The midland journal., 1886-04-23
DIR ANTEKIRTT.
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But if Madame Bathory did not know
the banker he knew her. TO find him.
self the same town, to meet her as he
passed by-poor, working to educate her
child-was anything but agreeable to
him. Had Madame Bathory come to
Ragusd before he had made up his
mind'to live there he would probably
have chosen otherwise. But when the
widow came to live at her humble house
in Rue Marinella his mansion had
already been bought, he had occupied
it and the position had been definatelv
accepted. 1t wonld not have done to
change his residence for the third time.
6 We get accustomed to everything"
he said to himself.' And he resolved
to shut his eyes to this permanent wit
ness to his treachery ..
But what was only au unpleasantness
for the banker was an innocent cause of
grief and rernorse to Madame Toron-
thai. Secretly on several occasions she
had tried to send help to this widow
who had no other wealth than her work
but the help was always refused like
that of other unknown friends
Then the position became almost
1nsupportable owing to all occurrence.
most unforeseen, almost improbable,
and even terrible by the complications
it might bring about.
Madame Torontlial had concentrated
all her affections on her daughter, who
was two and II half years old when at the
end OF 1867 her husband came to live at
RaSusa.
Sava was now seventeen-a beautiful
girl. more of the Hungarian than the
Dalmatian type. With her dark abund
ant hair, and bright glowing eyes set
deep beneath somewhat lofty forehead
OF psychic form"-if we can appropri-
ately use the term that chirognomists
apply more particularly to the hand
with her we'll curved mouth and sweet
complexion and her graceful figure
rather above the middle height, she was
at least certain of never being passed by
with Indifference
But that which was most striking
about her was the pensive. serious mien
that. seemed to show she was ever in
search of some long faded remembrance
: OF something, she knew not what, that
at once allured and saddened her. On
this account it was that she treated with
extreme reserve all those she met in her
fathers house or out of doors,
She was supposed to be the heiress of
an enormous fortune which one day
would be entirely her own, and was of
course much sought after. But
although many eligible individuals were
introduced i'll which all the social pro-
prletles were duly found, she had always
refused under her mothers advice to
give them the slightest encouragement
Toronthal himself had never alluded
to the subject of her marriage. Prob.
ably the son-in law he wanted-more for
himself than Sava-had not vet come
forward
10 finish this portrait of Sava Toron-
thai we should note a very marked ten
dency to admire such acts of virtue or
courage as were due to patriotism. Not
tnat she took much interest in politics.
but In the recital of all that affected her
country, in the sacrifices made for it.
and In recent examples by which its his
tory has been made illustrious, she
took deep interest And these senti-
ments were hardly owing to the acci-
dent of her birth-for assuredlv she did
not Inherit them from Silas Toronthal-
out seemed to have arisen spontaneously
IN her own noble, generous heart
What would explain the sympathetic
attraction between her and Pierre?
Yes! A stroke of ill luck had INTERVIEWED
IN the bankers game, and brought these
two young people together. S,va was
only twelve years old when one dav
somebody had said in her presence:
There goes the son of the man who
died for Hun 'arv = Aud that wa, never
etfaced from her memory.
Both grew up. Sava thought of
Pierre long before he had noticed her.
She saw him looking so serious so
thoughtful! But if he was poor he
conld at least wolk to be worthy of his
fathers name-and she did not know
the whole story.
We knew the rest, weknew how Pierre
Bathory was in his turn attracted and
won by nature which sympathized COM
pletely with his own, and how when the
girl knew not her own feelings towards
him, the young man already loved her
with profound affection that she was
soon to share. All that concerns Sava
will have been said when we have
described her position in the family.