Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-08-18

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there but the poor fellow and these girls.
80 he walked Tor an hour, and at last she
came. She was almost out of breath, and
frightened; said she had great difficulty in
geIung away, but she was resolved, come
what would, To see him alOne-for the last
time"
- For the last timer"
These were the words, and her firm,
sad face showed that she meant it. She
told him that her companion had been
doing very foolish thing, and running a
great risk, and that they trusted to mis-
nonor as an English gentleman to help
them out of their tix by just keeping their
secret, and forgetting all about them. She
was aWfully IN earnest; no affectatiOn, no
coquetry; brave and firm; but with the
flaSn OF tear now and then in her beauti-
ful eyes. She told the fellow that she was
the cousin and companion Of the princess,
who was to marry The young Grand Duke
of Liebensheim."
"Meta?"
- Meta, she told me, was the future
Grand Duchess. She was brought to
Liebesheim to marry the Grand Duke. She
was the daughter of mediatized prince,
and put under the care OF his hard and
formal old mother. OF course -Dorothea
told the fellow that the princess could not
love her future husband. How could she
Every one knew that he was a selfish
1 young cub. Dorothea's eyes filed with
tears at the miserable fate of her friend
may. tell you, she said to the fellow,
that she loves one she always will remem-
| Der, and can never see again.
But how about yourself?"
" Yes, l am afraid that concerned the
fellow great deal more than the troubles
Of the GRAND Duchess that was to be.
"DOrOthea," said-said the fellow, you
know, = this must not affect us: love you
and all that sort of thing. He would have
talked at her like a madman, and he caught |
her hand and kissed it, and begged her to |
be his wife, while the poor devil-God help |
him, had very small allowance to live on,
and was good for nothing, so FAR as money |
making goes, and he was only two aud |
twenty years old; but she stood there firm |
and patient and suffering. Oh, by Jove! |
l know she was; it was her eyes, tor-for /
the fellow told me so. She said, my |
friend, we must not see each other any /
moreover again. We must part. You |
will not ask me why; but we must part
Then she told the fellow that the young /
princess and herself had taken freak Of |
going out for morning walks dressed like |
city girls and they meant no harm; and |
that one day they heard the fellow declaim- |
ing, and then they got into talk with him, |
and they rather liked the fellow, and so on,
you know. Now the princess marriage, |
and there must be no more cakes and ale! /
But you will not be sorry to learn, said |
Dorothea, that your friendship and our
pleasant talks sometimes gladdened the /
poor princess, and that she will always
remember you as friend.
"But what had all this to do with her
self?" l asked, little impatiently.
''That was Just what the fellow put to
her; but she said her fate was bound up
with that of the princess, and she, too,
hinted of some confounded marriage en-
gagement. Oh, he talked, did the fellow, |
l can tell you. His eloquence fairly as
tonished himself But it was all to no /
purpose. She firmly declared that they
must never meet any more. Then he |
began to accuse her of having played with
his love; but she looked at him with such |
grieved and imploring gaze that he soon /
dropped that game. He begged her TO |
even give him the comfort of telling him
that She loved him, that if things had
been different, and all that. She only |
said, MY friend, some day you and
will Doth be glad that 1 speak no foolish
words now You will look back on my
memory with all the better feeling. 1t i
was growing late; the woods were daI
ing-lsSsna this, though it seems long, .u
take quarter of an hour-and sne ng
go away. She wouldn't even give e.
lock of her hair-no, by Jovei nor
flower in her bosom. Not ROaC,' she said;
We have both gone too far. -Adieu; I
won't ask you TO forget ne, and she held
out her hand. He caught it and kissed it.
There was ring on her finger that almost
1nOca hon IL ,o-l,4 Of Il
pulling it off and keeping it as a relic; but I
he didn't. He pressed it on her slender, \
little darling Of finger again, and IN half
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 pOck-
cts, thinking of nothing, in an odd, dazed |
sort of way. At last he went home to his |
lodgings, and l think he wished that he
he we're woman for once"
"Why that?" -.-.s. .lf....
"Don't you see? Because if he were a
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 and make Jokes
too. He went with them to the beer gar
dens and the dancing places, and don't
suppose that any of them ever knew the
poor fellow was wretched." 4
" Did he keep up visiting the old place in
the morning?" III
He did; but she never came again
She was gone. ;" Il
"Then did he never see her again?" 4
"0h, yes; he saw her once. It was on
the day Of the Grand Dukes marriage. He
posted himself in the crowd, to see .thes
procession which passed through the city n
from the church when that cOnfounded
brute and cad, the Grand Duke, took his
newly made wife round to show her to the.
people. The fellow thought, you know,
that he would be sure to see Dorothea-
somewhere 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" h.
Rounded brought his clenched first (
heavily down on the table as he spoke. II
Sin one of the court carriages, of B
course?"
ssIn the carriage of the Grand Duke, and
seated by his side. She was now his wife.
"Dorothea?"
@Dorothea herself" Rounded rose up
from his seat in the window, and strode
across the room, looked or affected to look
at the clock over the chimney piece, re-
turned to the table, stood their moment, | !
IN silence, Jnen poured himself glass OF o
claret and drank it. "Yes," he went OH.
50 Dorothea was the Grand Duchess. Meta +
was only the cousin and companion. It +
was pious fraud she had tried on the
poor fellow who loved her, and whom She In
we'll, perhaps might have loved if he hadn't y
been a poor devil without family, or for
tune, and she German princess. -
"Did she see him?" -r------ - g !
"No, she was looking away when he saw
her, and then he drew out Of the crowd.
He spared her that. Meta saw him and !
burned pale, She was in the third or !
tOurth carriage, he, made her formal
bow, as many Others did, and she returned | q
/. But he saw something in her eve as
she glanced toward him that she knew the '
secret was safe. Then the poor fellow b
vent home, and he left Iiebesheim the Il
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l remembered how suddenly ROundell q
himself had left Liebesheim that time, and .
how he was not at the court ball Tor when Il
got the tickets, and where, as have al
ready said, / saw the Grand Duchess. i p
"What became of the fellow! II
"Oh, nothing in particular. He lives. Il
He promised to remember her, and | be- o.
ieve he has kept his word. I
''Did he ever marry?"rr i
"Oh, no; he was not marrying man, :;
,or r,artipularlv fond s,f Uoman'S oon,nauv Z =.