The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1870-03-31

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7 never dared hope for" said tl,ee e'i,huit io,huaite
laine to herself. . 'tI should like The
marriage to take place, if possible, be:
fore tho 18th of next month. It vae
too absurd Of Sarah Butler to alarm me
50 unnecessarily about Dick. One might
be very comfortable in that nice house
Of Fontaine's," said Madame de Ira
cy, aloud. "Don'; you think 80, Caths-
rine ?"
"Oh yes," said Catharine, not know
ing what she was saying.
! Another time Madame de Tracy sud-
denly asked her how she should like to
pass her life among them always.
Catharine thought that she was speak.
ing Of her as governess, aud said,
with grateful eAusion, "You are so
good to mo; I am more happy with
you than I could be with any body
else. l almost forget I am a govern.
ess.' ~. ",.'+.' - E@f.;H 60
'"My dear child, ! meant how should
you like to settle down among Us and
marry?"' said Madame de Tracy, appa-
rently unconcerned. s>ss" .Sa 1>'o:'a.
'"1 shall never Marty Marty y said Catha=:
rine, turning away disappointed, With
vi.tfui, perplexed look'in Her teyss, -
Madame do Trac!yl'a5did not press tndss
subject, but 1shs went On asking Foul-:
taine to breakfast aud dinner; udsif r.
nestine declared it wausii T. q1aaite aintoleff..s
able, and even Marshee gently siemon.s
! stfatad. & s'5v.;. t&ss "Ea :a5sGssa u
4oatb.rine loofed happy a,Ihid content:
ed; but presently, while 2alf ~ f;a fg6idhRs p
I
On As usual, there came secret charge: lf.li
Ontsiae everything was the same, Id: Id:
side it was all different: These twoe1-
istences side by side ;Ft<'ame ct Il Bete;' ;'''
| as De Maistte calls them;s ssen sooiidei
times to lead to lives almost apart, Tad
ing in different directions with 2 differ
ent result. Do they: il: their di6erish::
ces supplement q ono another, SSe Is
sometimes tempted to ask, and Keep
ths balance event.: In one calm" and
uneveutful existence, angels may know
Of terrible tragedies, Of happiness, and
overwhelming misfortune, scarcely ao-
knowledged even by the "bste" itself; ).
whereas another life, outwardly: hope
less, deserted, unsuccessful in every
thing, may from within have Won
all the prizes that seemed to have: failed
it. - - ,.'' .~ -, : ~'1,>.9j@
When Catharine had been little
time at Tracy, whom she began TO know
her way about the house and tho vine;
grown garden, and along the shodgeless
paths to the sea, to tho farm, TO tho
church narrow paths skirting 1 tie
fields, dust.blown; ftinged with stage
Cling flowers and scattered With stones
when she had tasted her fll Of tie
grapes that were sweetening upon the;
walls, when she had gathered handfnls
Of the flowers that were growing all
about the gardens and courts in sweet
yet disordered luxuriance- all
this had grown familiar, she began to
turn away from it all, and look back
once more toward the past which was
already beginning to glow with dis
tant radiance. 1t was like some ono
dazzled for little by sudden illumi-
nation WHO begins to see clearly
again-more clearly, alas than before.
She had mot Refine once or twice In
her walks, and had promised to 90 aad
see her.
~ shall look out for you every day nm
til you oome," said Refine, in her old jar
ring voice, that sometimes began harsh
ly, and ended in pathetic cadence.
at is not often that any ono. comes to
see me that care for" =. -.
RENE had, like others infinitely vis-
er and better than herself, to pay, a cor
tain penalty Of loneliness and misap;
preheus,on which seems to, be tho
doom Of ali those Who live upon the
mountain tops: Catharine, too, va
lonely in her way, and ths country girl,l
cordial sympathy was very grateful and
! sweet to her. But Catharine was lone.
y from outward Influences, and 20,
from inner c.ases: Poor little .oaI i
was not for the mountain tops that she
longed. Any green valley, any fertile,
tranquil: plain, would have eontentei
, her, if she oould l. only have seen Il, ~
: shadow Of one person falling, across !
and advancing toward her. ,xv -:
One Sunday evening-it was III
day after she had called q At the chalet
t Catharine came down dressed for. th
, dinner before any body else. She cam
f into the drsw,ng-room. It was empty
and one lamp only was stauding upon
= table, and casting its circlet Of lieh
D upon the cloth. 1t lit up 4 card-racl
. and Madame de Tracy's paroissien wit
It's golden cross, aud some letters whio]
8 had just arrived by the post, and whio
o had been left there by. the servant
3 Catharine had q book 10 hel hand &
J. was Eugenie Grandet, which NJ. d
IS Tracy had lent herr aud. she Wake