Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-10-04

/ body who passes here, and amuse myself
] with watching for them. There are hun
dreds who come every cay, winter and sum
mer, as regular as the clock there. Then
see all the strangers" she eXclall ed, IN
tone of gentle EMULATION; " there IS not o
creature ever comes to Rouan, theg-say, nuI
ne comes here.
"Well, if you look out for strangers you
will soon see plenty of me" Frank said'
| good humoredIy; i" for l shall be here every
day, dare say, for the next two or three
weeks" - IL ~ al
a saw monsieur the first day he came,
I ,sAe answered with smile; 3" ne came and
| stood looking up there" pointing with her
finger to the church 'front.' "tilli thought
he was counting all die figures on it,"
He gave laugh, and then coIored a little;
young as he was, he blushed for moment
at the thought that when he did not know
it a woman had been watching him.
"Wen, [ was not counting the figures ex-
| actly.' he said but do you know what |
j have been doing these last two days. !
am a painter, he said, with youthful dig
"Ah! SO ?" And the bright brown eyes
] looked up into his face, notawe- struck, pq6
q little curious and wondering. ~
1 81 wiz show you my picture presently,
when have got on a little further with ~
and then you shall tell me if you think l
have made it like. Now when you sit here
all. day, hour after hour, he said, inquir-
ingly, ado you ever think much about the
church ?"
i" monsieur ?, she said, and the brown
eyes opened wider.
az mean, do you look at it much and try
TO find out what the figures on it mean! 10
you ever think about the people who built
i'll" n
"Monsieur, the church is very old; they
are all dead"
can dead I should think they were,"
he answered, quickly. "But what is to
prevent you from thinking Of them, though
/ thew are dead?. Youskuow they were alive
onca. Now one Of them must have cut these
little twisted shafts here once; have you
never wondered who he was, or what be-
came of him ?"
She shook her head placidly.
"What would be- the use could not
find out, she said. IN
"No, you could not find out but you
might try to fancy them all at swork here,
mil ht you not and how they came, just as
you come, day after day, all these hundreds
Of years ago, and set up stone after stone,
end carved figure after figure. Think how
| they must have watched their work and
grown happy at the sight of it. just think
of tlemcall here, with their hammers stIlk
ing the stone, and the noise of every blow
in the air, all Of them talkingin a language
that would be almost like strange tongue
to us now. You know it all acas SO why
can't you think of il ?" e
I" II may be easy for monsieur to think of
the dead" she answered, simply, " but for
me do not find ii easy, unless ii may DO of
/ the blessed saints, and she crossed herself,
'sbut then we know that they lived; while
as for those others she said, and,
slightly Struggling her shoulders, broke off
her sentence with dubious smile.
He had nearly burst into an answer about
the saints that was more impetuous than
reverent; but happily no checked himself
in time, and instead of speaking stood look
| ing for moment in silence over the great,
dark, glorious church front, and wondering
at what she had said. Out from the gray,
solemn stones there seemed q thousand
voices that spoke TO him; how could it be,
! he thought, that this girl had passed her
| lie under the shelter of its SHADOW, and yet
that TO her every stone of it was dumb.
"Then you don't care for ii ?" he said,
abruptly, at last, turning to her again.
1 !, May, monsieur is mistaken" she an
T swered "See, it is like home TO me here;
when It is hot summer sit here in the cool
\ shade; when winter comes l shelter myself
I there within the porch. 1t is ike a good
friend to me- osher things change, but it
nevar changes When l am glad / 60 in
nd knaeL dcwu and thank the blessed Vir-
gin, and when I an sad 90 there too, and
I Say my prayers. No. E1a2sTsFTs 70 wrong;
I care for II.
She r,eisea aen faoe With sudden sEafls as
/ size paused, and eager 80 5aE&gs 6h@g 81 the
! world oarso For wa@S he loved, eager for D
universal syrsp&Gsy with his own snthusi-
af;ln, he boxed with pleased contentment
ia8o she girls cls@f, honest eyes, and
@WeIl, @fa glad you like it, he said
heartily III thought you could not have
/ lived here 80 aany years and have cared
nothing for it. You have lived in Rouen all
4 yo7sr iife, do you say how long time is
that -
/ ~ an twenty," she said.
care you? Why you are older than !
/ &n, then And what Is your name p
/ "Christine, monsieur" she answered.
/ Some one passing into the church had
stopped beside her basket, and was begin
ming to look over it's little stack Of images
/ and beads She had to turn round to attend
! TO him, nnd then before his purchase was
/ made, another customer came. Frank I'm
/ gsrsd and looked on for few minutes;
| then he said "Good bye" and the boy and
/ girl smiled to one another, and parted with
s. friendly nod.
Hs vent hons, and there was something
pleasant e. him in the thought which
crossed him once or twice during the re-
raainder Of tbs day hat in the morning he
should sss Christina tgain, Several times
4 her face rose brightly up before him, with
ifs eonteptsd, honest smile, and sent kind
If warmth into his heart for, fair and
dear to him as was this old Rouen, yet he
moved 90 n stranger in it, and no other lips
than those Of hers had given either greet
ing or kindly word to him. And SC, when
he went to his post again the next day, and
she, who had been watching for him, at
once when he appeared nodded and smiled
to him across the square, instead Of station
ing himself in his accustomed place and
beginning his work, as he had meant to do,
he walked straight to her in q sudden i'm
pulse of gratitude for her CHEEKY little token
of welcome, and, like thorough English
man, put out his hand to her.
"You are the only creature that know
in Rouenn he exclaimed, "except my
landlady, and she is quite old. AS came
along just now, was wondering whether
you would be here before me-"
"Ah, MONSIEUR she said, laughing, 81
have been here for hours. Look there. it is
ten o'clock. Do you think begin my day
so late as at ten o'clock ?"
Il !. q Is IL reaIly ten Then I must be Quick