LOVE AND MONEY.

Colonist, Volume IV, Issue 316, 30 October 1860, Page 4

LOVE AND MONEY.

A young lady, beautiful in person and attractive in manner, who resided in the immediate vicinity of Boston, was sought; in marriage some years ago by two men. One of these was poor, and a mechanic; the'other rich, and not a mechanic. The womati loved the former: ttie family of the Woman likeci the latter. As is the, case in such affairs, the woman married to please her friends. Having thus ff sold; herself^' she ought to have been miserable, but she was not. Her husband's unaffected love subdued her heart, and his gold smoothed the rough places in the human path.

Fortune, feeling that this couple were happy, frowned, and the man's riches took wings and used them in flight. Thereupon the husband wound up his business, put his wife and children, of whom there were two, at a comfortable boarding-house, and then departed for California in search of money. Some letters and some remittance arrived from him first, and then nothing came, and there was a blank of several years.

The wife thought herself deserted. The family, whose good opinion of the husband had not lately been so often published as formerly, told her that it was clearly a case for a divorce. When she had become well accustomed to the sound of this unpleasant word, the disconsolate wife was thrown into the society of the mechanic love, now prosperous, and still unmarried. The memory of her early, real love came upon her, and she believed with a secret joy that he had remained single for her sake. This thought nourished her affection and at last she obtained a divorce from her husband, who had deserted her and remained absent beyond the time allowed by the statute. This accomplished, there was no barrier between her and the mechanic of her youth. She informed him that she was his forever, when he should choose her hand. Her feelings cannot have been pleasant to learn that, since his rejection by her and her marriage to another, the unromantic hewer of wood had drowned his passion for her in the waves of times, and that at the time of her handsome offer he no longer palpitated for her.

As if all this were not embarrassing enough, who should turn up but the husband, who made his appearance in the form of a letter, announcing that he had accumulated a dazzling pile of wealth, that he was on his way home, and that she was to meet him in New York. The letter also chid her for neglect in not writing to, him for years, and it was clear that he had sent assurances of love and also material aid at intervals during his absence; where these had gone, no one knows. Here, then, was trouble. No husband no love. The one she had divorced; the other had refused her. Taking council with herself, she packed her trunk, seeing t!hat her wardrobe was unexceptionable, and came to the metropolis. She met the coming man on his arrival, and told him the whole story as correctly as she, naturalliy prejudiced in favor of the defendant, co'ald tell it. The husband scowled, growled, looked at the the charming face and the becoming toilette, remembered California arad its loneliness, and took her to his heart. A clergyman was summoned, a marriage was performed, and a new volume in their life's history was opened.— New York Tribune.