Litchfield enquirer., 1874-08-06

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 tears and frequently 8 soft convulsiol
 would stir her wrinkled face.
 Que day the poor girl placed her han.
 in that of her friend. and cried dispariLg '.Isweet for4lim and he does not coon
 l grow tired. tink he cheat mee, den pray Tor deeth. My moder has gone away
 my fader has gone away, and the crue Spanlards, dey have shot my good bro
 der--O mye 10 mye! | loove my hoos
 band and my little babe, but dere is Il,
 one to looye me"
 The young wife and the old wife mourn ed together. It became the daily custom for the Cuban to descend from her dis
 maj garrett to tho warm parTors, with he 1 child, and there to sit until night return cd. Within Madames bosom there haf
 been generated an overwhelming suspic
 ion. If 1t troubled her, she did not show
 It; II 1t occupied most of her thoughts she concealcd it beneath the suEface. Shts augmented her misery by a certain
 exchange of whispers with her visitor On one occasion, after long account o dlsappointments, the recital of which hai wronght her companion into a paroxysn
 of tears. and herself into a paroxysm oi
 anger, she suddenly pressed her lips te theear of her nearer and said,
 They tell me, too, that he has mar ried a countrywoman of yours: that, since
 my hair has grown white with the anguish
 1 have endured, he has profalned his
 oaths. Can the spirit of affliction dea
 me smother blow?"
 Dey make de same whisper to me-
 returned the other; "dey say dat l, too
 have rival, some greet leedy; but I try
 hard to sheek my heed"
 This answered for yerifcation, Ma dame held her breath for moment, but sEe was good soldier under fire of sur prlses; she encountered shocks impertur-
 baby. The face of her friend had grown terribly pale, an effect of her own words.
 Madame now wished for proof positive, She waited for three days, until all was calm again. Then with great tact she lnduced the Cuban to describe her hus- band
 The Baron R-- was presented.
 For the rest of the day Madame with drew, and in the secrecy of her screened apartment she communed and debated with her inmost heart. First she coasiti- cred her friend and her child; then she considered herself. She was grave, rigid, and motionless. She forgot her cards. her sugared water. her dinner; she omitted hct prayers.
 At dusk shsscslled her servant: she had made mp her mind.
 On @he next day she seemed to have grown younger by ten years; that IS, dur ing the first hours of her friends pres ences Her eyes were bright, her smile delightful, and her language quick and full of vivacious sentiment. She related many "reminiscences of her life at the French court; of the we'll known gay jour- ney to Aigiers, for instance, when the em- press was most beautiful and the empe- TOT was most an emperor. She detailed the feaes and the hanquets. She told what great personages sat on her right hand and who on her left hand. Sho langIed as she recalled the disputos con- earning precedence. It amused her to remember the dresses that were worn and tisa 6shes that were eaten She gossiped EncI,a i.r am edd intermingling of French and titles and names of the eas9seahi sS9ehseahing at the rious pleasure.
 Then again she would become graphic and vivid when she spoke, for example, of the corps of the Grand Army before Napoleon and Chagarnier just previous to the coup d'etat. It seemed to her that that was sublime moment; at first the cheers were timld and the Eagles were barely dropped. It was Q question the soldiers were for the old gen. eral or the politician. Napoleon on his horse was at one point; Changarnier was on horse at another. Every new platoon was braver than its predecessor. The tu- mutt swelled. It roared for the Imperial ist. The great ladies who were there fut- tered like birds; tae uproar of drums and voices filled the air, and .fanfare of trumpets arose from all the field. It was on the night following that day that all the ministers were taken from their beds and thrown into prison.
 Madame was pleased to see the rapt look which rested upon the Eistner's face at these recitals. She was bent upon making sweet intimacy, a cheery conf dence, a warm and keen sympathy be- tween them. She wished to draw this young and tender heart close to her old one. She tried hard to smile and to be kind. Sine made curious little confes- sions of petty sins and weaknesses, she related her minute sorrows, she described her utmost pleasures, and at rare times she descanted by contrasts upon her deep affiictions.
 For example: one day when she seemed to be in good heart and when she looked her best in black robe, she described an incident in her earlier life in France. She possessed face of matchless dignity and delicacy of outline Timc had sharpened the profile, hollowed the cheek, lengthen- ed the nostril, empurpled the region of the eye, but there remained tho ashes of the incomparable fl iower; visage already shaded by the coming repose, yet retain ing the cast of the old perfection.
 She took her friend hand into her own with smile. "My husband" said she. 'twas appointed the commandant of Fon- when the distribution of re- wards was made to those who had cspous- cd the cause of the emperor. The palace and gardens then needed a great deal of repair and alteration, and as soon as the place was made habitable we took up our quarters there. The palace received it's name from a fountain of water which in former times had been celebrated for it's sweetness and beauty, but which had been overgrown and lost during the many CHhHBto OA OWA0Eouip WHICH bH0 palaCe had experienced. It had been an ambi- tion of the latter occupants to rediscoyer this spring, which was now half fabulous, but all attempts had failed, and finally, very few persons could be found who be- heved that it had ever existed.
 "One bright afternoon nearly all of our little world was strolling in the gardens. There were few gentlemen but great many ladies, and we were all dressed for a little Jete choma1etre winch was about to be given in honor of Q Russian princess. l was great favorite at that time; they admired the young Ansesscaine and they made pet of of me. Twas walking down 2 grassy mound with the Duchesse de B--a an one side and the Marchioness L-- on the other; we had our arms interlocked, and we were trying to skip together, laughing and shrieking all the while. remember how full of birds the trees were. and how many millions of but. terfiies there seemed to be in the air. The atmosphere was filled with the per- fume of the wide fower-beds, and the shadows of the great trees were so dark and cool that they seemed to be huge cay. erns opening into the ground. I think there must have been fifty of us, all hail unAd. with fvro1o~n .l1