The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1864-06-17


ways little moody, rs if some trouble
was preying ON his mind; and was
always very kind TO Lucie. and kinder
still, l Thought, to me At length, one
day, his father, a stately old gentleman.
came down and asked to see NV father.
and he staid with him half an hour.
and the thing was so new that the
whole village said there would be
marriage And wandered away alone
with little Jacques. and sat down under
an old treeI shall try hard to find
the place-and twisted garland for
little jacques, and then tore it in pieces:
and twisted another and tore that in
pieces, and then cried, so that jacques
said he believed / was crazy. But /
kissed him and said, no jacques, sister
is not crazy!
When / went home, ] found Lucie
sad, and papa sober and thoughtful
but he kissed me very tenderly, and
told me, as he often did. how dearly
he loved me. The next day Jean did
not come, nor the next, nor the next
after. / could not bear it any longer,
SO | asked papa what Jeans father had
said to him, and why Jean did not
come He kissed me, and said that
Jean wanted to take his child away
from him. And | asked hip though
| remember l had hardly breath to do
it-what he had told him?
i told him, said papa, that if Lucie
would marry Jean, and Jean would
marry Lucie, they might marry, and L
would give them a fathers blessing
j burst into tears, and my father
took me in his arms; perhaps he
thought | was sorry to lose my sister;
| don know. When | had strength
to go to our chamber, L threw myself
into Lucies arms and cried as if my
heart would break.
She asked me what 1T meant l
said, i love you, Luciel And she said,
j love you, Lisette 7
But soon found that Jean had sent
no age-that he had not come
that all told Lucie of what my father
had said, was new to her; and she
cried afresh; and we dared say nothing
10 her of Jean | fancied how it was
for Jeans father was proud gentle
man, and would never make a second
request of such bourgeois as we. Soon
we heard that he had gone away, and
that he had taken Jean along with him.
| lOnged to follow--to write him even
but, poor Lucie II was not certain
7 but he might come back to claim her.
Often and often / wandered up by his
fathers old country house, and asked
the stewards wife how he was looking
when he went away. oh, said she
I Fe pduUye jeune homnle; he was so sad
to leave his homel And thought tC
myself bitterly, did this make all his
sadness?
"A whole year passed by, and W,
heard nothing of him. A regiment
had come into the reimbursement, anc
a young officer came occasionally t
see us. Now, Monsieur, I,am ashamed
TO tell you what followed. Lucie haC
not forgotten Jean and God knows
had not forgotten him. But pap;
said the officer would make a gooC
husband for me, and he told me "a
much himself | did not disbeliev,
him: but | did not love him as | haG
loved Jean, and | doubted if Jeal
would come back, and l knew not bu
he would come back to marry Lucie
, though | felt sure that he loved M
better than Lucio So, Monsieur,
happened that ] married the youni
officer, and became a soldiers wife, an,
, in month went away from my oil
home
But that was not the worst Mon
i sieur: before | went, there came LET
| ter from Paris for me, III Jeans ow,
: writing.
Madame turned her head agar
Even the postillion had suffered hi
2 horses to get into dog-trot Jog, tina
9 he now made up for by terrible thwael
/ ing, and a pestilent shower of oathi
1 partly. perhaps, to deaden his feelings
4 eIhe letter. said Madame, going OF
e told me how he had loved me, ho
I his father had told him what my fatht
had said; and how he had forbidde
{ him, in his pride, to make any secon
proposal; and how he had gone ava
I to forget his griefs, but could not; an
e he spoke of time, when he woul
: come back and claim me, even thong
v he should forget and leave his fathe
= The whole night | cried over that lie
e ter, but never showed it to Lucie.
+ was glad that was going away; but
7 could not love my husband.
5 You do not know how bitter Il
d parting was for me; not SO much
t leave my father and Lufie, and ia
ques, but the old scenesj where l ha
It wandered with Jean, and where v
y had played together, and where he vi
d to come back again perhaps, and TIM
Z as he would of me. / could not VII
n him q letter even. | was young the
:; and did not know but my duty to II
husband would forbid it. But l left
v little loclzet he had given me, and toe
n out his hair, and put in place of it
e lock of my own, and scratched upC
n the back with a needle, Jean, l low
20 you; it is too late; l am married; ~
- pleurdg And / handed it to hit
it jacques, and made him promise