Litchfield enquirer., 1875-08-05

{ things. Me, saw his father once run from snake I think he wouldn't fight the small-pox-my faith ? she said, they say that Dr. Messy does all that and nev- CT wears scapula land does it nine hundred and ninety-n1ne times in a thou sand for nothing Is that brave, Mad anne Delicieuse, or is it not ?-And, Gen. eral, what could say?"
 Madame dropped her palms on either side of her spreading robes and waited pleadingly for an answer There was no sound but the drumming of the Generals fingers on his sword-hilt. Madame re- stunned:
 ''I said, T do not deny that Messy is a noble gentleman ;-I had to say that, had Inot. General g'
 Certainly. Madame, said the General, ''my son is gentleman, yes"
 But said, he should not make Monsieur, his father, angry"
 ''True, said the General, eagerly. ''But that lady said: Monsieur, his father, makes himself angry she said Do you know, Madame, why his father is angry so long?' Another lady says, T knowp For what 2 said I. Because he refused to become soldier mamma told | me that. 1t cannot be I said" | 4AC OCAC302 hhudlQO 6S1W It. but relentlessly continued 'Mais oui, said that lady. 'What ? I said, think you General ViIlivicencio will not rather be the very man most cer- | tain to respect son who has the courage l to be his own master? Oh, what does he | want with poor fool of son who will do only as he says? You think he will love him less for healing instead of killing 1? l Mesdemoiselles, you do not know that mo- l bIe soldier r''
 The noble soldier glowed and bowed 1 his acknowledgements in dubious, half l remonstrative way, as If Madame might 1 be producing material for her next confes- sion. as, indeed. she diligently was doing; but she went straight on once more, as a surgeon would.
 But that other lady said No. Mad anne, no. ladies but am going to tell you why Monsieur. the General, is angry with his son. Very we'll, why ?'-'Why? l It Is iust-because- he is-a little mani" General Villivicencio stood straight up.
 'Ah mon ami" cried the lady, rising excitedly, '1 have wounded you and made you angry, with my silly revelations. Par don me, my friend. Those were foolish girls, and, any how, they admired you. They said you looked glorious-grand-a the head of the procession" Now, all at once, the General felt the tremendous fatigues of the day; there was a wild, swimming, whirling sensation in his head that forced him to let his eyelids sink down ; yet, just there. in the midst of his painful bewilderment, he realized with ecstatic complacency that the most al-looking man in Louisiana was standing in his spurs with the hand of Louisiana's queenliest woman laid tender ly on his arm.
 '1 am wretched tattler !" said she.
 "Ah no, Madame, you are my dearest friend, yes.''
 Well, any how, I called them fools. sAh innocent creatures,' I said, think you man of his sense and goodness, giv- ing his thousands to the sick and afflicted, will cease to love his only son because he is not big like horse or quarrelsome like a dog? No, ladies, there is a great req they cried, tell it he has need of a very good reason tell it now My ladies' i said, T must not'-for, General, for all the world I knew not reason why you should be angry against your son; Gener- al, you have never told me-"
 The beauty again laid her hand on his arm and gazed, with round-eyed simplic- ity, into his somber countenance. For an instant her witchery had almost con- quered.
 "Nay, Madame, some day I shall tell you l have more than one burden here. But let me ask you to be seated, for I have question, also, for you, which I have longed to ask. It lies heavily upon my heart must ask it now. A matter of so great importance -
 Madame's little brown aunt gave faint cough from a dim corner of the room.
 '"Tis a beautiful night" she remarked, and stepped out upon the balcony. Then the General asked his question. It was very long question, or, may be, repeated twice or thnce for it was fully ten minutes before he moved out of the room, saying good evening.
 An! old General Villivicencio. The most martial-looking man in Louisiana 1! But what would the people, the people who cheered 1n the morning, have said to see the fair Queen Delicieuse at the top of the stair, sweetly lowing you down in- to the starlight, crest-fallen, rejected
 CONCLUDED NEXT WEEK.