The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1857-06-10
MISCELLANEOUS.

Tep years ago NJ V married in Mon
trsal. Ho was one of the principal merch-
ant, of the city; but by areverse of for.
tune be was compelled to suspend pay
mest sosn after his marriage He Low.
Cd his wife to distraction. to use a com
mon phrase; and the idea of involving
her in his disasters greatly afflicted him
After thousand internal conflicts. NJ.
" resolved to leave our city without
saving anything about it.-He wished
BIZ departure, or rather, his disappear
aace. "a remain u mystery. But he had
a purpose. II will go, ;" he resolved,
20 Australia. and there mend my for.
tunss, or die without giving any account
Of myself"
This resolution taken, our tradcsman
Embarked candestinely, and eight days
after his fight, be was not thought Of
Madame V. wept, we are fain to suppose
more than this, we will believe she shed
torrents of tears, and sought him upon
rivers, and in woods, lakes and caverns,
but in vain. NJ V. had left to his
beautiful but weeping and forlorn wife
an income Of q hundred louis, and sailed
for Australia. What befel him upon
those hvorod shores we do not well
know but little by little he amasse6
wealth
At Montreal they supposed him dead.
+His wife wept bitterly; and she saw,
undoubtedly, that sorrow jaundicee her
complexion and dimmed her eyes there.
fore she ceased all sweetly. her role Of
Nidbe.-Our Penelope could smile like
young widow of eighteen the art
Of nesdlework is too perfect now are
not men entangled with it2 She was
faithful to her wandering husband eigh-
teen long months; but she then did
what others might have done in her
place. Thinking herself young, she
lent her ear to tender proposals she re.
vicved her geography of love, confessed
to never having studied tho map of the
tender country and one morning con.
tracted new marriage. But the first
husband He ah, he was dead What
living husband would stay away eieh.
ten long months without writing word2
II he was not dead he ought to be (fem.
iripG logic She married Was she
happy, or was she not?-(Shakspearean
qnestion,)
Meantime. her first husband labored
in the mines He acquired, acquired
always acquired. Falling upon an au.
riterous vein he suddenly obtained a
large sum, and had his ouly motive been
lls love of gain, he would have immedi,
atoly returned to Montreal But his
dear Lsuisa must eat only from silver
apd drink only from gold
The unfaithful Louisa, as we have
already said, was again married. Faith
dovs not save us; M. V. always labored
but an epidemic prevailed; our hero
caught the small. .pox and was complete.
L. 6gured.-Disgusted with Austria.
liza he sold his property and embarked
Oh an American ship
During this voyage, the second hus.
band OF his wife died with the consump.
tiou.-M. V. landed at Portland. flew
to Montreal, went to the Montreal
House, without arsusing any suspicion
as TO he was There are people who al
ways love TO create surprise, and he was
one Of them. He inquired for Madame
V no ne knew such a person but n
! Y insisted Finally he was told by
some one that she was now the widow OF
5 NJ V. scratched his head They
p,iuted out to him Madame widow V
afterwards Madame widow s., and be re
cognized his wife charming as when he
left her. NJ. " Immediately fell into q
brown study. His countenance wa:
grave sad, very sad very gloomy and
thus he turned away, A V. had NOR,
slirlt than money and he found it very
s,puge to pay his addresses to his owr
wife But he did it he courted hi,
own wife for three months He recog
uized her did she recognized him2 I
Is more than we know we leave thu
danes who read this to solve the prob
lem. He was introduced with all hi
pounds, shillings and pence People vii
admire pounds stearling, and dollar
federal, and women above all. Thougi
SCARED aud pitted from head to foo
with the smallpox M. v won the hear
o. his wife They we're to exchange tn