The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1857-08-20
g CBarmiOO STORY.
SAINT sYLvEsTER's DAY.
ny EMILE sOUvEsrRF.

BY EMILE sOUvEsrRF.
AT the foot of the mountains which
| separate Bairiero from the State Of Wei
mar is a small town named Hof which
overlooks the valley watered bv the
Maine. Situated from the frequented
routes, the humble city has preserved
ITS ancient customs, and we NAV still
find there that severe simplicity which
| is in part edaced from the rest of Ger
many.
A few years ago a stranger named
Lotten lived there. Ii was said that he
was born in Bohemia, and he had for
merly served in the Austrian armies
with the rank of Major. But after the
peace Of 1915, he came to HoF with a
child, called Dorothea, who, in few
years, became a beautiful young girl
Major LOffen was a man well-inform-
ed, courageous, and capable of any
devotion Unfortunately, the violence
Of his temper had troubled him all
his life, and prevented his advance
ment in the army. The slightest
contradiction threw him into fits of
passion which he afterwards regretted.
but which shame and pride prevented
him from acknowledging. He had lost
successively his best friends and his sur
est protectors.
Nevertheless, that which neither coun-
sells nor rcproaches had been able to ef-
feet, time at last accomplished. That
kind of internal ferment which burst
forth in sudden anger, notwithstanding
all the resolutions Of the Major, was
gradually allayed; the blood circulated
in his veins more slowly, experience
rendered his mind less prompt to con-
denim others, and he could hear without
impaticnce an opinion different from
his own. Subdued by the childish
graces Of Dorothea, the lion became a
man, and he who had resisted, thirty
years, both friends and enemies, be-
came inscnsibly the submissive slave
OF young girl Lofen was no long
er the same man, but an entirely new
one. If trihing irritation recalled the
past from time to time, it was like a
storm that had passed over, of which
was heard in the distance only stifed
muTmuvs.
A greaS change was about to take
place in the position of the Major; his
daughter was going to be married.
She was betrothed to a young man
1narr ,,rr1", .;,oa AZ "thsDor, t WIom ~ sno mad
Tbo ro,,no @,,,oo r.S, ~, "IllYal az non,
ron cement. yTs rtb %I" W.; %a' e4 naNlnE % Ene ar
law for he onnronaI or,u ms lu'uIe Io'"er-ln-
''", sTbms h., it' 81 at.iSj aPPloIoI'ng n union
the accounts which NJ TnFo5n Ivy %"5
presented him and uDon which Lo baJ
not even cast his ewes. uro tolo tbo
house on the border IF tbo wotor -
,Tf IL ploases Dorotboa % roTi;oI A.,
Major. P'''0 '
1--WE shall bo moro ~ o,so tloro tbou
here" ~ '''''' ''-' "
Loffen SIGHED.
uDoes this removal distrrL vo,op o,r-
ed William. warmly. u,L ifitis 90 Iot
us remain '
ono. NV SON ~ rorI;o5 tLo oIJ al
dier pIaci1g bis bonJ -ron I,.4 %
the vounp man. ct 10 ,ot - '' .I,;-
change"
,sWbat do Won roorof tbono bou,
seen for soma a. t6at uo"' o,I = Ia, Law
Ali do NOT conceal oDUtb;na VII Nc 9"U NV.
fotberr Uavo Jono or..t;5' i,,"5' ~ ii
which Won arc disnIoasod2"J '''"e "''"
uNo ~ H.. aL:IJ, l., 49,.
riooo ~, ~, ~ uo!L .5II oHllu, DuI Ihls mar
braDoo b1v, you M NJ Ieg"lis >? many Eomem,
a!TTLo4 "TVIa ja2Il Non L am jealous OF you
~. w "uy uo you say' exclaimed inc
y'u~s man,
0e9Ious' = replied the Major, smil-
ing TOT you are going to become the
principal OBJECT Of Dorotheas affection.
J,L. Oi, uo 10 not @ GoIend yourself from 1t! itI
mus. !luS' D6' ana ana L am lar from complain
ing Dut naplt has rendered me selfish,
you see: OIui now l had been the
SUE sue opIecv OF my daughter cares; she
now ,oU 10y bo. t Hio 70 love ana a. 70 Please
To bo shared. oa, auu nIa Ia, "uoGS,UnS La I Sao
oIv.vs go ~ ~, Ia" ny iIuEol n"yG I: uy'
t,Jo frinbtaD 0Lao' Ile ,, anu INC NUTS u SUI
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oT Jov che ~ ~ iilaI' 'Ie O.u,
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tLo"}, % Io',;ros- ~ n0o "'ST ~ W uIouI'o DyIo,
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