The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1874-05-01
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1t was a fair lady-a very fair lady
and the long hair hung in braid
down over the breast. She wa
alone and looked at it euriously, an,
saw underneath inscribed Marie d
Lisle.' Marie de Lilse,' that wa
her mothers name, and the poor
weak hand wandered up to the pal
face, as she wondered what could i
mean.
Well, the days passed, and she re
covered. 1t was in mid July, ant
she must go. Those around tn
chateau said not, but she could no
stay. Somehow her heart would no
let her; and so one night when nj
were sleeping, she arose and wander
ed away back to Paris.
She dld not go back to the factory
He might find her there, and sh'
dreaded him now, somehow, with al
indefinite fear of she knew not what
and SO with other poor girls sht
worked in the cafes, where there wa
much talk now of war. There wai
revolutionary talk, too, Of what 'tht
reds would do were the army away
and once in while when she dared
ask, she made timorous inquiries O
Monsieur the Marquis" she called
him, and once when his name wai
read aloud as the leader of a desper
ate charge, and only retreated wher
borne back by soldiers, she shudder
ed.
This time also passed, and Paris ii
"sabota" and cred caps" was in al
uproar. Napoleon had surrendered
Paris had fallen, and after the enemy
left, the city WAS crazy, wild, mad.
and furious with blood and fire; but
she worked on. What was it all to
her, only poor sewing girl, except
that bread was hard to get, and at
that very poor and dear?
But one day she heard that there
was to be an execution. What was
that? Only something she had heard
of, never seen: and so in the press of
the crowd she hastened to where La
Commune waved its red flag, and
where the ruined, blackened walls
showed In Commune's : venneonce had
fallen. o
There were three bostares-onlv
three One n vonnn man nrhasso,r
in his rich uniio1m He wos hand.
some, all soij His ewes were hound .
he stood arains6 the wall, A crash
a roar, and he fell forward on his
face While his oilt uniform wasdroa-
rled in tho dnst
The second was n priest in his
black sombre dress and beods. he
looked nm once and then diej as tbe
other before. md the t6iIJ he WAS ..
General, tbey said. and had defed
The neonle There was n nrosa for
ward 70 tbe foremost ronl, She
looked. He was a man of over go,
with white hair and features clear
cut and hard and yery cold then. he
steppeJ nm proudlv hnd&miled
The red in command oaye tbe or
ders cone two"-tbere9 was n rush
from the foremost rank n sudden crv
and then a GIRLS form was seen lvina
in the arms of the hosfane "three
fire " sboufed the red and somehow
the Sabbotts in the crowd raised a
faint cheer which deepened into a
roar and a suggestion was heard to
put the red in his place
Paris, especially common Paris, is
1uiek Of feeling and when the moor
9irl explained in her teras that "the
general" was dear very dear to her;
that he head saved her Ii e. once when
she was very ill. Aye more, he was
roine that she had died willie married
70 another man. and that she loved
lim Would they?
She was not fair; she was not pret-
" even; but her pale Golden hair
,oyorel him ike n halo and cloud
md red Paliserst while SO furious for
MS blood raised him and her on their
and a whole furious array
AWAY down the street to
where La Commune sat with closed
portals La Commune was however
EASILY cot at. and when the wild ar
nv burst in with its HOSTAGE borne
loft It was only too happy to grant
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