The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-03-01

hc stared as much at the Due q.
they did at the spectacle.
! Moranita no longer looked al
him; she knew his eyes were upon
her, and her heart beat quickly, but
her long lashes fell beneath his
glancea
Fortunio. the clown, first detected
the cause of the Dues presence in
the circus.
/ Moranita, I" said he one evening
as they returned from the circus,
I" do you love me2 Could you ever
have a secret from me?"
"No, I could never hide anything
from you, you have been to me all
the world. / have no secret.
FOFtunio said no more, but he de-
termined to put an end to the in
trigue which he knew must inevita-
bly, lead to the young girls destruc-
ton.
He had never spoken to her either
OF principles or purity, but he had
kept her pure from all evil thought,
and from all contamination of her
companions she was spared. For
tunio never left her for an instant,
and the moment her duties were
over he took her back to their home.
He loved MOranita not as q
daughter; he loved her with the
deepest, ,mOst overwhelming passion.
He knew it. He knew that the pas
sion was hopeless, yet he hoped
against hope, and thought if he
could take her from all the world
no. how could that lovely, beautiful
girl think of him I? Yet ahe loved
him, and there hfId been miracles
Of love, gratitude and devotion in
woman's heart. The poor, deform-
ed clown blushed as he thought he
had even ventured to hope.
Meantime the Due de Croisy was
struggling, like tbs clown, with a
deep and overwhelming passion.
He had conceived for the admirable,
bright, beautiful and modest circus
girl, one of those passions for which
the world, when they produce ca
tastrophies, finds it so difficult to
account. Magnetism is the ration
al cause that can be assigned for
the infAtuation, for which no COM
mon sense can account, for what
those who are beneath the spell can
not explain.
It was very easy for him, the
Due de Croisy, to go behind the
scenes with diamond IN one hand,
and an insulting proposition in the
other, yet, strange to say, q feeling
of respect and fear restrained him.
He pondered, he thought, he
struggled, and thus hereasOned:
He was rich, he was independent;
he was responsible to no one for his
conduct the aim of his life was
happiness; that depended on Nora
nita, and Moranita he would have.
On that day the clown told Mora
nita that they would leave Paris
on that day the Duo de Croisy sought
her behind the scenes, and with the
same ceremony and respect he
would have used toward a duchess,
he made the circus girl an offer OF
his hand, laying at her feet his for
tune and his title.
Fortunio was on the stage, max
ing the crowd laugh by antics and
contortions.
When he returned behind the
scenes he stood transixed; he knew
that his destiny vas accomplished.
They had met it was too late now
to save his happiness.
One deep look OF bitter hate he
cast on the Due; one look of intense
yearning at Moranita; then, with
calm dignity, he advanced towards
them. @A .A '
The De de Croisy came towards
him, leading Moranits by the hand.
"Sir," said he, with the utmost
Difference, Il have just offered my
hand to Nile. Moranita, and she has
done me the honor to accept me.
We ask your consent and your
blessing" '--
Fortnnio stood for an instant, and
could either of the young, hopeful
being who stood before him have
read the desperate hate that germi-
mated that moment in his heart, they
would have recoiled from him.
But though love revelIs itsslf, hate
has the power to hide itself. They
believed In the smile with which he
joined their hands. When Fertunio
and Moranita reached home neither
spoke of what had just passed. For
the frst time she felt that there was
q barrier between them.
The next day came the Due in his
carriage. He proposed that they
should go to the Hotel de Princes,
leaving behind their former associa-
tions. FertHRio did not reply to the
Due, but returned to Moranita.
"Whst he says is right, but I will
never leave the station in which I
am born, and for which lam fitted" :"
"Then, until I belong to another,
I will remain with you, father"
| Her father Yes, he was her ia
ther; that was the relation in which
he stood to her. She loved as q
daughter-no more.
| Moranita remained In her humble
home; the grand, samptuous pre-
sents of the, Due came to the two lit
tie rooms where she had been so
happy, where she had manufactured
with so much delight she shabby and
showy tiasel costumes Of her profes-
sion. ~ 'sA3-- So
| Now. diamonds, laces and siIks
surrounded her. An atmosphere Of
calmness and serenity came around
her. She overwhelmed the clown
with gentle and tender marks Of
Ictiaffeon.