St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-12
A VALIANT LOVER.

every performance and who seemed to
take keen delight in the music and
the singing. The girl had eyes like
panSes, and brown hair of a gold-red
hue, and attracted as much attention
ton as any one on the stage.
She was always accompanied by a
little, dried-up, old man, who resembled
mummy, SO closely did his skin stick
to his sharp bones.
How old he was no one could tell, but
he might have been either seventy-fve
or ninety. They were father and
daughter, aud came from Calcutta The
many diamonds of great brlInancy
which he wore made great contrast to
the simplicity of his daughters COS
tune. She was attired in plain white
muslin, her only ornaments some roses.
The nabOb was enormously rich, and
dying with Asiatic spleen. He was
gradually sinking away with languor,
and his doctors in India had ordered
him to Europe in the hopes of saving his
life. But his chance was Door one:
for Europe is stale, and her civilization
mOnotOnOus to a man stated with the
splendOrS and eccentricities of India.
| In truth, nothing aStOnished him, moth
ing moved him at Paris; an astOnish-
ment would have refreshed him: an
emotion might have saved him.
He would have paid for an astonish-
ment hundred thousand cronins; for
an emotion the half of his fortune.
After Paris the nabOb and his daughter
were going to London. At first the
| young and beautiful East Indian had
tod 20,
| in Paris, but TO depart Immediately for
| London.
But soon this eagerness to depart
waXed faint, and finally disappeared
altogether. England and the wonders
OF London were forgotten, and the So
| JOurn in Paris Indefinitely prolonged.
This is charming city," said she,
land l am told that London is far from
possessing so many and so great attrac-
TONS"
What she did not mention among the
attractions of Paris was certain young
gentlemen who had found the road to
her heart, for the young girl was not as
insensible as the father; kind look, a
emotion in her bosom. Nevertheless
the nabOb, more and more disgusted
resolved to try change of country, and
issued his orders to prepare for their
departure for London.
The day before the departure a young
man presented himself to the Opulent
East Indian and said, without further
preamble: Il come to ask the hand OF
your daughter"
The nabob scarcely raised his eye
brOws, but fixing On the sutton a dull
and animated look, asked: what is
your fOrtune?" EE# &
hoy
"Well, that is not of much import
ance," the nabob said; my daughter
has millions. What is your position,
your rank in the World?"
81 am nothing yet, but@hope to dis
tinguish myself hereafter"
"What is your name, your title?' con-
tinued the impressive nabOb.
81 have no aristocratic title" giving
his name-a common and vulgar one.
So" said the Indian, you have
neither fortune, rank, nor title, and de-
mand the hand of my daughter?''
Eyes, sir"
The nabob had no idea of such I'M
paralleled impudence, and for the first
time in an immemorial period he felt
astonished-but not excited. After en-
| jOying his establishment for few mo-
ments, he said to the young man, with
all his habitual indifference, ''Sir. ii we
were in India, should probably have
| you thrown out of the window, or, per-
haps placed you in lunatic asylum;
at Paris l have only the right to turn
| you out OF doors, and l request you to
| get out"
81 comprehend: my presence irritates
yOu.'
mo, sir: 1T annoys me-"
The young man left the room; but
scarcely had he passed the door-sill
when a white hand clasped his and a
| sweet voice said:
"Well done! You have repeated the
lesson exactly: now you write the let
ter am about to dictate to you.''
The establishment had happy effect
on the nabob's health, and that day he
was much better than usual. '..
The next day, at breakfast time, his
daughter not having appeared, he gave
orders to the servants to go and call her.
| At the same moment a letter was
| dOlent fingers and cast upon it look
| which, at first absent, became riveted
as soon as he had read the first word of
| the missive. The letter was very lacOnic
| and ran thus:
Monsieur: / love your daughter and
| she loves me. You would not give her
| to mel have carried her off,
These lines were signed with vulgar
name which had been pronounced so
humbly the day before. The domestic
who had been directed to inform his
| daughter that the nabOb was awaiting
| her returned with the information that
mademoiselle was not in her apart
ment; that she had left that morning in
a carriage, as if for a journey, for she
| had taken her trunks and band-boXes.
| The nabOb remained a moment
mOtiOnless; then, all at once, he uttered
| sort of terrible roar and, springing
| from his easy chair, with one kick of his
| foot he overturned the breakfast tablet
The dOmestics rushed in at the noise.
| He threw himself upon them, beating
| and striking them right and left: then,
| left alone, he smashed all the furniture
in the apartment, and never stopped
until, exhausted with rage and fatigue;
he fell senseless upon the carpet of the
| devastated room.
When he came to himself the most
healthy reaction had taken place in his
system; the crisis had produced an in
| Simultaneous and immense result.
1t was the emotion so long prayed for
which had come at last to save him.
| A messenger arrived from his daugh-
| ter to open negotiations for reconcilia-
| ton.
| Leu her come. Leu ner come, ana
| I'll marry her to the man she loves"
| The couple were not far off and soon
made their appearance.
Monsieur" said the nabob to the
young man, "you have neither fortune,
rank nor title; but yesterday you
caused me establishment, and to-day
| you have given me an emotion: in other
| words yOu,ha saved my life, and that
| is favor which we'll deserves one in
return. Thanks to you. My heart is
| so kindled within me that |, who was
but now Indifferent to every earthly
thing. experience delight at the thought
OF procuring my daughters happiness
| by giving her the husband of hnr