A ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1166, 29 July 1885, Page 4

A ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE.

Romances of real life are sometimes as strange and pathetic as tho most touching a clever writer can conjure up to stir the emotions of his reader. One such, is briefly narrated in tho columns of an American contemporary. A number of years ago, runs the story, ; the daughter of a certain General Scott, a very attractive and beautiful young | lady, bade adieu to the pleasures of the world, took the veil, and became an inmate of tho Georgetown Convent. The motive of her determination to become a nun was an unhappy love affair. She had visited Europe, and while in England, had met with a young man with whom she fell deeply in love, and who reciprocated the affection. A marriage ought to have been the soqnol to this strong and mutual attatchment, but, for reasons which are not explained, the two young people were separated. The girl, half brokenhearted, sought shelter and seclusion in a convent; the young man became a priest, the step taken by the one being unknown to the other. Not many weeks ago, he, as a priest visited the Georgetown Convent, where it so chanced at the very time his former love was lying on her death- bed. He ! saw and at once recognised her ; the recognition was mutual. A few murmured words of regret and affection passed between the two thus re-unifced ; then, in tho presence of the man who had loved well, if not wisely, the nun lay back on her pillow and expired.

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