Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-11-11
Romance in Real Life-A Curiou.

A curious case OF matrimonial smisAlll'
ance. so to speak, has been recently deyel.
oped in this city. Some six or eight year.
ago a young man became acquainted with
a damsel Of this city. "She was fair and
he not blind, and so he became enamored
of her, but like a sensible young man, he
determined not to allow the "dem'd worm
to feed upon his cheek" so he told his
love, to which the blushing maiden re-
sponded with a coy admission that she,
too, had felt the sting of Cupid's dart.
The parson healed the wounds by uniting
them in the Noly bonds" etc, and affix-
ing something like a curse on the head of
the luckless chap who would dare to sep
arate them as q part of the contract they
had made. Time rolled on; the gentle
man with his fair companion dwelt hap
PLY together.
The clouds Of war began to grow dark,
and the numbering Of cannon on the hills
and in the valleys proclaimed that there
wa strife abroad in the land and those
claimed to be Governors and rulers, called
loudly for more able bodied man-not
caring particularly whether they were
married or not. COur then Governors
will have to meet the curse.) So to the
smoky field Of battle he went, leaving his
fair DulciEa alone to pine in his absence.
Gan wives do } But that great wrecker
of all things, Time, destroyed the acute
ness of her grief, and as he passed on left
a less poignant sting in the lonely heart.
Almost two years passed away, and the
memory of her iege lord came less fire.
quently to her mind. Then news came
that he was dead, and she, therefore, was
released from further obligation to await
his coming. Why should she anguish all
alone? And now that the wounds of the
heart had all been healed and the widows
weeds of sable had faded, she began to
think Of making some other arrangement
for her future happiness. A chance offered.
Again she was woed and won, and in
the joyousness of her new happiness her
old love was forgotten in the how of the
bridal veil Of a second love. But the gods
were adverse, and in q short time she was
again a widow, having only enjoyed this
second bliss a few weeks. Again the
widows habit was donned, and the fair
lady was mourning a second time over her
bereavement. Old Time don't stop for
anybody's accommodation. Nor did he
stop for u heroine. Her second grief
time had almost passed away, and she
only remembered the tomb of her second
love as an episode in life common to all.
Her liege had shufled of the mortal coil
twelve months ago-and she had forgot
her sorrow. The widows weeds were
again thrown aside. Why should she
grieves And she was again almost as gay
as in the spring time Of life. Why should
she not be- But she still cherished the
name of her two former lords. All ladies
do that! And, of course. they suppose
no one else ever grieved like them, or were
bereaved as they were; but pshaw-
why always think Of such gloomy things
is not life bright before themf
Thus reasoned the widow, and wisely,
too. Twas no use of wasting the bright
est days of ones life all because one had
been twice unfortunate. So she conclud-
ed, and upon that conclusion acted.
Well, to make a long story short, a few
evenings ago, at the silent hour of Of IL P.
NJ, a stranger might have been seen to
stop at the door Of a tenement on Second
street. Once, twice, thrice, he knocked at
the door. Who's thereF" A brief ex-
PLANTATION, aud the twice bereaved fair one
was embodied in the warm embrace Of her
first love, her long lost lord, whom she
had mourned as dead. Of course, he had
a prior claim to all the others, and she
again launches out on the sea Of life, with
the chosen companion of her earlier days
with the liege to whom she had given
her maiden affections. There be strange
things in this curious world Of ours"