Daily gazette and comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-186?, 1860-11-09
Extraordinary Love Story.

which has deeply moved the whole
population Of Marseilles but will
hardly be credited by persons who
do not believe in supernatural APP
partition. However, here is the sto-
ry in as few words az possible
Charles r., born in wealthy
family of merchants, and an orphan
from his childhood had been brought
up at his uncle's with a cousin
whose beauty, sweetness and gra.
ces never failed to produce a last
ing impression on all persons of her
acquaintance. It is consequently
not at all surprising that Charles
| r., who had grown up in her init.
mate society should have fallen
deeply in love with such fasoins-
ting cousin. Nor was his love IN
requited for, when the proper
time came, she decided, with the
consent of her family, that their
marriage should take place as soon
as he was twenty years of age
Just about that time, bis uncle,
having received from Calcutta The
news of the failure Of house with
which he was carrying on An ex
tensive business, sent the young
Charles to that distant port Ito ef
feet a liquidation. The marriage
was necessarily postponed, and the
young lover left Msrseilles, promis
ing to write az often az God and
the ocean would allow, aud to re-
turn as soon az his business was
settled.
-Four months passed on, and no
news came from the young travel.
err. His relations. and more par
ticularly his cousin, began to fell
uneasy, and were already accusing
him Of 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 Marssilles
was almost mad with grief, and sf-
ter a long and dangerous sickness,
the poor girl, dishearted, seeing be-
fore her nothing but complete
blank, resolved TO spend the re-
mainder of her life in a convent, to
mourn, far from the world, for the
only man whom she had loved
II was in vain her parents tried to
dissuade her from that resolution |;
all their entresty their misery, their
tears could hot induce her TO change
her mind. and she soon entered a
convent Of Marseilles as "postu-
lsntp
Six months after that fatal day,
Just as the time for her TO take her
vows was approaching, her family
were pleasantly startled by letter
from their daughter, informing
them that she had altered her mind
and wished to go back to them, to
the world, 60 pleasures, to happin-
ess. For the last three nights, she
said, she had seen in her dreams
her beloved Charles, entreating her
with tears in his eyes and the sweet
est voice, not to fulfill her terrible
resolution. not to complete sacri-
flee which would be the death of
them both. For Charles was yet
alive and would soon be back to
keep his sacred promise and end
all her griefs. The nuns of the
convent had good humoredly laugh
cd at her, and tried to persuade her
to stay among them, in that quiet
retreat, where she might, undstur-
bed. lament all her life tho dear
companion Of her youth. For he
was dead, said they, and IL was
foolish to believe in those super
natural apparitions. But she was
mistaken in her faith, and to all
their entreaties she would answer
that her betrothed would soon be
back, and, os course, she must be
at home 90 receive him.
Although the parents of the
young "postulsnt" did not believe,
any more than the nuns, that such
strange dream would ever be re-
allied, they we're so much gladden.
ed by the letter of their daughter
that they decided not to say one
word to underceive 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 though the deep wound
of her heart might be healed.