Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1857-08-06
New Series---Vol. Ii, No. SO.

the man who deliberately wrongs another
to gain an advantage to himself, viii never,
In marriage, make a truly virtuous woman
happy. This [ speak solemnly and pray
you take it to your heart ere conviction OF
have said too much. Forgive me for my
plain speaking. From the fullness of the
heart is this utterance.'
And SO saying, Mrs. Waring passed from
the room, and left the parents Of Fanny
alone with their weeping child. Few
words were spoken by either Mr.. or Ms.
Lowering. Something in the last words OF
Mrs Waring had started their minds into
new convictions. As for the daughter she
soon retired into her own apartments, and
did not join the family again until the
next morning. Then her sad eyes and
colored face too plainly evinced night of
and suffering.
BY kind of tacit consent on the part
of each member of the family, no allusion
whatever was made to the occurrence of the
day previous. Evening came, but not as
usual came Edward Allen The next day
and the next went by, without his accus-
toned visits. For whole week his visits
were omitted
Grievous was the change which in that
time had become visible in Fanny Lover
ing. The very light of her life seemed
suddenly to have gone out, and for while
she had groped about in darkness. 4 few
feeble rays were again becoming visible;
but from a quarter of the heavens where
she hadhot expected light. Wisely, gent
ly and unobtrusiycly had Mrs. E.aring,
during the period of gloom and distress,
cast high truths into the mind of her suf-
fering niece-and from these, as stars in
the armament of thought, came the rays
by which she was able to see path open
ing before her.
When at the end of the tenth dav OF
uncertainty, came note from Allen, in
these brief words - If it is Miss Lover
erings wish to be free from her engagement,
word will annul the contract; she replied
within ten minutes: Let the contract be
annulled you are free
Two weeks later, and Mr.. Lowering
brought home intelligence that Allen was
to be married in a few DAYS to a certain
Miss Jerrold a daughter of man reputed
to be wealthy
To Miss Jerrold2 1t cannot be said
Mrs. Lowering in surprise
Il cannot believe it father. Fanny
spoke with a quiyering lip and a choking
voice.
WHO'S this Miss Jerold 2 inquired Mrs
Waring
a coarse, vulgar minded girl, of whom
many light things have been said, replied
Mrs. Lowering, Indignantly But her IA
ther is rich, and she is an only child
He never loved you, dear, said Mrs.
Waring to Fanny, about week later, as
the pet, suffering girl laid her fearful face
on her bosom. The news had just arrived
that Miss Jerrold was the bride of Allen.
The frame of the girl thrilled for moment
or two, then all was calm as she replied:
Not as / wished to be loved Oh,
Aunt, what an escape have made. | look
down the fearful gulf, on the brink Of
which my feet were arrested, and shudder
t. the hearts core. If he could take her,
he could never veappreciated me. Some
thing more than maiden purity and virtue
attracted him. How could my instinct be
so at fault
Dear child said Mrs Waring earnest
ly, there can be no love, as [ have before
said to you, without an appreciation of
quality. \ fine person, agreeable manners,
sociable position--in word, all external
advantages and attractions are nothing url-
less virtue be in the heart 1t is mans
virtues that a woman must love, If she
loves truly. If she assumes the possession
Of moral wisdom, without undonbting evil
dence, she is false to herself To marry
under such circumstances, is 20 take fear
full risk. Alas how many have repented
through long life of wretchedness Can
a true woman love man who lacks princi,
ple-who will debase himself for gain
whose gross sensuality suffocateg all high
spiritual love? No; it is impossible. And
she who unites herself to such a man must
either shrink grovelling down to his iaean
level, or be inconceiyably wretehed.'
Two years later, and results amply jus
tifed the timely interposition of Ms. Wa
ring, and demonstrated the truth of her
position. Her niece has become the bride
IF man possessing all the external advan-
ages sought to be obtained by Mr. and
Mrs. Lowering in the proposed marriage
With Allen, and what is more and better,
If one whose love of truth and Justice is
genuine, and whose appreciation of his
wife rests on her womanly virtues. As
years, pass and their knowledge of each
other become more intimate, their union
will become closer and closer, until affection
md thought become so blended that they
will act in all their mutual life relations as
1ne.
How differently it is already with Ed
ward Allen and the woman he ed to the
altar, where each made false vows, the one
10 the other There were no qualities to