Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-12

:" Yes, but take care don't do anything
foolish in any case. Listen to me a mo-
ment'
"a Yes, uncle
"'V Very well; in the first place you can
not marry at 90
Why not pray?"
because am not willing, and without
my consent this marriage cannot take place
at all
40 Oh my good uncle
as If the girl loves you she will promise
to wait for you three years
Three years, uncleg
''' If you complain | shall say four. II
she promises to wait three years for you you
will go to your regiment, but not at Cler-
mont / will get you into regiment a
few leagues from Paris, so that you can
come home once in three months, when
you choose to do So
"' Very well, uncle; how shall l know
whether she loves me-?
q How shall you know? Why, asking
her.
a. All, uncle, should never dare to
do it,
"' Very well, then; pack your trunks
and obey your father.
"' But, uncle, you do not know what a
girl she is. | have tried hundred times
to tell her that loved her. have cursed
| myself for my timidity l have fortified
| myself in every way; | have prepared
speeches and learned them by heart, but
when the time came to speak the first word
choked ME, and l talked of something else.
Her expression is so gentle and at the same
time so severe. it seems to me that she
| could never love man, and | talked of
something else.
60 In regard to letters it was much worse.
Whom tho nj on mo IN oriv thar, ba,,
seemed so stupid to me that | could not tear
them into small enough pieces
:" But, my boy, it is time to make up
your mind at last, and there is q reason for
! it, too. Your father has not told you all.
He wishes TO send you to Clt rmont because
the Colonel of the regiment is friend OF
his and has daughter, because this daugh-
ter is intended for you and will make a rich
and splendid match. But-you need not
speak-I know that all that is nothing
| when one is in love. 1t is tremendous
folly. no doubt, but it is folly of which |
should be very sorry not to have been
guilty. None but prigs are free from it. |
know that the old call it illusion, but who
knows that the illusions are not their own ?
The glass that diminishes the size of OBJ
jects has no real an existence than the glass
that magnifies them.
49, If she loves you, you ought to give I'D
everything for her; it is stupid thing to
do, but it is right, and it must be done.
But you must find out whether she loves
you, and just now you have an excellent
opportunity to do so. They want to marry
her. You turn paleaat the idea, and wish
you had your odious rival at the sword $
lengths that what you say nowadays
Well, then, try to keep up little of this
fine courage IN the presence of your beau
tIfnl Naomi fHhay MT fo =
you are richer than she; but the one to
whom they wish to give her is richer than
you; besides, he is titled, and is husband
| ready to their hand and the wedding out
fit is prepared, while for you that would
| have to wait. Go to Naomi and tell her
| that you love her. She knows it, but it
ought to be said in any case And tell
her-for she must love you, young, hand
some and witty as you are-tell her to
swear to wait three years for you,
and to write it to me in a letter, which |
will keep. Then l will break up that other
marriage; l will get you into another regi-
ment; and in three years, in spite of every
! thing, will have you married
"' Well, uncle. have an idea. | will
write to her
60 AS you please
I" l left my uncle and went to write my
| letter. This was not the hardest part of my
| task. had already written to her hun
| dred and fifty times; but to deliver the let
| ter embarrassed me. Having no time to
hesitate, however, l came to a decision. |
bought bouquet of yellow roses and put
my letter into the middle of my bouquet
This is perhaps all very foolish. but re-
member ii still.
After avowing my love | begged her to
love me and be happy with me- and to wait
for thrpp | aSlyaH har &c CHI
sented, to wear one of my yellow roses in
her belt that evening; then, said l. | shall
dare to speak TO you OF my joy-I dare not
yet say our Joy.
when evening came Naomi wore no
rose i'll her belt. ! wanted to kill myself,
but my uncle went with me to Clermont
He remained there two months, and ended
by comforting me and persuading me that
Naomi had never loved me.
"' But, uncle 1 would say, she seemed
SO happy when l came, and reproached SO
sweetly when | came late
- Women love eyerybody's love- he
would reply; but they are far from loving
everybody
At last | almost forgot her and married
the Colonels daughter, whom l lost after
eight years of marriage. But | still think
of Naomi, and | always see her young
girl of II, with her brown hair and heI
dark, velyety eyes, while she must now be
some good old lady"
But your name is Descondraies?r
No, that is the name of my uncle's es-
tate; my name is Edmond d'Altheim"
Then | will tell you what became OF
Naomi"
WHAT
g Yes, she loved you
But the yellow rose ?"
She did not find your note Your sud
| den departure cost her many tears After
ward she married NJ. de Lon gerel whose
| widow | am to-day"
What, you? Are you Naomi Amelot?'
Alas, yes as you are still, or rather. as
you scarcely are, Edmond d'Altheim"
who would have believed that one day
we would be unable to recognize each
other?'
Yes or that we should meet years after
| only to play trictrac. As for the bouquet, |
have always kept it."
And Madame dc Lorgerel went to an eb-
! oDy cabinet and brought forth from it q
| withered bouquet. She was trembling.
| She united the bouquet and found the letter
| that had been tied there for forty-two years.
They were both silent. NJ Descoadraies
arose.
Madame de Lorgerel took his hand and
said: You are right. This resurrection
OF our hearts youth should not be before
two aged faces like yours and mine Let
us shield from becoming ridiculous a no.
BILE affection, which, perhaps, will bring us
happiness all the rest of our lives. Come
again after few days
Since that time the two old people have
been inseparable. / have never seen any
thing like the love that is between them.
They have thousand things to tell that
hive never been explained; they loved each
other retrospectively they would like to
be married to each other, but they dare not
marry now.-LF From the French of AL
phonse karr.
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Inaction Fraught with Danger.
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