The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1865-03-10

hest treasure of art into the shade.
The acquaintance had not been difficult
to make. Esther and her mother lived
utterly out OF the world. at least Of his
world, and Nine Berner was an English
woman. who had always resisted the coar
! of mail, etiquette, supposed TO be the
safeguard of you girl in France
| A few words of admiration for the copy
| she was making, then a discussion OF arr.
/ gradually continued and Angthened day
/ after dav, soon led TO a familiarity that
fully justified Evrard in paying vfsi. Oh
! Sunday TWO weeks a-Ier his meeting al
the Louvre.
| Both Mime. Berniar and her daughter
received bin with quiet seh-possae>lon,
| perfectly unconscious ot the honor Ia was
doing them. They were tbs huinbiast
and most unpfetend!ag CT women, TINS
mother and daughter, but iubued with
! high principles aud seii-respeUt, which is
not to be awed by romp OF circumstances
or ficllilons Distinctions.
Esther soon grew TO love Evrard with
out fear, without remorss, she gass him
the hottest feelings OF her nature. tie
| of larisian girls, or the excitement of
Partisan intrigue, gave his whole soul to
her, worshlpping her IS some holy saint,
aud loving with the deepes, passion.
AS for Nine. Beruier, she had never
known but one love, the love she had
borne to her husband. Married At eigh
teen. taken from her fathers country
home to the home of Il struggling arts, in
Paris, tie world had consisted for her In
the CARES of her household, the hopes and
fears of her husband. and in her duties as
the mother OF an only child, for whom no
grand nurses could be afforded, Her only
great SORROW had been her husbands
death. That he had left her in very hum
BILE circumstances wa, but q secondary
consideration ; indeed Madame I}e.uier
had never known luxury, and therefore
when she found that she had sufficient to
love and TO bring up her child without
prlvatlon, she was perfectly satisfied
Her grief for her husband was sn>hFin>
ed IN her heart it was no selfish grief :;
it made her neither morose nor melancho
ly. She moucned him, and, in performs
log every duty lie had e:t towards their
child, she remembered him,
Sometimes, indeed, when she would
bear OF the success and fame attained by
artists tho had been bis friends aud com
Tades; sigh would rise aud a tear dim
her eye thinking how he 100, might have
attained both fame and fortune, had he
lived.
When Esther began to reveal tina; she
had inherited her ia he's getiI~, it seem
Ell to Nine. l>eruier that the child Ma
drawn closer II her and tieaIer she be
came as years passed on, aud trieuds (a'I
artists, Nine Berner bad no others
pTognostjGated brilliant career for her
Il Nas not tie fame AMI fortune that
was 10 make her dearer, bu: it seemed
that in her daughters genius there was
still portion Of her husbands spirit thai!
had no. left the earth,
Nine Bernier vas not astonished when
she understood tie deep impression Is
lher had made on the HANDSOME el=gan'
an0 fashion able Young man Esther WAS
beautiful; every one admired her: even
the little gamlns in the studio, SO read. -
riGicuie every body, called her Mile
L Ange, and many student in the Lou
vrs, who went 10 copy lluau aud Leon
ardo Ga Niaci, found on their canvas not
the counterpart of The great pictures, bu'
the poftrat Of the iyvele>t Ideal that
;hey had ever reaiZed.
Mae. Berner, a, well as Esther, were
accustomed TO their universal admiration
but the mother thought less OF her beauty
than Of The soul aud mind, which to her
were worthy of The love of the MODEST and
highest III The land.
Evrard had told her his rama, his rank,
his position had even said that he was
poor he had used no disguise; but moth
ing that lie had told them seemed like any
reasonable obstacle to lis making Esther
his wife
Nine. Bernier had been tie first to
speak of marriage thing OF course 10
follow his declaration to Esther and re
memberlng how happy she had been She
did not look upon al absence of riches a.
Any thing to be DREADED
Therefore was Evrarl almost uncon
sciousiy pledged to Esther before he had
well decided how he was to act.
What is to come of all lhis?" had h..
said after long evening passed in form
ing those airy castles tor the future that
love builds with golden clouds and, af er
two bou,s' meditation, Eyrard had found
no solution to bis question bu, this
that come what, might lie could no: give
her up.
Then be must make her his wife, there
was DO alternative, and how was this to
be accomplished The consen, OF his
family it was useless to hope, to marry
without it in France was impossible, for
he was but twenty four, and French laws
emanripate only at twenty five, TO marry
Esther In France. therefore, until that age
was impossible, and then be would break
his fai b and lose a fortune.
To do Evrard justice, at this epoch Of
his life. fortune weighed but little in the
balance; perhaps, too he could have
found excuses for breaking bis word but
the marriage arranged By his family was
TO take place in six months; and the an
ger and sorrow Of his mother, and the
conformation of his friends, he shruuk
from.
Evrard lay back on bis sofa, and pom,
Jnrcl al ~ ~ IL Il l.,