Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-03-13
Dicks Lessen.


BY ". =. EGAN.
1t was about a week after our marriage.
1t could not have been more, for Walter
still called my haira uburn, and we had
not yet quarreled once. Our first quar-
rel was caused by a change in his opiu-
ion-he said my locks were red.
We had gone to Paris in the course Of
our wedding tour Brother Dick and
Anges Bolt were with us. Anges was my
dearest friend, aud had been my brides.
maid.
She was a sweet little damse. She had
the most beautiful violet.coored eyes !
ever saw. Her complexion always re-
minded me Of apple-blossoms, and her
soft, tendril-like hair of sun-beams on a
misty morning. She was petite and fairy
like IN stature, and charming altogether ;
the expression of her face being pensive
and meek, with now and then CLEAN OF
ninth in those deep blue eyes. She wore
my Brother Dicks engogement-ring.
Brother Dick was a kind, geuerou,
fellow, hut rather unstable. He wa,
handsome. and he knew it. The word.
Of Balshuzzar'S song express a prominent
trait in his churaetcr,-
! zone foot in sea, and one en- Shore
/ To one thing constant never
After dear Walter had popped the
question, and the anxiety about the
trouSsraH was off my mind, | devoted ali
my energy to secure a wife for Dick SC
when at last he fell in love with Ange,
Bolt, | was greatly relieved, for there,
nothing like matrimony for settling u
young man.
Well, we were in Paris, at boarding
house in the rue de la Madeleine, wher,
everything was aw fat, one was sure tl
meet good society. 1t was very pleasant
there but Paris always is pleasant to al
American; even had we been forced It
remain during the siege, | think we wouC
have managed to enjoy ourselves
We had letters of introduction to sew
eral nice people, but Ahges seldom at
tended the balls aud receptions to whicl
we were invited.
This was the result of no indifference,
to pleasure on her part, for she liked thu
brilliant panorama and the inspiritin!
music of a party as well as any OF us, ba
Captain Treyln and his mother had ar
rived in Paris. They were at Meurlce'
in the rue Rivcli,
Although Anges had been made wealth.
by the death of her aunt, she had one
been Joor and governess. Then th'
Trey Inns had bcfrended heI, and whel
Agnes discovered that they werein Paris
she Immediately set off to visit them.
Mrs. Treyln was an invalid, and Cap
tain Treylin, U. s, A., had obtained leave
Of absence and come abroad with his moth
er in the hope that her health might b.
improved by the change.
Of course Mrs. Treyliu could not min
gle in the usual fashionable scenes of ga
ETY., and during part of her sojourn il
Paris the captain was Obliged to 60 Lyon
on business in consequence she woul,
, have felt very lonely, had not Agnes
with her usual kindness, offered to spept
the evenings with her.
So while we danced Anges was anus
ing the invalid.
For the first three nights Dick escorted
Agnes to and from the rue Rivoli, bu
after that he left the duty to my husband
In the daytime Dick was devoted to hi
betrothed by gasight he was in love witt
somebody else.
This son ebody else was the charming
and rich young widow-Madame Claii
Blanceau. Madame Blanceau was stay
ing at our boarding-house. Her husband
a wealthy bourgeois, had been dead
year, and la bella Clarae was not at liber
ty to exercise her fascinations on othc
members Of the male sex.
She could not have been called strictl,
beautiful. but her hair and eyes wer
splendid-es especially the latter. The
we're black and luminous. She used tn,
most consummate art in managing them
They languished, flashed, or smiled be
witchingly, at her pleasure.
AS | said before, Dick was good-look
ing, and since he had come to Paris
luxurant mustache had appeared on hi
upper lip. 1t was ola most fashionable
shape, and he thought it gave him an al
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