Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1859-01-11
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From the London Family Herald.
FIRST AND TMIED MARRIAGE. M


"Thus you see, my own Hortense, that
must leave you. shall provide an IN
come of hundred louis tor your expenses.
Look forward constantly to my return;
and when fortune again smiles upon me, L
shall come back never again 10 be separa-
ted until DEATH"
The weeping wife could not be com
forted. Ii WAS hard that 80 soon after her
marriage, when the world seemed so bright
and gay, and When wealth and fortune
smiled 80 serenely upon her, all should
be swept away, and she leh like lone
window 10 protect herself. The husband
WAS almost distracted with the thought OF
leaving her. His heart had been bound up
in his beautiful Hortense. She had been
his idol from boyhood--the bright dream OF
hrs existence and when he had attained the
distinction OF one of the merchant princes
of Montreal he married her aud placed
her in the very heart ofluxury.
Misfortunes came on swift wings to the
happy pair. One By one his possessions
lett 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 kind heart, and would not wrong
aRy one for the world They tina. lost by
his iii ll-fortune admitted that Mr.. Valentin
was strictly honest man, and that is
great praise from those who are injured
6y mans ill-luck. People are too apt
to call it dishonesty.
| There was but single bright spot be:
fore Mr.. Valentin Australia cleaned warm
and golden; and with desperation born
! L .. 81. I'd to Grad
itors, he secretly embarked for the land OF
promise. There was nIne days wonder
as 70 where he WAS gone, and to what par-
pose; and then he died out Of the thoughts
Of the community as thoroughly as II he
had been dead and buried.
The weeping Hortense removed to
another locality; the fasliionables who had
strained every nerve to get invited to the
house of the rich merchant never paused
to ask after his wife; and lonely and mis-
erable, without friends or relatives, H0r-
tense dropped and pined, until the beauty
which her husband so praised was changed
into dinness. She never heard from Mr.
Valenlin. Not single VOID had ever
cheered her solitude since he left her, Af
month after month 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 think? Ii was better to think 80 thar
believe him unmindful Of her, and day
after day she watered his memory wltf
tears of genuine sorrow, as one sorrows
for the beloved dead. a
She put on the deepest mourning. kept
her rooms 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 It's beauty
, was vet most deeply Interesting. So a
least thought the young Eugene Stanbury
an Enplishman OF unblemished characte
and prosperous business He saw her a
church, devised some ingenious expedlen
to be introduced, and begged the prlvileg
of waiting upon her. The lady Pleade'
her inability to entertain company, the Inn
q propriety of her receiving gentlemen, ant
= thousand reasons why he could not Vlsi
/ her. s1tarl1 $40 'l
= He overruled them all. besought he
to waive all ceremony with him; to conside
him as deeply attached friend, abrotheI
i anything, in short, if he might be pei
J mitted 70 see her sometimes; and Hortenst
I weary of her monotonous life, at last cor
sented.
IS Once having renewed the delicious cor
e, sciousness of q protecting presence, sh
: found it hard to give it up for the mel
: punciilious fear Of what the world Woul
l. say of her. Indeed, she had long sine
- shaken hands with the world, and parte
ri from it. She owed it no favor. II hs
= no right TO criticise her conduct Thi
: she reasoned while listening 10 Eugene
Il, impassioned entrsaties that she would Ia
=; aside her sorrow for the dead, and becon
ed L.. If