But alas for
human arrangcments-old Shakespeare must
be verified when he declared "the course of
true love never did run smooth = A fultcr-
ing in other quarters, as the proposed arrange
ments leaked out, betokened squaliy times
The st love was not TO look quietly on and
suffer herself TO be thus supplanted by this new
enamourata But what was to be done-no
time could be lost-neither could she bear the
idea of losing the money-ha she better fly at
once and PROSTATE herself 1t the feet of her
faithless swain: No, female modesty forbid
A safer course would be to throw herself upon
the clemency of her rival, and appeal to her
honor to decline an alliance with who
"loved another and whose proposals of mar
riagc thus sighted, rendered him liable in
heavy damages to female innocence The
latter course was adopted, and the young cou-
pie were suddenly drought up by the re-
ccption Of letter, with charges of infdelity,
sc. preferred against him. Being too palpa-
bic to be denied, he "freely acknowledged the
corn'-Whereupon quandary ensued, which
was finally settled by the triumph of feminine
dignity over love, and the sudden return of the
lovers to the home of the young lady in T,
he concluding to make his proposed voyage,
and after his return, if so disposed, commence
dc moro.
Accordingly hero, Captain, pro-
cecds on his voyage, and in the course of time,
as usual, considerable excitement sp-ang up
among those cognixant of the facts relative to
their termination. The relatives of the Cap
tain, inccnsed at the course of the first love-,
Joined issue with her friends, and prepared to
thwart their designs upon the unofending and
injured Capt. The yosng lady, all the while
had been putting herself on ''course of diet
calculated to produce effect in the sympathiz-
ing community commensurate to the important
object in view. Decline, tcastisg dicay and ldtr
salts were threatened, on her part-while his
friends declared their determined hostility to
his being thus victimizcd. To keep the fame
alive the friends of the Capt, invited the Young
lady from L. to make them a visit, which she
accordingly did-when. as luck would have it,
the Capt. returned, quite unexpectedly, only
to find himself between two flames Rich
sport was now anticipated, and all were on the
qui rire to "scc what they should see,'' of
which particulars your deponent saith not
only averring that in the lapse of a short time,
the T lady-by newspaper authority,
was found to have won the victory, and gained
the prize.
The moral of the above sketch Of real life,
can easily be drawn by the reader, which duty
is hereby assigned him, by Yours in haste,
One or EN-