Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-04-05

"Tell Mile Marie" began the able
but the footman stepped aside with a
respectful obeisance, and Il young girl
came in, dressed in white, with large
bows of black ribbon. She was tall,
fair, with serene blue eyes under
arched brows, and n soft, white skin
more like the Belgian mother, who had
died shortly after the birth of the
twins, Marie and Alphonse, than like
| the French father and aunt, dark, wiry
and determined. Perhaps the beauti-
ful girls most potent charm was her
graceful throat and neck, which de-
served the epithet of "swan-like"
anciently bestowed upon the celebrated
Matilda of Flanders.
Good morning. she began, pleas.
antly. Marie was always glad TO see
the good-natured monkcy-like face OF
the abbe with those stray wisps of hair
which never would keep in the right
place across his bald head. Then her
welcoming expression changed to one
of CONSERVATION: my aunt! and she
went quickly TO her knceling down and
eXcaiming, "Papa?'
is perfectly WE'LL" said the abbe
dryly, Your aunt has been crying
about you"
"About-mo?" Marie looked per.
picked.
Yes. You have received proposal
of marriage" "
The aunt claspcd her nicce's hands,
and averted her ewes, A smile nittcJ
across Maric's facc-amuscd jncrrdu-
lous-as stray sunbeam n,ckers mon
wintry landscape. She Ind rarely
smiled since her twin brother's death
But, mon porc. there is no one" She
said. Indeed they had led secluded
lives since the war-since their terrible
loss-at the Hotel Archaimbault.
The abbe cleared his throat, eyes
there is" he bcran.
"Do moi tell her. | cannot boor if
1t is an insult - mu,tered her aunt
Marie Glanced quickly from one to
the other then She compressed her
| lips. please tell mo nt once She
said firmly, whatever if !, cam
bear it. Ihave known prief.n
II have had # letter from your father
this morninr. in which he desires mo
to inform YOU that he approves OF a
proposal mada for tho honor of an
alliance with Won bv 4 vounr German y
The abbe ronressrd the rontnmnt-
non, term .sPrnssion" ont of rosnrct
for the approved aspirant. SiillI So
strono was The Strnsbur~ion b,trpd of
their present ruiors tLnt he fell
ashamed when he disclosed thr iptel.
lipence, and could NOT brine bimsrlf to
look Marie in the face. Therefore
neither he nor NI'llp Arrh,imboult wbo
sat. tbe imare of drsn,ir r,zin% in,o
vacancy, saw The brautiful hlns6 thr
droop of the ewes. the happy smile tbat
dwell one moment mon tbe yonng
pirrs face-one moment, for if was
Snlv q momort. sill tho ncmor,
softeued the "Obr, with which she
Greeted tbe announcement
..You nerrrivc we bovo rot oui,o
killed her will our ntnIligonco >, rc-
marked the abbeto the amt somewhat
co,iricnII,. '''''
"Tbc ido, il too nrorostoro,,s for bor
TO realize" renlied the Iadv indignant.
".
"Wbot,-tbot Gicrmon wishes 70
marry map Does nv father dnsirc tbn
alliance ,non mcye9', '''' ''''' WV
81 am "fr,iJ|I birl bc doos ann
6Ue - " ''' ~"
"Whot is this mop-,his Coruor
Iikapn ' '' '''" ''''' WI ''''''
.,Won " tho ob,o rorsod n;,,.i,u
ritifnlIv of ,ho no,,ro '"rI ns"I'S IL
f%nmnhtono % w. vH '"' -" oa, ,Uo''S VI tmuSo
thoti Il SnomoJ ~ sn,ntlor ,hi,, % Loi;nlS; S,tH"S
natvroI % ;mn~iscs ..bn % Is 's 7 sr,,nns', m"',e9'
toli" thrnpin~ ~, his nrn, .s,,pnp,,,,,; SupPUoG,;;
Initiating his chgst-"lirrce''-rollinr
his little eyes-"with a great mus.
tache. red. red rs fire.
"No, no, not red-fair!, cried
Marie. Then. as her amt and bor
confcssor stared in astonishmrnt her
head drooped. and A blush mantlrd
oven her fair throat with n tirrc Of
pink VI
And he is-on oflicern ("At loost
This will arouse hor natural onimos;,v
toward her hrothor's slovnrs " thnunSt
tbo obbe bimself growinr almost an
noyod hv Morris ,,nrotmrni Ja
meanor '"' Wv
Marie wos o;Ior+
"And b;snamn y cor,irrod tho ,hho
almost stornI~ dc XII E;oLnonnn Inv ,,u -
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