Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1853-02-10
Romance in Real Life.

: rial for a good novel. We are as
b sured by the narrator that the state
ments are literally correct.
Some sixtee b years since, a young
gentleman in New York city, con
triyed for a while to pay his address
es to a beautiful girl there, the daugh
ter of worthy but obs innate Pear
street merchant, who was opposed t.
the young mans visiting his daugh.
ter. He persisted in his endeavors
to win the young lady's hand; and
/ was at last forbidden to enter the old
mans house
/ Still the lovers contriyed to meet
occasionally, afterwards and the ex-
4 piration Of some six months matters
having been previously SO arranged
tile girl consented to marry the
young youth who loved her, and for
whom at any time he would have
peril I'd his life, 50 deeply rooted was
| his affection for her He did not
seek her fortune, for he was in the en-
joyment of handsome salary us
principal book-keeper in an extensive
iobbing- house, and his prospects. pc
curiarily, were nattcring, but the old
man was obdurate, and he WAS driven
lror? the house.
As we hipted, at the end Of half a
twelve month, they agreed to be mar
ried, and all requisite arrangements
were made, the even ling was fixed up
on, even the chaplain had been en-
gagged but on the morning Of the
day proposed secrc dy for the nup-
tials the whole plan was discovered,
and the match was broken off per-
emptorily by the a bsolpte authority
of the parents.
Time passed on. The daughter
vas sent to a distant part OF the coun-
try, for awhiIe-the young man WIS
disappointed and disheartened and
left New York for the West, where
he remained two years. Meantime
Il person to suit the taste Of the par
cnts turned up-a man of considers
bic means but old enough to be the
Young girls father-and a match
was arrangel, after SO long pegsua
sion, between Emma and this man,
and she welded him, at last.
Three years sub equently the
young man found Iii :nself i'll New
England, where he settled and took
a wife also finding it not good to
dwell alone--and some dozen or
more years passed ava y with their
thousand changes of + lace, clrcum--
stances and fortune. From the time
of their separation, the original lov-
ers had never met.
The young man became the father
of three little ones, and then lost two
oEthese, which bereavement was soon
after followed by the death of his
wife. Time flew ty-he had been
widower for some years, and his old
est daughter had got to be quite
Miss. He had been fortunate in his
business. and resided "a few miles out
of the city, in a sweet little cottage
unclouded by sorrow, for the day of
his misfortune had long since gone
! by, and he endeayored to be content
ed and happy, surrounded as he was
bv the comforts Of life, and in the
enjoymento Of the society Of his dear
little daughter /
/ One day last month hd was return
ing home in the afternoon, and upon
entering the cars found them full
lie sought seateand found one oc-
cupied by lady about thirty years
of age beside whom he sat down,
and the cars were soon moving out OF
the depot AS they emerged into
J. the light he suddenly tfrned to the
lady and exclaiihed:--
aMa ad-aml Emma! Us this you?
He didn't know exactly what he
said, b ut it was 4 fact THAT he was on
the seat with the girl to whom be had
once been engaged I'd be NJ iarrled, II
and whom he had real Ily loY ed ano
whom he had never seen, from the
day of their cruel separation
A mutual explanation quickly sue
cceeded Our widowed friend ascer-
tained that his former intended was
lon her way to the North, upon vls-
III to her friends That she had been
married nearly eleven years, had but
one child living, and her husband mao
lbeen dead two Years. He pointed to