Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-04-09

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ment Kitty lay, limp and white, upon
the stone seat, her head on her aunt's
shoulder. Two ran for water, six took
off their hats and famed incessantly,
and all jabbered like ten towers of Ba-
bel-when up the stairs, three steps at
once, sprang a blonde giant, and strobe
straight to Mrs. Harrison.
Perhaps | can assist you, madam ?"
he said, in Massachusetts, English.
ooh, thank you thousand times !"
cried the lady, and it was with difficulty
she restrained herself from embracing
the stranger on the spot such delight
was it to meet a fellow-patriot, and to
hear her mother-tongue thus in her ex-
tremity.
The artists noticed, the lady did not,
how this yellow-bearded Samaritan bent
over the pale girl-with what tenderness
he unfastened the little hat, and put
back the brown hair. All noted the
quick look of recognition in the languid
eyes on their first opening. and a soft
hearted German was observed to turn
aside and wipe tear as the recovered
girl whispered
Eugene why, Eugene p
Darling, are you better now ? Can I
carry you to the carriage ?"
There was no alternative. The sprain-
ed ankle was powerless. Therefore, Mrs.
Harrison followed in speechless amaze
ment. while the -sali reIIow, with Kitty's
hands about his neck, walked away.
And thus they met, three thousand
miles away from the New England home
under the shadow of the glorious Swiss
Alps. And thus they went away togeth-
er along the shore of that sequestered
lake.
''And so she forgave him ?" 1 hear
the question.
And-woe is me-the answer:
"Of course she did. Women are such
fools.
"But, pray, would you not have had
her do it. sir? And, pray. would you
not have forgiven yourself, my dear %
"Have ! not been searching for you
over land and sea for three months 2"
he asked.
"You did well to come, SIR" quoth
Mrs. Harrison. "Indeed, you little know
how near you came to losing her. There
was that old Croesus, who prosecuted the
poor child from London to Paris, and
from Paris to Rome; and it was only af-
ter the eighth rejection that Kitty found
how narrowly she'd escaped being step
mother to Regina Napier"
Eugene's brow darkened little here.
Kitty is not present but in their long
talk last evening, she had shrived the
penitent, and put forever from memory
then name that had once been so cruel a
sound in her ear.
81 did not advise that, therold lady
went on; especially after 1 knew that
the daug liter was unmarried, and at
home. But there was the English bank
er, who nearly went wild over Kitty
and there, again, was the poor Spanish
young mani actually pitied him.
did plead for him, too but dear me,
might as well have talked to Plymouth
Rock"
With this patriotic simile, Mrs. Har-
rison runs away to join her niece.
They were married at the American
Embassy, at Paris.
1t was two years since all this hap
pened. Mr.. Talmadge is in Congress
now. sent from our district. notice the
name of the ''lovely Mrs. T-lm-dge'
frequently upon the records which Jen.
kins vouchsafes to the earth, of Wash.
ington bellies.
kitty" asked her husband one morn
ing at breakfast. "who was that sallow
thin-faced person who was talking with
you at Mrs. LIS last evening? 2"
''That Why, Eugene, that was Re
gina Napier
"Good heavens Is it possible 2"
.'Yes. She is in wretched health and
looks so unhappy. l pitied her from
the bottom of my heart"
And thus they vanish from our sight
these two. The gentle wife, her sof
eyes raised to her husbands face, anC
the thin. sad woman walking solitarily
the way of life-to both we bid adieu
and they and we are lost among the myr
lad souls that crowd our world. To you
also, kind reader, goodnight.
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, the other morning, after debate on th
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