Little Falls transcript., 1886-07-02
HAPPINESS !! ! ]. ! ]: ] J |
By GUY DE MAURAssANr.


ooked the sea; the vanished sun had
left the sky all rosy with his passing,
\ S2as if rubbed with dust Of gold; and the
d Mediterranean, without one wrinkle,
without one quiver smo 9th and shin
ing :::::::der the dying light seemed an
immeasnrable sheet Of polished metal.
Tar away to the right the denticu-
lated mountains outlined their dark
1 profile against the paling purple Of the
. sunset. .' /.
They were talking about love-disy
E cussing the old, old subject elling
ehings that had been told and retold
thousand times before. The sweet
melancholy OF the twilight lent alan
gour to their words filled their hearts
= with vague emotion, and the old word
tlove," necessarily repeated, some
times by the deep voice of a man,
sometimes in the lighter timbre OF a
woman's speech-seemed to fill all the
little room-to fit through it like a
bird-to haunt it like ghost.
y Was it possible tolove onfor several
years? Ga
eyes," answered some.
mo" declared others.
Then distinctions were made and
demarcations were established, and
examples were quoted; and all, men
and women-moved by suddenly
awakened and touching souvenirs,
which were ever rising to their lips,
but which they could not utter
seemed full OF excitement, and talked,
with q deep emotion and an ardent
interest, of that commonplace, but all
ruling thing-the tender and mystic
rious accord Of two human beings.
But, all at once, somebody, looking
far away, cried out:
ooh! look over therel What is
that?"
From out the sea-, at the very verge
OF the horizon, lowered up a gray
shape, enormous and dim.
All the women had risen up, and
were looking, without understanding
it, at that extraordinary thing they
had never seen before.
Some one said:
THAT is Corsica! You can see it like
that just about two or three times a
year-in certain exceptional condi-
tions OF the atmosphere, when the air
is perfectly limpid and does not con-
tain those vapory mists which veil
distances"
The mountain crests could be con-
fusedly discerned-some thought they
could even distinguish the snow upon
the SUBMITS, and verybody felt sur
prised, affected, almost frightened by
that sudden apparition of a world
from the sea. Perhaps visions like
these had been seen by those men who,
like Columbus, first sailed away into
the unknown seas.
Then an old gentleman, who had
not said g. word the whole evening,
observed:
"Listen! used to know in that
very island you now perceive before
you--which seems to have risen into
sight in order to answer our questions
itself, and has called up to me a very
singular reminiscence-Iu used to know
; In that very. island one remarkable ex-
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