The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-05

most o~xduisite letters possible. and has n way
OF putting thIngs which I haye not. n way Of
putting aside-so he came. 10 came, and with
our personal acquaintance began his attach
mcnt for me, a sort OF infntuation call II. which
resisted tho various denials which were my
past them ali. / began with the grave assur.
anco that l was In an oxcepttonm. position and
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could, see him AGAR, while l lived; and he be-
lieved me and was silent, TO my mind. indeed,
sympathies taking up n. sudden interest with
both handsi SO j thought, but, IN tho mean;
DOWN dISe; m nsS i sas mor Sna and mi in every vtS.yS one se there
was something which was, too slight to analyzo
and notice, but too decided not TO oe understoodi
the silence gave way, u. was rather less danger
GUS. So. then, ! showed him how no was throw
ing into the ashes his, best atfections-how tho
common gifts of youth, and cheertuincss were
behind. mo, how ] had not strength, even OF
/ told him and showed him. Look ut this, and
this, and this throwing down all my disad-
vant9,gcs. to which he did not, answer by single
compliment, but simply said that he had not then
TO choose, and that ! might be right or he might
be right, he was not thore to decide: but that no
loved me and should to his last hour. le said
that the freshness of youth had passed with him
also. aud that he had studied the world, out OF
I SSSSs o ana n seen b many SnI s %Sm ,sn' ~ TGa hG Sc h hns3r
himself, and knew that. IL ever so repulscd. he
should lore mo to his last hour-it should bs b,
il I pleased, and then, IL life lasted SO long
haps. ! might understand him and feel that l
might have trusted him. For my health. no had
believed when he first spoke that, l was suffer.
ing from an incurablc injury OF the spine. and
that he never could hope TO SEQ me stand up
before his face. and he appealed to my womanly
sense OF what pure attachment should be
whether such a circumstance, II it had been
true, was inconsistent with II. He preferred. no
said. of free and deliberate choice. to be allowed
70 sit only. an hour a day by my side, to the full.
hlment OF the brightest dream which should
exclude mo. In any possible world"
Later, IN tho same Letter .t. she says, and with
we were married before two witnesses-it was
the first and only time. looked, he says, moro
dead than alive. and can well believe 1t, for I
sat roidtnc at a chemists shop. The support
through It. all was my trust in him for no wo,
m trust G hnass SSS ad s aG%@t1'ed motives nse t" S'f hold ID
by. Now may I not tell YOU that his ge-
MUS and NIL but miraculous attainments are
the least things In him. tho moral nature being
OF tho very modest. MS all who ever knew him
admit Then he has had that wide experience OF
men which ends by throwing the mind back on
him. excepting as all humanity is incomplete
ness. The only wonder Is how such n man,
whom any woman could have loved. should
nave loved me; but men OF genius, you know,
are apt to love with their imagination.
Then there is something in the sympathy.
the strange, straight sympathy, which unites
look up to him. we should be too alike to be to-.
Eether. perhaps, butt know my place better than
think how well we get on after six weeks of
marriage. III sufier again, it will not be through
him. Some day, dearcst Mrs. Martin, ! will
show you and dear Mr.. Martin how his prophecy
,caS fuLfvcd. saving some picturesque particu.
lars. ] did not know before that Saul was
among the prophets"
Miss Barrett would find in marriage q remedy
Tor all her ills. NJ. w. Ii.