Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1865-08-11

because | thought the trees were thicker,
and 50 insure more profound solitude"
"You seek solitude just as do. All !
when misfortune overtakes us, solitude is
a great consolation in these days Of
hazardous specu ulations, men are often
plunged in sudden calamity"
Not at all. never speculate. |
am too rich to trouble myself abont
money"
''Then disappointed ambition; perhaps
some election which you ought to have
gained but lost ?''
"Precisely; | wanted two votes. and
got but one; that was my own. l was
aspiring to the hand OF u lovely widow,
but | had a rival.
"A riyal?'
"Y es, rival. Ny widow was enamor-
ed of dead queen, Artemissa, and so
took it into her head to remain faithful
to the shade Of her husband. But she
never knew of my love and admiration,
SO [ cannot blame her; still, | am re-
solved to be as faithful to my fancy as
she is to hers, SO came to this profound
solitude"
Six miles from Pnris. You had bet
ter have tried to love ootae young girl,
whose heart was free from bitter memor-
les"
MADAME, I am bound by a solemn
promise to my dead uncle, from whom |
inherit my fortune, to love and marry a
widow
"Ah be had a peculiar taste for Wild
ows, then ~
Yes, madame. lie had been married
twice, and twice had repented.of his mar
riage. The tnird time he married q Wild
ow, and died happy
'Widowhood, said my uncle, is the
perfection Of development in woman. A
widow is professor in the art of love,
and also Of domestic felicity. The man
who marries widow esca pes all those ex-
poriments, those struggles for power,
that young girls arc so fond Of. 4 widow
knows exactly how far her. authority
rocs she knows how to assert it without
aspcrity (she has tried it on her first
husband, and yea ct the bcno!it OF her
experience) +; i'll fact, widow knows how
to manage ausbahd' aid knows ''iat by
making him happy she insures her own
iehclty.
80 you detefhinea ai'er tAis 10 marry
u widow ~
'0i course, but the misfortune was
that IN all fafR' | could lnu but enc
widow;
:" nat III ali iafis-A arlS reno""cu
Tor ITS widows
\ eS' KNOW, nut 'oaha h"' one -,
"And where did you ma ms Po"hM
"At oali III the hue Anon ha'
than she was siqo" wac cou'a DC nom
ing but 4 widow iof no man was "01thy
20 DC her 1os9aila. sa'eiea ' uet al. "a: 'n'
evening listened 10 her conversation,
which was as pfiht&A1 Il" hef eyes. an"
when lost SlGht Oh hef 'neh 1 ans pc-
came desert 10 me- aha S'"9ne 'h'S
solitude 10 DC alone with my ioVe.
"lhen no" are you TO luia' INC prom
'Se YOU made
81 here the diiiic"lty 20" sec ti''u'
ame' III ofoer 10 marry 'Al' "'uo"' 10 l.
necessary 10 maze 'le co'se''V
"Uf tle WIDOW -
"No, OF her husband i" ever you
should be a ~ldo"' 20" "iii u"oCFS'@D'
what NEAR
81 am u widow; dia you not N"o"
"i.aaily peg llaf~oi'I =,
:, :, GU have saiu nothing TO ohc'8+
me,
." ell my Widow Is AFRAID oil hef nus
band saost' tor after making her aP-
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