Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-01-20
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From the London Family Herald. =
First and Third Marriage.

tsThus You see, my own Hortense, that !
must leave you. l shall provide an in.
come Of hundred louis for your expenses.
look forward constantly to my return;
and when fortune again smiles upon me,
shall come back, never TO be separated
until deatl, y ls'so "a 'h.na't si'ifEs sAi 20
The. weeping wife could not be comfort:
ed. Itwas hard thai so soon after her mar.
riace, when the world seemed 50 light and
gay, and when wealth and fortune smiled
so sereneIy upon her, all should be swept
away, and she left Ike lone widow 10
protect herself. The husband was almost
distracted with the thought Of leaving her.
His heart had beer bound up in lis beau
tiful Hortenssee...l se..l She had been his idol
since boyhood-the bright dream of his
existence, and when he had attained the
distinction of one Of the merchants Of
Montreal, be married her and, placed her in
the very heart of luxury. ,,,ea;,;s,-;. i..,,
.Misfortunes came on, swift wings To the
happy pair. One by one his possessions
left him., and worse than that, others were,
involved in his affairs, who were less able
to lose than himself. He could not look
upon the ruin of those around him; for he
had a kind heart, and would not wrong
any one for ihe world; They that lost by,
his i'll fortune admitted that Mr.. Valentin.
was a strictly honest man, and that is great
praise from, those who are injured by q,
mans i'll luck. People are too apt to call
It dishonesty, ls 4s8saaa q laia ss4iv aisif
There was but single. brightspot-before,
Mr., Valentin. Australia. CLEANED up,
warm and golden; with desperation born
of, lore to his wife and justice TO his ered-
itors, he secretly cmbarked for the land OF
promises There was a mine dayls.wonder
asioYwhere he had gone, and to what pur-r
pose, andithen he died outofthe thoughts
of the community. as thoroughly as if be,
a.ad been dead and
The weeping Hortense removed TO an
other locality the fashionables who had
strained every nerve to get invited 10 the
house of the house Of rich merchant never
paused to ask after his wife; and lonely
and miserable, without friends or relntiyes,
Hortense dropped and pined, until the
beauty which her husband SO praised, was
changed into dimness. She never heard
fom Valintin. Not single word had ev--
Areheered her solitude since he left her
AS month after mouth dragged its slow
weight along, and no tidings reached her,
her heart utterly sunk within her, and she
believed him dead. What, indeed, could
she thinka 1t was better to think SO than
to believe him uunrindful Of her, and daily
she watered lis memory with tears OF gen.
nine sorry, as one sorrows for the belosed
Aead.a, so 4-iins g1si'liffa rsf: sy''FE 97s''
She pat on the deepest mourning, kept
her room for months, and when she finally
went out again, and that only to church,
her sorrow was written plainly in the face,
which if it had lost some of its. beauty,
was yet most deeply interesting. 50 at
least thought the young Engene Stantnry,
an EnSIishman Of unLlemished character
and prosperous business. He saw her at
church, devised some ingenious expedient
to Be introduced, and begged The privilege
Of waiting upon her. dHbe lady pleaded
her inability TO entertain company, the i'm
pfopiely Of her receiving gentlemen and
1thousand reasons why be could not visit
hzyn ses..s r., Eoisae Hslosi7 Dqa 11sss 81 ,anes
He overruIed them all, besought her to
waive an ceremony with him, 10 consider
him as deeply attached friend, 4 brother,
Anything, IN short, if he might be permit
ted to see her sometimes; !; and Hortense,
weary Of her monotonous life, at hast con-
sented. ..ssss,ssfi5shz sss-l;zs
Once having renewed the delicious con-
sciousness of 4 projecting presence, she
found it hard to gise it up for the mere
punctilious fear of what the world would
say OF her. She owed it no favor 1T
mao no fghtto eriticise her conducs THUS
she reasoned while listening. to Eugsns's
imPassioned ehtreaties that she would lay
aside her sorrow for the dead and become
MS 1wiies .a-0gl blas.r s.=f.s-- .r.. -.
Still she hesitated. She truly believed
in her husbands death; for would he not
have written had he been ivipgl Of the
many letten abe had written him, the ma.
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