Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-01-26
Ghoits Mlisesllang.
From the London Family Hersldl
First and Third Marriage,

L must lcaVe you. 1 hHhil pTONluc tu iU-
come of hundred louis for your expenses.
Look forward constantly to my return; and
when fortune again smiles upon me, shall
come back never again to be separated un-
til death"
The weeping wife gould not be somfcrted.
| II was hard that so Soon after her marriage,
when the world seemed SO bright and gay,
and when wealth and fortune smiled so Sc
renely upon her, all should be swept away,
and she left like q lone widow to protect
herself The husband was almost distract
ed with the thought of leaving her. bis
heart had been bound up in his beautiful
Hortense. She had been his idol from boy
hood-the bright dream of bis existense,
and when he had attained the distinction
OF one Of the merchant princes OF Montreal,
he married her and placed her in the very
heart of luxury.
Misfortunes came on swift wings to the
happy pair. One by one his possessions
left him, and worse than that, others were
involved in his affairs, who were less able
to lose than himself. He could not look
upon the ruin of those around himj fer he
had kind heart, and would not wrong any
one for the world. They that lost by his
ill-fortunes admitted that Mr.. Valentine
was strictly honest man, and that is great
praise from those who are injured by a
mans i'll luck People are too apt to cal
il dishonesty.
There was hut single bright spot before
Mr.. Valentine Australia cleaned up, warm
and golden; and with desperation born of
love to his wife and justice to his creditors,
he secretly embarked for the land of prom
Use. There was nine days wonder as to
where he was gone, and to what purpose;
| p1 tho, h. l,o1 ant nf fha fhpn uhfa nj the
community as thoroughly as if he had been
dead and buried.
The weeping Hortense removed to anoth-
er locality; the fashionable who had strain
ed every nerve to get invited to the house
of the rich merchant never paused TO ask
after his wife; and lonely and miserable
without friends or relatives, II Hortense
dropped and pined, until the beauty which
her husband SO praised was changed into
simness. She never heard from Mr.! Val
entus. Not single word had ever cheered
her solitude since he left her. As month
after month dragged its slow weight along,
and no tidings reached her, her heart ut
terly sank within her, and she believed him
dead. What, indeed, could she think? 1t
was better to think so than believe him un-
mindful of her, and day after day she wa
tered his memory with tears Of genuine
sorrow, as enc sorrows for the beloved dead.
She put on the decenest mourning. kept
her room for months, aud when she finally
went out again, and that only two church
her sorrow was written plainly in the face
which, if it had lost some of its beauty, was
yet most deeply interesting SO at least
thought the young Eugene Stanbury, an
Englishman oil unbicmshed character and
prosperous business. He say her at church
| IL 10 ho in
troduced. and begged the privilege of wait
ing on her. The lady pled ddea her inability
to entertain company, tie impropriety o.
her receiving gentlemeH and thousand
reasons why he could not visit her.
He overruled them al besought her tc
waive all ceremony with him, to consider
him as q deeply attachea friend, brother
anything, in short, if b might be permitted
to see her sometimes; Ind Hortense, weary
of her monotonous liiN at last consented.
, Once having renefed the delicious con
scousness of a projecting presence, sh'
found it hard to give it up for the mer'
punctlious fear of what the world woult
say Of her. IudeA, she had long sine
shaken hands with F,he world, and partet
from it. She owef it no favor. 1t had n,
right to criticise her conduct. Thus sh
reasoned while isiening to Eugene's ilnpas
r stoned entreaties \ hat she would lay asid
her sorrow for Vie dead, and become hi
wife. 4
Still she hestated She truly believe'
in her husbands death; for weud he no
D have written hid he been living! OF tn
: many letters she had written him, the man
inquiries she had instituted, no answe
could be obtained. No one knew anythn
of Mr. Valentine.
!, In an hour OF more than usual lonelines
and trouble, she whispered to herself, tha,
/, should Eugene press his suit anew, sh
would consent to marry him. She like
him. She WAS weary of her own life, cage
and cribbsd as she was; she longed for tre'
= dom fro,h the Lrestraint that poverty an
widowhood were constantly imposing upo
: her; and these combined operated w0nde
fully in Eugenes favor. The marriage wi
strictly private; and half OF Mr., Stanbury
ar friends had no suspicion that she had ev'
e married at all until she became his wife.
:. He took her to pleasant home, as cor
A. Portable, if not quite as luxurious, as I'll
= one she had shared with Mr.. Vaentins; M
+. that all she could ask Tor was shswersd u
on Iher with generous protuslon. Ihe
I DWELLING, two or three miles from the hea
| of Montreal, was surrounded with trees a.
. n0&ery enruDs OF every ucScilptioh'
u side, there was every comfort, that a liyii
heart could suggest. The heart Of Hc
tense swoke to life, to love. to happine'
and to see her thus, rejsiced that OF h
husband.
- Two years of almost uumingled bliss we
ce by; but tho third year commenced wi
ssfDsi some alarm for the hesq OF Eugene,
Twice had Hortense seen him draw han
Co. kerchiet from his lips, which was steep
| in blood; and often his nights were pass
i in coughing. until nature was sxhausts
:. and the morning sleep found him drench
in the terrible sweats which so surely p
:, tend consumption. Hortense strugg
: against this new and terribls sorrow.
was the irst time that she had watched o.
n one 80 dear TO her. 1t was ths first ii
u that she had seen the effects of thi, insl
W Gus disease, and hope and fear alteInated
her breast, until 1T length she hoped agai
, all hope, and the blow came down upon
QS oil the harder that she had not sehoo
herself to tselits approach.
1t was hard to see him. part with
G.. mute evidences of his brief happiness
- Every window where he had sat with
every arbor where they had rested, ey
tree under whose shades they had walk
.-unL he had carvad with