Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-02-27

| was no alternative; the rules OF etl-
quette must not be disregarded, or the
lovely Marie might become connected
with a vagabond adventurer.
Months passed, but the circumstance
would not free itself from Marie's mind,
and her father and mother had spoken
oft more than once.
One day the mail brought letter to
Miss Lawrence from Margery Loveioy,
a dear friend, who summered at the
same rural town with her, and who,
womanlike, pretended to be a regular
correspondent; but it was only when
she had some bit of news of a social ma
ture to communicate that she ever
wrote.
"Do you know, Marie" wrote Miss
Lovejoy, "that l have found out the
name and all about the young gentle
man with the fine, manly face and lovely
physique who stopped at DiXon's
up at Grosvenordale for week last
summer. You will remember him, and
how we used to drive our heads almost
crazy with wondering why he took such
long walks every day, always carrying
a portfolio under his arm. There is one
thing which you will certainly remem-
ber, and that is that you did nothing
but rave over him, and when he caught
your eye one afternoon, as we passed
him while out strolling, you declared
that you knew you could love him with
just little urging. Well, l won't keep
you in suspense any longer. A short
time ago | went to New York TO visit
my aunt Julia, and one evening cousin
Tom took me to the theater, where
almost the first face l noticed was that
of our or your - admiration of last
summer. After making sure that there
was no nc istake, | asked Tom if he knew
who the young gentleman was, point
ing him out in ali unobserved way with
my fan, and he said it was young Hart
jerome Hart, he believed-and that
he was the young man whose water
color paintings were exciting the ad-
miration of every one who saw them,
artists and connoisseurs alike. When
my cousin saw that my interest was not
mere curiosity he told me that Mr..
Hart was received everywhere, not be.
cause he was person of wealth or
family, but because he was a person of
rare refinement and marked genius,
: Everybody said that his fame would be
worldwide in few years"
Marie could not 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 becomed steeled against any one
else, although the subject of her grow
ing affection was unknown by name.
When she read the name her heart gave
Jump. Yes, it was the same person
who sent her the picture 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.
, "Oh!" cried she, "why were we sc
hasty in deciding to return Mr.. Hart's
, 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 tC
hide her sorrow, and to appear in hel
Y accustomed joyous spirit; but it was o
. no use; she could never forget the young
T artist, and could never forgive hersel
q or her mother TOR their haste in giVin!
e propriety its proper accord.
Four years later Marie, at the age o
1 twenty-five, found herself the wife of /
n moderately well to-do ocountryphysician
She had married DR.. Ostrander, not 81
8 much that she had any love for him, bu
q that it was the desire of her father, VIII,
O had from an early period dotted on tn
union of the Ostrander and Lawrenc
:, families, the doctors father having bee
: college chum of Mr.. Lawrence, an,
l. they had become more and more at
tached after leaving college, their home
e being favorably situated for such friend
IS ship.
u Six months before her betrothal a
n the New York dailies and journals dc
4 voted to art had contained length
h notices of the departure of Jerome Hal
e; for Europe, where he had gone to resid
le in furtherance of his profession, an
ne where his ability would be accorded th
W attention it so richly deserved.
de Marie made the physician good viii
n considering her regard for him cease
with admiration, and they were cor
ad tented and happy. His practice VS.
to quite extensive, and he had accumu late
some property during the three yeal
of he had been there, having welded Mar
lie year after enteringe into the actiy
duties of his profession. 1t was wit
re tender hands that she nursed him du
er ing lingering summer fever, but tt
Ia disease seemed to battle the skill of h
attendants, and just as the sun WI
Ire sinking in the west on a sultry Augu
ok afternoon his soul took flight to the be
yer ter world, and Marie was a widow.
De- A few months were spent in the sc
int tIemeut OF the estate, and when pu
chaser for the little house had be-
ere found, Mrs. Ostrander, not caring to I
to tain it, returned to her old home.
The Even the luxuriant abiding place
nd her youth seemed to have lost
it charms, and she daily grew paler, unit
lie. by the advice of her physician, b
uld parents and friends, she decided TO ia
ure a foreign trip, in hopes that chan
lail of climate and scene would rally her
nee her old self.
ry So in the early spring it was decid
md that she should go abroad with Mr.. a
nee Mrs. Lovejoy, who were to spend
ped year and half in travel.
ner The little party spent month in Wis
ing places of interest in England O
| as Scotland, and then went to Norway a
she Sweden; and it was not till the win
dea season that they arrived in Paris,
tier Mrs. OsJrander gained considerable, {
o ut the last letter from Mrs. Lovejoy
the Margery said that they had great ho
r in of bringing her around to the bri
are and robust woman that they had
lay, wished for.
ying Among the few Parisians whom
lie to Loveioy had letters of introduction
xeep was M. Meunier, an exceedingly ref
IS to gentleman and pleasant acqua
low ance. Several times he had told Il
she of the royal academy exhibition,
e rs explained to them that it was there
ech the best artists of all Europe entt
aid, their productions for prize competit
an and so great was the strife that "
ulse ever was fortunate enough to take c
and second or third prize his star was