Weekly Clarksville chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 185?-1857, 1857-04-17

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ready know; but, of its effects upon m.
social relations, perhaps you are not aware
y am called, in derision, the pirate
t widow" and so completely am I ostraciseC
| by public opinion, that / have no friends
save the family of Mr.. Danyers, of whicl
your friend, Mr.. Jones, has become {
member, by marrying HleR's elder sister
You remember, too, Charlie" and sh'
hung her head as she said ft-''that / was
fforcibly carried from home, on a certain
night, and shut up in a house of vile re
Ipute. That fact has been made known
and leave you to guess the reports which
1 falsehood and malice have based upon. it
/ This state of things impelled me to under
take this travel into foreign lands and
knowing all, I would not ask, and you
should not grant me more than your friend
ship and protection, till | reach home, il
it be my misfortune te loose my last ma
tural protector And again she burst
into tears; and again Winters pressed her
to his heart, completely subdued by
sympathy for her sufferingsand loneliness,
and by the memory of other days when
no cloud had cast its shadow, upon the
brightness of their untried future.
"Doar Fanny, if I can despiJe the judge
ment of a ccnsorious public, forgive the
broken vow and restore the confidence you
forced me to withdraw from you; if 1 can
trust as once trusted you, and confde to
your keeping my honor aud happiness,
what ought ! to expect in return2" ~
fThe undying love ofan erring, but re-
pentant woman; tho unswcrying devotion
Of a wife encbled by your virtues, and
rescued fsom a life of wretchedness by
your generous symphthies-a everything,
dear Charles, that love and gratitude can
give in exchange for such heart as
yoursf'
Sand will you he to me such a wife?"
Exact from me nc pledge, dear Charlesl
l promised once, and betrayed Now, I
can offer no security that is not based up
on an humbled pride, and the purifying
influences of an experience that has taught
none but bitter, yet wholesome lessons"
Inc SOUND OF her iather voice hurried
fahny 10 MS pedside; ana IN answer to
her enquiry. he said he felt no better. and
oelieVea MS disease beyond the reach OF
medicine. Il am old, he continued,
and death can not come as an unexpected
visitor; but the greatest source OF pain is
the knowledge, my dear child, that you
are IN strange land, without friends and
far from home.
Let not that thought disturb you, my
dear father; for L have, in this house, a
dear and long tried friend-one whom we
have both cruelty wrongcd; but he for
gNes' and to his care and protection you
may safely conhde me- ~ Z
who is he, FannyY
tfSoharles Winters, sr!'
"Charles in this house," he exclaimed.
''Then let me see himl [ hare wronged
him, and, like an obstinate fool, persisted
in the wrong, rather than humble myself
by its acknowledgement. And, Fanny |
would not leave you alone in the world
know enough of its tender mercies to an
ticipate, with anguish, its continued per
section of you. Then tell me, my child,
do you still love OharlesT'
"Father can you doubt it, when you
know how long it made me brave your
displeasure? Did not tell you, ON the
feye of that fatal marriage which has been
followed by wretchedness and disgrace,