The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-08-30
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y n;a,r;di;e county. Yd., August %, 1878.
nh, r ouotation il from :. The Sentimental
.zonrney,,, and VIII be found in the chapter
=. Maria There has been no little contest
alton aboutit. lt was in use before stef Stern
day. The New York Journal Of Commerce MN e.
lately quoted frora Henri Estienne Premlces,
a French writer, the statement that the quo
fation was TO he found in collection OF
French proverbs published in 1884, ana
was old even then. 1t reads there: "D'eu
measure le cent q la brebis tondue." MANY
peopIe in time Lave come to consider II a a
from Holy Writ. 1t is certainly very pfoJuts.
Az what is near the quotation itself in
sterne is very beautiful, we tuke the occa-
sion to make DIR quotation including the
much.admired sentiment little liberal:
10. She,o Maria tthe innocent maiden With
the dfsordered mindl, "was dressed in
white, and much as MY friend described
her. except that her hair hung loose. which
before was twisted with a silken net. She
had superaddeG likewise to her jacket
pale-green riband, which fell across her
shoulder 10 the waist; ut the end OF when
j hing her pipe. Her goat had been as faith
lees ne her lover, and she had gotta little
doc, in lieu OF hsm, which she kept tied by
3 string to her girdle. AS looked at her
dog she drew him towards her with the
string. Thou shalt not leave me, sylvio,
said She. looked in Maria's eyes and saw
she was thinking. more Of her father imam
of her lover or her little goat, for as she
uttered them the tears trickled down ner
cheeks.
II sat down close by her. and Maria let
me wipe them away as they fell with my
handkerchief. then STEPPED it in my own,
and then in hers, and then in mine, and
then wiped hers again, and as did II, l
felt such indesc;tbabie emotions within me
as am sure could not be accounted Tor
from any combinations Of matter ana mo-
ton.
at am positive have soul; nor can all
fne books with which materialists have pes
tered the world ever convince me 70 tne con
trary. 49,,
.When Maria had come little to her
self. asked her II she remembered pale,
twiXt her and her goat about two years be-
fore? She said: she was unsettled much at
that time, but remembered it upon two ac-
counts-that i'll as she was, she saw the
person pitied her; and next, that her goat
had stolen bis handkerchief, and she had
beat him for the theft-she bad washed II,
she said, in the brook, and kept it ever since
in her pocket. to restore it to him IN case
she should ever sec him again, which. she
added, he had half promised her. AS she
told me this she took the handkerchief out
of her pocket TO let me see IL; she had
folded it up neatly in a couple OF vine
leaves, tied round with a tendrll. On open
ing it saw an marked in one Of the cor
ners.
"--She had since that, she told me,
straved as far as Rome, and walked around
st. Peters once-and returned: That she
found her way alone across the Ape
nines-had travelled over all Lombardy
without money, and through the finty
roads OF Savoy without shoes; how she had
could not tell; but GoD TEhPERs THE WIND,
said Maria, TO TIE sHORN LAMB.
60 - Shorn indeed and to the
quick, said land vast thou in my own
land, where have cottage, would take
thee to il, and shelter thee; thou should
eat of my own bread and drink Of my own
cup. I would be kind to thy Sylvio. In all
thy weaknesses and wanderings I would
seek after thee and bring thee back. When
the sun went down would say my prayers,
and when ] had done thou should'st play
thy evening-song upon thy pipe: ntr
would the incense OF my sacrifice be worse
accepted for entering Heaven along with
broken heart"