The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-12-25


with her feet apart upon the lower brass ledge
oftho stove, supporting a lap full Of gloves while
| she cleaned one stretched on her left hand, she
was o true Swiss impersonation Of another
| kind from the breadth Of her cushion.hke back,
and The ponderosity Of her respectable legs III
the word be admissible), to the black velvet
band tied tightly round her throat for the repres-
sion Of o rising tendency IL goire; or, higher
still, to her great copper-colored gold earrings;
| stretched on wire.
"Iliss Marguerite" said 0benreizer, to the
young lady, "do you r~ecoect this gentlemani"
81 think" she answered, rising from her seat,
surprised and q little confused, "itis Mr.. Ven.
dale 2" afl @-9 .'i 500
81 think Il is," said Obenreizer, dryly.. Per-
NIT inc, Eli. Vendsle. Madame Dor"
TIE elder lady by the stove. with the glove
stretched on her Left hand, like 9 glover's aign,
half got up halflooked over her broad shoulder,
and wholly pumped down again and rubbed
away. ~ y
"a,Iadame Dor said obenrsizer, smiling, SIS
30 kind as TO keep me free from stain or tear.
Madame Dor hurnors my weakness for being al
wsyu neat, and idevotes her time to removing
every one Of my specksf and spots" a
Mhdame Dor, with the stretched glove
IN the Air. and her ewes closely scrut1n-
iziniI its' palm, discovered o tough spot
in Mr.. Obenreizsr ct that instant, and
rubbed hard at him. George Vendale took his
Beat by the acknowledgements (hsving first tskec
the fair right hand that his entrance had
cheCksd), and glanced at the gold Cross that
dipped into the bodice, with something Of the
devotion Of Q pilgrim who had. reached his
shrine Of last. Obenreizer stood In The middle
Of the room, with his thumbs in his Waistcoat
pockets, and became flmy. '".sa an'Dn'hh
. she was saying downstairs, Miss Ubenteizsr,n
obs srved vendale, "that the world ID 60 small o
pla,e, that people cannot escape one another" I
have found It much too large for me since saw
sou Iast.m - &c asa ".ii9 = o. s'-A
r"Have you Travelled SO far, then lT she In
qutted. Z" s;'- 2. ~ ~" a''l" 80
~"Nota 20 far, for I have only gone back to
Switzerland each year; but I could hAyew wished
Aand indeed Ihave wished very ften-that the
little world did not afford such opportunities for
long escapes do Il does. II It had BEEN less, !
might have found my fellow-travelers soonersyou
know iasa'e@ -fi % 70 3Hl--' ~ -@s3
u The pretty Marguerite Rcolorod, and very
slightly glaneedinlthe direction Of Madame Dor.
'CYou find us OF length Mr.. .Fendsle. Perhaps
yorl may lose rs again." 5i "a 'ne.''' SEX
at trust not. The curious coincidence that
hal enabled me to find 'yon encourages me to
hope not" .a'ta2fI e@ p2ii a4.I~ t''I"
o What is that coincidence, cir, Hyuupleasef ~
- H. dainty little native touch In this turn OF
speech and tie tone made 1t perfectly 'capti-
waiting, thought George venaale, when again he
noticed an instantaneous giAncetoward Madame
Der. A canton seemed to. he conveyed in 1t.
rapid fash though it Was 60 he quietly took
heed Of Madame Dor from that time forth.
SIT LIS that I happen to have becomes partner
IN q house Of business In Tendon to which MI.
obenreizer happens this veay day to be expressly
recommended and that, too, by another house
of business In Switzerland, On which Gas 1t turns
out), we both have acommercial interest. he
has not told youP" tt "r.
"AhI" cried Obenreizer, striking in flmness.
"No. I had not told Miss Marguerite. The
world 10 90 small and so monotonous that Q sur
prise Is worth having in such o little jog-trot
place. It is as he tells you, Miss Marguerite.
He, Of go fine Q family, and soproudly bred, has
.condescended to trade. To1tradel Like rs
poor peasants, who have risenfrom ditchesi"
A cloud orept over the fsirsbrow, and she cast
down her eyes.
"Why, it ia good for trsdei" pursued Oben-
reizer, enthusiastically. It ennebles tradel It
is the misfortune Of trade, ihis its vulgarity that
any low ~people-for example, we poor peasants
may take to It and climb by it. See you, my
dear Vendslei" he spoke with great energy.
1.-THE father Of Misc Marguerite, myeldest half
brother, more than two times your ,nge or utne,
II living now, wandered without shoes, almost
without rags, from that ,wretched ,pass-wan-
dered-wendered-got to be fed with the mules
and dogs at an Inn in the main valley far away
got to be Boy there-got to DO Ostler-,got to
be waiter-got to be Cook-got TO be'Landlord.
Az Landlord, he took me tcould he take thu
idiot beggar, his brother, or the spinning mon
strosity, his sister ~ to put as pupil to the IA
nous matchmaker, his ~aeighbor andfriend. Bus
-;fo 5;o, -han M;an N.,oror;ta In Iorn Whoe