Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-05-16
4 GennIne Romano In Real LIE.
HOW TWO LOVERS WE'RE At LAST uSiTfD-
REUNION u THE SEt.

! REUNION u THE SKA.
Boston Letter to the Chicago Tribune.
That truth Is stranger than fiction. every
/ body knows. But real life is not merely
more stanse-it is often more romantic than
anything invented by the romance writers
An instance Of this has recently occurred
within our knowledge; and the denouement
OF the story is 50 pleasant that cannot re
irain from giving 1t To your readers. | can
| Nouch Tor lts CORRECTNESS. as one at least of
of the parties concerned is well known to
me -
About ten years ago a wealthy merchant
OF this city, having an only child, beautiful
| girl Of ofseyenteen, became alarmed at certain
/ Indications of a conSumptiye tendency in her.
and, to recruit her health. sent her 10 pas
some months at a country home among the
| hills of Vermont The young lady recovered
| her health, but she lost her heart She
made the acquaintance ofa young man named
/ c.. a farmeEsson, intelligent and we'll
educated hut a working machnist. The
young people became warmly attached to
each other, and entered into an engagement
conditional on the consent of the lady father.
But the latter had more ambitious views for
his daughter and when the Young machinst
cl with very little CEREMONY was, in fact. .
dismissed by the father in a manner 50 often
siye that pride forbade him to make any
further advances. lie went west and enter
ed into business in ST. Louis. Having plenty
Of talent. energy and character, he was sue
ceSSiul, soon had very large establishment
of his own, and had accumulated handsome
fortune. Absorbed in business, and the va
rious occupations Of man Of prominence and
4 influence, he had doubtless outgrown his
early disappointment in love; but he had
| formed no other attachment, and remained
I unmarried
The young girl meanwhile, her lover being
/ quite lost to her, accepted the husband select
| ed by her father, was married, and went to
| Tween France. At the end of two years She
/ became a widow, but continued to reside
| abroad. She was in possession of modest
fortune, and her parents having died in this
| interval, 5here was nothing to call her back
TO Boston. Up to September of last year,
| this was the position of affairs between these
/ two. With each the brief romance of their
/ earthly youth had faded into the memory Of
a tender dream and nothing could have seem
ed less likely than the occurrence of any
/ event which should reunite their sundered
| lives
However, it 50 fell out that the require
ments of Mr. G-'s business took him.
/ last year, to Europe, and he remained abroad
several months One evening late in Septem-
| Der. he was on board little steamer going
/ from Marseilles to Leghorn, when there came
up one Of the sudden storms for which those
waters are unplea~antly noted, 1t was very
rough, but no danger was anticipated Mr.
G-sat on deck, watching the storm and
many other passengers, AMONG them many
ladies, We're doing the same. One of the
| latter had risen from her seat to 20 below.
and was standing in an unguarded attitude,
when the steamer gave 4 violent lurch, she
/ lost her balance and was thrown overheard
Mr.. C saw the mishap, and instantly
| leaped alter her into the sea- He was for
tunate enough to find and support her but
| 1t was dark, the sea was running high. and
though boat was quickly sent ont by the
| people on the steamer, those in it were unable
to tnd the missing passengers, and it was
| supposed that they were drowned But. for
| tunately for them, the steamer people, as soon
as the accident was known, had thrown out
various things for them tocling to. plank
foated near them, and by this they were able
to keep themselves from sinking. They were
! picked up on the following day by vessel
/ bound for Malta and carried to that port
And thus it was that these long-separated
lovers met at last. In the darkness Of night
on plank in the stormy waters of the Me-
diternean, they recognized each other
They were reunited, but with no other pros
pect before them but of a speedy death in
each others arms Was it strange that the
oil! love which had slumbered, not died, in
their hearts, was reawakened, and that, find
ing themselves once more possessed of life,
they FELT it impossible to spend that life apart?
At any rate, they were married soon after,
in the English chapel, at Malta, and having
passed the winter there, for the benefit of
the lady health, which suffered greatly from
the exposure she had undergone, they are
on their way home to America. And may
all true loves have an equally fortunate issue ,
WHERE THE Sun DOES NOT SEA- scene
witnessed by some travellers in the north of
Norway, from cliff 900 feet above the
sea, Is thl;s described:
The ocean stretched away in silent vast
ness at uur feet the sound of waves scarce
ly reached our airy lookout away in the
north the huge old sun swung low along the
horizon, like the slow beat of the pendulum
in the tall clock of our grandfather's parlor
corner. We all stood silent, looking at our
, watches. When both hands came together
| at twelve, midnight, the full round orb