Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-07-16

find Tatiana in grove of willows on the
border OF a pond near the house, whence
she was watching for his coming. From
there they would go into the woods,
breathing the rosin's delicious and pene-
trating odor, listening to the drumming
of the green woodpeckers, and gathering
mulberries and hazlenu,s Sometimes
they would sit in the clearngs between
two birch-tree and while Tatiana would
make necklaces of wild berries which
resembled grains of coral in the moist
verdure Segius would cut Tatiana's
name with penknife in the silver bark
of the trees.
Then they would return across the
fields, enveloped in the luminous autumn
nal sun, at every step soaring up innu-
merable crickets. Reaching the house
they would follow Thecle Martinovna
into the barns, among the chickens in
the inclosure where were ranged the
beehives, from which they would take
delicious combs of perfumed and trans.
parent honey.
In the evening Tatiana would serve
the repast in clump of raspberry
bushes. The bowls of cream We're sur
rounded with branches of holly, the
cheese and butter were spread out on
vine leaves; there were golden cakes,
amber-colored honey, dried figs. They
would eat heartily, and laugh without
the shadow of care upon them.
Sergius permitted himself to be over
come in all his being by the sweetness
of his impressions Late at night, and
when he thought his father was asleep,
he would return home.
1.-TWO or three happy weeks tnIs fol-
lowed each other.
".
zone morning, just as he was about
to pass through the gate of the yard, q
garnet window opened on its rusty
hinges with grating sound. A yellow,
unwashed, wrnkled face appeared at it,
and harsh voice made itself heard:
"'Sergiusr
"Sergius, who had half.turned, shud-
dered in all his limbs and looked at his
father
"'Y You are going to the tields-to the
neighbor's-are you not:' said RAJ
zoumof. Then he suddenly added with
a wicked grin: Liar, hypocrite, varlet
brigand! If that hussy Tatiana has
given you a rendezvous this morning
she must do without you. Come back
this instantp
"Sergius remained for moment root
ed to the spot The father, accustomed
to obedience from the son, closed the
window, persuaded as he was that Ser.
gius would leave the place where he was
standing only to come into the house.
But the young man continued his walk,
went through the gate and directed his
steps toward Thecle Martinovna's house
When he had walked about half mile
from home he paused and questioned his
heart. He felt that he loved Tatiana,
and that it was impossible for him to live
without her. He resumed his walk and
went as far as the pond, where he was
certain that he would, find his well-be.
loved
"She was there. He took her by the
hand without speaking, led her up to her
mother by adoption, and abruptly said to
the old lady:
500 | ask Tatiana of you in marriage
60 But your fatherl' said Thecle Mar
tinovna, surprised. Tatiana has no
dover"
60 am twenty-four years of age he
replied, and have my uncle's estate
The good lady, weeping, gave them her
blessing.
Upon his return home Sergius told
his father what he had done. Razoumof,
stupefied by this audacity in one who
had so long yielded to his tyranny, first
stepped back a pace or two and then
burst upon his son with terrible imprcca-
tons. He cried out, howled, conducted
himself like "A maniac, threatened him
with Introduction by the law, and finally
seized an old gun and pointed it point
blank at the young man.
go Rogue, will you obey me?' he yocif
Grated.
g Sergius shook his head negatively,
for the first time looking his father full
in the face. Love had at last given him
courage and the consciousness of his
rights.
al drive you hence, accursed. Go, |
drive you hcnce!'
"Sergus left his fathers pres Pc. He
passed the night under a shed, and when
the day came he repaired to the farm
that he had inherited from his uncle
" Arrangements were soon made with
the lessee, who surrendered his lease,
and from that time Sergius devoted him
self to repairing, arranging and adjoining
the solitary house which was soon to be
filed with his love and with his Tatiana's
presence,
"On the eve of his marriage he wrote
to his father
my FArHER-I Am to be married tomorrow
Your paternal consent would make my happiness
complete. You will bear me witness that up to
the day when my love gave birth within me to
will. which Is also a merltoriou- impulse, had
always rendered to you the respect and obedience
that are due to a father. viii you pardon me II
you think that ] have failed in my duty toward
you? viii You see your son again and permit
him to present to you her who also desires to call
you by the name of fathers She is pure loving
and devoted young girl. She viii love you and
will brighten your old DAYS with her presence
For the sake of my mother who was have been
told good soul and Christian: in the name of
your chids happiness, do not refuse us your
blessing.