A ROMANTIC STORY.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3099, 3 June 1881, Page 4

A ROMANTIC STORY.

In the quiet little village of Cholsey, Berks, the following unusually interesting incident occurred The circumstances are so romantic, that we give the particulars "in toto." Miss Lovelock, a young lady oE somewhat prepossessing appearance had fallen in love with the young curate of the village. Miss Lovelock's father had arranged that his daughter should marry another suitor who was paying his devoirs to the envied spinster, and consequently the proposals of the poor young curate were rejected. He thereupon wrote a desponding letter to the young lady, in which ho stated that all his happiness and fond hopes had gone. Even the thoughts of the streams, the pleasant walks they had enjoyed together by Old Father Thames through the fields and meadows —all had grown painful to him. Life was a burden, and not worth living for. The young ludy, on perusing his touching epistle, was so overcome by its gloomy forebodings that she immediately determined to seek the quiet seclusion of a Roman Catholic Convent near Reading, fearing that her rejected lover contemplated committing suicide. She accordingly entered the convent, resolving to shut herself from the world and all its pleasures for ever. The young curate meanwhile had made a like resolution, and retired to the same convent as a friar, little thinking that the cause of all his sorrows would be daily before him in the form of a virtuous penitent. One morning, while she was kneeling before him, he made himself known to her, being unable to contain himself any longer. So overjoyed were they by this sudden revealment that they forgot the sacredness of their positions in the convent, and the following evening by the light of the moon they escaladed the walls and emerged once more into the world's busy strife, having determined to be united without delay in the bonds of holy matrimony in spite of the wishes of tho young lady's father.