The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-11-04

~~'S ~AAS 4AA6A0S1 9kDCAtAOu
IN any society wh.teyer. BIT the
sasct u ths.euasioas advantages,
enforced and recommended as they
were, by q personal beauty 80 rare.
Eat! / ! i Il 'tI'o4llPatept Sr'itae
comfort and self-possession Of ordina-
ry people; and really exceeded, in q
painful degree the standard Of pre- ,,
tensions under which such people
could feel themselves at their ease.
He was not naturally of q. reserved
turn; far from it. His disposition
had been open, frank, and con6ding,
originally; and his rowing, VII a1dv,esntur-
GUS life, Of which considerably more
than: zone>half had been passed in
camps, had COMMUNICATED to his
manners more than military frank
ness, But the profound melapcholy
which possessed him, from Whatever
cause it arose necessarily chilled the
patlve freedom of his sdemeanor, un-
|ess when it was revived by strength
pf. friendship or; Of loye. The effect
was awkward and embarrassing to
hh pashes- Every voice paused or
faltered when he: entered a ROOM
dead silence ensued,-not an eye but
was directed upon him, or else, sunk
in 'timaity, settled upon the. floor );
and young ladies seriously3 lost the
power, for a time, Of doing more than
mpurmuring y a few confused, half inar-
t'culate syllables, or half ,inarticulate
bounds, The solemnity, in fact; Of: IA
FIRST presentation, and the utter i'm.
possibility Of soon recovering a free,
nnembazrassed movement of conver.
pation, made such scenes really: die
tDeasing tos;all who participated in
them,' either a.. actors or spectators.
Certainly this result was not = pure
effect Of manly beauty, however hero
ic, and in whatever. excess lit arose
in part from the many and >e1trao1di-
nary endowments which had centered
in his person, not less from: fortune
than from nature; in part, also, as I
have said, from the profound sadness
and freezing gravity of MI. Wynd-
hams Manner. but still more from
the"perple1ing mystery which sur
rounded that sadness:
We're there, then, no exceptions to
this condition of awRe,ss5truck admira:
tion? Yes; one, at least, there, was
in whose bosom the spell of all-con-
auering passion soon thawed every
trace If OIL icy T. i, reserve: Whilst The
rest Of the world retained =. dim SEN
tin4eht 4ss io'fzaw'e towards NJ 'Wyanida;
ham, Margaret. Liebenheim only
hsata sot.:shoh* ,t4alstiaga;:: i, xan9sr
that it !9 !eculd exist towards M1s.
Never was there 50 y, victorious; 6. : een: g !.
quest interchnnged between two
youthful hearts, newer: before SUCH . a
rapture Of .instahtaneeoiuis| isl sympathy:
I did not witness the first meet
ing ST this mysterious Max imilian
and this magnificent Margaret, and
do not know whether Margaret mani:
tested that trepidation and embar-
rassment which distressed so many of
her youthful co-rivals; but, if she
did, it must have fled before the first
glance Of the young mans eye, which
would interpret, past all misunder.
standing, the homage Of his soul and
the surrender Of his heart. Thei,
third meeting I did see; and there, all
shadow of embarrassment had van.
iaahed, a x except, indeed, Of that delicate
embarrassment which .clings to i'm
peasssioned admiration. On the part
Of Margaret, i, seemed as if a new
gf world a.!'. had dawned q upon her that she
had 4.d not 50 9a much g suspected amongst
the capacity Of human experience.
Like some bird she seemed, with pow.
ers unexercised for soaring and fly.
ing, not understood even as yet, and
that never until. now had found an el.
ement of air capable of sustaining
her wings, or tempting her to put
forth her 'buoyant instincts. He, on
the other hand, now first found tht
realization Of his dreams; and for
! mere possibility, which he had long
! too deeply contemplated, fearing g
however, that in his own ;case> j,
might prove 4 chimera, or that -ht
might never meet i woman: answer
ling the demands IF his heart, he nov
found . corresponding reality 'tha,
! 1!left nothing to seek. .:'-'':- '':;::L :
i Here, then, and thus far, nothing
| but happiness had resulted from th,
! new arrangement. But, if this had
been little anticipated by many, ia,
lass had T. for my. part, anticipated
the unhappy revolution which wal
wrought in the whole nature Of Fer
dinand Won Harrelstein. He was tn.
son Of a German baron; a man O.
good family, but Of small estate, wht
had been pretty nearly a soldier o,
| fortune in the Prussian service, and
| had, late in life, won sufficient favo,
! l,with the king and other military gu
,periors to have an early prospect o
! obtaining q commission, under; fat
tering auspices, for this only Sons
son endeared to him as a comnplaniioi1
of unprosperous years, and as 4 duti
full affectionate child. ferdinand ha6
|.yet' another :h9@ qpon III, fathers at
! fsctkions s'k hls features p preserved to
tie: Safont unclouded remembrance
/ ESmest faithful and living memorria,