Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-07-26

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declared that they muet never meet any
more. Then he began to accuse her Of
having played with his love; but she
looked at him with such q grieved and
imploring face that he soon dropped
that game. He begged Of her even to
give him the comfort Of telling him
that she loved him, that II things had
been different, and all that. She only
said, MY friend, some day you and l
will both be glad that speak no foolish
words now. You will look back on my
memory with all the better feeling
1t was growing late; the woods were
darkening-all this, though it seems
long, didn't take quarter of an hour
l-she had to go away. She wouldn't
even give him q lock of her hair-no,
by Jove! nor the flower in her bosom.
Not no,r,' she said; 'we have both gone
too far. Adieu; / won't ask you to
forget me, and she held out her hand.
He caught it and kissed it. There was
a ring upon her finger, which came
almost loose i'm his hand. He almost
thought of pulling it of, and keeping it
as relic; but he didn't. He pressed it
on her slender little darling of a finger
again, and in half a moment she was
gone, and the fellow was alone"
"POor fellow! What did he do?''
"Do? He moaned about the wood
for an hour or two, with his hands in
his pockets, thinking of nothing, in an
odd, dszed sort of a way. At last he
went home to his lodgings, and think
he wished that he were a woman for
once"
"Why that?r
''DOn't you see p? Because, if he were
woman, he could have good cry,
and ease his mind a little. But he
could only smoke, and when the fellows
he knew made jokes he had to try aud
make jokes too. He went with them to
the beer gardens and the dancing places
and don't suppose that any of them
ever knew the poor devil was wretched."
"Did he keep up visiting the old
places in the mornings?"
"He did; but she never came again.
She was gone"
''Then did he never see her again?"
"Oh, yes; he saw her once. 1t was
on the day of the grand dukes mar
riage. He posted himself in the crowd,
poor fellow, to see the procession which
passed through the city from the church |
when that eonfounded brute and cad,
the grand duke, took his newly-made
wife round to show her to his people.
The fellow thought, you know, that he
would be sure to see Dorothea some |
where in the court carriages, and he
longed to see her again as much as If
the sight could do him any possible
good. There he stood, and he saw her."
Roundell brought his clinched fist
heavily down on the table as he spoke.
"In enc of the court carriages, of
course?"
''In the carriage of the grand duke,
and seated by his side. She was now
his wife,"
"Dorothea?"
"Dorothea herself" Roundell rose
up from his seat in the window, and
strobe across the room, looked or affected
to look at the clock over the chimney
piece, returned to the table, stood there
a moment in silence, then poured him
self out glass of claret and drank 1t.
lsVos ba urapf IN ssnoratboo u,ac tho |
grand duchess. Meta was only the
cousin and companion. 1t was pious
fraud she had tried to practice on the
poor fellow who loved her, and who
she-well, perhaps might have loved If
he hadn't been a poor devil without
family or fortune, and she German
princess"
''Did she see him?'
"No, she was looking away when he
first saw her, and then he drew out of
the crowd. He spared her that. Meta
saw him, and turned pale. She was in
the third or fourth carriage. He made
her formal bow, as many others did,
and she returned it. But he saw by
something in her eyes as she glanced
toward him that she knew the secret
was safe. Then the fellow went home,
and he left Liebesheim the next morn
ing" asa t.,si-7' tN@e
/ remembered now how very sud-
denly Roundell himself had left Liebe-
sheim that time, and how he was not
at the court ball for which l got the
tickets, and where, as 1 have already
said, saw the grand duchess.
"What became Of the fellow?''
"Oh, nothing in particular. He lives.
He promised to remember her, and
believe he has kept his word"
"Did he ever marry?"
''Oh, no; he was not marrying
man, nor particularly fond of women's
company. believe he never cared for
any but that one woman, and she mar
ried brute Of grand duke, and now
she's dead. That's all the story"
81 am glad to have heard it," an
swered, although it's a sad story
enough. 1t is all the sadder to me,
Roundell, now, because I find know
the fellow"
He looked at me with kindly eyes,
and nodded his head.
"Life has a good deal of that sort Of
thing, suppose" he said, ''if people
only knew it. The fellow wasn't worse
off than many other fellows. But l
don't much care about staying long in
Germany now."-Hdrper's Weekly.
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