The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1875-01-22

would soon let them know they had e,
the wrong pig by the ear r.
But since my 1andlady had not story
g why not tell it (? There was in it gel
tlenan-and young lady -and
mother and a journey and a-legacy
. all the requisite materials, in short
OILY not mixed. It would be some
thing new at any rate, wouldn't it, t
giys love story without word o
love, without an incident and without
Der ouncement? Such was my land
Iad Us story, and we will get it out o
bet,
The lady and her daughter sale
lihe. well, I don't know as there il
| afa thing in particular to tell about
tlRn They were respectable people
ard excellent dodgers their rent was as
pnnctual in coming as the Saturday;
they stayed fourteen months, and they
want away"
You have not mentioned their
name I"
Their name? Well surely I must
hsve known their name when 1 went
after the reference, but as they know
nobody, and were known to nobody. I
aOcn forgot it. We called the mother
the Parlor and the daughter the
Young Lady for you see, at that time
shere was not another young lady in
Ake house. Their occupation? AS for
that, the mother marketed and the
daughter sewed, sitting in her chair at
ne window. Sometimes they walked,
spmetimes they read, sometimes they
atted. They did nothing esle as I
now of. They lived on their means
Ike other dodgers. All dodgers that
asAy fourteen months have means. You
% so green, mister, you make me laugh
Aaght ont
= only wanted to know what was
their station, how they lived and"
Lived ? Oh, very respectable AL
Nked shoulder, we shall say, on the
Sunday, with potatoes under It; Mon
aay, cold Tuesday, hashed there may
b pair of pigeons for the We'd
nssday Thursday, dish of sassen-
gars Friday, q little mackeril, or, per
laps, codfsh-balls, and on Saturday
ast Q little nice lunch of bread and
jatter and tea made up the week.
Very respectable. ! know what a
aay is, mister here the Iapdlady
bed her eye upon me severely and
lIBm were ladies i''
have no reason to doubt it at al. -
replied, feeling her gaze still fixed
son me the young man, Of course,
IS something like themselves
4 He was nothing but a mystery over
o way. I don't know even as he were
young man. He might just as well
a7e been middle-aged man or an
Iaarly man. There he sat at the par
y window opposite, with a book in his
md but il was easy TO see il was our
indow he was reading. where the
annng lady was sitting, as I have told
%, sewing in her chair; he must have
ade powerful slow work readin' that
sok. Day after day, week after week, 9
anth after month, there he was, look y
3 and looking and looking, till the
cture I dare say gathered upon his 9
b, IS he could see little else in the e
rid. !" T
Z The young lady, I hope, returned q
B looks /? " d
She, poor dear !! Lor' love you, sir, y y
Q was SO short-sighted that she <
lldn'5 tell whether il was house or o.
dge on The other side Of the way. v
o did so laugh when I told her there u
) d young man lookin' at her TIN q
en she turned her poor blind eyes in :
it direction promiscus like how he 70
ked aWay his head, as if be had been 8
'tsalin' something It was great a
sfostune for him that / had put ID q
! oar, for all his long, lonely, quiet y y,
ks was now at en- end. The young y
y could not refrain from turning her p
ia sometimes; and every time she u u
so ID gave him such d scare and e
ISM But when, at last, she got mp "
\ and then, as If to look, full length, en
In the street, he fairly = =
ted from the window. He couldn't lo
I'D that, not by no manner of means pa
e knowing, poor eoul, that the eye kI
thad bewitched him did not carry e
way across The street. u
That il excellent, excellent . said o.
or we we're now evidently coming ls
he pith Of the story, but they no iel
llbt met at Iast2 !" p
You shall hear you shall hear, De
Lied my landlady but + must first ~
you that one day when he had been FL
zen away out of fall sight BY the ne
length Of the young lady, T vent s'o
for d couple Of chops Tor their din.
!. Well, was gone ever SO long, sal
! WIS not 70 be done ont of i penny
ound 80 easily but ID coming home, ny
be young lady was sitting sewing III
y, I thought I would Just pass by glc
other aide before walking over, ana hai
mister. while going by the house, i ste
sed Ia ut his wintlow and there was d op'
y 70 see ! He had retired to The 70
( part of the room where be was haI
ng, his back TO tbs wall, his two VII
Tvs on table before him, and his slr,
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