, 1859-10-28
A Dreadful Situation.

- SA0aNAAeA 94S0obA0ns
"What dreadful situation for young girl
to find herself in Perfectly willing to be married.
and with dear, kind father equally asanxious for
her to enter the glorious state Of matrimony which
would crown her with halo Of felicity-and not
lover to bemet withP'
Thus soliloquised young girl Of fifteen, as she
sat looking over the wided0mains from her fathers
chateau, apart from the world Of Paris, and oh /
most strange to add, In part Of the country as
yet virgin Of anything like railroad. All this
sort Of reyerie Is deliciOus-a those dreams Of the
halo Of felicity Of cr0wnhg marriage are beautiful
ct fifteen, but few years later and how very like
o crown Of thoFns the halo looks.
Jenny dHerbecOurt was very much to be pitied
There was no inexoFable father no cruel guardian,
nothing was wanting to complete her felicity but
q mere triiie-the man, and the man sorely puzzled
the young lady's brains Where was he TO be
found in that Isolated spot, only visited by lum-
bering diligence?
The good father was going TO be married again
to cousin Of her own, Aglae-a nice, good crea-
ture-and she too was anxious for Jenny to mar
~. Was ever anything 50 provoking as oil these
consents without the assent Of some dear unkn0wni
Aglae was staying at the chateau, and hard in
deed must be the heart which would not feel for
Jenny, when she beheld the charming tFousseau Of
"Some one shall appear" sighed Jenny after 0
conversation with her cousin Aglae the sort Of
one to inhame girls head, II not her heart-all
about laces and cashmeres, orange flowers, &c.
Most unfortunately there was not q young man in
the neighborhood free and able" (Jenny reserved
to herself to make him Willingly until-oh
blessings on minds given to speculate company
sent down young engineer to survey the land,
with the view Of commencing railway. Gus
tave Delvat was the son Of an old friend Of her
father, who had met the young engineer In the
country surveying the land, and discovering who
he was, insisted upon his leaving his hotel, and
taking up his lodgings at the chateau.
A month had he been domiciled there, and as-
suredly II he was frstclass engineer he was o
third-class gallant. He didn't seem TO know that
there was young girl within miles Of hiH-his
heart was as hard as the rails he was about to ay
down, and all this coldness made the iron enter
into Jenny's sOuli All day long he was making
his calculations, while she was speculating about
him. One day she pretended to faint GustaVe
few to the rescue be was forced to look into her
face, and discovered that she was charming, fresh
and bright as the land before his hOrrid railroad
cut IL up.
Still be went on with his parchment. SoJnny
went into his Office and carried Of all his instru-
ments, &c, and locked them up. In vain he i'm
plOred.
You are looking very ill," Ghe said, q and
shall insist on your only working 90 many hours
Again he looked in the iAce Of one 90 anxious
about him, and yielded. She kept the key Of his
Office.
This LEFT him several hours day undispOscd Of
What could he do with themI Jenny solved the
difficulty, and together they surveyed thesurround-
ing country and is beautiful walks. asyet not cut
One day the engineer forgot an the plans he had
laid down on his own road for action-nOt to fall
in love with Jenny, not to be led into apath which
heimagined would beperhaps harder 70 cut through
than q rock. II Il were but that Half our lines
run through the like, but be felt that her heart
would be harder than any granite, and Jenny did
not like, in maiden modesty, to tell him she knew
better. So OF to her stepmother she sped.
"Gustave loves me r she cried, but tw0uld you
believe II Of Parisiani he b timidl"
Something must be done to overcome that
So agreed her stepmother, but girl like herself
II have thought Of something, Aglae," said
Jenny at last. Stay in the next room, and call
papa there on some excuse. Gustave Is certain to
follow me hither leave the rest TO me"
But twill be q snare" exclaimed the other.
"One with which he will gladly be taken, be-
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% Jennv rpmnined alone and soon. as she had
GOreSeen' ne wandering engineer without The aid
al hia comnass discoverF the ciod az earth called
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AZ want M lev of INV ofI,ce. Mademo;aelle. y
be sa;5 :. 4 mnst xork (" 0
II want Won N oblice me first Monsieur Gus
taven
"Wil;nC,v MadcmoiseIlep
avon 80 continued JENNY. am to play
mart next weel, N 4 charade. win YOU rehesrse
4 with me~
al don't know n but command me, viii do
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