Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1889-01-16
LOVES RETALIATION.

eS, my uear, nave given uer an
English education; / have spared no
pains in bringing her up altogether
l'Anglaise, and this Is the resultn
And pretty little Madame Paritoh
sighed heavily and turned up her fine
eyes with look of unutterable pathos.
Her friend, the Nicomtesse de Revers,
short, comfortable matron. fat and
40, but-llke the majority of French
women-by no means fair. also sighed
and endeayored to look as sympathetic
as her absolute ignorance of the matter
in question would allow of. The couple
were seated in one Of the shady allees
at Spa, near enough to the bands for
its strains to be distinctly audible, but
not so near as 10 prevent them convers-
ing freely. j stream OF people passed
constantly up and down, and Madame
PaIitoff was frequently obliged TO break
off in the recital of her woes 10 ac-
knowledge, with a stately inclination
| or smi ing nod. her numerous acaua!nt-
ances and fIIendS.
You Were saying, dear MADAME
/ interrogated the VIscountess, after a
| pause.
L WAS saying then low inconcelvably
have been disappointed In my plans
| for Anna. You know how l have
brought her up-English nurses and
| goyeInesses, riding, walking, cold wa
ter, independence, liperty-que, sals-Je,
molp Everything that is most English.
! / wished her to marry an Englishman,
! for thus thought l should best insure
{ her happiness, You and L know, dear
madame, what husbands are"
.Ahl' groaned Madame Revers. ex-
| tending one fat hand IN Its tight tam
| m u
| that OF her companion.
! Russian or French, they are all the
same,' pursued the latter. Il have tried
the one and you the other, my poor
dear friend-we know with what re-
suits. With the English. however, it
Is different; they are more serious,
more trustworthy, more, as they would
say themselves, dOmeStlcated-'
'C'est, cela,' repeated the Viscount.
ess, enthusiastically, dom. mes-teecated
that is the word
We'll, my hopes appeared about to
be realized five years ago, when, at IL,
in thus very place, Anna engaged her
self to a young Mr. Twickenham. Hi:
fortune and position were good, and he
himself charming. There was but one
drawback; his father, un John Bull pul
sang, objected to his marrying a for
eigner. At first he refused his consent
altogether, declaring his son was to(
young 10 know his own mind; but fin
ally agreed to withdraw his opposition
il after six Notwithstanding which tim,
the young couple were neither to NEE
nor to correspond-theyw were still iru
in their resolution. Well you will
hardly believe il, before three month
had passed my prospective son-in-lav
| nta -. OF ia
love had cooled, suppose, for he dis
covered that he and my daughter wer
unsuIted to each otherl She VIII neve
get over it; cannot persuade her t
think OF marriage, though several suit
able parties have presented themselves
all men are alike, she says, and sh
will have nothing more to do witt
them
DO you think then she is still at
tached to her EnglishmanP'
'Her Enclishman? Oh, de grace
madame, do lot speak OF him thus
Anna cannot bear him, will not eve
permit him 10 hint at this episode Il
her life. Judge then OF my dismay an
. grief on hearing this morning that he
here, actually here, and that we ma
meet him at any time. You know
am In the very middle of my cure;
would not be possible to leave no'
without grave injury to my healthp
: Actually here-Bonte Diviner eIac
:. ulated Madame de Revers. What
. complIcationI What then Will you dC
chere amiey What does Anna herse
sayr'
!; 'Annap I'm little scream.) 1 too
. good care not to tell her. 1t woul
i quite spoil her pleasure for the rest o
: our sojourn here; and here, as toll
= you, it is absolutely necessary for m
to remain. 1t is possible that tn
!, young man may. on discovering OF
: vicinity, have the good taste to retir'
= q l can hardly imagine he would be fo
| ward enough to wish to intrude hin
! self on our notice. 1t is again possib
{ that, surrounded as Anna Invariably i
= she may not be aware or his being her
!. they tell me he does not 60 much int
= society. In any case, / shall leave
to chance-and Providence, she adde'
= !, piously. Il must try not to worry. A
doctor assures me- and Madam
= Paritoff, whose health was Just SUD
y ciently delicate to be of all-absorbin
a interest to her and not SO much as
p prevent her going about as much q. Sd
liked, launched forth into a dissertatiC
II on her favorIte topic.
ie Little did she know that at the vel
:, same moment Anna was walking l
and down their drawing-room in
frerzy of excitement, on discoverir
the name of Basil Twickenham in Il
b. list of visitors to Spa. Once again 81
1T reviewed her brief love tale, her blir
n faith in the man who had forsaken he
her girlish dreams; and then the ru'
awakening, the shame, the bitter Indi
~ nation. She had lived it all down
last; she had hoped that the very men
ory of it would in time fade out of b
IL life; and now this man must needs /
* suit her afresh by his close proximit
~ However, she would know how to CO
ceal her annoyance; no one, not ev'