Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-04-13
OLD AND YOUNG.
cutie a Romantic Affair.

Love and marriage are truly wonderful
affairs. and often strangely brought
about. The Mytoaakee Wisconsin, tells
the following
HMany wears ago there lived In New
York eity a young couple, moving in the
first circles Of society, who loved with
devotion and earnestness. They awoke
one morning the happiest couple in exist
enee, for they were engaged and very
soon were to be united for life-to live
ONLY for each other. They went TO sleep
hat night the most miserable beings IN
existence, for during the day they hau
Quarreled, 8 trivial matter had caused
harsh words and hard words a caused
a separation. Hereafter their paths
were to be different In life. Trivial as
was their quarrel it caused a separation
for life, and much as they loved hence
forth they were 70 be nothing TO each
other The lusy world hustled on, and
the trivial difficulty grew 10 such wide
nroportions that the young couple were
further and further apart, until, If they
ever thought of each other or ever met,
i was as comparative strangers, q
finally new attractions sprang up before
them, We know not If they ever forgot
the attractions which had made them
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once believe they were all the world 70
each other, bat we do not know that
their loves became centered upon new
objects, and both were married. and per
haps in the exeitements and trials OF
their new positions, forgot each other.
The lady with her husband left the
metropolis and came west, and to NIL
waukee. Time passed on, and the lady
was the subject of its vielssltudes- a
few months ago found her the center OF
a large circle of friends and acquain-
tances, a widow with an only child, a
. beautiful aud idolized daughter. Only
in the possession of such a daughter n
such friends was she wealthy yet she
has sighed not for this worlds GOODS Ior
she was happy. 1t may be b q every
trace of the early love had departed
from her mirld, when n day she re-
ceived a letter. The handwriting
locked like an old but forgotten aequaln-
lance, and it may be believed b read
the letter with no little interest," ,yet
with less enthusiasm than her eye hsd
rus yer missiyes penned by the same
haCnd in wears gone by. The letter was
from the early love, and il told his story.
He launched his bark upon the waves OF
welded life to fad them tempestuous.
After e Of marriage he had separa-
ted from her, and a decree Of he court
had declared them twain flesh. Mean
while the world had prospered gaily
with him, and all of its goods that ne
desired were his. He had learned that
she was not wealthy, and he had written
| 10 ask if il would be distasteful to her 10
receive at his hands a slight present.
Alter consultation with her friends, the
lsdy answered that she would have no
hesitation in accepting it. In a short
time they eama. 4 prOdigal hand had
prepared them, and they came IN abund-
ance. Presents for the mother ana
for the daughteT-presents thai a
princess would not disdain. In
reDIv. the daughter sent a note OF
thanks for the mother. She vas a highly
educated young. lady, and ner reply, no
doubt, was one well fitting for the occa-
sion. a charming letter, overlooking
with the tnankfIlness which hor heart
dictated. II caused a reply, ana from
this reply spraSg a correspondence con
tinued for some time-friendiY letters
In n of the letters the gentleman stated
that he was coming west on business ana
asked if be might make a friendly cali
when he did so To such q friend who
could say nayg We are assured the
ladies did not, and when he came he met
a kindly reception. The gentleman was
/ pleased With the mother-but he was
charmed with the daughter. He was yet
Young, or if not yet young, hale and
hearty. He had tasted the bitters of
I married life, and IS one visit was fol-
lowed by many, and his contemplated
/ visit Of q few days heightened to weeks,
his mind had full time for the revolution
of that sad problem, at might have
bean.U The new acquaintance was not
| deadened BY the thought of the Olden
time, but that rItler aadeq to tia charm
and pleasure. They met one day. Talked
of everything that zane to their minds
and ~particularlv of Inc daughter, over
| whose head eighteen summers had
lightly left their mark, a sweetly charm
ing girl. whom one could meet only to
admire-admire only to love. The fires
of youth vere not dead, but only SUM
bered in the heart OF the gentleman. To
fhe mother he praised the virtues and
I traces of the child, and surprised her by
, praying for permission to pay his UT TO
that daughter. The mother knew the
| heart of her child and felt that 1t would
| be no vain sHit, and she readily gave her
consent. The daughter had already
| learned to love the friend of her mothers
early days, and her answer made the
gentleman young sgain-made him Zee
that there was something else in this
world but dark andgloomy pages. They
I have left as nO'V and gone TO dwell III
| their eastern home-a more than happy
pair, devoted to each Other-loVing with
all of love.