The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-05-15
A Gushing Love Story with New End.


The Montreal Witness, a religions dailv. p;yes
the following very curious International love
story in one of its latest issues:
According to the facts given by this New
YORK authority, there arrived in Montreal from
! New York, about year ago, wealthy Young
widow, whose notable independence of cbarac,
| ter 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 greatest happiness
| and bitterest sorrow of her brief married life
was uncomfortable to her earlier months of wild.
| owhood and, wishing for as great change of
| scene as was practicable to herwithout crossing
the ocean, she repaired to Canada, as above re-
lated, upon visit to matronly friend there
| residing.
Like herself, this friend was widow, but mao mao
son whose youthful nature was more q, his SEN
lated to excite sympathy for himseht 70 offer the
| timent towards such guest tha;n nns simple
same disinterestedly; an naggenfy Years ver-
hearted, mere boy, OF Dat fSagminine beauty that
u.ny omen i,n ~ nerilous enough !oi - =.
smile was instantaneoustHS a or their yistorw was
| and befsre either ms tbc moor lad was ready to
aware of his passio"
| die of il. .t;s climax was ridiculous, not to
speak Of its ndec9Nm an ana az !. hsa s Ieen pre-
t,o nne of the Western States, where merchant
| fu;end of the family had offered him business
situation, he was now hurried off from home
lest his folly should become too conspicuous.
This happened before he had summoned the
daring to make any verbal revelation of mis-
very obvious infatuation, and the fair object of
the latter had so much excuse for feiynins nm
consciousness of the cause of his sudden ban
ishment t
1t was but poor feigning for the lady, howey-
er, and If the whole truth must be told at once,
the love-sick exile was no sooner gone than she
began rebelling at the conventionalsms which
had compelled his departure. She was scarcely
out of the first year of her widowhood, and he
several years her junior; yet such fresh, impet-
uous devotion as his did not deserve contempt,
and she could not help dwelling upon it sympa-
thetically Under these circumstances, her ear
Hest independence" of character came back
to her, and not only did she remain with her
widowed friend in Montreal, but also 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 the same ex-
traordinary writing until the overjoyed young
man was once more at the door, and then the
meeting between him and the visitor left moth
ing to be explained. What the maternal feel
ing was thereat is not told possibly the prospect
of having a rich daughter-in-law quieted the
old lady's first protesting inclination.
In the pecuniary element ofthe affair, however,
there was an unforeseen wreck for the whole
romance The events described and the ensu-
ing form of courtship occupied nearly year;
and when, not many days ago, the young
widow wrote to her friends and the executors of
husbands will, that she was about to marry
again, she received the appalling responsive in
formation that, by the terms of the will afore-
said, her resumption of wedlock must cause
the revision of her late husbands whole for
tune excepting comparatively small annuity,
to his blood relations. In her first distracting
grief and succeeding distractipg new love, she
had never thought of this posthumous provis-
ion, and upon being reminded Of it now her
feelings underwent what fine writers are wont
to call q "great revulson."
Having been unwomanly in her manner of
bringing her second sutton to her side 1T was not
perhaps, illogical in nature the she should, at
the very affairs verge, discard him for money.
At any rate, that was what she did, according
to the credible witness of the catastrophe, and
returned sordidly to New York. And now re-
spectacle social circles in the two cities are
questioning whether a custom allowing women
to take the initiative in matrimonial proposals
would be likely to secure nobler and more gen.
uine affections in love than are generally attain
ed in the old-fashioned way. Such an illustra-
ton certainly favors the negative, and is worth
some study in the interest of immemorial habit
of honorable men and womanly women ia all
chivalrous and gentle relations.