Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-05-05


 9 simple ceremony. yet it was aa happy a day to me as ever mortal ex- l perienced since the creation of earth. Mrs. Lawton did everything she could to make the occasion pleasant. She re- gretted parting from me, and since the day when she learned I was to be mar ried she had sorrowed truly. After the ceremony, and when we were preparing to depart for our wedding journey, she said;
 "Agnes, to lose you is like losing a daughter, for I have learned to love you almost as mother loves her own child. Your stay with me has made a wonderful change in my life, and have been so much happier since you came. You do not know what you have been to me, and how you have broken up and dispelled the cloud of grief which had | so long hung over me. I am sorry, Agnes, to see you go, yet am glad you | are married to a man so good and noble as MT. Cornell God bless you, my child, and may you always be as happy as you are to-day.''
 It was quite awhile before could utter word in reply, my feelings were so wrought up by Mrs. Lawton's af- fecting speech, and the remembrance of her many kindnesses to a strange, friendless, homeless girl, all of which rushed into my mind like great flood.
 'Mrs. Lawton,''. I said Ut last, mo matter where I go or what befalls me, | you will always retain a place in my | gratitude and love. You gave me home and love when was alone, and shall never forget you"
 That was very small part of what I felt and wished to say, but my heart was so full that could not say more She understood what felt, however, and I was satisfied.
 | Then there was Mrs. Cornell, her kind old face fairly resplendent with l joy, beaming smiles on everyone about her. How she hugged and kissed me and spoke of me as her daughter How her eyes sparlzled with pride and happiness when she saw Charles and me standing together, and came and put her hands on our arms and said:
 "God bless you, my dear children"
 An, was there ever such a day as that? Was there ever such happiness? Surely not.
 There was Mir. Cornell, too, his gen. erous heart fairly bursting with joy. I shall never forget how he came forward after the ceremony, and, taking us both by the hand, shook us with such hearty good will that really feared for the safety of my arm. Nor shall forget the earnestness with which he addressed us, each in turn, speaking from his very soul:
 "Charleth," he said, ''may Heaven bleth you, my thon. You have done well, and have made uth very happy God bleth you, God bleth you. Agneth, my daughter, bleth you. May Charleth be to you what you detherve, a true, faithful and loving huthband, which believe he will. God bleth you both, my children
 It was all so full of sympathy, gentle ness and love that felt sure another such occasion was never known on earth. So much kindly interest greatly affected me, and I felt so little dcserv- ing of it that it seemed had no right to accept it.
 But why dwell on the happiness of that day? It was but the beginning of a long happy life which has extended through many years. I believe there was never a wife who knew more of the enjoyment of perfect domestic bliss than I, and am sure no woman ever l lbdNl GG UIuSI, SIllU IltEC lOVIng husband. Throughout all the years of our married life, Charles Cornell has been the same true. faithful lover that he was the day wc were united.
 When cur wedding i>urpey was over and we had settled Gcwn in our owr
 home on a farm adjoining NIT. Cornell's
 we received letter frCTl Will Ianley and also one from Mary. The former wrote but little, and though he congrat
 ulated us and wished us the fullest measure of happiness, it was apparent
 that the old sorrow still ranked in his breast and that his soul was not in his , words. pitied him sincerely, and wher Charles told me that it was letter from , Will Hapley that uniformed him of mylovt , and brought him back to me as a lover freely forgave him everything. Mary'f ! letter was short and acrimonious. She was sorry, she said, that anyone SC
 closely related to her should find it nee essary to marry common countryman f but she supposed she ought to be glac that had done even that we'll, consid t ering everything. She hoped I nigh find little pleasure in my quiet, ob scure life, and managed in an aflroi t way to draw 8 very striking contrast be , tween her position in the world anC
 that of myself. The tone of her lette
 was extremely condescending and pa ? tronizing, and while it exasperated m' 3 slightly Charles only laughed at it ans f treated it lightly.
 , After we had been married 8 shor v time made the discovery that my hus , bands merits were recognized by othe g people besides few intimate friends g This fact was brought home to m
 quite forcibly when one day a delega f tion of gentlemen came to our house fo
 the purpose of inducing him to becom ! 8 candidate for the state senate. Tn f gentlemen were representatives of tn f settlers-who wished man elected wh, a would labor for their interests. f I was present when the conferenc l 1,nArrrnn,a Ahn dolnn.n A;1,.. n.a =. l..-