The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1870-03-17
INNEsoTA,: THURSDAY, MARCH. ]8. 1870.

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4ipksiited from her mother, III" goo; %;
.1O.tdo'ic;; since whose death her ilf'
would have been 4 sad one if ii hat
not been SO full Of small concerns d
In nihter,uitting Work: She, too, like I'll,
other woman IF whom. I hive+ bser
writing; heard the sound Of the Sea =.
she went about: her daily occupations;
but TO Refine it seemed like the supple
<ment and encouragement Of hsr lonely
life:*l SUI listened to it rs she vert lei
rounds from the great kitchen + tht
outer Boundaries Of tie farm, across
the orchards and fields to the garden i
mile Of where her bean. were growing,
or sometimes sitting, resting byj the
blazing hearth, where the wood was
heaped and the dried colza grass far
ting.9*Z ;6..s s>''>'' '*|.'!' :'@'":'s g %
/: Reine's religion was that in which
she had been Brought Up from f,on 1 4 child:
Her mother professed the same faith Is
the Marions, and the ssbeaus, and tie
Picards Of the place. She shad used
the same words and outward signs ;l' is
her husband until his death old
Piers Chret,e'D, the grandfather but
their sense was not tho same. The old
grandfather, in his blouse, rath er avoid
cd oontsmtlstiog 't6s future: He had
! pretty clear ideaT of aIaplaoe not ,uni|.- Il
like the 1chspel: of the Deh,y;eeilaande; only
larger, with statuetteis II Intervals aud
Monsieur le Cure triumphant; Il i ;waa,' l'
more comfortable, On the whole, to ree-:
sire to the Kitchen If the Golden Sun,
where Pelottisr dispensed cider and
good wine at twopence a bottle, and
from whence Pierro's granddaughter,
with angry, dogged eyes, HID 'fstohsds
,him'away on more thai Due OCCASION: s
/ terrible aIpPatitiod id hsf >ibeaaty,1 and
h erainaignation:. " The children ths:mlh>' mlh>''
selves would hy before her + Of, such %: i
'casions, and they z,;zr were "a generally her
best friends. .s1=r:::4:;* III t.; = '1'a
1 Refine was one of those people whose
iqner'life works upon their outer 'lae,,
and battles with Il She had inhofitsd1
hef mother emotional nature, and her
father' Strong aud vigorous; constitution:
She wa strong where her mother had
been weak. She had thoughts and ia
tuitions undreamt OF by those among
among whom; she lived. But things
went crossways with her, and she; suf. I
tered from it. She was hard and rough
st times, and had not gentleness and
openness which belong to education aud
to culture, Beyond the horizon dawn:
ed for her the Kingdom :=cf saints aud
martyrs, for which her mother before
her had ,1onged as each weary day went,
BY; the kingdom rhere,' for the poor
woman, the star-crowned, Queen Of
Heaven reigned with 'pitifol * eyes.
Refine did not want pity o. o'' compassion
a. yet: She was a woman With love 10
her heart, but she was not tender, as
some are, or long-suHering; sho4 v9as
not nnsel6sh;; ass others who" abneeate.
and submit until nothing g'remains but i
soJlsss body, 5cataloptic subject mes:
merrised by' 1 stronger viii. She was
not humble, easily eutrested, unsuspi: |
eious of evil. The devil and bis angels
had sown tares enough in her heart to;
spring up in the good soil thick, and
rank, and abundant !; only it was good
soilin which they were growing, and
which the grain Of mustard.seed would
spring up too, and become a great tree
in time, with wide:spreadine branches,
although the thick weeds and poisonous
CRUISES were tangling in = wilderness IT
its5root. - T551si4ss t'j;*' "1a@2u2sTsT |
:: Refine On her knees, under the great
arch3of Bayeuxh Cathedray with tho 1
triumphant strains ofathss anthem 7e:
in her earii, would have seemed
to some a not unworthy type Of the
Peasant Girl Of Donremy, ID Lorraine:
AS the music rung higher and .hril1er;;..
the vibrations Of the organ filed the
crowded ediiee. Priests stood at The
high altar celebrating their mysteries;
the incense was rising ips stsaamsa Gop.
the 'eeoser. g peoples heads went be.di 4
ing lower and lower; to Rsiule 'a*giory
seemed to fill the place like the glory Of
the pink cloud in tie Temple. sahd the
heavens st her heart ~tere 1ansoidea: 1
Thu saints and visions of her din, lin: ID
againations had no hi gh "conmt,mnaald1s IS 70 for
thsif ;v,ot.ty; they d'not bid her 'de.:
liver her country, but sent her home to
her ploddinE> Ways and her daily task,
moved, disturbed, '~,'ithaa gentlor dre id
her eye, aud, With the soft; chord
in her voice stirred and h.rmoniziug its
h.rsher tome .Ic:;1"4 I: l!:i: ~" szs,t'
, Reine's voice was : peculiar one, and
muat have atrIncE anv ona hearinp II ftr