Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-06-20

? give you rest, and at the same time furnish
/ you enough to occupy your mind, I have
Il requested Walter to crafty the desire that
!. you have long expressed. to visit Europe.
q Your fortune is more than sufficient. I
: know, to supply every want. but leave to
you all that Edith received from her father.
The interest have devoted to benevolent
purposes. the principal remains antoucbed.
have studied your wishes, and have made
every effortth human wisdom and fore.
sight could suggest to promote your com
fOrt' as well as pleasure, in the future"
sweetly after this they communed for a
brief hour. Dr. Murray told Edith how.
In great measure, she had filed the void
made in his heart by the death of his wife
how thankful he was she had been per.
mltted to ministerto him in his last hours.
how blessed be felt that her hand was
now smoothing his dying pillow: Edith
talked to him of the sweet lessons that she
had learned from him, offaith, hope and
patience, which no one else could have
taught her.
She had not ceased speaking when the
Angel of Death silently closed the ewes
and hushed the lips of the hearer.
As soon as all needful preparations
could be made, after the death of DR.. Muir
ray, Walter, with his wife, only daughter
and Edith, sailed for Europe. As Walter
wished to transact some business in Paris
they went Immediately to that city. One
bright, sunny morning in early June, few
days after arrival, Walter, upon returning
from business engagement, told Edith
that, knowing her love for domestic com.
fort, and her preference for rural life, and
fearing that she might weary Of Paris dur
ing the heat of the summer, had acceded TO
his friend Arnaud's proposition to occupy
his country residence while he and his
family were absent in Germany, and that
if she and Kate approved of the arrange.
ment to be ready to take possession the
next day.
"By the way Edith here is book that
has been sent to you, it is 'Evarnale, par
NJ. Villeneau.'"
al wonder if it is interesting o.
"Don't know, as l have not read it.
suppose it is, as everybody is reading it,
NJ. Gautier told me that every copy Of the
first edition was sold as soon as published.
Villeneau furnishes one Of the strongest
evidences of the boundlessness Of human
ambition. Not satisfied with the reputa.
ton that he has attained as one Of the
clesrest, best, scientific writer's of the day,
be must, in the prime oflife, when be gives
promise of his ability to accomplish so
much in that field of labor, abandon it, to
wander in the untried, but fowery paths
Of light literature. He is a man Of great
genius, or he could not have succeeded so
we'll in both. have been told that the
plot of the story is very simple. aud that
the merit Of the novel consists 10 The ins
portrayal ofthe lovely character Of the her
oine, Bvarnole. She is splendid define
alton Of feminine loveliness."
Edith took the book, aud read the dedi.
cation. Dedicated to that woman, who
having known, and admired in my early
manhood. has since been my inspiration to
every success, aud the excellences Of whose
character, Ihave attempted. but have feebly
pOrtrayedin Evarnole."
"As the author has never been married."
said Edith, 81 wonder who it is, that has
exerted such q wonderful influence over
his life."
IL suppose he did not wish the world to
kuow, or be would have given the name,"
remarked Kate. Edith il we should see
him, how would you meet himf
with the same feelings with which
should regard any other distinguished
stranger"