Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-05-22

AN ABNORMAL ROMANCE - GUSHING |
LOVE STORY WITH A NEW STYLE OF
RNDING-FRoM WHICH AN INEVITABLE
MORAL IS TO BE DRAWN.
The Montreal Witness is, like its wor-
thy New York namesake, a Journal so
vigorously scrupulous in yeracity and
morals that the following very curious
little international love story from one
of its latest issues should have the guar
antee of all supposable truth to com
mend il. According to the facts gwen
by this authority there arrived IN Mon
treal, from N. York, about year ago,
a wealthy young widow, whose notable
INDEPENDENCE OF character had not fully
maintained itself under the first local
associations of memory following her
husbands death. In other words, the
city in which she had known the great
est happiness and bitterest sorrows of
her brief married life was uncomfortable
to her earlier months of widowhood,
and, wishing for as great change of
scene as was practicable to her without
crossing the ocean, she repaired TO Can
ada, as above related, upon visit to
matronly friend there residing. Like
herself, this friend was a widow, but
had son whose youthful nature was
more calculated to excite sympathy Tor
himself in his sentiment towards such
guest than to offer the same disinter
estedly. An ingenious, simple hearted
mere boy, of barely twenty years YER
dant growth in life, the feminine beauty
that might have been perilous enough
for him in smiles was simultaneously
fatal to him in tears, and before either
his mother or their visitor was aware OF
his passion, the poor lad was ready to
die of it.
of course this climax was ridiculous,
not to speak of its indecorum and as
it had been previously understood that
the offender should go to one of the
Western States, where merchant
friend of the family had offered him
business situation, he was now hurried
off from home lest his folly should be-
come too conspicuous. This happened
before he had summoned the daring to
make any verbal revelation of his very
obvious infatuation, and the fair object
of the latter had so much excuse for
feeling Inconsistencies of the cause OF
his sudden Punishment. 1t was but
poor feigning for the lady, however, and
If the whole truth must be told at once,
the lovesick exile was no sooner gone
tionalism which had compelled his de-
parture She was scarcely out of the
first wear of her widowhood, and he
several years her junior; yet such fresh,
impetuous devotion as his did not de-
serve contempt, and she could not help
dwelling upon it alphabetically. I'm
der these circumstances her earlier sim
dependence" of character came back to
her, and not only did she remain with
her widowed friend in Montreal, but al
so wrote boldly to her departed lover,
telling him, in effect that the unspoken
cause of his abrupt alienation from
home involved nothing that prevented
his speedy return The mother knew
nothing of this same extraordinary writ
ing until the overjoyed young man was
once more at the door, and then the
meeting between him AMI tile rioitor
left nothing to be explained. What the
material feeling was thereat is not told
possibly the prospect of having a rich
daughter-in-law quoted the old ladys
first protesting inclination.
In the pecuniary element of the affair,
however, there was an unforeseen wreck
for the whole romance. The events
described and the ensuing form of court
ship occupied nearly a year and when,
IOJ uldHy h1tyS dSO, INC young NiboN
wrote to her friends and the executors
of her husbands will in this city, that
she was about to marry again, she re-
ceived the appalling responsive infor-
nation that, by the terms of the will
aforesaid, her resumption of wedlock
must cause the reversion of her late
husbands whole fortune, excepting a
comparatively small annuity, to his
blood relations. In her first distracting
grief and succeeding distracting new
love, she had never thought of this post
humous provision, and upon being re-
minded of the fact now, her feelings I'M
derwent what some fine writers are wont
to call great revulsion." Having
been unwomanly in her manner of
bringing her second sutton to her side, it
was not, perhaps, illogical in nature that
she should at the very affairs verge, dis
card him for money. AT any rate that
was what she did, according to the
creditable witness of the catastrophe,
and returned sordidly to New York and
now the respectable social circles in the
two cities are questioning whether Gus
tom allowing women to take the initia-
tive in matrimonial proposals would be
likely to secure nobler and more genuine
affiliations in love than are generally at
tanned in the old fashioned way Such
an illustration certainly favors the mega
tive, and is worth some study in the in
terest of the immemorial habit of hon
orable men and womanly women in all
the chiyalrous and gentle relations.