A ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 75, 27 March 1872, Page 4

A ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE.

(From the New York Times.) Nearly 20 years back there lived in Rio Janeiro an English merchant, whose life seemed entirely devoted to the pursuit of fortune. He had come to Brazil poor, and by resolute work and some luck acquired a competency. This done, after many vississitudes, he went home for a visit. While at home he met a beautiful orphan girl ; the pair were married and returned together to Brazil. Two children were born to them. Worldly prosperity still attended the merchant, who from time to time repeated his visit to England. On one of these occasions strange rumours came to his ears prejudical to his wife. They were little heeded at first ; but, by degrees, suspicion became jealous fury, and the wife was accused by her lord of infidelity. The lady being proud and sensitive to a fault, indignantly denied the charge. A separation was agreed upon, and an annuity was settled on the wife. Heartsick and weary of old associations, the merchant wound up his affairs in Brazil, and came to North America. Wandering vaguely about in the West he fell in with a party of Red River traders, and subsequently did a good deal of business in and about St. Paul. In that town he made many friends, and was notable for his grave taciturnity and the strict honor of all his dealings. He refused invariably, to mingle in any social pleasures whatever, and impressed all who came in contact with him as a man who labored under incredible suffering. Thus years rolled on, and the wife had married again — the terms of separation under Brazilian law allowed that step. She, however, forfeited her annuity by it, which proved in the end a serious misfortune. Her second husband fell into bad health, and died a year or two after the marriage. T his left the wife and her two children in destitute circumstances, and she then, like her first husband, became an uneasy wanderer up and down the earth. Led by some mysterious influence, she came to the United States, and in the fall of 1889, she too, was in St. Paul. It is a surprising statement to make, but there is no doubt of the fact, that the couple met once more, that the old feeling revived, that the lady conclusively established her innocence in the mind of her husband, that they were married again, and have lived in the utmost felicity together ever since. The twice wedded pair have once more sailed across the sea to settle down for the remainder of life in their old home.