Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-11-07

she sat down alone; and in the ante.
1 chamber, which was at once thrown
/ open for visits and pleasure parties, The
/ hat and cane which had hung there 20
/ long were seen no more.
There were fetes, halls, and supoers
/ at the palace now. Like a changing
! sky which casts off too long "A night
| the princess, in gray, lilac, pink, and
blue, returned to her former glory
Ind one evening in her little consery-
| atory she said to Nine. Ancelin's
/ nephew, who had followed her ike a
melancholy shadow since she had come
| out into the sun, that now she would
/ be his wife whenever he wished, and
| she thought to herself that the sooner
/ II was done the better pleased she
/ would be.
In very short time they were mar
I ried. She in a sort Of frantic way. he
| with much establishment At her sudden
| passion, rejoicing in his happiness
| without an 4lyZiug it too closely. Their
| marriage was much talked about. The
| countess of Ancelin. full of the phrases
| OF her lomGEces, had a charming re-
mark to make.
Just look at that princess she
would say. people thought she was
weeping when she was cooing She
was a widowed tuTtledoye."
SIX months went by. The newly
married pair were in the country in the
neighbOrhOOd of Paris; there their
friend came to find them. She watched
them. TRANQUILITY airing their happiness
on The smooth lawns, and in the silent
bowers; and presently that delightful
countess, who never could see farther
than the present moment, said to
them:
And 1 am the one You have to
thank for making you SO happy? All,
well! / do not regret my falSehoOd. -
"N hat falsehood?" asked the prin-
cess, with an abrupt movement.
'On, yes, my dear; can afford 10
tell you all about it now. The poor
prince was hardly as black as I painted
him. Those wonderful letters were
five years old. They were written be-
lore you were married.
And that is what you didI'' eX-
claimed the princess, regarding them
both with wild eyes. Her prince,
dead and forgotten, whose name she
No longer bore. at once resumed his
entire possession of Der heart. Her
husband saw it III her sudden gesture
of withdrawal from him. Without q
word of explanation all was over be
tween them. She shut herself up
closely. and during week of agony
gave herself up without reserve to all
the remOrse that tortured her. The
unhappy woman had married again
without love, to be revenged. and the
prlnce's sin not having existed, she
felt herself guilty toward him, ashamed
o. herself.
What a pity for her remem-
brance of hIm, so violently slain, and
coming to life again with ali ITS old
powerl Her poor lover kept away,
well knowing that he was nothing to
her, aud that the sudden revival of the
old passion in all its strength had ex-
unguished the new one with one
breath. She spoke coldly to him, as to
stranger, assuring him of her for
giveness, believing that he had not
menJ. 4Irlnr5. 'a.a.S-,-.a-t '!,,--J- -'~-~--
her, the princess bent over the light
soul that had fluttered like a butterfly
over her straight and austere path AMI
SAID, in a voice too weak TO be Ie
proachful:
You see, L am not coOlng-I am
dying"
And it was the truth.