The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1866-11-29

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very handsome, sir--..they used to say
that / was The prettiest maid in al
Shasbourg. and when any new oficei
came to the garrison he always made
somc excuse TO come % the house tC
see me. IL did not care for any oI
them, but [ used to like to see theii
6ne coats come down the street, and
to hearrthe jiDgiiug of their spurs
upon the pavement, because of our
neighbor opposite, the uotary's son,
who had been my play fellow, aud
who used. 4 knew. to sit behind the
blind at his desk, watching every ono
that came in aud out. When we
we're children, theJneighbors said that
we should one day be married but
as We grew up he became shy, and 4
used to laugh at him, so1that we were
not very good fieuds, aud | liked to
tease him better than anything else
in the world | was now young
woman, but yery though,less aud gay
and still | loved my father dearly,
and tried to make him forget his
trouble about Albert, who was just as
bad as ever. lOi itfil o
~ was sitting one day at the open
window, singing at my work, just to
yex Carl, when my father came in,
looking so sorrowful that | knew di-
rcetly that something was the matter.
Elizabeth, my child said he, I'VE are
raiuedl--our good name is gone, and
We shall he q by.word and disgracoin
the place where we were born. Il is
we'll that your poor mother did not
live to see this day IL is no good
for mo to trouble you with a long
story, 80 1 will only say that my
wicked brother had brought all this
new sorrow upon us, He had been
going on in desperate way ol-ek-
trayaganee for q long time, and tax;
ing advantage of my fqtheHs age and
weakness IN every wayssbut he had
never done so bad q deed as this be-
fore. The way of it was this, sir
Ny father 'hadya large sum of money,
Ebelopgiugto bis sgpild, in his hapds,
aud Atbvrs had, by forgiugthls name,
got it from the banks and gone of
with it, no one knew where. The
nobeyewonld be demVsnded onso, GER
tain day about a month distant, aud
fouro good bonest,urepuiation forever
forfeited if it could not be produced
for no, one would believe, said, my
father, ffou1be state of bis own af'
fairs, that he did not know all about
itrrom the frSt- Well, sir, we cried
and talked, and Thoughts Of every
thing, but the only hope we could GS
on, was, that q sister of my fathers
who was a rich widow living ip Paris
might lend it to, us, for the sake Of
the family, Won none Of u.s. knew
much. about her, but it was the last
ohaneek so, after a great many plans
liz was settled that L should set of by
Ethe diligence, next morning land g
to her. 1t was mot the fashion thel
TO trust much to the post, for we use'
to get letters very seldom, and peopl
always did their own business tbem
selves, although Journeys were llonl
and dupgerOus,y ,yepd not taken e9ceP
for very important reasons. 1t wasj
greatundcrtaking for a young crea
ture who had never been outside hei
own town but there was mo help fd'
it. as my father could not possibly go
besides, I hadzplenty of spirit, AUDI
rather liked the idea Of the advcn
ture. In few hours after my Plac,
was taken, my intended journey wa
noised abroad, and all the neighbOr
wsreefulls ofsouriosity. about it. w
said that l was going unexpectedly t.
see my aunt but there was a vas
ldealzef envy and spite among them
Poor Carl stoodsat the window, an'
walked ppiand down before the hcus
all day, hut / never noticed him
young girls are such silly things, sir
aud never like young man to- know
tho truth. 4 / only just nodded L
him as stood at the gate, and said
Goodbye, Carl !; see what fine hus
band 1 Shall bring home from Paris
4 swell, / wop't ! trouble sou with m.
adventures got to town very well
and found out my aunt, VINO was ver.
glad to see me, aud would have like
for me to stay with her all my life
| had fine TING, until at last
wanted only four days, to the tim
wher the money had to be paid, an
the Journey took three SO off
started with great joy, carrying th
su n in banknotes with me. At thi
: time the roads we're extremely dan
} gerous, being full of robbers. II wa
seldom that a diligence was not stop
ped on its way, and all traveller
} brought home stories Of their danger
or escapes SO, tO.seeure my treasar'
my aunt and | settled thatit would b
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