Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-08-18

Bxfrh0rdinmry 1ntervie,v Betwoon'um Err-
Ing Wife and Her Lover-The Struggle
Between Uxoriul' Dutyc ana Absorbing
Passion,
Mrs. Mary Quincy thus speaks Of her lover,
the groom, and of her own struggle to do her
duty to her lord;a f Usi.lo "a 'ra,> rfl4
He spoke of the false relation which he
had gradually been led TO assume, and into
the continuance of which our passion had
held him day byday, .....
I knew well, he said, IL should long ago
have been terminated. but knew not then
as now, the controlling power that has kept
me by you until this hour. | believed, first,
that might love, and that you might remain
forever unconscious Of my love. And so I
lived till this was impossible, And then my
life became one eternal delay of hope, epdur-
ing all to this last measure of despair. 1t
could not be otherwise. believed from day
to day that you would see clearly, as saw,
the right, and so it might at last end. II is
over now. My life is over. MY lot is help
less, endless misery. | accept it for your
sake, for the memory of our love. II. ~,
Then my life, my very soul, met his in one
long kiss of agony, and we parted, as 1 be-
lieved, forever. Il ti....r. .,,5.l ~. -...-.,-r
i had conquered my life; this socinl law
has achieved its triumph.
When my husband reached home. | was
strong to do the last duty which my position
imposed upon me-, knew well that cost
what it would, this must also be done. i
must live the life, to which / was bound
openly. WENT to him and told him of my
love, of my resolution, and of our separation
Much passed between us, at this horrible
| time; but all that was in my heart to say was
just these words; II love William" OF the
rest, and Of what followed, have no clear
remembrance. .u.,,.r, -.....-,,s "a 40
only knew that he must be gone---that
| life, hope, all were gone, though remained
there still that honorable thing--a wife Fol
| me, it was determined that should leave
| England for q time.-.I was to travel.sA
change of scene they prescribed for the inva-
| lid of the heart. It was always the same
| the same ignorance of woman's nature an6
its necessities. They would have me enjoy
Paris Rome. They would substitute the
| splendor of the Vatican for some little flower
that might, perchance, come from his hand
should i remain, at home. IL seemed sc
much more to them. AHn t.
Absorbed in the contemplation Of the ruins
Of myrlife, i took no heed Of these arrange
ments for my departure, but abandoned my.
| selfa willing prey to despair.
When the full measure of my grief hat
exhausted itself, arose new being.
| From that moment ] was myself. | hat
L driven every nope, every 1eellng from m'
heart l had received, from his lips the las
sacrifice q man can offer TO the woman h
loves-the abnegationl of himself for her hap
piness; and declare before Heaven that
was my resolve to do what thought right
though it cost me my life, for had nothing
now to live for ,fg,tsA ~ " gIt--ss
e / had long followed blindly passion tina
brought me to the verge of social destruction
had renounced 1t.
had blindfy followed for years path Q
duty which had degraded every instinct g
my nature to Its last measure of degradation
i could feel no more-I reasoned. 30 d q
The meaning of the life i was about I
enter upon was now distinctly before me
What it appeared to me, well knew it wa
in very reality, for was now freed from m
love. had sacrificed all for b duty coul
see now to what the blind obedience of dut
had led me. What was ! knew. :.
| My soul was clear from hypocrisy
was not any lie upon it now. / had confesse
all. Ny very life was laid open to my heart
core. My love was gone, as well by his wi
as my own, forever.