The Winchester home journal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-08-01
Romance Of Real Life.

Some sixteen years since, q young gen
.lsman in Now York city con,rved, Tor
awhile, TO pay his addresses TO a beauli'
ful gll there, the daughter Of Pearl
stree! merchant, who was opposed to the
young man visiting his daughter. He
persisted in his endeavors to win the
young lady, and at last he was forbidden
TO enter the oil mans house.
Still the lovers continued to meet oc.
cnsiona!ly afterwards, and at the cypira.
ton Of some six months, matters having
been previously so arranged, the girl con.
scented TO marry the youth. He did not
seek her fortune, for he was in employ.
ment, at a handsome salary, as principal
book keeper 10 an extensive jobbng
house, and his pccuniary prospects were
very fair. But the parents were obdu'
rate, and he was driven from the house.
At the end Of lwclve,month they
agreed to DO married, and the requisite
arrangements were made; the evening
fixed upon, and even the chaplain had
been engaged; but on the morning Of the
day proposed secretly for the nuptials,
the whole plan was discovered, and the
match broken of peremptorarlly by the
absolute authority Of the parents.
Time passed on; the daughter was
sent to distant part of the country for
awhile; the young man was disappointed
and disheartened, and left New York for
the West, where he remained two years.
Meantime, person TO suit the tastes Of
the parents turned up--a man Of consd.
cradle means, but old enough to be the
young girls father and match was ar,
ranged, after a long persuasion between
Emma and this man, and she welded him
at last.
Three years subsequently, the young
man found himself in New England,
where he settled and took wife also,
and some dozen years passed away, with
their thousand and one changes Of place,
Of circumstances, 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 tho death of his wife. Time
flew by--hc had been fortunate in bust.
ness, and resided few miles out Of Bos,
ton, in a cottage surrounded by the com.
forts Of life, and in the on oyment Of the
society Of his dear little daughter
One afternoon he was returning home,
and upon entering the cars found them
TO be full. He soug ht seat, and found
one occupied by lady about thirty years
of age, beside whom he sat down, and
the cars soon moved out Of the depot
As they entered into the light, he sudden.
ly turned to the lady and exclaimed
d" Madame!-- Emma! is that you?"
He didn't know exactly what he said,
hut it was fact that he was on the scat
with the girl whom he had really loved,
and whom he had not seen since the cru
cl separation.
A mutual explanation quickly sue,
ccedcd. Our widowed friend ascertained
that his former intended was now on her |
way to the North, upon a visit; that she |
had been married nearly eleven years,
had but one child living, and her hus
band had been dead over two years.
He pointed out his pretty cottage as
the cars passed on--but did not leave the
train. He proceeded forward, renewed
his acquaintance, found the lady her own
mistress, proposed to her again, and we
record the fact with no ordinary degree
of pleasure, that within three weeks the
lowers were actually united ia marriage
an the city Of Boston.