The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1870-01-20
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j. BY MISS ,THAIc(KERAl. &C
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! CHAPTER II. :,..,
rHH: TWO. cATHAl1xIs.

4 rHH: TWO CATHAl1aBs.
There ore some things dull, and shah,
9y, and >uninterestine to: one person
which to another are. AL shining with q
pysteziousElght and glamour. Of thsa
own.: A diugy London hall, with some
hat. On pegs, , = broad staircase with a
+ fhded blue and yellow Turkey carpet,
occasionally gloomy echoiog Of di-
tant plates, and unseen pots and pans
in the: Kitchens below !. = advantageous
up above, the piano which gives out
the usual tunes over, and over again,
like musical suuff:bs1; the sofa, the
table, the side-table, the paper. cutter,
the Edinburgh and the Co'n1iA, and
the Saturday Rev;e.o;; the usual
mamma, with hcq lace: cap, sitting on
the sofa, the other lady at the writing,
table, the young man Just; going away
standing BY tho 6rephce, the two young
ladies' sitting in the window With waves
Of crinoline and their head, dressed.
The people outside the window passing,
repassing and driving through Eaton
Square; tho distant, unnoticed .drone
Of an organ, the steeple Of St. Peters
Church. This one spot, 20 dull, 50 :
stranse'to' Madame de Tracy after her
own pleasant green pastures, 50 like
thousand others to a thousand other
people, was ~ unlike to one poor little
person:1 know Of; its;;: charm was 90
strange and 80 powerful that she could
scarcely trust herself to think Of it. at
one time. Ins.ftet years she turned
from the remembrance with . constant
pain and effort, until at last by degrees
the charm travelled elsewhere, and tho
sunlight lit up other places. a., ~.
My little person is only Miss George,
poor little twenty -year,old: governess,
part worried, part puzzled, part sad,:
and part7happy too, for mere youth aud
good spirits. You can see it all in her
round race, which brightens, changes,
smiles, and .saddous many times . day.
She catches glimpscs Of the Paradise I
have been describing as che runs up
aud down stairs in pursuit Of naughty, J.
refractory Augusta, or dilator, little
Sarah, or careless Lydia, who has lost
her lesson, and her .pinafore, and, her
pocket-handkerchief, or Of Algy, whose
life hangs BY Heather strap as he slides
up and' down the precipitous banistcrs,
and suspeads himself from tie landing
by various oohtr,yapoea Of his own.
"Wbst's noise those :childrse are max.
ing;'. says tHe *adnt, lookiog' Up from
her lettef,t9 the mamma i ~ il tie i. dMravs5:, s. !,
iqgrroop. The young man, shuts. The
dodr ,a'thseittle' person geea flying
after Alky; she captures him ind 41ipgs'
him bsct;; salty little ipir1Isso0hehr, d 1soh TO he
sehoolI;rqaoma a 'aa o@p 81 n tte stsifs, xheKe she
henelf, asdeE,the grand, d,aeqAdiag 4title
Of "governess," is prisoner too.,o OF hi
this tDenestis Bssdls;'I meossa-
gl.&I ;;x.ll|taao,issft. :,thf26M thFAa3 ssa@ is
look Ptq.hR asIsssss 4ss
deep daHeh ehelsv, ,>sud .ipta Wsmh share
there arG Observation-Disclosures CON,
s!antly!ptasssaiaa9;1 alteAsss4eiesn serrtfSIss
and '.,Pph.nesS}sa }a2ss }sai2sS 5tepea :ssdt;;shtay
con6lnemspt,. he Queelltileq.Ah I'M !: sns sTeitpFe
(PnnookJ Aahsnahe todatstbepane4
given tby the s'sxeca a1ioaetsatoitke .3asss-
GUS ,nsflameltss.J j 'aThe ot9anb: :sea4iesttII aist i
stand. y 'a eqBPsr ~ & Sp;'s,it| tit|
a stool which. tqrus ROUND 7indr rplnd,
according. tn tire length of:tHepsrforu-
e,'sp 'legs'; 4 registry ist-kspt Il secret
marks thAe ID various shiea iyfiAeasa aud d
osose4s2 ~? - ?aats p5 fae*s
are .apposea tqGhe kvisd! Z; utter silence
and implicit! obsdieneH area requested
But IN ths u ioayoin' theory a!at4t auo;
til, ipriaopss4as. iiqsa.tia hate e9n{Bhsa, npfiRiea;
and carried every thing lbefsge fhe:mn
since Mnsi Gaorsesy as@iniea, set Iin,
She prssides 10 herp&eisl ahair. ayutAe
table, aith hsf' x4lq4tlk ID her ,hpha,;q qqa6ak. qa6a
ns yap l1sfl psssa!fss 'spsaas ss'il
the ,less5sI11 slgoXeFaaesHbo ALI gthe
things ahduttAerbaooh aikeeR schnol
soon-&hk tsAsJnandstbd Ihspl| and
the diigset, aad f,he sarnpple2 2chias.
Theretar& efaMifatnMuppop lbmkS ir
the ca6s, and thaehHa Rosn.odtAaMs
coveEobthe tehh, ,saidm ,b3othsa Eisk.
stada 10 Ttbst :an&blas satsrj sthsrs
indeed, inside 'tlat hahksjoa the; shaiss
under the tab@e,o.oths ceiling, wher'
ineesis.s Alg, @ith ssquitt has bee,
4 able to write his iinitials aud those .
/ Miss Cpsnsis l>ouohon,, = fprmer gov
.srness; there srej blots!r On the Ichil