Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-08-23

thing, me the same; we shall begin with
all a little means, we shall increase it, we
~ shall give our children education. VIII
: not that be better than to fling ourselves
us imprudently into all the troubles of
a house-keeping2
All, bah l understand nothing of
10 all this. The workman, he must earn in
the morning what he is to eat in the
r evening. Do you see, we have our daily
bread, as the cateehism says, and from
" time to time wherewith to make merry
with friends ask nothing else. Then
IL the children come There are never
,e too many honest people.
And if work stops, if sickness
- comes, if the children are hungry or
ID cold?
-Peuth One always
l. has the pleasure of making them. And
then, as the other says; my faith, the
hospital of foundlings is for every
, body
l, All what horrid thing you say
there, Bastien
The young girl, blushing rosy red,
and her eyes sparkling, turned quickly
away lIOn lnt young WOEAMdH
= No need to trouble yourself for
/. this, Anna But, in fact, do you see,
do not comprehend all your reasons.
0 You are a scholar, you, you have been
at the convent.
i am not a scholar but that makes
me angry, that pains me, to hear you
talk so. Do you know, my God how 1
much love and care we owe to these poor |
little beings to whom we have given
life?
All parbleul of course I know
they must be fed but when one cant
, do it.
And it is precisely that makes me
tell you it is better TO wait.
Wait, it is easy for you to say it,
you, because you do not love me-
i have told you twenty times, Bas-
tien, that | had friendship for you.
All! well friendship, decorous,
pitiful sentiment You would have love,
perhaps, if was monsieur.
-Bastien.
You are proud, because you have
received an education: you despise
workmen. I
But, Bastien. {
For the rest, this need not trouble {
you, do you see because me, l do not
like one to seem to look down upon me. S
You will determine to say yes or no, I
and no later than now, Immediately, be-
cause this rufies me not to know on
which foot to dance Let US see,
Nam 'selle, do you wish to have me, or t
DO you not2 a
i will not answer YOU; you are not
calm enough to understand me- t.
Then it IS understood this means Il
to say: Go see if [ am in the street s.
Much obliged, Nam 'selle Anna, I'll not I
make you say it to me twice .. Fl
SO saying, Bastien had taken his hat
and moved towards the door Anna h
moved, as if to stop him. but restrained
herself. The brutality of her lover had
irritated her II
-Adieu cried Bastien. te
-Adieu! she murmured Il
The young workman went out, bang h
ing the door after him. Anna shook her c
head and sighed. in
Three days had passed since this IN
scene occurred the seamstress was still e'
at her window, her head leaning on one eI
hand, as she watched the passing crowd tn
for IT was Sunday. al
Anna was only girl of the people; = =
title competency, arising from an - -
ut -ioyed by her mother, had 8,
nnuity eny =" to give her daughter =. Iu
nabled the latte. IA had followed, as -. ~
ONE education. Al. Of the ladies w
day-scholar, the lessons = she had IA "a
the Sacred Heart. Their. little IN IN
)und herself in contact with other - "a =
iris Of a wealthier class. She had Oh W
.rved all the privileges of wealth, priv o..
eges so acutely felt by children, those 80
.ernal defenders of equalityl Perhaps ''o
er heart had been hurt thereby; per J..
aps there had glided into it some idea "a
childish ambition, some dreams of q ~. e.
'be more beautiful than her faded one, '4'
straw hat more elegant than her A. !,
tile bonnet of three pieces, of t.e' ,ro
ncheon more delicate than her almost 'i'''
y black bread for childhood is intel u,
gent and epicurean; it understands the IIa. FL.
justice of unequal distributions, and Ia Ia
pires to that which cons titutes its joys, ~: -
most as ardently as mature age. So, "n-
concerned her tastes, Anna had gone P"IT'
It OF her own condition cf life She :
ID had glimpse of whats, 7eyer poeti- w
and pleasant there is in 'ife of ease.
ten, elinging to the gate of garden, -
e had admired those pretty little girls, 80 -
1vlng about with their fine re / shoes, POI
long the sanded alleys, gathering flow I;I'o GT,,
; at pleasure, having tall d,>lls to -na, IN
lieh they could talk, beautiful little "a.
yves to keep white their little white neA
nds, and great nursery maids who ear
d them in their arms when they were I:o'
ed. ms
Am
2no nSG oon'en pia'eu all that, she, app
re red and swelled with shillbIains. A. 4
/ who had no other play9hing than Coll
ne strips from an old cotton robe. poo
ter, when she had become big Young him
!, she had TO work in order to live. to stro,
: with the sun, to go to bed late. and
lie the merry children whom she had An
earlier days enyied, and who, like her. snrr
grown up, she recognized d them eFac
N~y passing DSlOES uSE Wl1QOW, | I'M
rious in velvets and silks, leaning on cabl
arm of charming beaux, laughing, n
licking under the trees of the mall, tbel.
breathing air and life with expanded vote,
gs. These sad reflections often pre- conn
upied AnJia; from her little window frien
seemed to herself to be present at a dres,
to which she was not invited and in t;on
ch she took no part And then the hats
ct young girl had felt, for sometime, Iecfn
NnOw not what intoxieation mount A,
n hel. heart to her brain. She had dow
e frequently raised her window-cur- curta
J, at the hours of promenading, to near,
pass the students and young advo- The
s. She found them more and more tbe ,
d.some she liked to follow them far lowe.
,er the trees with her eyes; two or unt;l
ee times, even, when she had put her rema
r in papillottes, said her prayers, and tened
out her light, between waking and 70 N
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