Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1852-11-27


five years old.
"At Vienna, was installed in the hos
pitable house of the Countess. The SER
wants pressed around me my friends of
the French embassy visited me every
morning the voices of singers and the
sound OF instruments inundated me every
evening with floods Of Italian music
Rose appeared TO me, poor blind man,
more young and more pretty than ever
Nothing was wanting TO my happiness
but one ray of sun; less than that, one bit
of light.
'"One day, after dinner, the Countess
conducted me mysteriously into my cham
Der, and was placed in an immense chair,
which served me as couch for repose.-
In short time, two persons, one of whom
walked like Rose, and the other more
slowly, like an old man, approached my
chair without speaking a word They
were commissioning my misfortune and
this silent pity troubled me.
"lVho is there % asked /, with voice
trembling with emotion mingled with
anger.
81 felt upon my brow hand with
which l was marvellously well acquain-
ted and, added, smiling, to the Coun-
tess
"No, my friend come TO see you
with the most celebrated physician of
Germany. He is before you he is look
ing at yon he thinks he can and he will
cure you"
''Rose, it is not your hand which is now
touching my forehead"
sDo not talk, Frederick and keep
perfectly still under the hands OF the doc
tor.n
"The physician lifted my eyelids and
almost at the same moments, two dreadful
punctures, two wounds from a dagger,
sharpened to needles Point, extorted from
me cry of anguish. "A handkerchief for
a bandage was thrown over my eyes,
The handkerchief belonged to Rose, per-
haps and there was nothing more to be
said till the next day.
"The mex. day, at evening, the Countess
lighted single watching lamp in my
room. She came to place herself before
me, the doctor was not far off, undoubted-
". There were many others about me ;
and yet heard nothing in this crowd so
attentive, so uneasy, and the silence Of
which had something alarming. Finally,
the bandage fell from my eyes, and you
can family imagine my joy, my happiness
my delirium. The blind man was born
again 10 liie and light. saw men and
women, young girls, the servants of the
house, who smiled at the miracle of such a
should know the Countess, without ever
, having seen her. And | said TO myself
looking in turn at the ladies who had the
r goodness 10 smile upon me. sWhere is
Rose? where does she hide herself? Oh
God, restore to me the eternity of night
, that / may see Rose one moment that
may contemplate, that may admire, thai
$ | may recall her beauty"
"A voice whose sound made me tremblt
s deigned to reply 10 my thoughts.
FREDERICK said the Countess to me
r "alter God who has protected you, here il
i your saviour thank God in the first place
d and then thank DR.. Muhldorf."
d "Why should thank the doctor ! Ht
e had cured me, but the countess alone ha:
i saved me. My first look belonged TO Ros
! and had fastened 10 give it 10 her as if Il
n say, 80 my deliverer my grateful eyes,
# s.Oh, my friend what a surprise, wha
e shame, what grief This Rose, SO pretty
Rose, wel.-beloved, was woman alreac,
r faded and wrnkled by age. ] confess
a to you, l almost tainted as knelt at he
r. feet resumed my precious bandag
y soon | became blind again by the order
of the doctor and found again in m.
Al heart, with the image Of the lovely per
T. son had imagined, the illusions of m.
v dream.
Is sEvery evening, at the same hour, the
accustomed me, in restoring TO me m
sight, to bear the light OF the watching
as lamp. A lamp afterward took the plac
n of this dim light, and | waited patienll
the time when this lamp too should be Re
re placed by the sun.
7 GA strange thing, singular vision, whic
or could only be an accident OF love and lgh
III Every evening, in lookidg closely at her,
~ thought discovered in the age Of my prC
o. tectress grace which was moi too old,
70 smilewhich had certain charm, glance
10 which did not lack coquetry, mysteries
V treasury, that love had forgotten 10 resan
n. in flying away with her youth. Oh ev
~ ry day brought more brilliant than that
aL the previous one aud, at the same tim
oi by a miracle which alarmed my reaso
,et the days, the minutes, seemed for my pie
Va. sure TO make the noble face of the Cou
we tess grow younger. A secret voice mu
m INJURED in the bottom of my hearty
one magic stroke, one touch on this ne
,d- picture, on this face which is undergoing
! metamorphosis, and the wonder will
complete. The Countess OF fifty W
disappear, and the Rose oi hardly twent
five will re-appear to remain forever.
"One fine morning the sun iluminat
, the spectacle with rare and charmi
prodigy. This day, for the first time
vs. had received from my doctor the delicio
lhe privilege OF contemplating the sPlend'
of Of the celestial light. | had Just return
BILE 10 the saloon OF the Countess after 10
a and magnificent walk. approached Rt
The who was alone, and perhaps .expeeti
ned me. | trembled as seated myself M
use hear; / cast down my eyes down for 4
and of seeing her, or rather feared and wish
ery at the same time to look at her.
tie. Frederick asked the Countess, 'do
ver remember pleasant scene which pas
vad hs,wesn lis in nv travelling TO Berlin