The Portland daily press., 1875-03-20

fortunes nave way of doing, the Laird is HIM
seiI again ana views matters with unprejudiced
eyes, Dut walter, being very much in love
takes MS future In his own hands and marries
the maid OF his choice, Christina, who has a
sensitive disposition, feels that she has disap-
pointed the family's expectations, and is NOR
bid and unhappy instead of quietly snubbing
them, as girl of her superiority should have
done. Then she discovers early and seeming
love letters which in common prudence he
should have destroyed.
MISUNDERSTANDING arise; she worries and
pines away, he being too thick-headed to see it;
explanations come when it is tOo late-when
she is gone; and he thinks on the whole, she
never rightly understood or appreciated him.
Ihe story of her death is very tender and
here it ought properly to end. Her suffering
would have seemed unnecessary and ina ginary
If at this crisis (when a man is a widower for
the first time, it can probably be ca He'd crisis)
he had not offered himself to his cousin and
married her as soon as our eyes were dry over
the death of his beautiful wife. AIasl aSuch is
lite and such is m an
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