Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-05-11

the camellias that feat IN tho porcelain bowlD
Of midnight suppers
This man was not good He wss tdle ao6
vain, and auicrous and cold, and had bes4
spoiled by the world in which be had paaRsd
MS days, but he had the temper Of an artiset
ne had something, too, Il q poets fancy: -
was vaguely touched aud won BY this drnplo
soul that looked at him out OF Bcbcss eye,
with some look that In all It's simplicity lad
divine CLEAN In It TINT made him half
ashamed
II think" she said at last, II think-lf h
10 wrong, still will wish it-yea Only
will not tell myself IL In right will Just say
to Our Lady, am wicked, perhaps, but I
cannot help IT. Sol viii not deceive her q
an, and perhaps in time she may forgive
But think you only say Il to try mo Il
cannot, am sure, be wroug--any more than
u u to talk 10 Jcannot or TO Bac"
lie had driven her into tho srbtlettes a
doubt, but tho honest little soul In her found
way out, as flower In a cellar nnds IL
way through the stones TO light
He pluckei the Ivy leaves and threw them
at the chickens on the bricks without, With 3
certain inipatience In tho action Ths sim.
plcity and tho dircctness Of the answer dio.
armed him; he was almost ashamed TO M
against ber the weapons Of bis habituai war.
fare IL was like mnitre darmcs fencing
with bare steel against little naked child
armed with a blcst palm shcaf.
When she had thus brought him all he
bad. and he 10 please her had sat down 10 the
simple food, she gathered q spray Of roses and
set it In pot beside him. then leftshim and
went and stood at little distance, waiting.
with her hands lightly crossed on her chest,
to SEQ II there wero anything that he might
want
Ho ate and drank well to please her. look.
ing at irrr often us hc {iid %. . -
IL break your bread, Bebec,r he said. Win
tone that scctnod strange to her. III brcak
your bread ! must keep Arab faith with
YOU
"what V thatr"
II mean-l must never bctray you"
"Betray incl How could your
"Well-hurt you in any way"
"Ah, am sure you would never do that y
He was silent, and looked at the spray of
roses
''Sit down and spin.n no said, impatsently.
II am ashamed TO see you stand there, and .
woman never looks no we'll as when s,o pius.
Sit down-and will eat the good things you
hnyo brought mo But cannot II you stand
and look"
II bcg your pardon, did not know" she
said. ashamed lest sho should havo seemed
r'ltio TO him; and sho drew out her wheel UNI
der tho light OF tho lattice and sat down to it.
and began TO disentangle tho threada
II was pretty picture--the low, squars
easement; tho frame of ivy, the pink and
whito Of tho climbing sweet peas. the QirlS
bead; tho cool, wet leaves; tho old woodea
spinning wheel. that purrctl like slecpy cat
VI want to paint you as Gretchen, only u
will bc "a shamen hc said
who Is Grctchenp
"You shall read Of her by and BY. And
you live here all by YOURSELF"
"Sincc Antoine died--yo,"
And arc never dullf'
~ have no time, and do not think would
bc II had time-thcro Is 20 much to think
OF, and ono never can understand"
But you must 10 very bravo and 4.
torious 10 do all your work yours4R. Il u
possible child like you can spin, aud kash,
and bake. and garden, and do ovcrythingr'
"oh, many do moro than l. Habsttes
oldest daughter Is only u, and she does much
uioro, because she has all tho children 10 LOOK
after; and they aro very, very poor; they
often have nothing but a stow OF nettlss and
perhaps few snails days together
THAT Is lesn. baro, ugly, grewsoms pow
erty therc Ia plenty Of that cvsrywhsra Bue
yon, i'ebco--you arc an idyl"
Bcbec looked acros the hut and anilsd.
anil broke her thread. she did not know
what he meant, but II She were anything thas
pleased him, u wns we'll.
"who wcro thoso beautiful womsnw nv
said suddenly, tho color mounting into hW
ekeets
"What women, my dcarr
"ThoSo saw at tho window With you, IL
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