Year: 1873

\ GUSHING LOVE STcRY WITH NEW STYLE
OF ENDNC.-Ihe Montreal Witness l.. like
its worthy New York nameSake. Journal
- vigorously Scrupulous in veracitv and
morals that the following very curious little
international love story from one of its
latest issues should have the guarantee of
all supp0sable truth To commend it, Ac-
cording to this authority, there arrived in
Montreal. from New York CITY, about a year
ago, wealthy young widow, who wishing
for a. great a change of scene in her sorrow
as was practicable 10 her without crossing
the ocean, repaired to Canada. upon visit
to matrouly friend there residing. Like
herself, this friend was a widow, but bad
son. An ingenious. simple-hearted mere
boy, of barely twenty years. The feminine
beauty that might have been perilous
enough for him in smiles was instantaneous
ly fatal TO him in tears. and before either
his mother or their visitors was aware of his
passion, the poor lad was ready to- die Of it.


OF course this climax was ridiculous, not
to speak of its indecorum and as it had
been previously understood that the 0ifen-
der should 70 to one of the Western States.
where 4 merchant friend of the family had
offered him a business situation. he was now
| hurried off from home lest his folly should
become too conspicuous. This happened
before he had summoned the daring 10 make
any verbal revelation of his very obvious
inlatuation. The lovcsick exile was no soon
er gone than the guest began rcbelling at
the cOnyentiOnIliSms which had compelled
his departure She was scarcely out OF the
first year of her wid0whood, and he several
/ years her junior ; Yet such fresh, impetu-
ous devotion a. his did not deserve contempt,
and she could not help dwelling upon ii
/ Sympathetiedlly. Under these circumStan-
ces her earlier independence of charac-
ter came back to her, and she wrote boldly
to her departed lover, telling him, in effect,
| that the unsp0ken cause of his abrupt alien
/ alton from home involved nothing 10 pre-
vent his speedy return The mother knew
nothing OF this writing until the overjOycd
| young man was once more ut the door. and
then the meeting between him and the visit
or left nothing To be explained. What the
maternal feeling was thereat i not told
possibly the prospect Of having n rich daugh-
ter-in-law quieted the old lady first protest
ing inclination.


In the pecuniary element of the affair
however, there was an unforeseen wreck tOl
the whole romance The events described
and the ensuing form Of cOurtShip occupied
nearly year; and when, not many day,
| ago, the young widow wrote to her friend,
and the executors Of her husbands will


that she was about to marry again, she re-
ceived the appalling information that, by
the terms of the will, her resumption Oi
wedlock must cause the reversion Of her
late husbands whole fortune, excepting a
comparatively small annuity, to his blood
relations. In her first distracting grief and
succeeding distraeting new love, she had
never thought OF this posthumous provision


and upon being reminded Of the fact now,
her feelings underwent what some fine
writers are wont to call - great reyul-
sion'' Having been unwomanly in hei
manner of bringing her second suitOr to her
side, it was not, perhaps, illogical in nature
that she should at the very altar's verge


discard him for money. At any rate that
was what she did, and returned sOrdidly to
New York and now respectable social cir
cles in the two cities are questioning wheth-
er a custom allowing women to take the in
itiative in matrimonial proposals would bt
likely to secure nObler and more genuine
affiliations in love than are generally attain
ed in the old fashioned way.