The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1857-05-30
Romantic Imcident.

1t is said that some sixteeu years since q
young gentleman in New York city com
triyed awhile to pay his addresses to y
beautiful girl there, the daughter of an
obstinate Pearl street merchant. who was
opposed to the young man visiting his
daughter. He persisted in his endeayOrs to
win the young lady, and at last he was fort
hidden to enter the old mans house.
Still the lovers continued to meet, ocea-
sionally, afterwards; and at the expiration
previously SO arranged, the girl consented
to marry the youth. He did not seek the
fortune, for he was in employment, at a
handsome salary, as principal book-keeper
in an extensive jobbing house, and his
pecuniary prospects were very fair. But
the parents were obdurate, and he was
dreven from the house.
? lat the end Of twelvemonth they agreed
to be married, and all the requisite arrange
ments were made; the evening fixed upon, and
even the. e.chAplain ~. bean -aaeaeed; but on
the morning of theday proposed secretly for
the Euptials, the whole plan was discovered,
and the match broken off peremptorily by
the absolute authority of the parents.
z. Time passed on; the daughter was sent to
q distant part of the country for q while,
the young man was disappointed and
disheartened, and left New York for the
West, where he remaied fof two years.
Meantime person to suit the tastes Of the
parents turned up-a man Of considerable
means, but old enough to be the youn5
girls father, and match was arranged,
after q long persuasion, between Emma and
this man, and shc welded him at last.
Three years subsequently the young man
found himself in New England, where he
settled and took wife also, and some
do.en years passed away, with there thous-
and and one changes of place, of circum-
stances, and of fortune. From the time. Of
their separation the original lovers had
never met.
= The young man became the father Of
three little ones; and then lost two of these,
which bereavement was soon after followed
by the death Of his wife. Time few by--
he had been fortunate in his business, and
resided q few miles out of Boston, in cot
tage surrounded BY the comforts Of life,
and in the enjoyment Of the society Of der
little daughter. -
One day be was returning home in the Af-
ternoon, tnd upon entering the cars, found
them TO be fuH. lie sought seat and found
one occupied by lady about thirty years
of age, beside whom, he sat down, and
the cars soon moved ont Of the depot
As they entered into the light, he suddenly
turned to the lady, and exclaimed, ssAIad-
anne! Emma! Is this you.',
He didn't know exactly what he said,
but it was fact that he was on the seat
with the girl whom he had really loved,
and whom be had not seen since the cruel
separation.
A mutual e1plana3idp quickly succeeded.
Our widowed fre ned that his
former intended NJ - on her way 10 the
north, upon visit; that she had been mar
ried nearly eleven years, had but one child
living and her husband had been dead over
two years. aN
I He pointed ont his pretty cottage as the
cars passed on-but did not leave the train.
He proceeded forward, renewed his 40
quaintance, found the lady her own mis-
fress, proposed 70 hor again and We ~
cord the fact with no ordinary degree Of
pleasure that within three weeks the lovers
were actually united in marriage in the city
0f Boston. ~
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