Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-07-27
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powers, ''tell me the story Madeleine tell.
me the nights you don't come here.n
I was completely taken aback.- Some
story of Madeleine's Madeleine. whose
brilliant Imagination could keep Conny
quiet for an hour together?
"You would never guess, Il see," sale
Conny, ''what it is, and if you don't guess
you can't, of course, tell it. Shall / tell il
to you instead? know 1t now as well a;
. iis'Yo ou have heard it very often, then?''
livery often," assented Conny; every
night when you don't come hero, Madeleine
comes and sits in that low chair, and takes
me on her lap. She. turns up her pretty
gray silk. you know, for fear would crease
it. and sit on her petticoat, and she tells
me the story ,ts
always the same one ?"
"Alwags tie same," said Conny, shaking
her curls; "but don't get tired, its sc
pretty, and the end is different sometimes ,
/ 'HThe end is different, Conny?"
"There are two endsi'' said Conny, ex-
planning; zone Is very pretty, indeed
Madeleine likes that one best. think she
tells it oftenest, but sometimes she tells the
other end, and then she is soaauiet and
grave, and once when kissed her her face
was allwet.n a., "a ~ So. I. q.
''1'm afraid it will be too sad, Conny j
please" -, = 70
.1;;:s...Well, don't wriggle," said lConny, evi-
IDENTIFY beginning from the usual starting g
point and the story was commenced.
'"Once upon a time,p said Copny, .Ysthere
was young lady who had two lovers, one
very good, and one very bad. They were
both very fond of her, and very polite.''
<Conny's5 notion of love-makfng Twas po-
liteness carried 70 its extreme limit.) sand
she liked them both. one in her heart, and
one in her manner. - }sbto 81 Fl j z3iTcT-
. Here Conny gave little gasp. ssDo you
like it?n she Asked e. r. 30 e., ,-f-in
u Excessively / assured her; ssbut i
don't understand, Conny, and one in hef
manner That was rather odd, wasn't
it S'' 9'a1 Ialstst aa. tss.,s III -..r'si.s
. 81 thought so,'' said Conny, doubtfully,
"but Madeleine said, No it often happened.
And L suppose she knows"
.sProbably, y agreed; and the story went
on. - .l--I ~ - ~ tiu q 9.-s =
1.-THE good one, the one she liked in her
heart, yotf know, had to go away for a long
time, where he couldn't see her at all. And
while he was gone the bad one came in
and brought her books-story- books. ]
suppose-and gave her g paint-box, and a
dog with collar, and went out to rides
with her. and took her at nights to heaI
music. Very polite, wasn't it?" Conny
looked up in my face, and didn't under
stand the expressionshe saw there. "You
don't like it." she said, 81 shall leave off. :
II do like it, COMFY; its my back makes
me look so. Go on, dear. l want to heal
the end.) What did the young lady do
Take the things he brought her? Enjoy the
rides and the music? Throw the absent
one over ?n
II don'tpnderstand you;'' said Conny, in
her, most sensible manner. "How could
she throw him over when he was away
and what should she throw him ouerp Very
sillyl" Having expressed her opinion
Conny went quickly on. that she might moi
be blamed for having given it. - Zoo,
"Welli He talked and talked (the bad
one did), and said such nice things thai
sometimes he didn't seem bad at all, Made
leine said; though he always was, really
you know. And she could not help liking
him very much, and thinking it would be
very pleasant to have all his beautiful
things for her very own, and GO ard live
with him in his fine large house. Did
tell you he wanted rher, to go and live will
him ?'' asked Oonny, breaking off,
.'The end, Conny : did she say shs
would ?'' -a -e-i '-i7i q. .'''' ''i - Hn.' l1-
sWhy, no,'' said Conny, at once, sensibly
and with impatiehce; '.that wouldn't have
been ending happily, would it, when the
other one was good? He was the best fell
low in the world, Madeleine said"
.Goodness is not always appreciated"
There was bitterness in my tone, anG
Conny lifted the pump in reproof. 5r--
Always" she said, .when things enc
happily." ,.-...l te..
She had no Intention OF, .moralizing, but
imagined she was stating a fact. ..----,
"Well, .Gonny ?' ~; ..'i.i
"Well, she thought of all this, till she
remembered the other one, and how FOND
he was of her, and how polite he had al
ways been, though he had not nearly such
beautiful things as the bad one had, which,
of course, prevented him from being as po-
lite as could have been wished. When She
remembered this, she told the bad one he
might live in his fine house himself, and
keep all his beautiful things" (here Conny
got considerably excited; she spoke with
flashing eyes, and hands that gesticulated
dealing me blows with her puzzles and
pnnp,) ''that she didn't want them, and
Wouldn't live with him, because she loved
the good one better than she had ever, ever
winding up rather abruptlys and siding
with virtue. g Isn't it pretty?" ''+s-si
The pull up was so very sudden that j
was not prepared with an eulogium.
'tDon't you like it!" asked COMFY, dis
appointed at my silence. sits so pretty
when Madeleine tells it, and much longer
think I spoilt it with my words" % 5'..
- Like it? It's perfectly. charming, !
was thinking it over, Con, dear. should
like to hear the other end now" .ls.i 5ss-5
-" ~" l always say, > II you're not tired ~
said Conny, suggesting. --.l -.
II repeated the formula, and was indulged
directly. = r -e -.t r7H7r-
= "The other end is pretty, but very sad
When the good one came back, be found
that the beautiful young, lady-Madeleine
didn't say she was beautiful, but 1 like tc
AL A1lN., NI,a1
ith-the-bad-one" (the words came
very slowly here; ConnY was evidently
speaking from memory that-there-
Was-no-drdaoiKg back" 81 s.s. II ~
ssWhat happened then ?'' asked; fol
the soft voice brokesof suddenly.
81 don't know" said Conny, looking
frightened. Pm afraid she forgot the
good one, and went TO live in the big house
among the fine things, and that they did
not make her happy, for Madeleine cries SC
at least she does sometimes-and some
times she only kisses me, and sings till
gosof to sleep in her arms, such pretty, sad
songs!"
There9were no red flashes from the fire
now; the room was fast filling with shad-
ows. 9j'a7t as i'ai1aa'n9 T-s1s q sa -aa
,""Isn,t that sad ?" whispered Conny,
to me a little,. not liking the
silence,' and secretly afraid of the dark.
"Very sad" .2fii ~
"It doesn't do to mind it, though she
said, trying to combine consolation with
sense, "because it's only a story, and moi
really true, you know. I don't suppose
there ever was beautiful young lady
with one bad and one good man; and, you
know, there were two ends, and mean to
believe the happy one. Won't you?"
Dinner, Jack!' said a beautiful young
lady in gray silk dress; and 1 rose at the
sound OF her voice. ~
The'dinner was perfection; all my favor
ite dishes had been thought of. Never had
seen Prior to such advantage. He mo-
nopolized Mr.. FIutters, and rarely APP
preached the silk dress. Madeleine and L had
it all to ourselves. And charming as she
always was, she was more than ever so on
this evening"; happy, suppose, in the
consciousness of her singular beauty, set
off to so much advantage by the gray gown