The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-30
CHARLES AND MARION.
Loved and Generosity and Gratitude
Forgery and Flight.

| Loved and Lost---Generosity ana Gratltuue---
Forgery and Flight
Was il Byron or some one else who said,
in substance, that it was better to have
loved and lost than not to have loved at all?
Well, no matter who ii was, for so Marion
thought and believed, for she said she had
tried it and she knew. She had twice en-
barked her frail bark on the sea of matri-
mony, and twice had she been wrecked on
the rock, grim death. Twice had that
grim monster euchred her, but she said
that it "would never do TO give 1t up so,
Mr.. Brown" or Smith, or Jones, or what
| ever his name was--we omit to call his
after him, and we wish EN- good luck.
Marion was fair, buxom and not quite
| forty, and was very winsome too, or she
was greatly mistaken. That she was gery
dttractiUe admits of no question, for had
not number two of the "dear departeds"
left her the snug little nest egg of fifteen
hundred dollars and, very conveniently, a
widow too I? She made the most Of her
opportunities, displayed her attractions,
put on her most bewtching smile and
Charles-he is the man the officers want to
interview-snapped at the bait and was
soon following in Marions wake.
But alas for human anticipations There
was an Eve in Eden and she beguiled
Adam, and there was one of her
daughters in Rutland-a married one too
and she entered Marion's Eden and be-
guied Charles. Then the course of true
love, which, before, had run so smooth,
commenced to be refluent from Marion's
hearth stone, but she was not to be dis
mayed. Twice had she succeeded in SINH
lar emergencies, and should she be dis
mayed because another woman, and mar
red one at that, was poaching on her
domain? Not Marion, if she knew her
self, and she thought she did. Charles
was interviewed, and called on to rise and
explain, and he did explain. His love, he
said, had never wandered he was still all
Marion's, but the fact was his coat was a
little too shabby to get married in. Such
confidence was assuring, Marion's tender
spot was touched, and beautifully did she
exemplify faith, hope and charity. If she
hadn't got the money, her check was good,
and Charles soon had it for ten dollars.
Now the course of true love would again
run smooth, and now Charles and Marion
could be made one flesh.
Alas again for human expectations Oh,
tho frailty OF man! Charles had Marions
check for ten dollars, but when the -
bank in Rutland paid it, it was for one
hundred dollars and this is why the officers
so fondly seek for Charles. But Charles
thought that hundred dollars was too
much to get married with, and so he buys
barrel of crackers and with some of his
crones starts to go fishing but, being
| fearful that the fishers of men would be
after him, HES himself away to the briney
deep and there renews the pleasures of his
| youth-that is becomes sailor, for Charles
has been sailor in his youth and is now
only some twenty-five or three years old
So Marion having lost her money and her
hoped for spouse, begins to doubt Byron's
veracity about loving and losing, while
Charles, probably with his new coat, is now
a bold sailor boy and the officers are wan
dering up and down the face of the earth
anxiously seeking his whereabouts. The
facts are authentic and may be relied upon
but, upon request, we suppress names lest
an undue publicity might interfere with
the due course of justice as undue gener-
osity did with the course of true love.
Reader, pause and drop tear DER the sor-
rows and blighted affections of poor Ma
| rion