The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1878-05-10
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TWO HEARTS MlSGIVlNGS.

They haye not knowp each other six
weeks
is il poasible?'
Such was the information and comment
repeated numberless times, or words OH
both sides to similar effect, upon the bright
May morning when Alma Trepen was mar
ried to Benet Armsgarth.
However, the better informed of the per-
sons who detailed this Information were able
to add that they had been properly intro
duced, also that both bride and bridegroom
belonged to very good and highly respected
families in the county, many of whose re.
spective members were known to the 9TH
ers.
But the insignificant fact remained that
they had not known each other personally
six weeks upon that morning when they
were joined together until the life of one Of
them should cease.
1t is said advsedly ly-joined until one Of
them should be dead-because it would ar
que an Objectionable state of mind on the
part of the narrator if he were to remember
| and recall that in these later years divorce
| may intervene to separate man and wife,
and make them strangers to each other.
Let it be repeated-they had known each
other but six weeks on that particular morn.
ing when they became man and wife.
| Two months have passed and the bride
and bridegroom are at home.
| The house in question is very lovely
villa, equally beautiful and unoreteniious,
and upon that July evening the air is redo
| lent with the night scent of the roses.
| If you could look in at the open garden
door windows you could see the fair YOUNG
bride industrious with some pretty fancy
work, while the bridegroom of IA few weeks
is on the other side of the table, reading al
evening paper. What kind of couple are
these sitting in the full light of the brilhau
COLA lamp?
Both are brave. looking-e zen dariug -
in countenance las, indeed, C outrageous an,
intrepid they must have been. to marry E,
life upon so short an acqu aintance), anC
|
truly, il there in their ways and habits.
She is quite ready to rat tie across countr,
at sunrise; and he is equally ready to q
fishing or botanizing with the young wife
while, when the evening has come, thei
musical tastes quite coincide.
To all outward appearances, they are mad
for each other Equal in birth, equal il
fortune, and both rich, similarly educated
and both brave healthy and young, tn
world said they were arsr e. y. matched coupl
despite the strange fact of this weeks cour
ship.
But the world sees never at once int
heart and brain. When the time has passe
and mistrust, dolbt, suspicion, have write
their tale upon the face, then the world O.
= find out that there is something amiss. b,
: not before. -
They were both fairly good looking, we
built, and Of about the same complexio
!, He lookel up from his paper as he stoppe
!, for he he'd been reading to her and to b
y tintense astonishment, he saw that one har
4 covered her face, the. other being pendent
her lap, and that she was silently wee
ing,
'Almap IN.
She started, and smiled at once.
You are cryingv
NO, dear; it was but a passing though
lie recovered his astonishment, OvercaI
~ the decidedfrown which possessed his bro
and smiling, if little slowly, he add
Ds You haye good many passing thoughts,
q No. she said u am really very, "
st happy "
az q, She looked up quite con6dingly.
There was no doubling that expressi
He left his seat, moved round the table,
,at his arm about her waist and kissed
lwife.