The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-01-05

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Madame Blainval had never thought of
looking SO high before!
| All at once one of the fifth story win
dows opened, and a youngman looked out.
Madame hid herself amid the curtains,
but the young man did not look towards
her. For. after leaning his elbows on the
sill, he gazed up at the deep blue heav-
ems.
"All dissimmulation," thought the
widow, s'in few minutes he will look in
another direction l trowP'
But the young man kept gazing on the
heavens, and a quarter of an hour passed
thus. Madame Blainval would have re-
garded this absence of mind less singular
had she known that the gentleman was
seeking for rhyme, for he was poet.
Yes, poet, and nothing more; poor
poet, named Adalbert unknown to every
one. Madame Blainval had abundant
time to study his face, which was wonder
fully handsome, and full Of expression
and intelligence. And then-either be-
cause he had caught his rhyme, or else
despaired of finding it in the armament
above, he retired without casting single
glance at the lower window where a pair
of beautiful eyes were studying him, as
| if he had been Saint Sebastian or an
Apollo.
Strange, very strange" thought Mad
anne Blainval, slightly forgetting her an
ger.
She waited another quarter of an hour.
The spirit of inspiration was working!
"And yet," she reflected, ''it must
have been he. have no other neighbor
capable of such-terrible conduct
On examining the window and the po-
sition of the stone, madame scientifically
concluded that it must have come from
an upper story opposite. She was in the
eleventh month of her widowhood. 1t
was a propituous time for somebody.
In the midst of all her grief and affiiction
one small corner was still left open for con-
ISOLATION. Happy the first conner, if he
only knew how to avail himself of his ad-
vantages
Chance, which had done everything
in this business, brought Adalbert out oi
his window at the right instant. Every
thing served him as passport, from the
impudence of the letter to his neglect Of
herself-which latter failing inspired the
feeling of some mystery which the widow
determined should be solved.
A common adorer, who came by the
beaten track, would speedily have received
the mitten. He might have proved him
self paragon of unparalleled perfection
as regarded amiability and the delicate
attentions. But a gentleman who declar.
ed love by throwing large stones and
smashing windows and breaking porce
lain-such lover required some refec
ton.
And then there was another contradic
ton which added piquancy to the adyen
ture. This was the extreme contras
which she found between the gentle ex
preston of the young man and the dash
ing tone of his letter. Nor could she re
concile its impudence with his quiet con
duct He had not ventured even fur
tive glance at her window, after sendin.
almost at her head a billet-doux through
the window.
Adalbert was not altogether dwelle
in the clouds. He knew that inspiration
could be often found on earth below, an,
, this thought occurred with greatest fore
whenever he beheld his beautiful ne igh
bor "There," thought he, sis just tn
muse whom I would fain invoke! Blu
would she listen to me-poor unknown
rhymer that I am! There is such dis
tance between us!' And, saddened b
these reflections, he ascended once NOR
to the clouds.
Now, if he had only known how muc
nearer he was to his neighbor than he im
agined!
Madame Blainval had her piano draw
near the window. Spring had come, an
: the window remained open. The youn
widow there passed long hours, and
sometimes out of patience, closed tn
curtains, and did not rcappear for one c
two days. Adalbert knew nothing of a
these arrangements-of these pouting
= or of these encouragements.
, Every time that Madame de Blainv;
entered her parlor, she looked for anotl
er broken cup; but Julie took such cal
\ that the accident never occurred again.
! About this time Madame was obliged
u quit Paris for Baden. The physician r'
: commended a change of air for. her healt
u and for her grief. The springs of Bade
work wonders with young and prett
widows. She departed.
u The day on which she left, Adalber
who was very little grieved at her leavin!
u received visit from strange gentleman