The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-11-20
oUR LOVE sToRY.

sayip { to myself We had been SO
happ' And nowit was all over
every hing was over for me. He
would take what he had chosen in
stead but T.
burst into tears as I sat on the
rock BY the spring where we had
met 50 often-where i was waiting
for him now-but never faltered
in sag ing to myself: @Wemust part.
He Is neither tue to me nor to
heaven we must part.
And what was her Only the vii
Iage doctor Benjamin Rue. And
what was II Only a little school
teacher. Our united incomes were
far-less than anything that the wise
acres Of society papers declare it
apossibIe to marry on But we
hsd re fear. he was winning his
way ana we loved each other, and,
as began by saying, we had been
very happy.
But there had come to Johnstown,
where we lived, a lady of wealth,
who gathered about her certain
little clique of scornful, stylish peo-
pie. They were openly infdel in
opinion; all that I had been brought
up to believe right and good they
mocked at. All this would have
been nothing to me in my school
house OF in my own little room. Il
might never had done more than
notice the handsome dresses of the
ladies whom they walked out or rode
with their attendant cavaliers, and
never have asked what their opin-
ions were, but that soon after their
arrival Mrs. Norland was taken ill
and sent for DR.. Rue. Ben. was
handsome, we'll read, full of bright
fancies. and ready to enjoy himself
at any time He relieved the lady
of the pain she suffered, and became
the family doctor at once. 1t was a
stop toward success. Naturally, he
did not turn cold shoulder to his
patrons when they offered him
social invitations.
From the first he was fascinated
by the freedom from restraint in
thought and action that prevailed in
the house. No doubt / was strait
laced, but what he thought delight
full I thought wrong. 1t seemed to
me, from what he said, that Mrs. Nor
land was very immoral woman.
Certainly she had no religion what
ever. When 1 saw Ben gradually
forsaking all / SO clung to, when be
refused to go to church with me,
and began to beg me not to go; when
he said, openly, that when we were
married / must give all that up.
when at last, he began to deny the
existence of a Deity, and say as they
did at the Norlands', that man had
no soul, that all ended here, and that
to be happy while we lived should
be our only object, my heart sunk
within mo. / loved him SO dearly
that I was quite willing to marry
him if he would let me go on in my
own way. 1 believed that my infiu-
ence and perhaps my prayers might
win him back to heaven.
A young man with good princi-
pies would surely do what was right
at last. But when he began to talk
of forbidding me to listen to the
good words l heard in church, or
even to kneel in prayer at home, l
felt that 1 should do wrong to promise
to obey him, and that there could
be no hope for home divided
against itself.
1 shall not tell you what particu-
lar sect 1 belonged to-that does not
matter. All Christians worship
God and try to follow jesus; and
still hoping that he might, out of
love for me, give me my own, way
1 could hardly have broken with
him-such is the weakness of wo-
mans heart-but that tales reached
me that made me feel that he was
not true to me.
1t was hard for girl to speak of
such a thing as the beguiling of her
lovers heart by a wicked married
woman; but / had no one to speak
for mo, and with my first words we
quarreled. He called me an old
fashioned little Pharisee, and said
that my husband would be a slave if
1 had my way-a slave to supersti-
tions of all sorts; that he was man,
and knew what was right and best;
that I need not think that he should
never look at pretty face or take
glass of wine with friend.
At the moment he was flushed
With what ha had baan d,.inlrin0 at