The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1858-11-13


and humiliatng offer Of marriage and that
her first Indignant impulse would have led
hor ~ decline the doubtful honor preferred
her but The case proved fAr otherwise A
supeBtitous dread of being even the iHdireci
cause OF the violation Of ynw, the more aa-
cred, because made In Gods own Sanctuary
"A feeling Of Intense compassion Tor the un-
happy lover whose pale and hsggRrd feA-
lurra bore evident traces of The storms that
had swept over him--a latent, scarcely de-
hned hope, that one dRy khe herself might
succeed In winning bic affections, and take,
/ al least 10 certain extent, the place of her
ho had loved and lost these feelings
CON mbined acted 20 powerfully on the mind of
Louise oaulhler that she consented % be
come the arllsra vile, in spite Of sundry mis-
giyings, which her more prudent mother
could not forbear expressing, as 10 the event
uhl results OF union formed under such un-
favorable auspices, The young couple we're
married shortly niter their frat momentous
Interview and vent 10 reside, in tho Rau-
bourg st. H.,
There sctms little reason to doubt that !
Monsieur Drar0cho kept his word, aud |
proved himself none otherwise than o kind I
and attentive husband, This ought 10 have 1
satisfied hh Young wife, Who Wls fully aware I
that her husband had not promised more
than be intended 20 fulfill But she lived in
the hope thnt her uutring devotion might at
last meet with rcquilnl adequate a. IT, o.
tent, and that mIuy hnpp days might vet
Doc iu store for her She was, however.
doomed 20 disappointment, Monsieur De.
lWoehu could not love twice IN hlt lite 10 he
had ouce loved, aud Ncrnly resolved ~ he
was 10 bnnish from hls heat every rrrullec-
lion Of thAt past, so Taught a. once with
-wrVt and hittrr memories, al the same time
be- was too upright to fain the srmbauce of .
'n affection which had no room within his
breast Thus mouth after month pasasd :
away and the wife only found indifference {
n here she sought for love. Ihu child Whose :
,lrth shed glcam Of iuetlahlr JOS over her :
ircarv path, and that doubtless would have y
ormed bond Of union between - parouis, ,
'as taken from them in the early dfwn OF ia =
.oung lifelong ere IN baby lips hRd learnt
q lisp its mothers name. Then indeed, .he i
cit draolntc, aud gave hrraulf up to despair. c
w friend WAS near 10 speak peace to her G
roublcd soul, and 10 tell her that her "Mak. h
y would be her husband I" that there is q
Friend that stickcth closer than hiothrr." II
ven that plying Jesus who leaves no snrrow II
ntouehcd by sympathy 20 whom every q
writing; -Tfrit uJJy trIUEttl hiluinrsS, eve.
{, dropping heart its sad burden Of woe b
mere was no one to ppiut ont 10 her that u
better land" where sly might hope To meet si
gain the babe whose uutimcly end she 81
iourncd, nor 10 whisper in her ear the words al
heavenly comfort which f,ll on the aching Il
cart like the early dew on the parchcd hurb u
ut all Was darkness within, aud the grave d
ppcnred 10 her the only refuge from the tai.
is of loyelcss home. c,
One morning, her husband having leit hen cl
Ru- unulnnlly rarlv hour ~ aiia',.i 80 .. - D.,
~, and on his return home he found his al
ifo corpse. Undecided Of purpose, aud &c
,arccly knowing whore to 20, he bent bis a'
cps toward the Far West, and az lonRth IA
,ttlrd ia America, thcro dcVoling himself u
n,ircly To his artists profession. Ere, how h'
CT, many months had elapsed, the death u
+ an uncle in France, an eccentric old Guch- et
or, whom hc scarcely knew, left him In pos "
-.aiua ui os,v~idpfHtitv fortune. Since this OF
nange in his circumstauot@ Eugene Della p'
,ehe took up his final abode in a-rcmots e'
1lony OF the Brizils, where he isuow known ,
. the founder of on institution, the obce, Il
which il to provide homo Tor u few ca
mungSt those, Whatever their position in so q
cty may bo, who, like himself having failed u
, carly life, and without any hope OF earthly b
appinc,s, turn aside from the din and glare Ia
+ busy world, in search of that solitude al
hich is 80 lTcoious boon TO the aching
cart. and the tempest-tossed spirit u
This is a true story.