Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1879-12-13

of the young girl, it was with a
smile that was something sad,
as he asked himself on which
of the village rustics she had
fixed her choice.
His first pilgrimage on arrlv-
mo was to the forest of chest
nut trees; at the fall of day
night comes quickly at the be-
ginning of October-he wan
dered down the long path; but
it was no longer dark; it was
traversed by an amber sunbeam,
M1A9jiGih M1A9jiGihU hUf seeeRqes eRqe tah the eSTffh 81 the leaves
| which quivered on the branches
| or cracked beneath his feet.
The odor of the dead leaves
brought to him a whole world
Of regrets, of remembrance, of
bitterness, stirring UP within
him an unspeakable sadness,
and a more competent disgust
with everything that he had
| sought up to that time. When
he had reached the glade he
sat down on the spot where
eighteen months before he had
made the sketch which had
! since crowned his renown. The
! cold stone seemed to laugh at
him ironically for all that he
had suffered.
A peasant girl--a coquette-
a matter of great consequence
surely! She would have loved
me if 1 had chosen. Many 9th
ers have loved painters, and
have followed them to Paris,
and then have disappeared in
the scum of the great city with
out loading with chains the one
who had initiated them into the
mysteries of art and of intellec-
tual life. He is a fool
who sacrifices to chimeras the
real goods of this world; the
love of a beautiful girl, the glo-
ry which talent gives, the for
tune which success brings.
| While he was thus denying
the gods of his youth, he saw
coming towards him, in the
well-known path, the young
girl Of other days, who had
, grown up, who had become a
woman in one word. She was
: not alone; rustic was walking g
beside her holding her by the
| little finger; a fine fellow, fol-
that matter, strong and well
} made, and richiy-dressed for a
peasant. He bent towards her,
, and from time to time wiped
: away with his lips a tear from
+ the young girls cheek.
l On seeing Maurice they stop
= ped, confused and surprised.
"And it was for this" thought
= he, "that I respected this flow
!, erw
e And he was thinking will
|, contemptuous pity of his folly
i when the young girl addressed
: him:
L "They will not let us marry
/ sir" said she, her voice broker
e with sobs. II am poor: he ha
l. some property, and his mothe
1t will not have me for a daugh
t. ter-in-law. She talks of disin
II hcriting him."
it "And you, too, do not Wis
le him to be disinherited, do you!
@ said Maurice ironically.
ye "Indeed," answered the la'
II 1--WE must live y
7e "That is only too true! pit
of you, my chrildren."
They went away. Maurlc
e, left alone, with his head bowe
at down on his hands, thought f
e e a lA9g H}5 tiaMfe' tiiaMfe fancy had flow
r. away-nothing remained of tt
I'd. slender young girl but a pea
IL ant, who was still handsom
[e- but very near becoming an {
ot dinary matrOn.
OF $50 it is with our dreams
OF said he, rising. ''The only su
'd, thing that we can gather fro
elf them is to do a little good wi
at them"
ed The same evening he wro
9; to Paris, and a few days later
en- presented himself at the your
s; girls house.
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