The Sumter watchman. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1855-1881, 1871-01-18
lFrom the Sundsy worid.1
THE 4AsE rR0a1ANcE>A QUIET
FfBHasARBNUE STORY.

lFrom the sundsy world.l
THE 4AsE RoMAYcE~A QUIET
FfEEIEsARBNDE STORY.
Concerning marriage to be solems
nised with due fashionable pomp this
week between one Of the most elegant
bells Of Fifth avenue and an Eng
iish gentleman lately very popular in
New York society, the following little
romance receives credance in current
social gossip:
"Several years ago 4 son of the fami-
fy to which the bride belongs had
brought bis own prospects and the an.
xiety Of his parents end;friends to such
q crisis by the zeulhipation Of fast
career that expatriation seemed to offer
the only remaining chance for his rescue
from complete ruin. Although too
weak to resist the evil influence by
which his stay in his own city and coun.
try was made assurance Of his ultimate
disgrace aud destruction. The young
man had epough.good. sense to approve
aud adopt tie plan urged for his
thorough withdraw from such inau-
ence, and agreed to become his fathers
business agent to Australia, there to es-
tablish a branch Of the paterual house
of trade. Firmly resolved to make his
future years in that far country ample
atouement for his pisspent days here,
he set sail for his distant destination
by way Of California, leaving behind
him many true and hopeful hearts, but
none so thoroughly confident of his en-
tire reformation as that of his only sis
ter. 10 her he has found an unchang-
ing patience with his faults and faith in
his better qualities, serving to hold him
back from the worse, even in his weak
est moments Of self-indulgent folly, and
to her he looked in bis heart while 60
ing forth into exile for-that folly as to
the one friend sapremely trustful Of
the geuuiuess of his new resolutions.
Reaching the city of Melbourne in
safety, aud there associatiug himself in
commercial partnership with a young
English gentleman Of high position
and connections. be entered vigorously
upon the new path ne had marked out
fer himself, and soon mastered q pros
perity and a popular estimation COM
mensurate with his most sauguine
hopes. ALI Of his lettsrs homevard
we're fraught with manly spirit Of re-.
paration for the past and rehabilitating
determination for the future; but in
writing TO his sister, gratitude took Che
lead of all his emotion save the child
like, revereptial love in which his
whole chastensd nature bowed to kiss
her feet. Two years Of worthy endsa'
vor brought him further practical re
ward but now his health, already chat
tered by past unwise indulgsnces, began
failing; and before he could realize that
the climate Of his exile was helping the
destroyer, he was prostra.ed upon
death bed. Unable then to pen those
messages to his sister, which had become
necessary to his new existence, he con'
fded to his partner and friends all that
that sister had been to him and en-
trusted to his sympathetic hand the
brotherly Office. Through all the last
days Of the Sickness the young English.
man made the deputed labor OF love his
own most earnest mission; and when
death 6ually closed the eyes Of the ez.
lie, and wrote the last message, and
closed the memorial lock of hair to her
whose love for and trust in the redeem
ed brother had never faltered. When,
about a year ago, the English gentle
man visited New York on his circuitous
way home to England, his visit to the
family Of his late partner was as that Of
a dear friend to dear friends, and what
he had been to the son aud brother was
his sll.suficient introduction TO 6 pa
rental and sisterly esteem needing no aid
from his Own fue character to make it
certain and permanent. Early in the
new year, now 80 close ae hand, he will
resume the journey to his own English
home, taking with him as bride one
10 whom lives the likeness of the puri'
fed and regenerated old partner Of his,
whose last breath was blessing on her
name. In all the current records Of
fashionable weddings on the avenue, it
is seldom that auch graceful prelude
as this can be given.