The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-02-03
re srAR Ann CATHOIC aEsSRNGKB SUNDAY FEBRURY 1879
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He INIT his gun in a corner, threw his knar-
ack on the table, and said :,
"Tbat will do. You may CO."
Safel had opened the kitchen doOs' ,anu. anu 'o
GOOD smell of the roast came into the room.
"Mr. Sergeant" said sorle very pieaSah'iy'
"allow me TO ask favor of you" -.
lyon l, said he looking at her o'er Mo
"Yes. 1t is that siuoe You now lodge wiIn
us, and will be in como respect one OF me s;n iG
lily, you will give us the pleasure '' u'nDs
All bs i" said he, turning his nose toward
the kitchen, "that is another thing
He seemed to be considering a Tg.itsd Sdes for him
to answer, when he gave an1ther nina sn;n anu
threw his cartridge-box on the bed; saying'
" Well, 90 be it We will 60 and see: ,
Wretch r. thought I, ''h 1oonid make you
Bot sorie seemed satisfied, and said:
" This way, Mr.. Sergeant; this way' IL yon
p' When we went into the dining-room ! saw
| that everything was prepared as II 10. .
prince; the floor ewept, the tao!e oafeiuny
laid, white table cloth, and our silver hniSeS
and forks. ,h,;,
sorle placed the sergeant in my arm ohals M
| Mt the head of the table, which seemed 10 nin'
| the most natural thing in the world:
Our servant brought in the large tureen ana
| took off the cover the odor of GOOD cream
| soup filled the room, and we began our dinner;
Fritz, could tell you everything we haq
|
| ever had better. We had q roasted goose,
magnificent pike, sour-kraut, everything, IN
| fact, which could be desired for grand am
per, and all served by Sorle In the sI nosS pel
t BeaoioIais warmed IN nspkfIsi as-w tee
custom in winter, and an abundant dessert.
Well! do you believe that the rascal once
had the grace to seem pleased with all this
Do you believe that all through this dinner,
which lasted nearly two hours, ne once y o
thought of saying, This pike ,s eHes1ien1 Y OF 0s
very good wine,' any of the other thlpgs
which I'VE know are pleasant for host IL TO
hear, and which repay q good c1ok 10. 1S ms
have supposed that he had such dinners every
day. The more even that my wife haSterea
him, and the more kindly che spoke 70 n,n
the more he rebuffed her, the moro he scowled,
; the more de6antly he looked at as, as II we
wanted to poison him
From time to time 1 looked Indignantly at
Sorle, bnt she kept on smiling che Kept on
Giving the incest bits to the sergeant; she
| kept on filling his glass ,
Two or three times wanted to say, "Ah,
, Sorle, what good cook yo1 are ! now nice
would look down upon me as II to say, Wnat
does that signifyf Perhaps You want to give
me lessons Don't 1 know better than you DC
t Sol kept silence. 1 could have wished hin
t well, in worse company; grew more and
more indignant at every morsei whiSn Sa,,a,s q.
the matter. and toward the end thought
3 "Now, since the dinner is eaten, since 1t II
| Sorle was mistaken, but it is all the same hel
3 rascalw
, And mysslf ordered coffee; went to tht
closet too, to get some cherry brandy and ole
rum.
8 "What is that ?" asked the sergeant.
Rum and cherry brandy; Gla den,ss GssFF'
Q "Ah," said be winking, everybody says
t r have got some cherry brandy from tn
+ Black Forrest? It very easy to say on
they can't cheat Sergeant Irupert we VII
la taking his coffee be twice filled his glass
Q with cherry brandy, and both times said, "He
q he! We will see whether it is genuine"
could have thrown the bottle at his head
t AsSorle west to him to pour third glass
b f1l he and said, That is enough; than
}, you The posts ere doubled. thls e'enrhl r
snail be on gnard at the French gate. In
; dinner to be sure not bad one Ii 20
9 give me such now and then, we eau get alon
IS with each other" :,
d I'VE Will do our best, Mr.. Sergeant" re
d piled Sorle, while he went into his room an
d took his great coat to go out.
"We will see," said he as he went 90"
j. stairs, 1--WE will seeW
Till now had said nothing, bnt when b
ID was down exclaimed, "Sorle, never, L
never, was there suoh q rascal! we sha
ID never get along with this man. He Will drl'
Or Us all from the house"
BAIL bah! Mcses," she replied, laugnln
d. "I do not think as thou dost! have qul
O. the contrary idea; we will be good frleno
thou'lt see, thoult seeW
he "God graut i'll" l ssid; "but have n
er much hope of it"
Mt She smiled az she took off the table-clot
on and gave me, too, little confidence, for u
woman had q good deal of shrewdness, and
lie acknowledged her sound Judgment.
(To be continuedl