The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-06-09


AN fI,.i yos. Is q g asst - Those
Mea:!sas ~ dssis:n : :sssr s.ais.ase . ss-
"ea as IL s: sszsi. 10 az xood sooa
stand now: to-morrow il Cstharines bistAdsy.
Now know why you worked day aud night; +
Hold take back this money; I do NOS want IT,.
"Monsieur Goniden, thank you," replied;
." but this watch 10 for Catharine, ana WIN
to have earned it. Yon viii pam me ~
watch"
He said nothing more, but took the thirty; |
Ave francs then he Opened eth h, tvo aiste KEYS
Of silver gilt which he fastened to the watc s
Then he put all together into bog with rose e
cs!ossd favor He did All In sn Sos slowly
neiIei Is n epe tS present Joseph" said he
Catharine ought to think herself happy in
having such lover rs YOU she Is g g g4 tSa
s Gable No" We can take QUIZ supper 80 '
The table was arranged, and then Monsieur
Goulden took from o closet o bottle OF ms me. z
| we supped like old friends, rather than - mas
ter and apprentice. All the evening he never
2, the he oses had sweets
heart, but that, in 1892, he left home IN the
lepee CIV ,.asss at tho time of the Prussian tnya-
sion. and that on his return TO Fenst!sngss nc
found her married. very natural thing, since
clare his love However, tins did notA prevent
his atbso e se sad
indeed. recounted all this in Imagination 70
Catharine, and it was not till the stroke OF zen;
at the passage of the rounds, which renewed
the sentries on post every twenty minutes, on
account of the great cold shat we put Two
GOOD logs on the FIRE, and at length went to
Bed BED. ''>'' ~
The next day, the 18th of December, arose
| s,N w
!, cold my little window was covered with q
1 had taken care the night before to lay out
> on the back of a chair my sky-blue coat, my
trousers, my goatskin vest, and my fine back
silk cravat. Everything was ready; my well,
. polished shoes lay at the foot OF the oed. !.
! upon my face, the sight of those window-Panes
. and the deep silence without, made me shiver
3 in anticipation. If it bad not been Catharine.s
= birthday, I would have remained in bed unit
! midday but suddenly that recollection MADE
a me jump out of bod, and rush to the great dell
q | stove, where some embers OF the preceding
night always remained among the cinders.
;, found two or three, and fastened to collect
and put them under some split wood and TWO
y large logs, after which ran back to my bed.
W with the coverings pulled up to his nose AND
his cotton night-cap over his eyes, woke mp
n and cried out, I" Joseph, we have not had sucl
30 , cold for forty years never fels 1t SO. VIVA
10 a winter we shall havew
d did not answer, but looked out to see if tn
:. =. fire was lighting; the embers burnt we'll,
" heard the chimney draw and at once all blaze
II, mn. The sound of the danes W as merry enough
~ but it required good halfhour to feel the al
10 any warmer.
or At last arose and dressed myself Monseu
y; m Goulden kept on chatting, but thought onl
~ of Catharine, and when at length. toward
CT eight O'Clock. started out, he exclaimed, "Jt
seph what are you thinking or Are go1n
80 would be dead before you had got half wa
er Go into my closet and take my great cloak, an
M the mittens, and the douole-sold shoes i'ne
ny I was so smart in my fine clothes that r
- fected whether it would be better to follow
~. advice, and he, seeing my hesitation said
zee on the way to Wecham. Doctor Steinbrenn
ny said that lie sounded like piece of dry WOO
when they Upon me sa ana
IL, the frost did not take long to do its work:
an you want your nose and ears frozen' you ma
s 81 Iknew then that he was right; 80 put
oiu the thick shoes, and passed the cord of &
nd mittens over my shoulders and put the ci Ss
e es' thanking Monsieur Goulden, who warned 4
H. not to stay too lote, for the cold increased
and on she ee of
eau l had not gone as far as the church wher
ck- turned up the fox-skin collar of the cloak
seemed SCENE as though the air was filled with nee
.ie1 les and ones body shrank involuntary fro
"a head to foot.
red Under the German gate saw the soldier
leir orS in bis Great org mantle standing ba
In in his box like q saint in his niche; he had
hen sleeve wrapped around his musket where
held it, to keep his fingers from the iron, o
WIS, two long icicles hung from his mustaches.
one one one was on the bridge, not even the tx
h li.e gatherer but little further on ! saw thu
Disc carts in the middle of the road with their CT
-, vas-tops all covered and glistening with fire.
aio they were Embarrassed and abandoned. Eve
ling thing in the Instance seemed dead all livi
,oor th;nSa had hidden Themselves from the CO
!. and could hear nothing but the snow crun
ia u ing under my feet. Running along the ceI
and, tened in the snow. / said to myself, 9Th
man who sleep there are no longer cold" dr.
pos my cloak over my breast, and hid my nose
;. the fur collar, thanking Monsieur Goulden
re It his lucky thought l also thrust my ha
the into the muller up to the elbows, and
It OF along in the deep trench, extending fart
my made from the town as far as Quatre-Ve
light On each side were walls of ice. In some pla