Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1860-12-12
Rem arkable Love Story-Deaih from
Excess of Jov.


late number of the French Psyche has
story of love affair which has deeply NOV
ied the whole population of Marseilies. but
will hardly De credited by persons who do
not believe in supernatural apparitons How
| ever, 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 at bis uncle's.
| with cousin, whose beauty, sweetness, and
| graces never failed to produce lasting i'm
| preston on all persons of her acquaintance
| 1t is consequently not at all surprising that
Charles R., Who had grown npin her
intimate society. should have falleR deeply
in love with such fascinating cousin. Nor
was his love unrequited /; for, when 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, his uncle having re-
ceived from Calcutta the news of the failure
of house with which he was carving on
an extensive business, sent the young Charles
to that distant part to effect a liquidation.
The marriage was necessarily postponed,
and the young lover left Marselies, promis-
ing to write as often as God and the ocean
would allow, and return as soon as his bust
ness 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 INN 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.
Tba Morea;ilo3 \
with grief, and after long and dangerous
sickness, the poor girl, disheartened, seeing
before her nothing but complete blank, re-
solved TO spend the remainder of her life in
a Convent, to mourn, far from the world, for
tne only man whom she had loved
1t was in vain her parents tried to dissuade
her from that resolution. All their entreat-
les, their mi sery, their tears, could not in
duce her to change her mind, and she soon
entered convent of Marseilles as "postu-
liant"
Six months after that fatal day, just as the
time for her to take her vows was approach.
ing her family was pleasantly startled by q
letter from their daughter, informing them
:hat she had altered her mind, and wished
to go back to them, to the world, to pleasure,
to happiness. For the last .hree nishts,
she said, she had seen in her dreams her be-
loved Charles, entreating her, with tears in
his eyes and the sweetest voice, not to full
fill her terrible resolution, not to complete q
sacrifice which would be the death of them
both for Charles was yet alive, and would
soon be back to keep his sacred promise ant
end all her griefs.
kz- The e,ans of the convens had, good-hu
moredly, laughed at her, and triedso persuade
her to stay among them in shat quiet re
treat, where she might, undisturbed, lament al
her life, the dear companion Of her youth
For he was dead, said they, and it was fool
ish to believe in those supernatural appari
tions. But she was unshaken III her faith
and to all entreaties she would answer tha
her betrothed would soon be back, and. O
course, she must be at home TO reeeiv
him.
Although the parents of the yeuHg 1'pos
tulant" did not believe, any more than tn
nuns, that such strange dream would eve
be realized, they were so much giaGdened b
the letter of their daughter that they decide
not to say one word to undeceive her
Accordingly, on that very day they wer
to the convent, and in less than one hou
their only child was crossing again the thret
hold of the old family mansion. Her Sir,
thought was for her little room, where sh
had gathered SO many dear tokers and SO,
venirs from her cousin. She FASTENED u
stairs, and went so fast that her delighte
parents could hardly follow her. But whe
she was on the landing, whom did she Sc
standing in the door of that room, SO Ion
shut up? Charles-her affianced, who l0ol
ed at her, smiling with happiness, and opel
ed his arms to clasp her to mis- BOSOM
1t was no longer dream! Charles be
her locked in his arms kissing and rninghr
his tears with her own. But when he ope
ed his arms again, to receive the earesses
her parents, she sunk and dropped heayi
on the floor
She was dead dead with surprise al
happiness Dead without utteEing one CT
without heaving one sighl