The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1864-01-08

tlls ObS uIIdiiSSu W yiciu HcI lHt
best rcposc, the warm shawl to be
mufiled about her feet. saw her kind,
dotiug husband carefully exclude the
light, till scarce enough remained to
permit him to see the words of the
book he had selected. When his
preparations were complete, she thank
ed him, somewhat ungraciously, and
offered her lips to his kiss; then, nest
ling among the pillows, she prepared
to listen.
His voice was rich and full; and the
poem lie read, one Of Tennyson's most
exquisite minor Lays. Insensibly bet
ter feelings stole into her heart, and
holy, blessed sleep came, ct length,
with its balm.
Gradually the readers voice ceased
when he saw that she slept; then, af-
ter quite darkening the room, the old
m IN stole out, happily deluded by the
idea that he had cured the wcariness Of
his petLed wife. All! little did he
know how FIR deeper lay the cause of
her listless, hopeless manner, than
night of dissipation, and the loss of
few hours sleep.
1t was long past noon when Cora
awole. She rung her bell, and her
maid answered the summons, and was
followed by servant bringing the
delicate reflection which the old man
had ordered to be served to his dar-
ling the moment she awokc. The
maid, also, had her charge--a message
TO her mistress that, sat four o clock,
her master would return, and he had
ordered the open carriage for drive
into the country"
"tnl. oh madam" soid the pretty
maid, excited by the evident pleasure
that be1med from her mistress eye,
''you will only have time to dress,
for master is always punctual, you
know. and it will be SO pleasant in the
country"
And sue trippcl after her Youthful
Imisstress up the long. marble stairs,
encouraged hy Cora's smile to chatter
OF the beauties OF the country, where
she had lived nearly all her life.
Cora was ready when her husband
returned, and, all smiles and glee,
she sprung down the steps and was
lifted into the carriage Her JOY was
childish, the tiecting excitement Of the
moment; but his was deep and strong,
rs he sat down by her side, proud that
he could minister to the happiness Of
one so loved, and hugging the delus-
ion to his great heart, that she loved
him in return.
Cora was sixteen when, fresh from
boarding school, whence she had been
UIC--L. e. .t---s EJ"s p. -. .~oar
but proud father, and her maneuver-
ING mother married her to Mr. Camp
he'll He had seen her at the school,
during chance visit to 4 young rel
at,ye, and had been struck by her
beauty. This admiration he had eX-
pressed to her mother, and upon this
hint the willy woman acted.
No such consideration rs a heart,
with it's affections, had entered into
her calculations. No thought of the
unftncss of union between frosty
are and warm, bounding youth stay
ell her purpose. Cora was beautiful,
Mr.. Campbell rich beyond her most
eXtravagaut desires for her dau9hte ter.
That was enough, and so the bargain
was made-so much beauty, for so
much wealth, and the contract sealed
by VOWS that only death could sever,
and witnessed by an admiring crowd
in fashionable church.
Mr.. Campbell was very much in
= love. the mother assured him that Co
ra's heart was untouched, and, rs shC
really learned to feel great and CRATE
ful affection for him in return for hi;
rich presents and his tender manner
he was satisfied, In making her his
wife, he believed that, if she did not
learn to love him with the whole
strength of her nature, duty would
under his moldiug influence, contint
her affections to the home circle.
As for Cora, she was in q dream o
| delight. Diamonds, rich dresses, 6
, magnificent mansion, equipages, do
? ting husband who made her will hi:
} law-child rs she was, her eyes were
dazzlel by the glitterng gauds fol
which she ignorantly bartered away
her happinass.
But GoIa's nature, though ipper,
fectly developed, was essentially wo
manly. Her moral life as surely wo' I
have died without love as her breath
would have been suspended beneath
an exhausted receiver. And thougl
) ignorant herself of the causes of hel
mental malady, she did not suffer the
less intensely when, the excitement
, of her new possessions past, the dig
nifty of her new position worn care
| lessly from established custom, SHE
began to feel the inevitable wearines:
t of her fate
In vain Mr., Campbell heaped pres
ents upon her, in vain the box at thC
: opera, the parties at which she wa.
G the belle. All was WEAKNESS and vex
l alton of spirit; and, mt seventeen, tho
joys Of life-the glittering banble'
that she had grasped smilingly bu
one short year before, like the fail
"apples of Sodom"-turned to ashe,
=, in her hands.
e IL met young Canrobert to. day
Cora, said Mr.. Campbell one evening
o "lIe has just returned from Europ,
}. with his sister, Mrs. Landor. They
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