Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1879 — A Woman’s Constancy. [ARTICLE]

A Woman’s Constancy.

A young physician in California was engaged to be married to a young lady in a Southern State, and as a keepsake sent her a small nugget of gold. He was prosperous, and the wedding was set for an early date, but a sudden fall in his circumstances reduced him to poverty. Too honorable to hold the young lady to her promise in his altered circumstances, he reluctantly and with many a heart-pang wrote releasing her from her engagement. But the young lady had a brave heart, and resolved on keeping her promise, in spite of the change in her lover’s position. She took the little nugget of gold and had it made into a ring, which she sent to the young physician. On the ring was the inscription: “Entreat me not to leave thee; for whither thou goest, I will go; and whither thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.” (Ruth ii., 16.)