The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1860-06-15
MisfelIaneous
A STRANGE ROMANCE. :

A Young lady, beautiful in person and at
tractiye in manner, who resided in the imme-
date vicinity Of Boston, was sought in marrIag
some years ago by two men. One of thes
was poor, and mechanic the other was rich
and not mechanic. The woman loved tht
former: the family OF The woman fixed tht
latter. AS is the case IN such affairs, the WON.
an married 10 please her friends. Having thu!
! e.sod herself" she ought to have BEEN misera-
BE, but she was not. Her husbands unaffected
love subdued her heart, and bis gold smoothed
the rough places in the human path. Fortune
feeling that this couple were too happy, frown-
ed, and the mans riches took wings and used
them in Fight. Thereupon the husband wound
IN bis business, put bis wife and children, oi
whom there were two, al a comfortable boar
ding-house, and then departed for California ia
search of money. Some letters and some re-
miltances arrived from him at first, then moth
ing came, and there was blank OF several
years The wife thought herself deserted
The family, whose good opinion Of tile husband
had not lately been so often published as for
melly, told her that it was clearly case for a
divorce. When she had become well accus-
toned TO the sound ofthls unpleasant word, the
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of the mechanic lover, now prosperous, and
still unmarried. The memory OF her early,
real love came upon her, and she believed
with a secret Joy that be had remained single
for her sake. THIS thought nourished her at
fiction, and at last she obtained divorce from
her husband who had deserted her, and remain
ed absent beyond the time allowed by the STAT
ute. This accomplished, there was 40 barrier
between her and the mechanic of her youth
She informed him that she was his forever,
when he should choose TO claim her hand. Her
feelings cannot have been pleasant 10 learn
that since his rejection by her anG her marriage
70 another, the uuromanic newer of wood had
drowned his passion for her in the waves of
time, and thai at the time Of her handsome Of
fer he no longer paipitaled for her. In fact
Barks was not wilin'. As If all this were not
embarrassing enough, who should turn up but
the husband, who made his appearance in the
form of letter, announcing that he bad accu-
mulated dazzling pile Of wealth, and that she
Was 10 meet him IN New York.
The letter also child her for her neglect IN not
writing to hun for years, and it was clear that
he had sent assurances OF love and also material
aid at intervals during his absence; where these
had gone, no one knows. Here, then, was
trouble. No husband, no lover. The one she
had divorced The other bad refused her. Ia
kIngcounsel with herself, she packed her trunk,
seeing that her wardrobe was nnexceptionable,
and came to the metropolis. She met the COM
ing man on his arrival and told him the whole
story as correctly as she, naturally prejudiced
in favor OF the defendant, could tell it. The
husband scowed, growled, looked at the char
ming face and the becoming toilette, remem-
membered California and ITS loneliness, and
took her to hls heart. A clergymen was sum-
moned, marriage was performed, and new
volume in their hfe's history was opened
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