The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-03-01

looking very fxedIy at Paulus. At last III
said.
"Tbis, then, accounts for the wonderful
likeness. My lady, will never take one bras:
coin from you or yours; not an as, so help me
You must command in this house. Do moi
! think otherwise"
And, apparently to prevent Aglais from an
| swerng him, he drew his wife hastily out OF
the room, and closed the door.
Benigna was left behind, and, with winning
smiles and a tlutter of attentions, the Young
girl now placed the chairs, and began to cackle
as Crispus would have expressed himself and
| to entreat the wanderers to take that refresh
ment of which they stood much in need.
! They all had the delicate and graceful tact to
feel that compliance with the kindness which
they had SO providentially found was the only
| way to return it which they at present pos
| sessed.
| 1t is historical to add that appetite gave the
| same advice. Their hunger was as keen as
their tact. During supper the mother and son
| spoke little; but Agatha both during the re-
past and for some time afterward. kept up a
brisk conversation with Benigna, for whom
the child had taken an inexpressible liking,
| and from whom she drew, with unconscious
| adroitness, the fact that she was engaged to
| be married. That sudden affection of sympathy
| which knit the soul of David to that of Jo-
nathan seemed to have bound these two to-
| gether. The landlady's considerate daughter
at length advised Agatha to defer further
communications until she should have good
nights rest Paulus seconded the recommend
| ation and left his mother and sister with their
Greek slave Mclena and with Bengna, and
retired to his own bed room. This chamber
overlooked the inner court, whence the inces
SAINT plash of the fountain was heard sooth-
ingly through his lattice window, the horn
slide of which he left open. The bedroom of
the ladies, on the other hand, overlooked the
garden and bee-hives, to which Crispina had
alluded. The sitting apartments, opening into
| each other, in one of which they had supped,
stood between; all these rooms being situated
in the projecting west wing, which they
trely filled. Thus closed the day which had
carried to their destination the travellers from
Thrace.
CHAPTER TX.
Next morning when they met at break fast,
there was marvellous Improvement in
Agatha's looks. She had been the earliest out
of bed; had seen from her window, under q
brilliant sunshine, the beautiful landscape IN
roll itself in the various forms which the land
lady had truly though inadequately described;
| and she then had run down into the garden.
In due time-that is, very soon afterward-
| she had been chased by the bees, had fled,
| screaming and laughing, with the hood Of her
| ricnim drawn completely over the head by
way of helmet against the terrible darts of her
indignant pursuers, and had been received in
ha Of bo had heard tba nv
of distress and had flown to the rescue bran
dshing long, reedy brush, like tie mosquito
brushes of modern times. Rallyng in bower
| of trellis-work covered with ivy, whence a
wooden staircase led up to the first floor of the
! house, by way of a landing or platform, over
which rose another bower clad in the same ivy
manufacturing round, 1 say, upon her enemy
at the foot of this staircase, she bad soon ven
tured once more into the garden with Benigna;
and the two girls, jabbering and cacklng
much, had gathered a large nosegay of au-
tumnul flowers. With this booty, which Be-
| nigna had made so big that Agatha could
hardly hold it in her small and elegant hands,
the latter damsel had returned to the bower,
had seated herself upon bench, and had
| begun TO sort the flowers in the relative posi-
tions which best showed their tints. Here she
relied upon graduation, there upon contrast
Her delicate Greek taste in the performance of
this task drew EXPLANATIONS of delight from
Bengna.
"Therc!" the innkeepors daughter woult
cry; chow pretty! That is the way! Tha
so, and then that, and that! they look quite
different now! Exactly! l never imagined
it,
When Agatha had finished the arrangement
to her own satisfaction, an exploit which wa
nimOly achieved, Now, Benigna,' said she
with her pretty foreign accent, "sit dow
here, just do, ana tell mo all about e. CT,
thing
, Benigna stared, and Agatha proceeded, " S
you are engaged to become the wife of a yer
good and handsome youth, who in himself j
everything that can be admired, except that
poor young man. he is not very courageous,
l understood you to say. Now, that is not hi
fault, 1 suppose. How can he help feelin
} afraid if he does feel afrad?"
At this moment the voice of Crispina wa
. | heard calling her dan fer IN balD in orapo,