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

mat I'M child nsd moro wt~1om than m,
often TO b found In schoolA
Meanwhile he pcndercd various studies In
vartous ssngcs Of . Gretchen. and made love
TO behee--made love at least BY his eyes and
oy his voice, not hurrying bis pleasant task.
out hovertng about hsr softly. and mindful
not to scare her. a. q Lnnn will CERTIFY lower
bis hand over polscd butterfly that hc seeks
to kill, and which one single movement.
thought too quick, may scare away to safety
Bebcc knew where he lived In the street of
Mary Of burgundy; In an old palace that te
iougei 10 great Flemish noble, who never
dwclt theps himself; but to ask anything
about him--why hc was ther~l what bis rank
wesi Why he stayed In tho city at allp--was
. sort of trsascu that never entered hcr
thcughtA
Psyche, II she had been ~ simple and loyal
a. Bebeo was, would never havo lighted her
own candle; but even Psyche would not have
borrowed any one else's lanap to tighten tho
Ae--s A..s....:->z.
To Bcbco he was sacred unapproachable,
unquestionahle; he was . wonderful, perfect
happiness that had fallen into her life: he
was gift Of God, as the sun wss
She took his going and coming as she took
that Of the sun, never dreaming Of reproach-
Ing bis absence, never dreaming Of asking II
In the empty night no shone on any other
worlds than hers
II was hardly 80 much faith with her AS
an instinct; faith must reason Gro II know
itself to be faith Bebce never reasoned any
more than her roses did
Tho good folks in the market place watched
her a little anxiously they thought III Of that
little moss ross that every day found its way
to one wearcr only. but after oil they did not
see much, and the neighbors nothing at all
For he never went homo 20 her, nor with her,
and most Of the time that he spent with Bebec
was In the quiet evening shadows, as sho
went up with her enipty basket through the
deserted country roads
Bebee was all day long I'm the city, intieed,
as other girls were, but with her II had al
ways been different Antoine Ind always
been with her up TO tho day Of his death; and
after his death she had sat In the same place,
surrounded by the people she had known
from infancy, and an insult to her would
have been answered by stroke from the
cobbler's strap or from tho tinkcrs hammer
There was ono girl only who ever tried 20
do her any harm--a good looking, stout
wench, who stood at the corner Of tho Mon
fagne do Ia Cour with a stall Of fruit In the
summer timc, and in winter time drove q
milk cart over the snow. This girl would
get at her sometimes and talk OF the students,
and tell her how good II was 10 get ont Of tho
town on holiday and go TO any one Of the
villages where there was Kermesso and
dance, and drink the little blue wine, and
have trinkets bought for one, and como home
in tho moonlight In a char bnnc, with tho
horns sounding, and tho lads singing, and tho
ribbons lying from tho old horses cara
atSsha 20 .l,v II. ~
thought the fruit girl sulkily To vico inno-
cenco must always seem only superior kind
Of chicanery.
1--WE dance almost every evening, tho
children and J." Bebee had answered when
urged fifty times by this girl to go to fairs,
and balls at the wine shops THAT does Just
Us we'll And have seen Kcrmesse once at
Malines-it was beautiful won't with Mere
Dax, but II cost a great deal, know, though
sho did not let mo pay"
"You little fooll" tho fruit girl would say.
and grin, and eat pear
But tho good honest old woman who sat
about in the Grande Place. hearing, had al
ways taken the fruit girl to task, when they
got her by herself.
Leave tho child alone, you mlschievous
one" said they. .Be content with being
base yourself. Look you, Lisette--sho is not
one like you TO mako eyes at the law students
and poster tho painter lads for dny's out
ing. Let her be, or we will tell your mother
how you leave tho fruit for the gutter chill
dren to pick and thieve, wbilo you are steal
ing up tho stairs into that young French fel.
lows chamber. oh, ohl dne beating you
you will get when she knows"
Lisotte's mother wasa fierco and strong old
Brabantoise, who exacted heavy, reckoning
with her daughter for every single plum and
peach that she sent out Of her dark. sweet
smelling fruit shop to bcsunncd In the streets,
and under tho students love glanccs.
So the girl took heed and let Bebec alone
What should want her to come with us
for?' she reasoned with herself. "she IA
twice rs pretty as am; Jules might take TO
her instead--who lnowsf"
SO that sho was ut once savage and yet .ri-
umphant when she saw, as slle thought, Bo-
bee drifting down tho high food Of tempta.
tion.
"Oh, ho, you dainty onei' sho cried ono
day to her. 80 you would not take the
nuts and mulberries that do for US common
folk, because you had mind for fine pino
out Of the hot honsesi That was oil, was ~
Eh, well--l do not begrudgc you. Only tako
care; remember, the nuts and mulberries
Inst through summer and autumn, and there
are heaps OF them on every fair stall anr
street corner; but the pino--that Il eaten In
a day, ono spring time, and its like does not
grow in tho hedges You will have your
mouth fun OF sugar nn hour-and them ch +
you will go famished all the year"
~ do not understand" said Bebee, looking
up, with her thoughts far away, and scarcely
hearing the words spoken to her.
"Oh, pretty little fooll you understand
well enough" said Lisette, grinning, us she
rubbed up melon. DOCS he givo YOU fine
thingsi You might let mo scelD
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