The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-04-08

: go TO PariS; they could 1--we there Yer
happily, and they would never com
back to England-hed didn't like its
cold, 50 gray.
My poor Lucy actually loved hi
man, and I, it is impossible for me t
tell you how 1 hated him. But, then
you see, was only q cricket, and wha
did it matter? There are very few per
sons, indeed, who would care for
cricket.
"Butmy father" she faltered, "wha
would become of binl3 I cOuldn'
/ leave my dear father in his grea
! trouble" and she looked earnestly q
him.
" Ah!my angel" he said, "yol
/ father is old enough; he can care fO
himself. Let him do it. He will ge
a situation; he will do very WELL"
"I cannot leave my father" said
l co uldn't be so ungrateful, so wicked
"Verry WELL" he said. "AhI Zee
you don't care for me. You choose be
tween us; you stay with your father
l release you wish you JOY. You dc
not wish to marry; you never loved
me. You English are like your eli
mate-cold, cold, nothing but frost and
snOW-nOt like sunny France. Once
more I wish you joy. I kiss my hand
to you; I say farewell" The door
closed and he left the house.
Poor Lucy sat very still, looking at
the fire, and Acrept out of my corner
to look at her. The bright freight
played upon her sad, quiet-lOOking
face, and lighted up her beautiful hair,
and tears were falling from her soft
blue eyes, and some of them fell up
on my little brown back, and was so
grieVed you will, perhaps, hardly be-
lieve it, but [ was indeed so grieved),
that actually trembled, and shrieked
with pain.
The old gentleman never missed the
count, and never asked any questions
about him, and l could see that Lucy
was glad that it should be so. And
when everything was settled up, he
and his daughter found that there was
enough left from the wreck Of their
fortunes to take them to q foreign land.
We will go to America, my dear"
said Mr.. Harrison. 1--WE will begin
life over again; everything is so chang
ed with me, l cannot stay here"
" Yes, father" was Lucy's cheerful
reply, we will go whenever you
please. In that glorious land, so noted
for its plenty and its hospitality, two
strangers, such as we shall be, may
make an honorable and perhaps sue
cessful effort to retrieve our fortunes
And so Lucy began to pack up her
little treasures (gitts of affection which
had been presented to her from time to
time), and her own and her fathers
wardrobe She brought these articles
into the parlor, and knelt upon the rug
before the fire as she arranged them and
put them all in order. You may be
sure that l sang for her, and gave her
|
One night, as she was kneeling there
she picked up 4 newspaper that her IA
Iher had been reading he had dropped
it on the floor, and she read in il an
account of her lovers marriage. The
count had married an English lady OF
fortune. He had been dividing his at
-entiOm between her and my Lucy from
The time that Mr.. Harrison's wheel Of
fortune took its first turn III the wrong
direction. Well, he was a quick OBJ
server, and he knew as soon as the
first stroke of
study as she
. !. There was
the deepest CRIMSON her cheeks |
ever saw, and such I of grief and
scorn in her bright eyes AcaIiy didn't
think they were capable lking that
never ssaW look
like that -: ). g g Andfs Sic said
''hehas married!and gained ten thou
sand pounds. I wish him joy<<s'~ and
then She laughed but there was;'n
mdsie.i in her laughi 1 didn't like to heark
it. And then, aftel a while, she cried
q little, but not for him. Pm quite
Sure the tears fell not1for him. Ihey
dropped ed, siI9 eavily y,f for lost. lost
that these had Egone one back to her happy
childhood }andRwould never brighten
WeIl,,We saiIedA I couldn't think of
being left asnd ,so}I Esnugly SIT st
tied nlvse.i in one of the folds of Iucy's
travelling dress. We sailed; and /
must say that I never saw an English
skv look more beautiful than it did OH
that morning when we slowly steamed
down the Mersey. The soft white flee
cy clouds were pure and lovely, as
taking many a fantastic form, they
fOated gracefully beneath the deep dark
blue And the air was fresh and
balmy, and had that wonderful prop
erty in it of bracing and Frightening
everybody up to that degree, that even ven
L Il poor, sOTrOwful little cricket, felt
its influence, and almost betrayed my
self to Lucy by quite dnconsciously
out little. The MerseY itself
was a beautiful sight to see, with its
ships of every size, all outward bound,
and with their white sails gliding along
all shining in the sunlight. All! 1t
was well for each and every one Q1sCIs
that we couldn't know all the sorrows
of the heavy hearts, over which 81
ing eyes kept watch and ward, as Cf1e-
shores of England slowly receded from
our SIGHT, y-~~-a.-
--s-ss----4L CHAPTER II.
We settled down very comfortably
in a small house in the city of New
York, and were very well pleased with
the house and with the city. though |
may say with perfect confluence, that
the house was q. little too small, and
very incOnvemietlt, and was situated in
a rather Out-Of-the-way place; but then
rents were high, and as our means
were really very limited, we had to put
up with these little drawbacks, and be
satisfied.
Lucy declared that she was more
than satisfied; that it was perfect lit
tie bandbOX of place, and that she
didn't see how any person could feel
anything but glad after coming safely
over the great ocean, and enduring all
the anXieties of its uncertain perils;
indeed she continued, " / don't
think such ingTatitude is possible; and
really our house is very nice, and the
hustle of the great city is cheering, and
the bay is magnifcentu
- Yes, my love, YOU are quite right
to make the best of everything said
her father, rather despOndingly.
! listened to Lucy's remarks and
thought that in speaking Of the place
as a bandboX, she had done it justice;
although for my own part don't like
bandboxes, not that Pm at at all par
ticular about myself-a cricket can be
as coy in one chimney corner as ano-
ther-and if ! hadn't quite as much
hearthstone to walk upon as ] had
been accustomed t., | couldn't blame
any body forttUt; and if was stran-
ger in a strange land, | became one Of