White Sulphur papers; or, Life at the springs of Western Virginia

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110 WHITE SULPHUR PAPERS.
The most minute incidents of our life, often lead to
the most important results in our after dealings, and
those whose lives are most crowded with strongly
marked events, can generally trace their origin to
some trifling circumstance, hardly chronicled in the
memory on the occurrence, and that would quickly
fade from the mind if they were not really the starting
links in the great chain of human events.
How often has a kind look given the first impulse
to the quick throb of love so ever ready to vibrate
in the human heart. How often has a leaf been the
mute though eloquent messenger of communicating
tender thoughts from heart to heart, and finally
united in destiny, the giver and receiver. How often
too alas ! has the slightest incidents separated
for ever, those who but for its occurrence, would
have united in one, like two summer clouds ; or
moved in unison like the meeting of two mountain
streams.
— August 25th.
The gentlemen have all gone to a great dinner
given to the President, at the Greenbriar bridgeto-day
and the ladies are left entirely to themselves. I
sent some English newspapers to Mrs.
this
morning, which we had received from New York,
^he is very fond of such reading, and though 7io one
line escapes her vigilance, her memory is so short.