The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-03-29
FAILING IN LOTE.
[Frona Tempe Bari

This early love, also, is fruitful OF miseries
through it's inexperience. Under ordinary cir
sexes and the same age, are sure to fail in love
with each other If they are left much together.
It is the most natural method of imparting o
new interest to the ordinary business Of taking
ming. and SO forth. It is so very quiet and
simple revolution that the young people are
only awakened to it's presence by some little
incident that flashes the truth upon their
ment Of superhuman ecstacy, followed by
mutual protestations, vows Of constancy, and
fearful adJurations to secrecy. Week after
week this blisefully disquieting life goes on,
ward her, bids her farewell, and gees off lin quest
OF fame and fortune. Which of them shall first
find out the profound mistake and blunder that
lay at the root of all this feeting joy Which
OF them shall first awake some morning to find
a new object installed in the chamber Of the
affections, which heretofore has only had an
insufficient and temporary lodgerP Perhaps Ed
has made wonderful difference in his view Of
things; and now, being able more impartially
to scan the unhappy Clara's disposition and
temper, finds that these would never assert with
his ewa. Or il 10 Clara. who sees in Edwards
wilfulness and fits Of su aden liking and dislik-
ing, an unhappy omen for the future, and dis
covers that her heart does not cling to him
letters become more subdued. He remcn-
stretes. She gives the faintest possible indi-
cations OF she truth. He rises up in the maj
writing Byronic poetry, and giving hiMself
headaches through excessive drinking, finally
turns to business, naarries. ten years after, q
happy little woman, and settles down to the
Now the tragic aspect OF the case is this
that, however desirable for both parties may
bs the breaking Of this unwise compact, the
sharp sundering leaves o dreadful aud ragged
sgund in OF least one Of the hearts concerned.
Eeyard may reason with himself, then or after
waro, that the Inconsistency about which he
has 80 bitterly complained was q pelfect god
seno 10 n.n; but NO amount of reason will re-
move the s.sr OF the wound. The shattering
OF ones trus.jn this particular wonaan is like
the collapse OF Ae universe. There is no more
faith, no more I'VE. no moro hope possible.
Rul1 and chaos encompass things, and the
world is Q cheat. Then tho beautiful idyllic
that hang around them like a faint fragrance
the old visions and aspirations, i'd tender
oolhdences-.is it MT entirely desolating
that these should be- buried forever In the
shadowy past Thesa days will never bs
come he whist and broSd over them; ana call
up faces ana scenes outof the dickering Are.
Whit OF sea air, or tk6scsnt Of Sweet-brier,
VIII bs fratght with . wsus sadness to him,
bygone dream. By-andby he viii reach 9
clearer conception Of ,he whole affair, and
como to see that Clata's conduct was not
60 pauch the result Of her own sinful will
fainsss, or weakness or Inconsistency, but the
result OF certain circumstances which were ab-
solutely '0oercive. This tyranny Of oiroum-
4 stances will forever hang garound him as an inn
penetrabe myStery--a hateful, miserable
thing; q ana sl, When some tragic story Of loves
IthS sense Of indignation and pity viii make his
aea4e swell with sympathy and hia eyes an with
the Bftter tears OF long aep. Z 81