Show vou win lZ LOVEo LEITER THE MATTER OF FACT CHARLOTTE TE BRONTE Charlotte Bronte Bronto wrote as fo follows of hot bet married life I 1 have ha now been married married mar mar- ried ned ten months 1 kilo know what It Is to live lIvo entirely for and amid with what I love best beston beston beston on earth I 1 hold elt supreme supremely blessed Blessed beyond what wha t. t language can express ex ex- press pru because J 1 am ant my husbands husband's life lite as tull fully as ho he Is 15 mine No woman was ever ves nearer to her mate than 1 I am ama ever- ever moro inure absolute bone of or his Ills bone and Slosh Mh of or his lila fie flesh h. h I know of no Ito weariness of or m my I society he hc knows none of mine an any more than we Wo each do of or tho ho pulsation of ethic t the he heart that t bea beats ts III in ou our r separate bosom bo ho- som om consequently we wo are ever together To ro be together is for us to be ul ut on once e us as free as 49 In solitude aa as gay as In company We tun talk I believe bellec all aU day long lonE to lo talk to each cach other oUI r is 18 but a more animated and amid an audible thinking All MI my confidence 1 is bestowed on him nil all hi hit his confidence In lii devoted lit 11 me time We wo arc precisely l suited lit iii diameter character perfect concord Is lIS the re- re sui aull I. I Tim lime life life story of or Charlotte Bronto Bronte Is one of oC the tha most Interesting of ot II tiny nimy woman oman in inthe time the amid ami n no woman should fall fail In to read r It The Time daughter of a L poor clergyman man of ut the church of England compelled to endure all nil ports of struggles ICH an l 11 jj force of or ner c-ner energy y anI and intellect simo ho lt of ci f tho time worlds world's novel- novel aJ one greatest Its The Tue lovo iop affair o of camo caine late lato laton laten U n her life Ufa She was as born In ISiS 1616 In 1 1802 2 nhe hC lie WWI trus living at ot Haworth her father presided over o a n south small parish JUul II had iJ aa as his curate thu tev Hc Arthur Bell Nicholls rc Tor Fr r eight years yearn the cum curate te had b beau bean beann n 21 n yet ret silent witness H of the tho virtues vir vir- tues usa of ot Charlotte Sue She had hud not Iu suspected his hla attachment wham the avowal u was wa made It WJ vehement ami Passionate lonn te Charlotte promised cd a reply on the tho morrow morrow mor mor- row TO intending If It her hr father should give O hi his hb consent to lo m make lc n It favorable one Mr 1 Bronte however disapproved of marriages Inn Inc and andas as as particularly opposed d LQ tills one She therefore In obedIence obe to her P parents parent's gave ll a format formal refusal Mr ir resigned his curnc curacy and Charlotte suffering deeply from th patti pain which sho ho had thus been made mad to tu n fillet was glad to I temporarily uli u nt nt herself from front J Haworth la worth to visit London Lonion on un busU busl nc ness nue 9 Mr Ir Bronte seems scenic tl to tiara 0 I. I spent r nt nl a It por- por Ivnor on of or liis hi d during her hem absence c In upon ulion his tile own and In reconciling himself to his daughters daughter's ht mar mar- I In April 1864 Mr Ir Nicholls paid n L visit to the parsonage an and it was then thon I agreed ho should resume the curacy The i following June 27 the they were married i but she sho survived cd her marriage less loss than thana a a. year and on the tho morning of March Murch 31 1855 the bell of ot the old Haworth church rang forth her hor p knell Previous to her marriage with Mr M. Nicholls Charlotte had had haJ three offers of marriage but none of or them had seriously attracted her Two of or these thee were ere made in iii one ono year ear she site was 23 years of oC age ago On One of them came rame from the tho Rev Henry Nusse a brother of or Charlottes Charlotte's dear anI and lifelong friend Ellen lIen NUl e He was a avery cr very cn good hOod man and amid was at sincerely attracted to Charlotte but she seems seem not to have entertained for one moment the tho idea of marrying him and to his lila proposal she replied In this title matter of fact tact way Before answering your our letter I J might im hR f spent nt a lon long time In consideration of oC UK illS subject but as from the time first moment of lIr HH 1114 reception and pru perusal 1 1 I determined OTI 11 what course to pursue it seems to me mae that lust dela delay was wholly unnecessary I have ha no personal repugnance to the Idea 1 of ot a union with you but I feel feci convinced that mine is not the sort gort of or disposition calculated to form the happiness of a mon man like Ulie you ou youIt It ha has always been m my habit to study the characters of or those amon amongst st whom J I chance to be bo thrown and amid I J think I know yours OUIS and amid can cnn imagine what description of or a woman would suit you for or a n wife As A for you ou you ou do not miot know me I am amnot am amnot not nol the serious grave 1 cool head headed ell Individual hull Indi dual vidual you von suppose You would Mould think me romantic an and an f. f eccentric You would sa say sayI I was satirical and aud severe However I I seorim deceit and I will never for tho the sake AAke of ot attaining th the distinction of matrimony main matri mOIl mony motty ami anti escaping tho ho stings of an old maid ik Uko ko a n worthy worth man whom I am un conscious I J cannot lInot render happy It W v ns 8 only five fio months later that that that-sho she ho hind had H It second proposal from n a young young- Irish Inch clergyman fresh from tho the Dublin university tilt sity elty Shortly afterwards she aho wrote roto I Iam Iam Iam am certainly doomed to bo be 0 an old maid Never 1 mind I made mallo up my 01 mind to that fairs ala ever er since 1 was as 1 12 years old Not- Not sho hmo thought a great deal of or Jove Mud and marriage a and till all nIh subjects connected con- con wit wit t tilt tho woman heart hut she oho had hOll no rid further offers orrus until she he was 3 38 18 and th then l Rc Mr fr Nicholls i |