The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1860-11-16
ExtrnordInnry Love stOry

The last number Ofthe French Psyche
has a story Of love affair which has
deeply moved the whole population Of
Marseilles, but will hardly be credited
by persons who do not believe in super
natural apparitions. However here Is
the story in as few words as possible:
Charles R, born in Rwealthy fam.
lily Of merchants, and an orphan from his
childhood, had been brought up at his
uncle's with a cousin whose beauty,
sweetness and graces never failed q pro-
duoe a lasting impression on all persons
Of her acquaintance. II Is consequently
not at all surprising that Charles H.. who
had grown up in her intimate society,
should have fallen deeply in love with
such a fascinating cousin. Nor was his
love unrequited; for, when the proper
time came, she decided, with the consent
lake place as soon 10 his as Re-T%ssef teeRld
years of age. Just about thar time his
uncle, having received from Calcutta the
news Of tho failure ofa house with which
he was carrying on an extensive busi-
ness, sent the young Charles TO that dis
tant port to effect q liquidation. The
marriage was necessarily postponed, and
the young lover left Marseilles, promis.
ing 70 write rs often as God and the
ocean would allow, and to return az soon
as his business was settled.
Four months passed on and no news
came from the young traveller. His re-
la tions, and more particularly his cousin
began to feel uneasy, and were already
accusing him of neglect, when one un-
happy 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 Marseillaise was almost mad
with grief and after long and danger
Gus sickness, the poor girl, disheartened,
seeing before her nothing bat a complete
blank, resolved TO spend the remainder Of
her life in a convent, to mourn, far from
the world, for thesonly man whom she
had loved. II was in vain her parents
tried 10 dissuadc her from that resolution.
All their entreaties, their misery, their
tears could not induce her to change her
mind, and she soon entered a convent Of
Marseilles as "postulant."
Six months after that fatal day, Just as
the time for her 20 take heryows was ap-
ProaChing, her family were pleasantly
startled by letter from their daughter,
informing them that she had altered her
mind, and wished 10 90 back TO them, 20
the world, to pleasures, TO happiness
For the last three nights, she said she had
seen In her dreams her beloved Charles,
entreating her, with tears in his eyeg and
the sweetest voice, not 10 complete sac
Fifice which would be the death Of them
both. For Charles was yet alive and
would be soon back, 10 keep his sacred
promise and end all her griefs. The nuns
OF the convent had good humoredly laugh
ed at her, and tried TO persuade her 10
stay among them, In that quiet retreat,
where she might, undisturbed, lament all
her life the dear companion Of her youth.
For he was dead, said they, and Il was
foolish to believe in those supernatural
But she was unshaken 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 60 receive him.
Although the parents Of the young
"postulant" did not believe, any more
than the nuns, that such strange dream
would ever be realized, they were so
much glnddened by the letter Of their
daughter thatthey decided not 10 say one
word to undeeelYe her. She might 90
on from day 20 day, hoping all the time
fer an arrival which would never take
place, aud by little and little they thought
the deep wound Of her heart might DO
healed
Accordingly, on that very day, they
went to the convent, and in less than
one hour their only child was crossing
again the threshold Of the old family
Her first thought was Cor her
little room where she had gathered SO
many dear tokons and souYenirs from her
cousin. She hastens up stairs, and she
gees so fast that her delighted parents
can hardly follow her But when she II
on the landing, whom does she see,
standing Ia tho door Of that room %
long shut ups Charles, her nffianeoa,
who looks al her smiling with hapPiaeag
and opens his arms to clasp her 70 his
bosom.
Il 10 no longer a dTeaml Charles holds
her locked in his arms, kissing her and
mingling his tears with her OWn. But
When he opens his arms again, 70 re-
ooive the caresgee OF her parents, she
sinks and drops heavily on the floor.
She was dead. dead with surprise and
happiness, dead without uttcring one
- IL