New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-11-02
Extraordinary Love story.

Tn last number Of the French Psyche has q
story =, love affair which has deeply moved the
Whole poun,, ton Of Marseiles, but will hardly Ie
credited 81 per.' .'ons who do NOT believe insuper-
natural apparitjons However, here Is the story in
as few words as ptssfbse5
Charles R -----t born In q W6altny family Of maf-
chants, and an orphan FROM his eh,idhoed, had
been brought up at his urcle's wits cousin whose
sseaaty sweetness and glaces never failed y Pro
duee lasting impression on all persona OF Her &C
auaintanee Il is conseqaeh tiy not at ali sarprishg
thas Charles r., who had grown up in her nsinlass
society. should have fallen d.eeply in love with
suen fascinating cousin. Nor vas big love dnfe-
qntea LOT, when the proper time came. she de-
cded, with the consent Of her family, that their
marriage should take place az soon as be was
twenty years q age. Just about that time, Hs
uncle, having received from Calcutta the news ~
the failure of a house with which he was carrying
on an extena1Ve business, sent the Young Charles
to that distant port to effect Iiauidation, The
marriage was necessarily postponed, and the young
lover left Marsees promising 70 write as oiten as
God and the ocean would allow, and to return as
soon as HIS business was settled.
PoEr months passed on, and no news came from
the young Traveller His relations, and more par
tcuiariy his cousin began to fell uneasy, ard were
already accusing him Of neglect, When one unhap-5
y day they read in the papers of the total loss of
me steamer on board Of which they knew that
aa1st aa aaa v.s g9ns Ths haseass vas
gerons sickness the poor girl, dsheartened, seeing
before her nothing bus Complete blank resolyed
TO spend the remainder Of her life in con7ens. to
mourn, FAR from the world for the only mau wbons
she had eved. 1t was IN vain her parents sricd Ia
dissuade her from that resolution all their eHtreasy
their misery, their tears, eond not iaduce her fo
change her mind, and she soon entered convent
OF Mars silles as spostularg.n
Six months after that fatal day, tast as the time
for her to take her VOWS was approaching, der
family were PLEASANTLY startled by q letter from
their daughter, informing them that she had alter
nd urer tad fgtt hnr fr,f -
the world, % pleasures ito happiness For the last
three nights she said, she had seen in her dreams
her beloved Charles, eatreating her. with tears in
his eyes and the sweetest voice not to .fflf har-
terrible resolution, not to conpaete a sacrjice
| which would be the dsath Of them both For
Charles was ystaliye anGi wonId sson be back To-
keep his sacred promise and end al her griefs.
The nuns Of tie convene had good humoredly
laughed at her, and tried to persuade her to stay
al nong them, in that quics retreat, where she
mi ght, undisturbea, lament oil her life the dear
col npanon OF her youth. Fer lie was dead, said
they, and 1t was foolish to believe in thcse super
natural apparitonss But she was mistaken Id her
faith, and to all Their entreaties she would answer
shat her betrothed would soon be back, and, Of
course, she must be Vt home to receive him.
Although the parents Of the yeung spostulant'5
did not believe, any Enorc than TIN nuns that such
a strange dream wou,a ever be realized, they were
SO much gladdene bJgthe letter of their daughter
that they decided not sosay one word to undeceive
her. She might go on from day to day, hoping all
the time for an arrival which Worril never take
place, and by little ard little they thought the
deep wound of her hearsNnay be heassd.
Accordingly, on that very day they went to the
convent and in less thar one hour their only child
was crossing again the typshold Of ths old family
mansion. Her first thoughtwas for her little room,
where she had gathered ss many dear tokens aud
souvenirs from her cousin. She hasfens mp stairs
and she goes fast that han delighted parents can
hardly follow her. But whershe is on the landing,
| whom does she see, standing in the door of that
room 50 long shut up? Charles, her affaseed who
looks at her, smiling with happiness and opens his
arms to clasp her to his bosom.
| 1t is no longer dream Charles holds her locked
in his arms, kissing her and mingng his tears with
her own. But when he opensshis arms again, to
receive the caresses of her psraats she sinks and
drops heavily on the floor.
| She was dead! dead with surprise and hap
piness! dead without uttering zone cry, without
heaying one sigh