Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-10-22
JACQUEMINOT ROSES.

course it was wicked, and outrageous,
and ungrateful, and all that, but then it
was so sudden that she really did not
know what had happened. And then.
why in the world should the professor
object to Adrian, in whom there was
neither spot nor flaw? The man selfish
ly wanted to keep the child himself, and
after him the deluge! Yes, it came
about in this way. He had adered her
so long. At first at such an awful dis
lance" the desire of the moth for the
STAR" her uncle Redmond used to call it
in his evil way; but another person
might have said it was the pure and ar
dent passion of young soul for its
counterpart. And certainly that ex-
quisite being, SO fair, so frail, half hu-
man, half seraphic, was only the coun-
terpart of this fiery, turbulent boy, so
strong, so tender, too, for all the vehem-
ance of his impulses, SO noble and so
lofty in his ideals. Of course no young
girl of Elias age could have looked at
his face, could have heard his voice, and
not have felt a strange attraction. for
his beauty was as extraordinary as the
sweetness of his tones.
"Beautyl" growled the uncle Red
mond, when some one said so. "He looks
like the child of an organ-grinder.
Doubtless he was. flched by some pa
drone from some peasant"
"And what of that?' said the aunt
Redmond, fully in favor of the affair.
"Some people might prefer to be the
children OF Roman peasants, with all
their Roman history ond ancestry be-
hind them, rather then to be che chill
dren of psrvenus here"
"Toorallooral!" was the reply-a
customary one in such cases.
But little Ella did care whether those
long black lashes darkened the eyes of
Roman or Saxon-they were Adrian
eyes, her lovers, the only eyes that had
ever looked into hers, and the light of
the world was in them. It was not her
beauty after all, that touched her heart
it was his personality-himself.
As for Adrian, he had seen the girl
coming into church, had met her at
college festivals, had watched her walk.
ing in the gardens. He knew her name,
and often strolled under her windows
once, indeed, he sent band there to
breathe out music in the soft dead dark
of the night, and Uncle Redmond growl
ed something about throwing the Revis
ed Statutes at their heads, till the aunt
propitiated him by wondering if the
serenade was on account of his great
work on the Civil Code. But all this
was at a distance. He had not dared
approach her; had not dared to speak tt
her; had not dreamed of following her
But one sunset, in crossing public
square, with the shadows Of trees dark
ening The walks almost to twilight, he
saw her m owing hurriedly along just be-
fore him. 1sa sny people b
touch the earth, she floats" he said
But as he thought it, a drunken creature
started from the shadows and reeled up
leering into her face, while she shranl
back with a slight, sudden cry. With
bound Adrian was there; his arm fell
and the offender assuredly touched tn,
earth, whatever Ella did. Then he benz
with bare head before her half an instant
stood aside for her to pass on, and follow
ed again, only at a respectful distance
She was coming down the steps from
the presidents reception when he mex
saw her, her uncle waiting for her,,belov
her aunt seldom going out in the col
lege society. President Rex always CAV,
rather gorgeous receptions, though, 81
far as flowers and music went; he feast
ed the spiritual part, at any rate, and fol
the rest, let weak tea and lemonade gt
as far as they would. Flowering plants
lined the passages and stairways; and az
in her early gauzes she descended al
alone into the dark, she looked to him
ascending, like the spirits of the flowers
and of the music behind her. She held
spray of white roses in her hand. She
never knew what made her-she thought
of it afterwards, shocked and Mortified
at herself, at her want of maidenliness
and nodesty, and her face Redeemed, and
her tears started in the lonely night
but she held out the spray of white
roses, and gave it to him with an en-