Morris tribune., 1880-05-13

tcE6Sb WAS uOt iil0lO CuIloSity hC S'Au hAC
that Mr.. Hart was received everywhere,
not because he was person of wealth or
family, but because he was person of
rare refinement and marked genius. Ev-
erybody said that his fame would be
wCNd-wide in few years.
Marie could net deny that she had
thought Of the young gentleman daily
since her country sojourn-so much so
in fact, that she fancied that her heart
had become steeled against any one else,
although the subject OF her growing at
lection was unknown by name. When
she read the name her heart gave jump,
Yes, it was the same person who sent her
the picture of few months previous. To
think that it was the one whose image
was so impressed upon her heart.
For days her brain was IN whirl, and
her agony was intense.
"Ohp' cried she, "why were we so
hasty in deciding to return Mr.. Harris
picture and letter. He is gone from me
forever l shall never know him."
She kept her grief to herself, not car
ing to tell her parents, and tried hard to
hide her sorrow, and to appear in her &C
customed JOYOUS spirit; but it was OF no
use: she could never forget the young
artist, and could never forgive herself or
her mother for giving propriety its prop
or accord.
Four years later Marie, at the age of
twenty two, found herself the wife of a
moderately well-to-do country physician.
She had married DR.. Ostrander, not so
much that she had any love for him, but
that it was the desireother father, who had
from an early period dotted on the union
of the Ostrander aid Lawrence families,
the doctors father having been college
chum of Mr.. Lawrence, and they had be-
come more and more attached after leav-
ing college, their homes being more and
more favorably situated tor such friend
ship.
Six months before her betrothal all
the New York dailies and journals de-
voted to art had contained lengthy no.
tees of the departure of Jerome Hart for
Europe, where he had gone to reside in
futherance OF his profession, and where
his ability would be accorded the atten-
ton it so richly deserved.
Marie made the physician good wife,
considering her regard for him ceased
with admiration, and they were content
ed and happy. His practice was quite ex-
tensive, and he had accumulated some
property during the three years he had
been there, having welded Marie year
after entering into the active business OF
his profession. It was with tender hands
that she nursed him through lingering
summer fever, but the disease seemed to
battle the skill OF his attendants, and just
as the sun was sinking in the west on 8
sultry August afternoon, his soul took
flight to the better world, and Marie was
a widow.
A few months were spent in settlement
of the estate, and when purchaser fol
the little house was found, Mrs. Ostran.
der, not caring to retain it, returned tt
her former home.
Even the luxuriant abiding place O
her youth seemed to have lost its charms
and she daily grew paler, until, by thu
advice of her physician, her parents ant
friends, she declded to take a foreign
trip, in hopes that change of climat'
and scene would rally her to hel old sci
again.
So in the early spring it was decided
that she should go abroad with Mr.. ant
Mrs. Lovejoy, who were to spend yea
and half in travel.
The little party spent month In visit
ing places of interest in England ant
Scotland, and then went to Norway ant
Sweden; and 1t was not until the winte
season that they arrived in Paris, at tina
time being in its gayest attire. Mrs. Os
strander gained considerable, and the las
letter from Mrs. Lovcjoy to Margery SAT-
that they had great hopes of bringing he
around to the bright and robust woman
that they had wished for.
Among the few Parisians whom MI
Loveioy had letters OF introduction t
was NJ. Meunier, an exceedingly refine'
gentleman and pleasant acquaintance
Several times he had told them of tn
royal academy exhibition, and explain t
them that it was there that the best az
lists of all Europe entered their produc
tons for the prize competition, and s
great was the strife that whoever wa
fortunate enough to take even secon
or third prize his star was ascending t
the zenith Of notoriety, and when frs
prize was awarded an artist it gave hir
rank with the leaders of the various de
partments. M. Meunier had promised t
take them to the gallery on the yer
first opportunity when others tina
members of the society were admitted
. At last, on pleasant afternoon, his liv
cried establishment drew up in front {
their stopping place, and minute late
} the three Americans were in high glee, fC
their benefactor had brought the infol
| nation that the salon would be throw
open on the morrow, but through tn
kindness of friend, a member of th
academy, he had obtained permission t
take his friends there on that afternoO
and he would call at three for them. T
be thus favored seemed to have motto,
able effect on the whole party and it
almost needless to say they were in reac
: mess some minutes before the time al
pointed for the start. Marie gave seve
t al expressions of her enjoyment durin
her drive to the gallery, and by the tim
the building was reached she was til
happiest of the party.
An hour VI more was spent in the d,
partments of sculpture and drawing, an
nearly an hour IN the grand gallery whe1
+ the paintings were exhibited. 1t was I'll
J. derstood that tins was but flying visi
g they would give day to each of the d.
partments later In the season.
1t was getting late in the afternoo
r when M. Meunier suggested that the
3 should 60 to the water color departmel
5 his favorite room, he expressed
!. Marie was beginning to show signs {
I fatigue, but, of course, she would oblis
!, him.
e After the pictures on one side of ii
;. room had been hurr1edly examined, an
g the party finding they would be late fl
dinner unless they made haste, M. Me-
f nier proposed to cross to the opposite sic
to sec famous picture and then the
0 would depart.
a "Why, what is the matter with Mari
e See, she is illI' came the quick wore
: from Mrs. Lovejoy, who was the first
: notice her blanched face as she stood iii
g a monument with eyes rlveted on the pi
e ture which their escort had taken the