Litchfield enquirer., 1869-06-03

V s 5
 My tempers,' ,',,s ilei eontinued, with ex.
 citement, suffers, yes. suffers, through I these trials
 He never had any to speak of but did I not tell him 30. thinking ha might n't per I hapsi like 1t. @FoT few u1fantes we botl remained silent, he standing in Napole ;! onic attitude, with folded arms and knitted i brows, garing in malignant manner at cross in the carpet. I began nervously tc consider whether it could Possibly be that i owing to strong anti-ritnaiistic feeling onr carpet might be displessing to his eye My apprehenslons were, however, relieved
 when he proceeded to unfold his plans 1 There was, it seemed, a aGsrman lady oi his acquaintance lodgiug in the street close by. who was anxious to give lessons: he
 could recommend her highly for her abili. i ty and accent, he added, and if my mother ] would permit Agnes to have few lessons, : he was sure her music would greatly bene.
 fs Might he ask the lady to call On Mad f ame? he inquired; and so the end of ii
 Was, that 1t was arranged for her to come the next day at eleven o'clock.
 '' OE course, you will manage it all, Ra. chel, my mother said in tue evening. ''I dare sty she can't speak word of El- glish. '=.4 sf ttF
 So she came As look back at it now, ! the whole thing seems so odd, as If all tlat l followed were the consequence of little
 headache on my part, and a little temper ] on Herr Blume's; all the merest chauce;
 and yet 1t cannot be; we are all working
 but some Vast design, subseryient to cue
 great master will: generally apon tue tint
 est threads of trifiss hang the great joys aud miseries of life.
 l ffop al. kl,o n ! card was brought up, lon which Was writ 1 ten, "Fraulein Dorn," and in a minute, she was in the room. Sue was not the
 least like what I expected. Most people
 form some idea as to any one they are go
 ing to meet, and I had formed mlue; but I
 Was entirely wrong: there was not trace
 of that dow(liuess of dress and ,n amer, of
 which l had seen so much in the Vater-
 land, even ill the classes to which, knew,
 by her name. she did not belong. On the
 contrary. every thing about her was fresh
 and graceful, and there was charming
 ease and grave courtesy in her manner that
 astonished me. Her face. even now that
 know 1t under its many changes, is diff
 cult to describe. Clear was the only word
 that came into my mind as looked at her
 A sweet, oval face, clear and pale, with
 dark hazel eyes, somewhat round and deep
 Set, looked out fearlessly. like shining stars l Her lips were excessively pretty, aud gave I color to 2 face which perhaps otherwise
 would have been too pale: not that dark color verging on purple which LeIy had
 bestowed ou some of his beauties, and
 which glves one tue paipfal impression that they have been indulging in black currant jam, bat d brlgut light-red. It
 Was not the first morning that saw all the excellencles of her face, but afterwards,
 When grew to kaow her better. M
 lI Taere were two lessons a week, and ss<sa nssa geaefaiiy TO Joiu fs4. .sazsass sue "'ss very qai-t it first, but gradually We began to get better frien s, aud she would talk about Germany or Englaud, or on any general subj ct in the most amusing aud zllvely manner; but could never by auy meIus wh ttever lead her to speak of her. | self, her form, r life, her rp;tsous for comm { to B lglaud, nor. say word, in fact, that coatd afJfd any ciu9 tD Her history. There 1 was a mystery about her; of that I felt | very sure. Now the ulraveung of myste- l rirs was c'usiderel rather my forte, Sd I l felt on my honor, as 1t were, to penetrate ] 1t Iuere had been au edXeraess about l Herr Blume's manner which had struck me lat the very outset of tue af ,ir, and, ,stran ge
 to say. once or twice during the lessons,
 had been possessed by strong feeling
 that | had seen her before; yet the face
 was perfectly strange to me. The more I
 studied 1t, the more convinced I became
 that must be laboring under some delu
 sion-there was not 9 feature familiar to
 me. The lessons continued regularly ua-
 til little time before Clristmas IS, when one
 morning she failed to make her appear
 ance. #. -..s-.e. f...
 Fe.I knew the number of the house, though
 I had never been to her lodging, 80 before
 Luncheon I walked round to see after her. The door was opened to me by an untidy 4 looking maid, and as advanced into the passage, loud. angry tones issued from a
 room on my right. There was no help for Lit but to proceed, and this was doing when was almost knocked down by a fat, dirty, angry woman coming hastily out of
 the room, her head turnsd round, still ad
 dressing some one within.
 "And sure it's not mvhouse as Il hould
 ye, with yer fne clothes and yer fine airs,
 if it's not a civil tongue ye can keep in yer lheadr' d.
 I She founced of, and Iveptqred to peep
 into the room It was in 8 state of the
 utmost coufusion: clotles were lying in } every direction, on tie tables, on the
 chairs; and boxes half facked stood about
 the floor. ..t.;e.. On one of these. Joking like Scipio
 amid the ruins Of Carthage, sat tue frau.
 ieiu Another woman; biack-haired and bright-eyed, with an angry red spot on ei- ther cheek, was busiay Tcking a box On seeing ine, the fraalein tartei up. 4@ * I1 f'fs' Achl I am so glad to see you, '" she l said .a. q must explaiq why l have not l come to you. This wot Ian, Tnerese, has , made her 'angry-furioS: poor Therese, she was foolisns sIa The egDman has said We 3 Elsave the house, so l to instantly; but LI where to, that know mt.
 l This was wretched. tried in vain to
 make her tell ne what fherese had said, { thinking utmost pfobaay some misunder- i.standlng which had ariFn owing to their f net understanding each others language; but she evaded it, decking, however, that . 1t was impossible for hf to remaln. .,sejs . IlEI made up my minlon the spot, and s rpshed home to ask nf mother to invite a her to come to us untilAfter Christmas. Fl ss. My dear Raclef, | Ealiy don't think I Il can do it; she IS quite q traager; you know tl nothing, or next to noting, about her. l think you had better gie It up: no doubt . she has friends in Londn. : Iis Such were the argumlnts with which my D Ilear mother attempteI to .dissuasie me