Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1862-06-27
THE sHIPwRECK.

young gentieinah anu iauy' Vi Oh"
cient and honorable houses in Cornwall,
had from their childhood entertained for
each othor generous and noble passion,
which had been long opposed by their
friends, by reason Of the inequality Of
their fortunes; but their constancy to
each other, and obedience to those on
whom they depended, wrought So much
upon their relations, that these celebrated
lovers were at length joined in marriage.
Soon after their nuptials, the bridegroom
was obliged to go into foreign country
to take care of considerable fortune that
had been left him by a relation, and
came very OPPORTUNITY to improve their
moderate circumstances. They received
the congratulations of all the country on
the occasion; and / remember it was a
common sentence in every ones mouth,
"You see how faithful love is rewarded"
He took his agreeable voyage, and sent
home, every post fresh accounts Of his
success in his affairs abroad but at last,
though he designed to return with the
next ship, he lameuted in his letter, that
business would detain him some time
longer from home" because he would give
himself the pleasure Of an. unexpected ar
rival.
The young lady, after the heat Of the
day, walked every evening on the sea-
shore, near which she lived, with famil-
lar friend, her husbands kinswoman
and diverted herself with what objects
they met there or upon discourses Of the
future methods of life, in the happy
change in their circumstances They
stood one evening on the shore together
in a perfect tranquility, observing the
setting of the sun, the calm face Of the
deep, and the silent heaving of the waves
which gently rolled toward them, and
broke at their feet when, at distance,
her kinswoman saw something float on the
waters, which she fancied was chest,
and with smile told her, "she saw it
first, and if it came ashore full of Jewels,
she had right to it." They both fixed
their eyes upon it, and entertained them
selves with the subject of the wreck-the
cousin still asserting her right; but
promising, If it was prize, to give her
a very rich coral for her first child, pro-
vided she might be godmother." Their
mirth soon abated, when they observed,
upon the nearer approach, that it was a
human body. The young lady, who had
heart naturally filled with pity and COM
passion, made many melancholy reAec-
tions on the occasion. "Who knows, +"
said she, "but this man may be the only
hope and heir of q wealthy house, the
darling of indulgent parents, who are now
in impcrtinent mirth, and pleasing them
selves with the thoughts of offering him a
bride they have got ready for him ? Or
may he not be the master of family
that wholly depended upon his life
There may, for aught we know, be half
a-dozen fatherless chillren, and a tender
wife. now exposed to poverty by his death.
What pleasure might he have promised
himself in the different welcome he was
to have from her and them? But let us
60 away it is a dreadful sight The
best Office we can do, is to take care that
the poor man, whoever be is, is decently
buried" She turned away, when wave
threw the carcass on the shore. The kins
woman Immediately shrieked out, ooh
my cousin !" and fell upon the ground
The unhappy wife went to help her friend
when she saw her own husband at hel
feet, and dropped in swoon upon thu
body An old woman, who had been thu
gentlemans nurse, came out about thii
time to-call,thc ladies in to supper, ant
found her child, as she always called him
dead on the shore, her mistress and kins
4 woman both lying dead by him. He
loud lamentations, and calling her young
master to life, soon awakened the frient
from her transe but the wife was gon'
forever.
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