Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1872-09-21


fair .uchantress, Helen Perceyi With
the accumulated tIiak OF poverty
crowdiag about her, filing, a. they
ever do, the entire time of the "doom' /
ed to lie poor,r she had but few mo-
ments to spena in dreaming. |
In the struggle for bread, even ner
old ,uxurious home in the once happy
South was hardly recalled; the faces
of her father and lover, whose bones
| Law beneath some deserted ana iar
AVA, battlefield, where but the shadow
of a distant dream, and the dear
friends of those other and happier
days faded vision. 81
She remembered-ever would re-
mrmtmr-the gentleman who bought
rne d st book sine had ever sold; ) but
with other pleasant memories s'se iaid
il on shelf OF the past, to be taken
dosn now and then, glanced at anu
wefl ever. "a tssa aaT- ga.
The search for a living was her
lpresenl duty, and would be her future !;
80 xhe must look back neither to the
!, right nor to the left, she said, up lie
:. zig zag path. :,
But Hrlen's fortunes have improved
somewhat since we saw her year ago.
! A kindly Clergyman, who found her
when even hope was at its lowest ebb,
/ and starvation looking her in the face,
had not oily taken her to his own
home for awhile, but secured her few
music pupils-so Helen was now, after
y fashion, getting along. a-7
II was about this time that che had
ii new acquisition to her small Glars,
ia the shape of a stylish young lady OF
foart-en, whose great fondness tor
music was only exceeded by her OBJ
tuseness as pupil.
Numerous had been Hehnfs prede-
cpssors some OF whom the little lady
dad not like, and some who did not
Ike her; hut the present one, this
capriciuus ,iamsal aaid, was a perfect
, paragon, and indeed 80 iWcessantly did
the young chatterbox talk to Miss
I'errey and her perfections, that her
famiI, were ieginning To alssVct hate
the mention of her nanse and her
eldest h,utier, who was no less 4 per
s,nagc than henry DuInaine. was
heard 10 r+ulark that he hoped himself
and tine .ovrly Percy might never
meet. az he knew it would be the
death of him. But even a. he spoke,
: .iestiny was taking him by the hand
aud leading him to his fate. sse
The remark above quoted had takeu
piar,. al lunch, and afterward Henry
strolle,l into the extensive Tarior fol
slior, sicsta but he was no more
, than -nseoncrd in his pet chair-ai
4, im,npnse pillswy affair-than a shriIl
cry from his sister announced the fact
that the most perfect Of mnsic-teaehers
:. had arrived. A sudden fear that he
would be dragged in aud introduced
. came over him. %
e Horrors;7 he thought, "not IT
know i,,r and he made a plunge fol
his hat; but what tones were those
!, that greeted his EARS. bra 1a,as.i =
The aiusic teacher wan speaking.
3" Venus! Jupiter! and all the Other
starsw he calculated, beneath hi'
breath. "Her voice
: Back to the shadow recesses Of th'
!, great chair lie went, his hat making
several rather uncertain circles wher'
:, hr had dropped it id the middle of th'
} fioor. - ga .isF
Patiently through the long hour h
sat, the corrected mistakesja jarring dis
u cords and fearful rrpef1tions falling
= unhte,lrd ON his love-stricken ears, TO
Helel1s voice was ringing above the'
: all. faE $50 @n1'cA g
a Tie lesson at last was cofitindet1
= and the teacher turned to leave; bu
- as she did 80, Henry Dumaine's eye
followed her, and his heart heat wild
H. iA a~g EA's,,
u 1t is uniiecexsary, reader, to partict
le Iarize AZ to the way Henry manage
D. All introduction, the love-makiiiks tiis
81 follow ed, and the orange buds, frs
II i'm their scented sweetness, that VEL
:, woven shortly sfterward; but rest a
~ sured that All these things tfanspire
since. 5g,,.i. ,s..s.,.;,,,
ne Love will 60 where it is sent"