Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-11-07
Extraordinary love story.


The last number of the French Psyche has
a story floye affair which has deeply moved
the whole population of Marseilles, but will
hardly be credited by persons who do not be-
lieve in supernatural apparitions. However,
here is the story IN as few words as possible
Charles R, born in wealthy family
of merchants. and an orphan from his child
hood, had been brought up ut his uncle's with
a cousin whose beauty, sweetness and graces
never failed TO produce lasting impression
on all persons of her acquaintance. 1t is
consequently not at all surprising that Chas.
R., who had grown up in erintimate society,
should have fallen deeply in love with such a
fascinating cousin. Nor was his love unre-
Quilted; for, when the proper time came. she
| decided, with the consent of her family. that
| their marriage should take place soon as
! he was twenty years of age Just about that
time. his uncle, having received from Cal
cutta the news of the failure of a house with
which he was carrying on an extensive bust
ness, sent the young Charles to that distant
port to effect liquidation. The marriage
was necessarily postponed. and the young
| lover left MaTseilles, promising to write as
often as God and the ocean would allow, and
10 return as soon as bis business was settled.
Four months passed on, and no news came
| from the young traveller. His relations, and
more particularly his cousin, began to feel
uneasy, and were already accusing him oil
neglect, when one unhappy day they read in
| the papers Of the total loss Of the steamer on
board of which they knew that Charles had
gone. The young Marsellaise was almost
mad with grief. and after long and danger
Gus sickness. the poor girl, disheartened, see
ing before her nothing bat a complete blank,
| tho dor of oP fa in
a convent, to mourn, far from the world, for
| the only man whom she had loved. 1t was
| in vain her parents tried to dissuade her from
that resolution; all their entreaty, their
misery, their tears, could not induce her to
change her mind and she soon entered a con-
vent of Marseilles as a'sipostuant."
Six months after that fatal day. just as the
| time fer her 10 take her VOWS was approach
| Jog. her family were pleasantly starll d by a
letter from their daughter, informing them
that she had altered her mind, and wished to
| go back to them, TO the world, TO pleasure,
| to happiness. For the last three nights. she
| said, she had seen in her dreams her beloved
| Charles, entreating her, with tears in bis
| eyes and the sweetest voice, not to fulfil her
| terrible resolution, not to complete sacTi-
| fce which would be the death of them both
! For Charles was yef alive and would soon be
back TO keep bis sacred promise and end all
uGT gre Tie nuns Oh me convent Dati
good humoredly laughed at her, and tried TO
persuade her to stay among them, in that quiz
ct retreat, where she might. undisturbed. la
ment ali her life the dear companion of her
youth. For he was dead, said they. aud il
WAS foolish to believe in those Supernatural
apparitions. But she was mistaken in her
faith, and to all their entreatieS she would
answer that her betrothed would soon be
back, and, of course, she must be at home to
receive him.
Although the parents of the young ''pOs-
tulant" did not believe, any more than the
nuns. that such a strange dream would ever
be realized, they were so much gladdened by
the letter of their daughter that they decided
not 10 say one word to uudeceive her. She
might go on from day to day, hoping all the
time for an arrival which would never take
place, and by little and little they thought
the deep wound Of her heart may be healed.
Accordingly, ON that very day, they went
TO the convent, and in less than one hour
their only child was Gro sing again the thrrs-
hold of the old family mansion. Her first
thought was for her little room, where she
had gathered so many dear tokens and SOU
venirs from her cousin. She hastens up
stairs. and she goes so fast that her delighted
parents can hardly follow her. But when
she Is on the landing. whom does she see,
standing in the door Of that room 80 long
shut up? Charles, her affianced, who looks
at her. smiling with happiness. and opens his
arms to clasp her to his bosom
1t is n longer dream! Charles holds her
locked in his arms, kissing her and minging
his tears with her own. But when he opens
his arms again, to receive the caresses OF her
parents. she sinks and drops heavily on the
floor.
She was dead! dead with surprise and hap
piuesS! dead without altering one cry with
out heaving one sigh