The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1860-11-28
Extraordinary Love story.

The last number OF the Frsnch Psgche
has story ofa love affair which has deeply
moved the whole population of Marseilles,
but will hsrdly be credited by persous who
do not believe 10 supernatural Oppariiicas
However, here is the story in as few words
as possible
Charles R, born in a wealthy family
of merchants, and an orphan from his child.
hood, had been brought up at his uucle's
with cousin, whose beauty: sweetness and
lgtsees never failed 10 produce lasting in.
preGsioHs % an persons Of So ssqasinfsace.
Il is conseqnently'nota a ail surprising tbat
Charles r., who had grown up 10 her init
mate society, should have fallen deeply in
love with such fescipating cousin. Mar
was his love unreqdiled; for, when the pro.
per time came she decided, with the consent
Of her family, that their marriage should
take Placesas soon as he was twenty years
of%age. Just about that time, his uncle,
having received from Calcutta the news Of
the failure OF house with which he ives
carrying on an extensive business, sent the
young Charles to that distant port to effset
a lluidatlon. The marriage was nscessari.
ly postponed, and the young lover left Mar
seilles, promising TO write as often as G I'd
andsthe ocean would allow, and to return ls
soon as his business was settled.
-Four months passed on and no news came
from the young traveler. His relations, and
more particularly his cousin, began To feel
uneasy, and were already accusing him Of
neglect, when one unhappy day they read in
the papere of the total less OF the steamer
on board oil which they knew that Charles
hsd gene. The young Marseilase was al
most mad with grief and after q long and
dangerous sickness the poor girl, dishear,.
encd, seeing before hes nothing but'a con.
pete blank, resolved to spend the remain.
der OF her life in convent, TO mourn far
rom the world, Tor the only man whom she
had loved 1t was in vain her parents tried
to dissusde her from that resolution. ALL
their entreatics, their misery, their tears,
could not induce her TO change her mind
and she soon entered convent Of Mar
settles as "postulant.
Six months after that fatal day, juat as tbs
limo fnr-her to tuke heE Vows was -approa ch.
ing, he: family were PLEASANTLY surprised by
letter from their daughter, Informing them
that she had altered her mind, and wished 10
go b0ck TO them, to the world, to pleasure,
to happiness. For the last three nigh,s shs
had seen in her dreams her beloved Charles
entreating her, with tears in his eyes and
the sweetest voice, not to fulfill her terrible
resolution, not to complete sacrifice which
would be- the death OF them both. For
Charles was yet olive and would bs soon
back, to keep his sacred promise. and end al
her griefs. The nuns Of tho convent had
good humoredly laughed at her, and tried to
persuade her to stay among them, in that
quiet retreat, where she might, undlsturbsd,
lament all her life the dear companion ofI
her youth. For he was dead, said they, and
it was foolish to believe in thooe suparnatu.
raj apparitions. But she was anshaken in
her faith, and to all their entresries she
would answer that her betro,hed would 500
be back, and, Of course, she must be q,
home to receive him.
Although the parents OF the young 'pos.
tulant" did not believe, sDy more than the
nuns, that such a strsngs dream would ever
be realized, they were 30 gIsddened by the
letter of their daughter that they decided
not TO say one word to undeceive her. She
might 60 on from day to day, hoping all the
time for an arrival which would never take
place, and by little and little thoy thought
the deep wound of her heort might be. heal.
ed.
Accordingly, on that very day, they went
10 the convent, AID in less than one hour
their only child was crossing again tie
Threshold of the old family mansion. Her
first thought was for her little room, where
she had gathered so many desr tokens and
from her cousin. She hastened
up stairs, and she goes go fast that her de.
lighted parents can hardly follow her. But
when she is on the landing, whom does she
see, standiRg in the door of that room go
long shut up? Charles, her sffi7nced, who
looks at her smiling with happiness, and
opens his arms 10 clasp her to his bosom.
1t is no longer dream Charles holds
her locked in his arms, kissing her and
mingling his tears with her own. Bot when
he opens his arms again, to receive.the ca
resses of her parents, shs einks and drops
heavily on the floor.
She was dead dead with surpriss and
happiness dead without uttering one cry,
without heaSing one sigh IN. o. Picay.
aas.