Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1868-03-11

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as the reflection Of the honors that would
/ be shoEered down on that vile creature:
/ | know that he would be considered by
Lucy and the rest as a sort Of Montargis,
an attectIonate and sagaclous creature
watching patiently at his appointed post
/ for the beloved master that should never
/ again return to him. Presently they all
came back; Lucy and her mother and the
maid servants, from the mn, beside my
fellow students and fisherman with drag
nsts, and medical man with blankets
and brandy Chow envied the blankets
and the brandy)! As l expected, Meth
! er the Women's cries nor the man s labor
in vain distressed me half so much as
the patting and carassing of ToWser; If
she would have only known when she
dropped those tears upon his cruel nose
that there was considerable quantity Of
human hesh--my fiesh--at that moment
lying IN his stomach in an undigested
state [ could not repress a groan Of
horror and Indignation; t'Hush, hush,
said Lucy, and there was a silence
through which he could distinctly hear
Towser licking his chops. / was desper-
ate by this time, and hallooed to my
friend Sanford--'Sanford and nobody
else come into the copse with a.
blanket. [ remember nothing more dis
tinctly. Immediately peals OF lau3 hter,
now smo1 hered now breakiug irrepressl-
bly, forth; expressions of thankfulness3
OF affection, of sympathy, beginnlng--
never inished-burst in upon, as 1t were,
by floods of merrimens ! and the barking,
the eternal barking, OF that execrable dog
| left Killarney that same evening
Lucy. and the mother Of Lucy, and my
fellow students and the abominable Tow
ser; | left them for good and all; and
that was how my engagement was broken
off, and why there is no Mrs. PeOny
Flush, concluded the curate, who had
turned from rose color to deep carnatlon,
and from that to almost BLACK, during the |
recital
felt for my poor friend deeply, as
many others did to whom | told this un-
der the seal of secresy, and who revealed
it to their families. In place of the re-
ligious book markers, with bibles, and
crosses, and crowns worked on them,
which used to be rained upon Mr.. Flush |
during the summer months, from anOny-
nous but not altos ether unknown hands, |
be now received similar encouraging tok-
ems Of more earthly character-a wreath
of orange flowers, with "Hope on, hope
eVer," under it, in floss silk, and vig-
nette, on perforated cardboard, with !
Robert Bruce and the Spider, with a me-
dieval illumination, signifying " "Never
Despair;' he was also presentad.b by some
humorous artist with the miniature of
dog couchant upon heap of something,
and ''semper tjdeLts" underneath. His
misfortune, however, was IN fair way of
being forgotten; but for what occurred
last summer Barnley had never had SO
great an influx Of company as then. Our
hotel was filled to overflow; two of our
riding -donkeys died from exhaustion,
third edition was called for Of the guide
book, and the battling machines were
entirely reserved for the ladies use.
1t was not this last circumstance, for
Peony Flush never bathed, but the first
which interfered with our good. curate's
comfort. The inn being full, its landlady
sent her respects to Mr.. Flush, and would
he afford her the temporary loan of a
spare room in his house for widow and
her daughter, who had written for apart.
ments the day before, and were coming on
that evening in the expectation Of finding
them. 10 refuse to perform a kindness
never entered into the good fellows feel
ing heart, but this request vexed him
nightly. The information that the
ladies were OF sumptuous character, and
travelled with two riding horses, as we'll as
their own carriages affected him nothing
IF they had been pedestrians, and we're
about to appear in a walking grove Of
bandboxes, they would have alarmed him
quite as much, He was not sure Il it
would not be indelicate for him to put his
boots outside the door at night, and he gave
orders that his linen should be removed
half dry-from the lines in the back
garden. 1t would be relief to him, he
said, if would reside in the house during
| the stay Of the two visitors; and, at all
events, I must dine with him the first
evening, which [ agreed to do. The
curate' dinners were rather neat; his
housekeeper-who perfectly understood
him, and was not altogether without hope.
[ think, of Turing him down from respect
to matrlmony-had way of amounting
duck with lemon, which, before feasted
at the Dovecot, [ had met with only in
books. | therefore judiciously rode
tpy NIL IN. bo Of of
an appetite. There was good one to be
got generally on the bridle-road by the
sea-coast, which cuts through the sheep
and cattle pastures, and chose that way.
It is much intersected with small white