Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-11-01
oAvouR's LOVE STORY.
A Melancholy Romance in the Life OF the
Great italian.

Great italian.
Miss Godkin contributes to Macmillan
an account of Tho Young Cavour,"
from which we extract the following
passages 1t is not to be credited that
30 warm heart, however we'll guarded
from all assaults, could have passed the
critical period from twenty to thirty
quite scathless. Camille was too clever
and too keen to be taken in by tho willy
arts Of the coquette; but he was not in
sensible to the attractions of sweet
and lovely woman, whose grace, refine
ment and cultivated mind won his adj
miration almost at the hrst meeting.
Intense sympathy drew them together,
and before they were aware Of it they
had become deeply attached to each
other. They separated with the sad
feeling that they should never meet
again, for, unhappily, there was an In
surmountable obstacle to their union;
the young lady's hand had been already
disposed of by her father, after the man
ner OF Italian marriages Of that day.
They seemed made for each other, but
they met too late. Cavour was only
twenty, and the girl probably about the
same age. He heard nothing Of her for
three years, except that she lived in
Milan, and was constant sufferer from
bad health. Once he wrote to express
his sympathy, and received brief reply
to thank him, but that was all. He pre-
served tender remembranc OF her,
and feeling of regret that fate had d.
vided them; but his love had subsidized
into friendship, nor did he dream that
the unhappy girls health had been ru-
ined by her devoted attachment to him.
But 1t was so. After three years abb
sonce she returned to Turin and it only
needed the sight of her sad, beautiful
face, with its traces of suffering, to re-
kindle 'Camillo's almost extinct love.
After two or three painful interviews
they parted once more; the fair unknown
going to the baths with her parents, who
probably wished to remove their daugh'
ter from the dangerous vicinity of the
young Count.
Then began the correspondence which
lasted for years. They sometimes wrote
twice day to each other; her letters
were preserved and numbered by Cavour
but her name, even her Christian name
carefully erased. He calls his lady
"L'Inconnue" in his diary, where he re
lates the whole story of his unhappy
love in the most passionate and touch
ing language. Cavour's letters are lost
but from those of the unknown we Cal
gather an idea OF their contents. Her.
are very beautifully written, and ex
press the intense, all-absorbing, hope
less love which had Frustrated he
strength for years and was slowly sap
ping her life. 1t is impossible to con
vey in few words the painful impress
: sion left on the readers mind by thu
perusal of these heart-broken letters
At one time her parents thought tina
her mind was giving way, and threat
J ened to put her under some restraint
J Cavour, who hated and cursed himsel
for being the cause of so much miser,
to this heavenly woman" moved a
LuuCh ny plIy LUZ uor pOolIlOh III HS
family as by his own feelings, wa
tempted to ask her to fly with him to
, foreign country. Happily, he put ava,
the mad thought before communicating
it to her.
When she felt her end at hand sh
wrote pathetic farewell to the ma
whom she had so loved, who seemed t
her celestial intelligence" and 70
g whom her life was sacrificed; for she die
literally of broken heart. In that las
sad letter she told Camille that he ha
never fully comprehended her love; ho'
could he, when no human languag
= could explain it? When you read thes
= lines an insurmountable barrier wi
have been raised between us. l sha.
/, have been initiated in the grand secret
= of the tomb; and, perhaps, tremble a
L the thought may then have forgotte
e you" ...