The Huntington argus. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1872-1905, 1873-02-15

home o. porcelain for you, should ask
nothing more o. the blessed Mary1nothing
more upon earth"
She had the sam. simple bead roll Of
innocent wishes ever since the first hour
that she had raised me from the dust OF
the street; and it would, doubt not, have
remained her only one all the years OF her
life, till che should have glided down into
serene and cheerful old age of poverty
aud labor under that very same roof, with.
out the blessed Mary ever deigning to har-
Ken or answer. Would have dode so if
the painter Rene could have seen the
stars and so had not been driven to look
instead at the glowworm through my
leaves.
But after that night on which she shut
too the lattice so suddenly, I think the
bead-roll acknowledgement, though
Cor some time the addition to it was writ
ten on her heart in a mystical lasguage
which she did not try to translate even to
hersell-I suppose fearing lts meaning.
Rene made approaches to his neighbors
/ friendship soon after that night lie was
but an artstudent, the son OF poor noun.
taineer, and with scarce u thing he could
call his own except an easel OF deal, a few
plaster casts, and bed of straw. She was
but working girl, born OF Breton peas.
ants, and owning "a her sole treasures Two
silver EARRINGS an4 n white rose.
But for all that, no courtship could have
been more reverential on the one sids or
fuller OF modest grace on the other if the
scene OF it had been a palace Of princes or
IA chateau OF The mobiles
He spoke very little
! The vine had said that at the club round
the corner he was very eloquent, with all
the imprisoned and fierce eloquence COM
mon to men OF the south. But with Lii
he was almost mute The vine. who knew
human nature welI-as vines always 10.
since their juices unlock the secret thoughts
OF men and bring to daylight their darkest
passions-the vine, SAID that such silence
N one 10y nature eloquent show ed the force
OF his love aud its deicacy.
This may be so: hardly know. NY lover
the wind, when lie is amorous is loud. but
then tits true his loves are not often very
constant
Rene chiefly woed her 10y gentle service
He brought her little lovely wild flowers.
for which he ransacked the woods OF st
Germans and Meudom lie carried the
bIlleIs OF her fire wood up the seven long,
twisting, dirty flights Of stairs He fought
for her with the wicked old FORTRESS at the
door down stairs lie played to her in the
gray OF the evening on quaint simple
hutc, relic OF his boy hood, the sad, wild.
touching airs Of his own southern noun
tains-played at his open window whileth
lamps burned through the dusk, ill the
people listeud at their doors and case
mems, and gathered in groups in the pas
sage below, and said to one another, How
clever he is and he s'arves
He did starve very often, or at least he
bad to teach himself to keep down hunger
with morse OF black chat bread and
stray roll OF tobacco Aud yet / could see
that he had become happy
Lii never asked him within her door
All the words they exchanged were from
their own lattice-, with the space Of the
roadway between them
heard every syllable they spoke. aud
they were on the one side most innocent
and on the other most rcyereuual Ay.
though you may not believe it-you who
know the people Of Paris from the trave--
ties OF theatres and the ISLANDERS OF sa
Ions
And all this time secretly bee worked on
at her portrait lie worked out of rny
sight ard hers, IN the inner part of hi- gar
ret, bat the swallows saw aud told me-
There are never any secrets between bad.
and flowers
We used 10 live IN Paradise together.
and We love one another u- cxiles DO AND
We hold IN our cups the ralndrop- to ,lasy
+ the thirst Of the birds. and the bird, in re-
turn bring 90 u- from many lands ndoyer
many water, uIins, of those lost ones who
have been torn from 90. to strike thc roots
Of our race lu The h.r Jn soils aud under
distant suns
Late 900 the summer OF the yrar. one
wonderful iete-lay Lii did tor once get
oHtio thewooi.. ueoiJ kindly green woods