South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1870-09-23

cd, if not comforted that is, after knew
May was irrevocably welded.
Two months passed. l deemed myself
sufficiently fortified with good resolutions
to return once more to my chosen place of
residence. 1t was high noon when drove
up tho principal street 4 carriage dash
ed by me, light vehicle. In a moment
it bad turned; aud Frederick, Mays hus.
band, was abreast. ineoluntarily drew
10 my horse. Ny friends face denoted
anguish, intense aud concentrated. "For
God ) sake, Doctor Lane, my early friend
DO not stop till you reach Mrs. Kendal's;
My, May lies there-sick- ID wing" he
gasped. How ashy pale be, was My face
blauched. | felt singular tremor. He
dashed ahead, neither speaking, and in IF
teen minutes | stood by the couch of the
young bride That was an awful hour
At its close, l pressed her white cyehds
over her dull, glazed eyes. All, Heaven .
thought |, kneeling with an aching heart,
can such beauty be dead And still, for
all, there was triumph in the fceling-tri-
umph until bcheld the awful grief of the
berert husband-saw the big drops bead
like blood his pale, broad forehead al
most forced him from the inanimate body
to which he clung with the grasp of despair,
clasping her to bis bosom kissing the
white lips, the whittier cheeks even the gold
en- locks that lay damp and uncurled over
her shoulders.
And, when | left that house of mourning,
was it not strauge-;he calmness felt set
Ting over my spirits Could this thought,
even in fintest tracery, pass through my
'h!"u a' sucu ''."s W." Oh" - No'
NINE anu I''I's' . SIZE ,',' a." 'au 'Ia,
As sue cou'u not DC ui'no my "'n' ou'
death can c'a,n ner now l'ar' nal con .
science fIsney aPp.,JG u'r 'o,I", sue 10 "a,
the crimson mortal Of nv heart.
Tho rext dav. 7 went over to b, present
=, the funeral services and still I felt that
sorroyful banniness Poor Frederick was
At times raying. then stupid with his Great
Grief The m0urncrs assembled the bean
iiful dead Law ROBBED in satin in her coffin =.
alre,dv the hrre pnrlor was filed with
wconi6p friends took NV station bv the
mead of the corpse. With anutterable ten.
5orncss vet without tear. I ,.nzed nnon
that heavenly countepanca. 1t looked not
ike storm dcoth but soft and sniling SLIM
her Tbcre were ali her voung c,mnanions
nrasont VILLAGE maideus. robed in white.
whose simnle voices i,iped in 4 funeral
SONG. But Oh how those voices wayered
trombled until tears and s,bs choked out
the music and mournfnl. heart rcndinp
walls sounded through the room.
At last. the hoary headed man Of God
arose to nrav. Never heard I a petition 50
mournfuIlv tender. so simple. so powerful.
How gently be spoke of her youth and
GOODNESS the circumstances under which
God was pleased TO call her. lust. rs il were.
standing on tho threshold Of her happv life,
and LOOKING towards the rose colorej future
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