The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-08-01

pride end triumph to her---it will call
forth all the latent energies and fervent
sympathies of her nature; for she will re-
joice to prove to you that she loves you Ton
yourself. There is in every true woman's
heart spark of heavenly fire, which lies
dormant in the broad daylight of prosper
lily but which kindles up and beams and
blazes in the dark hour Of adversely. No
man knows what the wife of his bosom is
no man knows what a ministerlng an
gel she is-until be has gone with her
through the fiery trials of tins world
There was something in the earnestness
of my manner, and the figuratiye style OF
nv language, that caught the excited I'M
aoinatiop of Leslie. knew the auditor
/ bn5 to deal with; and, following, up the
i'm nression had made. I finished by per-
snatioa him to go homo and unburden
his sad heart to his wife. .
must confess, notwithstanding all !
had said, | felt somo little solicituue iof
the result Who can calculate on the
fortitude of one whose life has been a
round OF pleasures? Her gay spirits
might revolt at the dark, DOWN. ard path
of low humility suddenly pointed out to
her, and might cling to the sunny regions
in which they had hitherto revelled. Be
sides, ruin IN fashionable life is accompan-
led by so many CALLING notifications, to
which in other ranks it is stranger. In
short, could not meet Leslie the next
morning without trepi1ation. He had
made the disclosure.
Sand how did she bear it?"
'Like an angel! 1t seems rather to
be relief to her mind, for she threw her
arms round my neck, and asked if this
was all that had lately made me unhappy.
But, poor girl" added he, ''she cannot
realize the change we must undergo. She
has no idea of poverty but in the ab
stract; she has only read Of it in poetry,
where it is allied to love. She feels as
yet no privation; she suffers no loss OF &C
customed conveniences nor olegancies.-
When we come practically to experience
its sordid cares, its paltry wants, its petty
humiliation--then will be the real trial."
"But," said I, snow that you have got
over the severest task, that of breaking it
to her, the sooner you let the world into
the secret the better. The disclosure may
be mortifyingI but then it is single mis-
cry, and soon over: whereas you other
wise suffer it, in anticipation, every hoar
in the day. 1t is not poverty so much
as pretence, that harnesses a ruined man
the struggle between proud mind and
an empty purse-the keeping up a hol-
low show that must soon come to an end.
Have the courage t. appear poor, aii2
you dIsarm poverty of its sharpest string"
On this point ] found Leslie perfectly pre-
pared. He had no false pride hainlse'!,
and as to bis wife, she WAS only anxious
to conform to their altered fcrtanes.
Some days afterward he called upon
mo in the evening. He had disposed oil
his dwelling house, and had taken a small
cottage in the country, 4 few miles from
town. He had been busted all day in
sending out furniture. The new establish
ment required few articles, and those OF
the simplest kind. All the furniture OF
his late residence had been sold except
ing bis wife's harp. That he said, was
too closely associated with The idea of her
self; it belonged to the little story of their
loves; for some of the sweetest moments
of their courtship were those when he had
leaned oveF that instrument and listened
to the melting tones Of her voice. could
not but smile at this instance Of romantic
| gallantry in q doting husband.
He was now going out to the cottage,
where his wife had been all day superin.
tending its arrangement. My feelings
had become strongly interested in the
progress Of this family story, and, as il
was fine evening, ! offered to accom-
pany him.
He was wearied with the fatigues Of
the day, and, Is be walked out, fell int
fit of gloomy musing.
"Poor Mary at length broke, with a
heavy sigh from bis lips,
'And what OF her y asked |, ''has any
thing happened to herY'
'What," said he, darling an impatient
glance, sis it nothing to be reduced e
this paltry situation-to be Gagged in =
miserable cottage-=to be obliged to- tot
almost in the mental concerns of hel
wretched habitation z"
HAS she repined at the changer
aRepipeil she has been nothing bu
sweetness and good humor. IRdeed, she
seems in better spirits than | have eve
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