New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-01-19
THE EVENING BEFORE MARRIAGE

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THE EVENING BEFORE MARRIAGE. /
rRa.sftrEp FEoA 1.srE GERMAN Or zscttsSKs
:. We shall certainly be very happy together
said Louise to her aunt on the evening before t
and her cheek glowei with 4 deeper /
red and her eyes shune with delight, When /
bride says IRE it may easily be guessed whom
Of all persons in the world she means thereby.
$ | do not doubt it, dear Louise replied her |
aunt; q see only that you cont,nue to be happy I
together
I: Oh, who can doubt that we shall continue
50! knnw myself. I uave faults, indeed, but
my love for him will correct them And 50
long as we love each other, cannot be un-
happy. Our love will never grow old II
''Alas! sighed her aunt, thou dost speak
like maiden of nineteen. on the day before her
marriage, in the intoxieation Of wishes fulfilled,
of fair hopes and happy onens. Dear child. re-
member this-ersn the heart in time gro,ns
cola Days will come when the magic u The
scenes shall fade And when this enchantment
has fed, then it first becomes evident whether
we are truly worthy Of love When custom has
made familiar the charms that are most attrac-
tive, when youthful freshness has died away,
and with the brie rieaAuess uf domestic life more
and more shadows have mingled them, Louise,
and not till then the wife say of the hus-
band, He is worthy Of love-: then first the
husband say Of the wife, She blooms in I'M
pershable beauty But truly, on the dny
before rrlage, such assertions sound laugh a.
BILE to me.
g understand you, dear aunt. Yon would
say that our mutual virtues lone can in earliea.
years give worth for each other But is not
he, to whom | am to belong-for of myself
can boast nothing but the best intentions is he
not the nohlest worthiest of all the young men
of the city, Blooms not in his sout. every yir-
tue that tends to make life happy %
. My child replied her aunt, &C Grant it,
Virtues bloom in thee as well as in him: / can
say this to thee without fiattery. But, dear
heart. they bloom only and are not yet ripened
beneath The suns rays and the shower. No
blossoms deceive the expectation more than
these. We can never tell in what soil they have
taken root. Who knows the concealed depths
Of the heart =.
''Ah, dear aunt, you really frighten me-
g So much the better, Louise. Such fear is
right, such fear is as it should be on the eve
ming before marriage. ! love thee tenderly,
and will, therefore. declare all my thoughts on
the subject without disguise, | am not as yet
an old aunt. At seven and twenty years. one
looks forward into life with pleasure, the world
still presents bright side to u.s. l have an
eXcelleat husband am happy. Therefore i
have the right to speak thus to thee to call thy
attention to a secret which is not often spoken
If to young and pretty maiden, one, indeed,
which does not greatly occupy the Thoughts of
young man, and still is of the utmost import
ance in every household; a secret from which
alone springs lasting love and unalterable hap
piness.''
Louise seized the hand Of her aunt in both Of
hers g Dear aunt ysu know believe you in
every thing. iou mean, that enduring happi-
ness is not insured to us by accidental quail
ties, by fleeing charms, but only those virtues
Iof the mind which we bring TO each other.
Those are the best dowry which we can possess;
these never become old
As it happens, Louise. The virtues also,
like the beauties of the body, can grow old, and
become repulsive and hateful with age
:. How, dearest aunt! what is il you say
Name to me d virtue which can become hateful
with years,
''When they have become 50, we no longer
call them virtues, a- beautiful maiden Can no
longer be called beautiful. when time has
changed her to an old and wrinked woman
But, aunt the virtues are nothing earthly
:. Perhaps
How can gtntleness and mildness ever
| become hateful =
/ SO soon they degenerate into insipid
] incidence and listlessness.'
9 And manly courage
! = Becomes imperious rudeness
i ssAna modest ditidences' 7
ssTurns TO fawning humility
4 And noble pride:'
To vulgar haughtiness
4 And readiness to ehliges
4 Becomes habit Of too ready friendship
aud servility.
: Dear aunt, you make me almost angry. My
! future husband eau never degenerate thus. He
has=one virtue which will preserve him us he Is
! forever a deep aense-au 1ndestruetlble 1eel,
i ing Tor every thing that IS great and good ana
n,: noble dwells IN me also, | hope. as IN INN
THIS is the innate pledge and security for oni
I haRp,hess:
sbus II 1t should grow OLD with you'll Il
shontd change TO hateful excltaeliity' ana
e&EltablllUy IS the WOfSL enemy OF matfllHnQY