Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-08-30
L'ECHELLE DIES FEMMEs.
BY EMILE sOUYEsTRE.
Translated for the Appeal
THE GRISETTE-
III.
ACQUAINTANCE
lcoNrIsUED Faox LAST SUNDAY,

tCoSTrUED FROA LAST SUNDAY
An age OF tears and sorrsu cannot effsce the
happiness OF the first look, OF that trembling,
Of those Etammer1ng words. Of the rst meet
Ing. GOETHE, stella)
This communication from window to
window had lasted more than q month,
between Edward and the young seam
stress it had not escaped the notice Of
ali the world. One day, Fontaine had
seen Anna water her flowers. casting
across some stealthy glances, and had
turned roughly to Edward
Thou shouldst change thy lodging,
my friend, he had said to him, | think
the air of this quarter does not agree
with thee.
And why that have never been
in better health.
Look said Fontaine, pointing to
the window Of the young workwoman /:
there are flowers over there, the intox-
icatiOn Of whose perfume is dangerous
Thou art out Of thy senses, know
not what it is thou neanest.
Fontaine had shaken his head. and so
things had remained.
But there was still another person,
who, by dint of watching Anna actions,
had ended by conceiving suspicious
this was Bastien, who, after the eonver-
sation We have related, had not returned
TO the young girls apartment, but had
never ceased to watch her At last he
intercepted on their passage some of the
glances which the young persons darted
at each other across the street, and moth
ing more was needed to confirm his sus-
picions. The men Of the people, accus-
toned 70 have their ignorance imposed
upon, are in general distrustful, and pass
with the utmost readiness from suspicion
to conviction. A single remark is
enough TO make them imagine thou
sand others which they think must have
escaped them. Wherefore Bastien no
-, -er doubted that there was an intrigue
IL - and Anna and Edward Coarse
e'LeeH this discovery stung him to
a a ne was 1an of the world would
;...-s - qu,oA noA.u.I.5-h, = displeasure, would
adroitly have prepare, ,s ,sho ~. h.a AZ AZ
geance and the ruin of her o IN-l
daiued him; he would have lOns P.dnneu
her assassination but the wo. AHIan
Bastien had neither so much delle4 y
nor so much dexterity his tongue was i
like his fist, brutal, and struck openly. 1
he went round telling every where that
Anna was Edwards mistress and he 1
was believed, because one loves TO be- /
lieye ia the vices of others, as an excuse /
for ones own unworthiness, or an indi- /
rect eulogy on ones virtues. Yet some /
voices were raised TO defend Anna, !
some voices Of men : -. . The women !
smiled ironically, for Anna was pretty, !
and how believe in the virtue Of girls
ette who permitted herself to be pretty 4
Ought not this gift of beauty to be fatal
to her? is it not superiority, and are
not ell superiorities vice, in our soei-
ety. II
And meanwhile the poor young girl
was ignorant Of the slanderous report
that was circulating. Shut up in her
new feeling, she knew nothing Of what
passed without. Her little chamber had
become her world, her spiders web She
was conscious of what was done. outside
of it, only by the echo that had resound-
cd inside; She had snvslOPsd her soul
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