The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-10-12
LUIGI RUDlO'S DAUGHTER.

"What say You to setting cut for
Marsellles, and thence home in a pack
eG?"
Salt yourself and that will answer
me-" replied Harrison; we have been
} twenty months doing that which we
limited ourselves to perform in one year.
We ought to have been eff long ago; so
you please, I'm ready to leave by the
steamer which starts tomorrow"
Not 50 fast" replied; anxious as I
like that Suppose we say this day
week, ell ?"
"Ail right" returned Glenn.
owe got q good many things to do
vet" l continued; ''theLe are those
! paintings at Andrea's they arc dirt
cheap, and think I'll purchase them
may never have such chance again );
and Glenn, I'm half inclined to buy
those old coins from that beggar, Masti.
Ii was sure they were genuine. I'd be
,razy to possess them, but somehow
tear he is trying to palm off some modern
swindIc upon me-"
Glenn lit cigar, and very provoking
~ regarded me with smile, half mirth,
aud halt pity.
/ "After all you have heard Of that ras-
calls tricks" he said, "you deserve to be
cheated if you trust him. You know he
t deals in the antiquity line on a cheap
capital"
well, I'll consider it," I replied !;
"the coins are reasonable enough, and if
am deceived | shan't pay very dearly
e for the deception.
Harrison was leaning out of the win
+ Cow as spoke, but he suddenly starred
for the door
] "I'Il be back in moment" he cried,
as he hurried down stairs. Presently he
returned and appeared to be highly
elated about something.
"Friar,s' he said, Che generally spoke
to me thus 1t was u nickname he had
% given me from tue fact that | wore my
d hair clipped, and had bald spot on the
top of my head which resembled the
IT tonsure) "Doyou remember that splen
did head we saw in the Castelli Gal
lery %
"Weil," Ireplied, "what aboutit?"
L "Only that just now saw 1t in flesh
+ and blood LIVING face, and as divinely
beautiful. OH you laugh, hey? Let me
lie tell you that in all your travels you never
saw beauty like his"
"Where did you see herr" I inquired
''At the door, talking to Raphael. H Ell
3 father was with her; he is fisherman
u don't see why you should be per
ii turbed about IT" Irajoined. what is il
Ie to you?"
" Not much" he returned "but Tn
N going to visit that girl before I leave
Naples"
N Il can't understand your object" ]
answered.
re perhaps haven't got any," he re
; plied "but object or no object, an
- determined to become acquainted witt
d her.
do you know where she resides:'
I asked
IA Yes, Raphaelintroduced me to boil
is father and daughter, but of course I hao
no conversation with them; they left
| Immediately. Raphael says they only
- live few miles from here, and are dis
. family connected with his mothers fam
lily. lie is going to take me down there.
80 Will you go, Friar =
= "Thanl1 you,'' I replied "Tll wait
until you are acquainted, then, perhap.
ry will take visit with you"
There is a small road skirting the Bay
TX of Naples, and running parallel Will
that which leads directly to Sorrento
~ dotted all the way with neat villas anC
picturesque buildings. You need traye
u hardly q league ere you reach cluster o
% small cottages situated near the shore
where the blue waters that have swcp
wv by Capria break gently at your feet
Here lived Luigi Rudlo, the fisherman
I'd with his wife, Teresa, and his daughte
Berta. He was poor, but industrious
m toiling for the daily bread Of his fault,
=. upon the Mediterranean, ard though h,
was not whit superior to any of tn.
re fishermen in point of social standing, ye
life regulated by as severe moral PROFIT,
10 caused HIM to he more respected, and hi
advice more generally regarded, than an,
to of his class. He had some education b,
could write as we'll read, and properly
: lamenting and estimating the absence 0
he knowledge in himself he had managed e
give his daugeter as many SCHOLARSHIP
advantages as his slender purse permit
p' ted This was not q great deal hardl,
ed more than he himself possessed, but i.
those days 1t was something not to b,
n despised ..
A small convent near to where Lug
20 lived had supplied the scauty store O
knowledge his daughter had acquired
ed Its gray walls grew dismal enough, wher
contrasted with the smiling verdurt
- which surrounded it. Luigi often gazed
I'd at the time-worn edifce with athoughtful
brow for the good sisters were disposed
ss so kindly towards his child that be
feared she might be induced to enter this
}, society. This, perhaps, was the main
y reason why he suffered her education tc
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