East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1864-12-21

Ernest took up skein of worsted
that hung near hlm and began play
ing with it. Mmo. de Villele pushed
her embroidery frame from her, and
rising, walked across the room toward
Nine. do Velentin, who had Just come
in. She was perfectly calm, and her
face showed no trace of emotion, but
it took Ernest some minutes to recover
his self-possession, some minutes ore
he could trust himself to join in tho
casual conversation of the day.
Nine. dc Velentin, Interested as all
women are when marriage is concern
cd, began eagerly to question him con-
oerning his projected alliance and,
utterly unsuspicious of the wounds
she was inficting, she chattered on,
making him reiuttv to her all the de-
tails of his first acquaintance with
Mile. Fremont, as well as all the ad-
vantage Of puuh uiifuuvv. f7rnu5s
rose to 60. Mime. dc Velentin was
called away, then Ernest turned to
Nine. dc Villele.
Helene" said he, "this marriage
shall be broken off; no marriage in
the world is worth the deep look of
sorrow ON your brow. Yes, Helene
-"
Nine. de Villele looked up with one
bright deep look of love, and a feel
ing OF ineffable happiness diffused it.
self through her being. 1t was but
momentous.
CT can win him from her, but that
he will hate me ever after. He will
regret her he will feel he is enslaved
No! no! to keep his love / must sac
ri6ce it for time"
Ernest" said she, ct love you for
your own sake let me be your friend,
let me be her friend do not cast mo
among those light conquests that men
discard when they marry"
My noble Helene"
"And then, Ernest, may you be
happy"
About month after this conversa-
ton, one morning the door of Nine.
do Velentin's drawing room was thrown
open, and the servant announced Mon
sieur and Mme. de Barillon.
Nine. de Villele bit her lip till the
blood came; then, with a smile, ad-
vanced to greet Ernest and his bride.
The fascination she had exercised
over the husband seemed transferred
to the wife, for from the first moment
Juliette appeared to love her. The
young wife was totally unsuspicious,
but really looked on Helene as her
husbands friond, to her just nearing
her eighteenth year. Helene seemed
far too old ever to inspire anything
but friendship to n man of Ernest's
age. She was without relations or
friends, and from the first moment
she clung to Helene, feeling that Paris
would no longer be 20 her u solitude.
So they fell into the greatest habits
of intimacy. Juliette was totally in
experienced, tho spoiled child of
large family, and not little vain.--
Her position was new to her; she was
guilty of many silly, childish things,
that on the very onset of their mar
riage shocked Ernest's taste, accus-
toned to tho tact tand refnemento of Hell
ene's faultless manner. He strove to
complain to Helene, but Nine. de Vii
lele stopped him at the first word. /
am your wife's friend as well as yours,
and 1 am nothing more than friend.
/ hear nothing of your dissensions.-
You must learn to be happy without
me-"
But that was indeed difficult. JUL
cite knew nothing of Ernest's charac-
ter and disposition; she had no desire
to study thom, for she thought she de-
served, young and beautiful as she
was, his especial idolatry. She con-
sidered her will should be his, her
tastos be his. Helena had made Ern-
est's disposition the study of her life.
To him sho had sacrificed her own
opinions, her own tastes, everything.
Ernest felt this difference bitterly, and
often would begin to speak to Helene
Of past times, but, at the first word
that was not within the bounds of the
strictest friendship, Helene would stop
him.
Irritated by this, Ernest's magma
ton become once again, as in the ear
liest day of their love, filled with Hell
enc irritated by obstacles, his passion
for her revived in oil its strength, and
he grew to look on pretty, vain, silly
Juliette with contempt.
Meantime Juliette had many quar-
rsls with Ernest, and all her COM
plants she brought to Helene. To
the young wife Helene listened and
gave all her sympathy. She did not
accuse Ernest personally to his wife,
but she explained to the young wife
all the ingratitude and cruelty of men,
and told her in pathetic words the his
tory of her own marriage.
Juliette, under her influence, was
fully persuaded she was victim, and
began to pity herself most deeply
Thoroughly wanting in experience and
tact, Juliette allowed the world to un-
derstand that her marriage was not q
happy one.
The woman who allows that she is
unhappy with her husband throws
down tho gauntlet to her admirers
Juliette found it So; consolation was
not wanting. But Nine. de Viliele
told her it would be too hard if wo-
man was not allowed to feel friend
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