Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-08-12
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IS What a. asesdful situation for .
young girlto hid herself IL! Perfect
IN wiling To- Be married, and With a
dssr, kind father equally anxious for
her to enter the glorious state Of mat
s5nony, which would crown her with 5
halo of felicity, and.Aot lover to be
MT With ~
Thus soliloquized . young girl of six
teen as she sat 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 anything like railroad. All
this sort Of revelie is dellcious-all
those dreams of halo Of the felicity
browning marriage are beautiful at tif-
teen, but few years later, and how
very like q crown Of thorns the halo Of
glory looks!
Jenny d'Herbecourt was much to be
piued. There was no inexorable faith
or, no cruel guardian, nothing was
wanting to complete her felicity but a
mere tride-the man, and the man sore
y puzzled the young lady's brains.
Where was he to be found in that iso-
lated spot, only visited by q lumber
ing diligence +?
."Some one shall appear, /" sighed
Jenny, after conversation with her
cousin Aglae, the sort of one to inaame
agirl's head, If not her heart-all about
laces and cashmeres, or ange flowers,
Ac-, &c. Most unfortunately there
was not young man in the neighbor-
hood (" free and able, )" Jenny reserved
for herself to make him.swilling'') un-
th-oh !! blessings on minds given to
speculate "a company sent down a
young engineer to survey the land, and
discoverins; who he was, he insisted upon
his leaving his hotel and taking up his
abode at the chateau. e
A month had he been domieiled there;
'assuredly if he was first class engin-
eer he was third class gallant. He
didn't seem tosknow there was young
girl within miles Of him, his heart was
as hard as the rails he was about to
have laid down. and all this GOODNESS
made the iron enter into Jenny's soul.
An the day long he was making calcu-
tations, while she speculated about him.
One day she pretended to faint.
Gustave few to the rescue he was for
ced to look in her face, and discovered
that she was charming fresh, bright as
the land before his horrible railroad cut
st up. }est
Still he went on with parchments.
$50 Jenny went into his Office and car
'rie off his instruments, &C., and lock-
sed them up.
An vain he implored. e
-. SO You are looking very ill., she said,
As1d I shall insist on you working
ely SO many hours q day.'' .e
/ IA gain he looked in the face Of one
soss, xious about him.. and yielded.
Ska kept the key Of his office.
=
Ut MS left him several hours a day UNI
iEGH osed Of. What could he do with
thea =? Jenny solved the difficulty and
1Ggs ther they surveyed the surrounding
con- TRY and its walks, as yet not cut up.
q )ne day the engineer forgot all the
piA rs he had laid down on his own
rts d of action--not to fall inloHe with
Ce my, not to be led into path which
&c !, imagined would be perhaps harder
g cut through than a rock If it was
''Out that! Half our lines ran through
the like, but he, felt that her father
would be harder than any granise, and
Jenny did not like in maiden modesty
to tell him that she knew better. So
of to her step-mother she Sped.
. ."Gustave, loves me-" she. cried.
ssBut would you believe it Of j Pari-
sian? He is timid !'' .
= !, Something must BE done to over
come that. So agreed her stepmother.
: = II have thought of something,
Agle," said Jenny at last. Stay in
the next room, call papa there onsome
excuse. Gustave is certain to follow
me hither; leave the rest to me-"
s. .sBut will it be snare?'' exclaimed
the other. 90 8 -
with which he will gladly be
taken, believe me-" answered the wide
awake young lady. ".And if tits for
his happiness 20
q, s.True, / overlooked that"
So Jenny remained alone, and as
soon as she had foreseen the wonder
ing engineer without the aid of his
compass, discovered the clod Of earth
called dsHerbecourt!!
al want the key Of my office, Mad
amoiselle," he said /; II must work. -
I'll want you to oblige me first,
Monsieur Gustave.'' -. - - =
''Willingly, Madamoiselle. y !.
s'You see" continued Jenny, ssi am
to play q part next week in a charade.
Will you rehearse it with me ~ rs
2 81 do not know it, but command me-
I will do my best.'' 4. '.' ~ rs sss
"a young man is to make me a
declaration Of love. You must play
that part.' - ser = ta1sa. q
'Too willingly would I; but how is
the charade 2" z,assa5-s .7.s5,a ID
$50 down on your knees!" The
does it. ] ''Now grasp my hand"
lFondly pressed. Excellent. Now
attempt to kiss it, but must draw it
away" Accomplished to the letter. !
20; chqrmgg!'' cried the young 9
lady, ehpping Fer hands, and at that
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