LOVE AND SUICIDE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 215, 28 August 1862, Page 6

LOVE AND SUICIDE

(From Le broit.)

(>n Fri'liy fao coffin 4 wer.» brought side-by side in', > the Church of fkisine NVuvelle. They were fol-

iov c i l>y a :a^a ahsurU -<1 in and a'tin.k-d by a lnr»c cioWii, remark ih!e for their «ad and .vd'vc?e<l ■ f_e .:i--anoni . iliticmoiKlle Palmyra, a ilnsMiia ;er, livuv,' with h-r parents, was gifted vrith the most f&> inaiirv^ ■■ipj«;araiice aril tl:e most liveable of chaia wtt, tin. d ire was »!k* eagerly *ou,;Lt in luarri.tjre. AiTi.iup ii;» candidates for her han.l she haJ dLsiia-

/;s>hoi i),". M. l! , \th<i es]ir;riencei an iuteusc pa n.ij for !tir. Th"n:«h *he fully rociproiitc.l hi= <• :u? (-he thought it right, through third duty, to ! .iUiA^th*' withes of her pveriU, and m.'trrieJ in>u-aci <">■■ -"•'. I> - --, wh->!is K«.-i;iS jjusitiuii ap]>e.irfd to j tfi'-ai jref< nil.'c to that of his rival. The marriageto ',i i.'.vl- f ( ,ur year* at'n. MM. IJ urn! D -. (tit: Vu4..i..t Ki.d livali \»-«-rfl f.itt friends, and .i'i'i!.i; r h ts.tv hal i,o imsintAs c-onnrclion, duiiy V Mtc ! v^U Mt!,tr. Tlie Uiuiu.'tl love B and of I'i-.'uiyra -;a.»^ Ma=latu.> 1) ) hud, ifaarthing. gr.'Wu uiMf inti'UM'. «>ut of ri-jrnrd for hi-."friend, U —. t'. turn his i 1-?'«p in atiotL. r dirt.-iioa, !u-.'!e up his mi.A U) many, hut, notwi:liitun-sii:g a'i hii cil'urt.s he perct-ive 1 that this heroic ivr.iirdy n-.i« jmw.>r!t"i.ii to(lcg!r.iT hn p'sqoa for !:is fri [j■! '* uif,-. Nevtrt'ifie** for'lour years neither h»«" rt«»i- Ma-lain.- J> faih-d in their duty. What Uf-y ha i t.. -u!Rr irnmiot. be «?e.seribeJ, as the unsu«!*cMiug hu.-iaini ;thv:i>s M>ijtriv;?,i to bring th' c-m- ---«• •i--ntiiiU.i iitid reiuctaiit l«<ver V> his bouse. At It-nmh :tn unlucky <kaii!\: brought t!tC lovtr.- t-.^ther, and the ffiend !«Uajed the iii.-n.;, the will- betrayed the l.u-kuvi. In an agosy of letii'irsc they acquainted liini with t!s,; fii.-ne. lie fr.-ely fj-gave them, as the i:c huh nf '•ircutii.-t'im-es over which they had ln> con-tr-S,. llf c-,fitinii.«<l to live with his wife, but enj ...iiit-'l an fct-i nal teparation Ul\w en tht lovers. Tho :itj«nctitin wax religiously t>i*y«d, but t'le struggla letwt.<--!i p.iv-ii.»:i uui duty «as u-j violent to last, rt-.iri«il of j.^ain tr<i!.*gix.-.,-iiig-, the lovers determiucd t > .lie l«<u<-th>-'r ; tin.y wt-ie iound inmiajaie from the firncs of eh irrual, l->-kfl in each othn-.s* arms. They J»-td Itlt i: Uuer for the husband, acquainting him with •iluir it-^lution, and n questing that the same grave I i.'ii^bt revive them both, a wi*h he religiou^v cxcI cu! '.«t. Their bo>ile* wen* in the two eom'us, n.ud the chief imnirner was t)i t Im-iiand.