The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-06-19

have ailments which require a degree
of kindly care that is not to be bought
from servants. have heard your story,
and believe you to be one who will sup
port prosperity as well as you have
adversely. / make my proposal sim
cerely, and hope that you will agree to
it,"
ga that time Frederic" continued
the lady, 81 loved you; I had seen you
but once, but that once was too memor-
able for me ever to forget it, and some
thing always insinuated to me that we
were destined to pass through life to-
gether. At the bottom of my soul,
believe this. Yet every one around
me pressed me to accept of the offer
made me, and the thought struck me
that might one day. make you veal
thy. At length my main objection to
Sir James Melton's proposal lay in dis
inclination to make myself the instru-
ment of vengeance in Sir James hands
against relatives whom he might dis
like without good grounds. The objec-
ton, when stated, only increased his
anxiety for my consent, and finally,
under the impression that it would be
after all carrying romance the length
of folly to reject the advantageous set
tlement offered to me, | consented to
Sir James proposal.
"This part of the story, Frederic, is
really like fairy tale. |, poor or
phan, penniless, became the wife of one
of the richest baronets of England.
Dressed in silks, and sparkling with
jewels, I could now pass in my carriage
through the very streets where, few
months before, had stood in the rain
and darkness-a mendicant?"
"Happy Sir James ~ cried NJ. de la
Tour, at this part of the story; che
could prove his love by enriching
you"
"He was happy" resumed the lady.
"Our marriage, SO strangely assorte !,
proved much more conducive, it is pro-
bable, to his own comfort than if he
had welded one with whom all the
parade of settlements, of pin money,
would have been necessary.
"Never, believe, did he for an in
slant repent of our union. |, on my
part, conceived myself bound to do my
best for the solace of his declining
years and he, on his part, thought it
| incumbent on him to provide for my
future welfare. He died, leaving me
! large part of his substance-as much
indeed, as | could prevail upon myself
to accept. | was now a widow, and
! from the hour to which | became so, |
vowed never again to give my hand to
man, excepting to him who had sue
cored me IN my hour or distress, and
whose remembrance had ever been pre-
served in the recess of my heart. But
how to discover that man? All, uncOn-
scious migrate to make no endeavOr to
/ come in the way of one who sought to
/ love and enrich you knew not your
name. In vain | looked for you at
balls, assemblies, and theatres. You
went not there. All, how l0nged to
meet you!
AS the lady spoke she took from
her neck riband, to which was attach
ed piece of hundred sous. at is the
same-the very same which you gave
me-" said she, presenting it to Freder-
ic "by pledging it l got little bread
from neighbOr, and | earned enough
afterward in time to permit me to re-
cover it. | vowed never to part from
it.
"Ah, how happy | was, Frederic,
when | saw you in the street! The eX-
cuse which | made for Stopping you
was the first that rose in my mind.
But what tremOrs | felt even after
ward, lest you should have been al
ready married In that case you would
never have heard aught of this fairy
tale, though | would have taken some
means to serve and enrich you. |
would have gone to England, and there
passed my days in regret, perhaps, bat
still inpeace. But happily, it was TO be
otherwise. YOu were single."' -
/ Frederic de la Tour was now awa-
kened, as it were, to the full certainty
of his happiness. What he could not
but before look upon as sort of freak
of fancy in young and wealthy wo-
man, was now proved to be the result
of deep and kindly feeling, most hon
Orable to her who entertained it. The
heart of the young husband overtiowed
with gratitude and affection TO the
lovely and noble-hearted being who
had given herself to him. He was too
happy for some time to speak. His
wife first broke silence.
$50 Frederic" said she gayly, "yOu
see that if am a fairy it is you who
has given me the wand-the talsman
that has effected all :"
| RELIGION is common sense, and the
reason why men and women do not see
il is, because they put out their eyes by
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