Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-01-31
4 STORY OF REAL LOVE
NATHANIEL iiAWTHORkE'S COURT
SHIP OF SOPHIA PEABODY.
Ti;ey Grew Tired of Waiting for
Eortunc-Ea Faithful To
the End.
lFro'a Hawthorne's Biography

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/ Onc evening Nathaniel and his sister Eliza
beth ca Led on the PeaboJys Sophia Pea
body was ILL., and Elizabeth went up 10 her
room and begged her 10 come down 10 see
the caller. You never saw anything 20
splendid rs lac is-he is handsomer than
Lord Byron" Ths sick gal was not 10 50
easily won. she decline t. max. the effort
to see the rising novelist. Miss Peabody re-
calls the beauty Of the outline of his
features, the pure complexion, the wonder
ful syes, like mountain lakes Rejecting the
sky
or c0afsc he called again and then Sophia
saw HIM 1t was a fatal attack at once on
both sides As We went on taking she
would frequently i1;erpp-e a remark in her
low, sweet voice. Every time She did 50 he
would look at her AGAIN with the same
PIERCING, inlrawing gaza | was struck
with it and thought what il DE should fall in
love with her, AMI the Thought troubled me,
Tor she had often told me that nothing would
ever tempt her to marry and iniiict on
huS band the care Of an invalid Years
atterwari MIR. Hawthorne used to tell her
children how tie presence of the young
writer exercised upon her from the begin
ming SO strong a magnetic attraction that in
anu repelleI him. Both found the courage
their first meeting.
Nathaniel conlide To- nobody that he had
asked Sophia Peabody to be his wife a soon
rs he was able 10 provide for her, and the
secret Of their engag mont was Kept for
three years lie had a petty position in the
Boston custom EGuS.-;hat Of Wei shef-but
h. coult not marry on IT, and when he was
dismissed from il by the change Of admins
traitor in ISL he entered upon TIE Brook
farm experiment To see what promise il en-
folded for hiin and his promised wife. He
made NJ money, but the lovers grew tired
waitIr: for FORUM, -Ren;s we're loy: in
~ En-l nj tlIcn." ami they married Ills
mother attitu lc toward his wife proved an
algeeaol, surprise. She told him that She
had known # has eutang rman: almost as
long a hr hal known it himself AMI that
Sophia Pa oily was just the VII she would
have chosen for him
And how dil he make love for himself,
this teller of the love making of ina ,inary
men and maids! IL rejoiccs because pet
ti-h cousin has an angry politic al dispute
with him which viii separate them for a
time ami leave Nathaniel more hours to
think 81 her. For ~pcace oyer!lows from
your h art TO mine He caution, her against
walking with hi- robuS, sister Elizab.th, be
cau~e she is iudofatisable and wants to
walk half round tie world when once out
doors. lie assure, her that although he
loves her deeply he j. in awe Of her. Il sup
pose l should have pretty much she same
feeling If an angel Were to come from heaven
and be my deares. frieni-only the angel
could not have the tenlerest Of human
natures, too, the sense Of which is mingled
with this sentiment He cannot understand
the mystery Of hiS awe and love; "ine.hinks
il converts my love into religion" And he
never read a letter from her without first
washing his hands
lftcr this req Of the rods had existed
between them for year, she defined beauty
with all the gravity Of Burke: NV aefini-
ton Of beauty is that il is love. and. there
fore. includes both truth and good Suspic-
iouS Of the logic Of her philosophy she adds.
But thusn oHiy who love rs we do can feel
the significance ami fore, Of this The last
day of the year she send, him delicious
mes ag.,: God hes, YOU this night of the
oil wear. Il has proved the wear Of our
nativity Has no. the Old earth passed away
from usl Are not all things newfT
She has hurt a finger; he warns hcg. tina. il
1T i, not we'll soon h. viii send h.r the best
surgeon ia Boston She vaints; the pirture,
will be- more precious to him than all the
productions of all the painters sine. Applies
She paintsd him AMI her in a litrla laniscaqa.
and ,he zoe, into ra?:ures OYER tiny figure
DOUBTLESS looking a. mitch like Sgancho
Panzt ani Guineyert as like that o. Natha-
mel a,ii his own Snnllie.1 II. woai NJ,
hanz tie precious thing on the wall fur fear
If d,i>; and the fingers Of the cfainharnaii
Indte!. h. was III. ma l,lcst of lovers If eyer
one were madden than another. H. closes
one letter with ~ke.uge lest lly, ties very
especially much today. Su now it Is
ireakfas: time, aal~-alls, even love
luu~t est--sni have an amp tit.
That makes her lrsakfa,t Of the ten.
le:t-,t importance What lid You eat for
iIrea., -ast. Hut | know very well that vuI
never "a, anythin, but breai AMI milk AMI
ch:ck.us i good enough diet 70. love.
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