New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-11-14

barrett was inplacable and this daughter was
ever after practically dead to him-but not so
dead to him that he could not try every means
that occurred TO him to wound her feelings.
This poets love-story before and after mar
riage is the most winning and beautiful thing
Of its kind in the literature OF real life. and we
may be excused for printing here part OF the
letter in which the bride impaired to an old
friend and relative the beginning of her romance:
And now l will tell you. 1t is nearly two years
Ego since / have known Mr.. Browning. MI.
Kenyo wished to bring him 10 see me five years
ago, as one Of the lions of London VINO roared
tn, gentlcst and was best worth my knowing
but | refused then. in my blind dislike 10 seeing
strangers Immediately, however, after the pub
LEGATION OF my last volumes he wrote To me- ana
we had a correspondence which endcd III my
agreeing to receive him as | never had received
any other man. j did not know why, put IL
was utterly impossible for me 10 refuse 10 re-
ceive him. though | consented against my VIII.
He writes the most exquisite letters possible,
and has way of putting things which nave
not. way Of putting asde-so ne came lie
came. and with our personal acquaintance De-
gan his attachment for me- sort or lniatua-
ton call it, which resisted the various dehals
which We're my plain duty AT the beSliihh'E, anu
has persisted past them all. l began with a
grave assurance that | was In an exceptional
position and saw him just in consequence OF u,
and that IL ever h. required 10 mat 5uoJcCt
again never could see him again while J liVed;
and he believed me and silent. To my
mind indeed il was bare inn ulse-a generous
man Of quick sympathies taking up sudden
interest with both hands, So | thought; but in
the mean time the letters and the visits rdined
down more and more, and in every one there
was something which was too slight 10 anaiyZe
and notice. but too decided not 10 be under
stood: so that nj last when the proposed re-
spcct" Of the silence gave way, II was rather
less dangerous. SO then showed hlm now ne
was throwing into the ashes his best affections
how the common gifts Of youth ana cheerful
ness were behind mellow had not strength,
even Of heart. for the ordinary duties OF lifc-
everything / told him and showed him. Look
at this-and this-and this throwing down al
my Disadvantages. 10 which hc did not answer
by a single compliment hut simply that he had
not then 10 choose. and that ! might be right or
he might be right, n was not there 10 decide.
but that he loved me and should 10 his last h"ur
lie said that the freshness ~ youth had passed
with him also and that he hal studied the world
out Of books and seen many women. yet had
never loved one until he had seen mo. That he
knew himself. and knew that. II ever so re-
pulsed he should love me TO his last hOur-it
should be first and last. At the same time he
would not tease me. he would wait twenty years
if pleased. and then. il life lasted so long for
both OF US, then, when IL was ending perhaps.
might understand him and feel that ! might
have trusted him. For my health. he had be-
lieyed when he first spoke that was suffering
from an incurahle injury Of the spine, and that
he never could hope TO me stand up before
his face and he appealed 10 my womanly sense
OF what pure attachment should bc-whethcr
such n circumstance. II IL had been true. VAS in
consistent with IT, lie preferred ne said. 81 re"
and deliberate choice. TO I've allowed 10 sit only