Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1860-11-08
Remarkable Love story-Death
assg from Excess of Joy.

4sg from Excess Of Joy.
Alste number Of the French Psyche hiss
a story Of love affair which has deeply
moved the whole population of MsrseilIes,
bu, will not hardly be credited by persons
who do not believe in supernatural appsra-
tions. However, here is the story in as few
words as po,sible,
Charles r., born in a wealthy family
OF mershants, and an orphan irom his child
hood, had been brought .up at his urcle's
with cousin whose beauty, sweetness and
graces never failed to produce a lasting i'm.
preston on all persons other acquaintance.
1t is consequently not all surprising that
Charles R., who had grown up in her inti-
mate society, should have fallen deeply in
love with such a tscipetiDg cousin. Nor
was love requitted; for, when the proper
time came, she decided Sith the consent Of
her family, that their marriage should take
place as soon as be was twenty years Of
age. Just about that time, bis uncle having
received from Calcutta the news OF the fail.
ure OF house with which he wss carrying
on an extensive business, sent the young
Charles TO that distant port to effect liqui-
dation. The marriage was necessar ly post.
poned. and the young lover left Marseilles,
promising to write as often as God and the
ocean would allow, and TO return as soon as
his business was settled.
Four months passed on. and no news
came from the young Traveller. His rela-
tons, and more particularly his cousin, be-
gan 10 feel uneasy, and were already ac-
cusing him Of neglect, when enc unhappy
day they read in the papers of the fatal loss
Of the steamer on board OF which they
knew that Charles had gone. The young
Marseillaise was almost mad with grief; and
after long and dangerous sickness the poor
CIR. dissnhearted, seeing before her nothing
but a complete blank. resolved 10 spend the
remainder Of her life in convent, 70 mourn,
far from the world, for the only man whom
she had loved. 1t was in vain her parents
tried 10 dissuade her from that resolution.
All their entres ties. their misery, their tears,
could not induce her to change her mind,
and she soon entered a convent of M,rseilles
as "postulant."
Six months after that fatal day, just as
the time for her to take her vows was ap-
proach ing, her family was pleasantly startl
ed by a letter from their daughter, inform
ing them that she had altered her mind and
wished to 90 back to them, to the world, to
pleasures. to happiness. For the last three
nights, she said, she had seen in her dreams
her beloved Charles. entreating her, with
tears 10 her eyes. and the sweetest voice,
not 10 fuIfirI her terrible resolution, not TO-
complete a sacrifice which would be the
death of them both. For Charles was yet
alive, and would soon be back TO keep his
sacred promise, and end all her griefs' The
nuns OF the convent had, good humoredly
laughed at her, and tried to persuade her to
stay among them, in that quiet retreat,where
size might, undsurbed, lament all her life
the dear campanion Of her youth. For he !
was dead, said they, and it was foolish 10
believe 10 those supernatural apparitions.-I
But che was mistaken in her faith, and to
all their entreaties she would answer that
her betrothed would soon be back. and of
course she must be at home to receive him.
Although the parents of the young "pos-
tulant" did not believe, nnv more than the
nuns, that such q strange dream would ever
be realized they were so much gladdened
by the letter Of their daughter that they de-
cded not TO say one word to undeceive her.
She might go on, from day to day, hoping
all the time for an arrival which would new
er take place, and by little and little they
thought the deep wound of her heartImight
be healed.
Accordingly on that very day they went
to the convent. and in less than one hour
their only child was crossing again the
threshold of the old family mansion. Her
first thought was for her little room, where
she had gathered so many dear tokens and
souvenirs from her cousin. She FASTENED
up stairs, and went so fast that her delight
ed parents could hsrdly follow her. But
when she was on the landing, whom did she
see standing in the floor OF that room, so
long shut up! Charles, her afianced, who
looked at her, smiling with happiness, and
opened his arms to clasp her to his bosom.
| It was no longer dream! Charles held
her locked in his arms, kissing her and
mingling his tears with her own. But when
he opened his arms again, 10 receive the
curess Of her parents, she sunk and dropped
heavily on the floor.
She was ldesd! dead with surprise and
happiness! dead without uttering one cry,
without hsaving one sigh!
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