The Osceola times., 1880-10-02

glass.
Don't he angry, my love; would moi
have mentioned 1t II 1t did not get worse
every day; 1t is yet time to be cured,
am sure; Just put wafer on the top o.
your nose, and you will soon sec
straight"
"A wafer on the top of my nosel Much
better put one on the top of you chin
| Celeste"
my chinl" cried Celeste, running in
iher turn to the glass. "What do you
mean sir?"
only that you have very large wart
there, which il would be mere agreeable
| to conceal"
"Sr"
"Madame!"
"A wart on my chin, msnsterl"
a cast in my eye, fool"
Yes! How could ] ever love man
who squinted?"
""Or a woman with wart on her
chimp
Sir | shall not condescend to notice
| your insults. No wonder YOU can't see.
pity your Iniirmity."
Madame, despise your insinuations;
but since you deny the evidence of your
own glass, suffer me to send for physi-
clan, and If he can cure your deiormity,
so much the better for you"
Yes, send for a physician he will say
whether you squint or not. Poor
Adolphe, am not angry; pity so mel.
ancholy defect"
Celeste burst into tears. Adolphe, in
rage, seized his hat mounted his horse.
and went himself for doctor.
The doctor was philosopher as well
as a physician. He took his pony and
amblcd back with Adolphe. On the
way he extracted from Adolphe his
whole history, for men in passion are
easily made garrulous.
"Ihe pertidious woman" said Adolphe,
would YOU belive tive braved every
thing for each other-never were two
persons so much in love-nay, we at
tempted suicide rather than endure Il
further separation. ! renOunced the
brilliant marriages for her sake, too
happy that she was mine without a dow
cry, and now she declares | squnt.
And, Oh, she has such wart on her
Chinm
The doctor could not very well see
whether Adolphc squinted, for he had
his hat over his eyes; besides, he prud-
entity thought it best TO attend to one
maady at time.
AS to the wart, sir" said he, "it is not
difficult to cure"
But If my wife won't confess she has
it, she will never consent TO be cured.
wonld not mind if she would but own
M to it. Oh, the vanity of some wo-
men"
"lt must have been after some absence
that this little defect was perceived by
you-"
after absence-wc have not been a
day separated since we married"
"O-ho," thought the doctor, sinking
into revcry.
| have said he was philosopher, but
1t did not require much philosophy To
know that persons who would have died
for each other only few months ago,
were not aliena ted only by wart or a
cast of the eye.
They arrived at Adolphe's villa, they
entered the salon. Celeste 10 longer
wcpt she had put on her most becom-
ing cap, and had the air of an insulted
but accomplishing wife.
Confess to the wart, Celeste. and III
forgive all said Adolphe
NAY, why so obstinate as TO the cast
of the eye; shall not admire you less
Though others may) if you will not be
so vain as TO disown it,"
Enough, madam; doctor, regard that
lady, is not the wart monstrousP Can il
be cured2'
Nay" cried Celeste sobbing, Cook
rather at my poor husbands squint. HIS
eyes were SO fine before we were mar
ried,'
The doctor put on his spectacles; he
regarded first one and then the other.
Sir said he deliberately, "th;s lady
has certainly pimple on the left of her
chin considerably smaller than a pins
head. And madam, the pupil of your
husbands right eye is, like that of nine
persons in ten, the hundredth part of an
inch nearer his nose than the pupil OF
the left. This is the case, as 1t appears to
me, seeing you both for the first time
But 10 not wonder that you sir think
the pimple so enormous; and you ma
dam the eye so distorted, since YOU see
each other every day"
The pair were struck by a secret and
Simultaneous conviction; when an ex-
press arrived breathlcss to summon
Adoiphe TO his father, who was taken
suddenly i'll. At the end of three
months Adolphe returned. Celeste's
wart had entirely vanished, and Celeste
found her huband's eye beautiful as
ever.
Taught by experience, they learned
then that wars rapidly giow on chins,
and squints readily settle upon eyes that
are too constantly seen, And that it is
easy for two persons to die joymlly to-
gether when lovers, but prodigiously
difficult without economizing the pre-
scnce, to live comfortably together when
married.