Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1859-03-04
A DREADFUL SITUATION.

te be married, and with a dear, kind father
lequally anxious for her to enter the glori-
GUS state of matrimony, which would
crown her with a halo of felicity--and not
o lover to be met with ~ ..,, F.s..g.
Thus soliloquised young girl Of if-
teen, as she sat looking over the wide
domains of her fathers chateau, apart
from the world of Paris, and oh most
strange to add, in part of the country
as yet virgin of any thing. like a railroad
All this sort of reverie is delicious-a all
those dreams of the halo of felicity crown :
ing marriage are beautiful at fifteen, but
few years later, and how very like a
crown of thorns the halo looks. 7t
Jenny d d'Herbecourt was very much to
be pitied, There was no mex orable father
no cruel guardians nothing was wanting
to complete her felicity but mere trife
the man, and the man strely puzzled
the young lady's brains. Where was he
to be found in that isolated spot, only
visited by a numbering diligence. ta1
The good father was going to be mar
ried again to cousin of her own, one
Aglae-a nice, good creature--and she
too was anxious for Jenny to marry
Was ever anything so provoking as all
these consents, without the assent of some
dear unknown? Aglae was staying at the
chateau, and hard indeed must be the
heart which. would not feel for Jenny,
when shesbeheld the charming 'trousseau
of her future step p.mother arrive. '''F
"Some one shall appear sighed Jenny
after conversation with her cousin
Aglae, the sort Of one to inhame q girls
head, if not her heart-all about laces
cashmers, orange flowers, &C. Most un-
fortunately there was not young man in
the neighbprhood ".frec and able," (Jen-
ny reserved to herself to make him owil-
ling } until-oh |! blessings on minds
given to speculate "a company sent down
young engineer to survey the land, with
the view of commencing ia railway
Gustave Delyat 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, he
insisted upon his leaving his hotel, and
taking up his lodgings at the chateau.
A month had he been domiciled there,
and assurdely if he was first class en-
geneer he was a third class gallant. He
didn't seem to know that there was a
young girl within miles of hm-his heart
was as hard as the rails he was about to
lay down, and all this coldness made the
iron enter into Jenny's soul All day
long he was making his calculations, while
she was specializing about him. E
One day she pretended to faint
Gustave few to the rescue; he was forced
to look into her face, and discovered that
she was charming, fresh and bright as the
land before his horrid railroad cut it up.
Still he went on with his parchment
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off all his instruments, &C., and locked
them up. In vain he implored. '.''
a."You are looking very il" ;" she said,
"aud I shall insist upon your only work
ing so many hours day .r..-
Again he looked in the face of one so
anxious about him, and yielded. She
kept the key of his Office.
This left him several hours day un-
disposed Of What could he do with
them? Jenny solved the difficulty and
together they surveyed the surrounding
country and its beautiful walks, as yet not
cut up. D.
One day the engineer forgot all the
plans he had laid down on his own road
of action-7not to fall in love with Jenny
not to be led into a'path which he imagin-
ed would be perhaps harder to cut through
than rock If it were but that Hall
our lines run through the like, but he felt
that her father would be harder than any
granite, and Jenny did not like in maiden
modesty, to tell him that she knew better
SO off to her step-mother she sped. aaa.
"Gustaye loves met she. cried, "but
would you believe of Partisan :? he is
timid ~ ...g ,.. ...
Something must be done to overcome
that. So agreed her step mother, but q
girl like herself fra,a .nirsg .III5 s. 10 p,
II have though of something, Aglae'
said Jenny at last "stay in the mex
room and call papa theme on some excuse,
Gustayo is certain 10 follow me thither
leave the rest to me- -uas s ..I ... a
"But twill be snare" exclaimed tn,
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