The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-02-05

| at the present moment. 1t has been
my practice to give remuneration
to the attendant for any slight trouble
| that | might OCCASION
Only sixpence, sir, whispered the
| old woman, close at my ear.
| -" And to ask nothing In return,
continued Mrs. Badgery, p" but the
| permission to bring my camp-stoOl
with me, and to mediate on Mr.. Badg
cry in the empty rooms, with every
one of which some happy thought. or
elegant word, or tender action of his
is so sweetiy associated. | came
here on my usual errand to day. l
am discovered, [ presume, by the
new proprietor of the house-dis
covered, I am quite ready to admit,
as an intruder. | am willing to
go, if you wish it, after hearing my ex-
/ planation. Ny heart is full, sir;
am quite incapable of contending
with you. You would hardly think
/ it, but | am sitting on the spot once
/ occupied by our ottoman. | am look
| ing towards the window In which my
| flower stand once stood. In this very
place dear Mr.. Badgery first sat dawn
and elasped me to his heart, when we
came back from our honeymoon trip.
Matilda he said, your drawing
room has been extensively papered,
carpeted and furnished for a month;
but it has only been adorned, love,
since you entered it. fyou have 10
sympathy, sir, for such remembrances
as these; if you see nothing pitiable
| in my position. taken in connection
with my presence here; if you cannot
enter into my feelings, and thoroughly
| understand that this is not house,
| but a Shrihe-you have only to say so,
and am quite willing to go.
She spoke with the air of "a martyr
"a martyr to my insensibility. If
she had been the proprietor and had
been the intruder, she could not have
been more mournfuily magnanimous
| All this time, too, she never raised
her veil-she never has raised it. in
my presence, from that time to this.
I have no idea whether she is young
or old, dark or fair, handsome or
ugly my impression is, that she is in
every respect finished and perfect
Gorgon, but | have no basis of fact
on which lean support that dismal
idea. A moving mass of Grape, and
mufled voice-that, if you drive me
to it, is all | know, in personal point
of view, of Mrs. Badgery.
Ever since my irreparable loss,
this has been the shrine of my pill
grimage, and the altar of my wor-
ship" proceeded the voice. Zone
man may call himself landlord, and
say that he will let it; another man
call himself tenant, and say that he
/ AL I 4 i e
those, two men; don't wish to in
trude on either of those two men; I
only tell them that this is my home;
that my heart is still in possession,
and that no mortal laws, landlords or
tenants, can ever turn it out. If
you doh't understand this. sir; if
tine hottest feelings that do honor to-
our common nature have no particu-
Ian. sanctity in your. estimation, pray
do not scrupie to say so; pray tell me
to go.
F." [ don't wish to do anything IN
civil ma am, said [. But [ am a
single man, and [ am not sentimen-
tai" (Mrs. Badgery groaned) No
body told me | was coming into a
Shrine when | took this house. no
body warned me, when | first went
over it, that there was heart in pos
session. Iregret to have disturbed
your meditations, and ] am sorry to
hear that Mr. Badgefyiis dead. That
is all have to say about it; and now,
with your kind permission, | will do
m7self the, honor Of wishing you good
morning, and will go up stairs to look
after the fixtures on the second floor"
Could | have given a gentler3 hint
than this? Could [ have spoken
more acompassionately to a woman
whom | sincerely believed to be old
and ugly? Where is the man to be
| found who can lay his hand on his
henrt, and honestly say that he ever
really pitied the sorrows of Gorgon?
Scare Through the whole surface of
the globe, and you viii discover hu-
man phenomena of all sorts, but you
will not find that man. N3
To resume L made her q bow and
left her. on the camp stool. in the
| middle of the drawing. room floor
exactly as | had found her.hI ascend
ed to the, second floor, walked into
the. bach, room first, and inspected the
CRATE 1T appeared to be a little out
of repair, so Ifostooped3 down to
look at it closer. While I was
kneeling over the bars, I was vio-
lently started by the fall of one large
drop Of warm water, from a great
height, exactly In the middle of a
bald place, which had been widening
a great deal Of late years on the top
of my head. turned on my knees.
and looked round. Heaven aud earth
The Grape covered woman had follow
ed me up stairs-the source from
which the drop Of warm water had