M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1857-06-25
ROmnnce in RenI Life.

Some sixteen years since young
gentleman in New York city con-
trived for awhile to pay his address to
beautiful girl there, the daughter OF
q worthy but obstinate Pearl street
merchant, who was opposed to the
young mans visiting his daughter.
lie persisted in his endeavors to win
the young lady, and at last was for
hidden the old mans house.
Still the lovers contrived to meet,
occasionally, afterwards-and at the
expiration of some six months, mat
tiers having been previously arran-
ged, the girl consented to marry the
youth who loved her, and for whom,
at any time he would have periled his
life, so deeply rooted was his afec-
tion for her. He did not seek the
fortune, for he was in employment,
at 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 driven from
the house.
AS we have Einted, at the end of
six month they agreed to be married,
and all the requisite arrangements
were made, the evening was fixed
upon, even the chaplain had been en-
gaged-but on the morning ofthe day
proposed secretly for the nuptials, the
whole plan was discovered, and the
match was broken off peremptorily
by the absolute authority of the pa
rents.
Time passed on; the daughter was
sent to a distant part Of the country
for awhile-the young man was dis.
appointed and disheartened, and lett
New York for the West where he re-
mained two years. Meantime a man
to suit the tastes Of the parents turned
up-a man of considerable means but
old enough to be the young girls
father; and a match was arranged,
after a long persuasion between EN-
ma 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
finding it not good to be alone-and
some dozen years had passed away
with their one thousand and one chan.
ges of place, Of circumstances and Of
good 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 followed by the death ofhis wife
Time flew by-he had been fortunate
in his business and resided a few
miles out of the city, in sweet little
cottage unclouded by sorrow, for the
days of his sorrow has gone by, and
he endeavored to be contended and
happy, surrounded as he was by the
comforts oflife and in the enjoyment
of the society of his dear little daugh
ter.
One day last month he was return
ing home in the afternoon, and upon
entering the cars found them to be
full. He sought seat and found one
occupied by lady 80 years of age
beside whom he sat down, and the
cars soon moved out of the depot
AS soon as they entered into the light
he suddenly turned to the lady and
exclaimed: I" Madam! Emma !
Is this youa"
lie didn't know exactly what be
said, but it was the fact that he was
on the seat with the girl whom he had
never seen since the cruel separation.
A mutual explanation quickly sue
ceeded. Our widower friend ascer-
tanned that his former intended was
on her way to tue North, upon a visit
to her friends--that she had been mar
ricd eleven years, Lad but one child