The Opelousas patriot. [volume] (Opelousas, Parish of St. Landry, La.) 1855-1863, 1858-04-10
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!" Ws. euI to-morrow night, and bring
the money with me, Alice. Take good q, D ii
the handkerchief. forit cost fifty dollars. Coed
bye, dear, and she fitted down the stairs and
entered her carriage wiihaa sensation of relief.
The next evening, as the tiny boudoir clock
chimed the hour OF nine, with silvery chime,
ISABEL Middleton and her cousin, Amy Brookes
stood in the formers sumptuously furnished
dressIng-yooHay ROBBED for Mrs. ST. Johns fancy
bali. The atmosphere Of the apartment was
soft, warm, and perfumed as that of summer,
and heavy damask curtains, sweeping down to
the velvet carpets below, excluded every breath
OF air. Without. it was bitterly, intensely
cold. Ten thousand stars glimnered freshly
from the deep, serene vault Of heaven. The
very breath OF hnrrying passengers turned TO
ice on their lips, and the air they inspired cut
like a sharp knife on their lungs. while the
policeman ran shivering past on his rounds
lest he should be frozen to death by the bitter,
gripping cold! !
Wait one moment, Amy. love- said Isabel;
g must run and tell papa good bye. Ill be
back by the time you have got your cloaks
and shawls on u -
And she ran down the broad marble stair
case to the spacious library, where by the lam
bent lustre of a single g~as-light shining through
a shade Of emerald glass, her father sat reading
the evening paper.
" Papa, Eve come to tell you goodbye and
show you my dress" she said laughing. She
had no mother. and was accustomed to come
thus to her father, ere she went to brilliant
assembiages or s%oirees, for his approving smile.
He rose as she approached, and looked al
her with its disscmbled d, light aid admiration.
She was very lovely, and her attire. gorgeous
in the extreme, might have attracted admiration
even from a hermit of old.
Her dress was pale blue tissue. oyer blre
satin, caught up in a hundred graceful folds BY
small golden stars and on the rosettes of each
Of her tiny blue KID slippers glittered a %constel-
latoh OF miniature stars. Everything about
her attire carried out this stellar fancy, save q
necklace OF diamonds, whose radiance e~ncircled
the throat, Her hair, glossy and purple black
like the inside OF a ravens wing fell in rich,
heavy cnrls, to her round, pearl white Shout.
ders while above her qneenly forehead among
me midnight waves of her bair flashed d mag.
n'ilcent diamond star, of size and
splendor, held in its place by a small black vel
vet band, which passed under her cnfls in such
a manner that the star seemed to hover lust
above her brow, blazing like u tiny sea of ra-
Glance every time its myriad ~fascents caught a
single ray Of light.
God bless thee and prosper thee, nv sweet
llttle Evening STAR said her faiher, clasping
hef TO his heart, and holding her little hand
londly in his own. ~
one returned the cares, smiling and blush,
ing, and then re-entered this room. where she
had left her cousin "S
Come, Amy, dear, I suppose John is sadIy,
tired OF waiting. Where is my mantle ~
And she caught up a rich bouonet Of hot
mouse flowers, and Abby adjusted round her
Inc soft folds of a black velvet cloak. lined
with the pnrest o ermiue.
Give me that bank5ill on 1.-THE table A hhy.
must lake that TO pay poor Alice Smith. 49,
rs II absolutely necessary for you to stop
lle,e Questioned poor Amy, " I'm afraid we
ma oe ae'ayed' Tor you know l must go to
, no,'psoh s. the florist, to get my wreath OIL
,a.uril snow-drops-he's been growing them
,s month"; and they only opened this after
Amy was to go as a Spring snow-drop, and
With green. e'neo
"lil tell you how we'll manage it, said Is.
.?I You may leave me at Alice's, and
'ni g. the handkerchief and pay her. while
'ou drive on to Thompson's and Won Shall call
or me on your return. You will not Iva Ionn
will you?' '' ione'
Nh no, I'll be back in a lwinkling.r
ih's matter satisfactorily arranged, The two
IRIS entered the Luxurious carriage. The coach.
1ha,a ,o,'e,led up his shjveriog horses, and the
ga coFtege rolled swiftly away.
.ns evening which had passed so speedilv
. ,he splendid apartments of Isabel Middleton
au moved with leaden fee, over the solitude Of
oor Ailce smith. She had not tasted food
nee me visit Of her young patrone,s. the day
anefe was not a spark Of fire in the
's'eu CRATE, aed the dim, Pickering LIGHT frnm {
small o%il-lamp only served To- render ,ba
ark'ess more awfalIy visible, as Alice hen,
osr us laint lustre, trying with bloodless and {
ehNmoed fingers to inish the deficnte c,n.
,@I f"iry en nl .4s's to her, 1t was nearly done.
ay~ s snd Yar.aNa o. passion flowers. twining '
ray or two, and she was now w.otinm ~ "