The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1889-11-08

might be. q was In the room with = look
Ing glass, | saw every evening from 10 a
quarter of ., for the next month 70 come, the
house M the mirror. Sometimes 10 met my
view In the looking glass on cottage wall,
where J was tending poor patient, sonic
times IN the pier glass OF tlne ladys apart
ments, sometimes in the mirror OF a friends
Gin'ug room as sat al dinner
Tl ere was never the faintost change in the
Nlsit.t it was always marked by exactly the
same features. ! cannot say but that this
perpetual haunting OF my life 10y 80 mystcri.
ous an 0pparltou iid make a vaguely uncom.
Portable and painful impression on my mind
But los strength II will. aud 10y clingmg rcso-
lutely and ccJselc>>ly 20 all my active duties,
prevented lIs having a morbid, unhealthy
ciIcrt upon me revealed the circumstances
% mo- uue hut appeared 10 the outer world as
II there wus uC strange page IN my common
place story
When. however, month or So had passed
Dy there came a great, sudden. real sorrow,
which most effectively thrust aside all mclna.
uou Go brood over gloomy, shadowy, fancitul
troubles. One morning there arrived a tele
gram from locco ON the Lake Como, in north
Italy, saying that my sister, ON her way home
from India, had fallen dangerously IN there,
ud calling mc no once 10 her side. knew
that Lottlc', health had been delicate ever
since her baby was born and that she was
about to return 90 England for the sake ~
cooler climate and the best medical advice
knew, too. that she meant to return through
Italy, but was hardly aware tha; she had,
as yet, started from Bombay, and had not
the iuutc>t notion that her disease might
possibly take tuch a dangerous turn No
wonder. then, that the tidugs were "a severe
blow
Lotue was far more 90 me than sisters gen.
orally are to their brothers She was sew.
eral years younger than | was, and she had
been first nav ppytAing, then my pupil, and
! hal experienced pang of real jealousy on
that day when, sitting ON "A stool az my feet,
with her sweet face hidden on my knees, she
CouiD,,rd 90 me there was one who was moro
tu hur than ! was. one who was more 10 her
than all the world besides This foolish feel
us, Of course, quickly passed. away, and
rrJoIcol to scc her happy bride; Yet LOTTO
was still nay pot my pride and my darling.
! viii not dwell upon the hurried Journey,
with Fear sitting at my side, nor the long
nights and days OF dreary. anxious watch.
ms u suilces 90 say here that my sweet
girl was az leugth given back 20 my arms,
after through long weeks, my medical cnre
uud skill, bad battlpd Whh death for her
During the whole of thi, period the house IN
the mirror never nguin appeared 90 me, aud,
indeed, iu my absorbing anxiety and trouble,
the remembrance Of 10 even hardly entered
my mind
One lovely evening In early spring, when
Lottle was much better, but not strong
enough yet to be- moved, had been taking a
long ramblc into the lovely country that sur.
round, Lake Como, and ON my return had
lost my way The sun had set, the moon had
risen, and was bathing the world in silver
sea had reached path by the lake aud
was pausng to consider In which direction
Lecco lay. The scene around was all one
glory of stiffness and Of brightness. a breeze
just stirred the waters sof y with kiss the
outlines Of the distant hills were soft and
tender, as II drawn by an artist angels pen
ell; here and there among them there was a
whitc glimmcr which told Of a hamlet or a
homestead, hard by a nightingale just struck
n single golden note, and then was silent
again, us II hc feared 90 break the calm spell
of the moon.
All Ut once / started, nnl low cxclama.
tion broke from my lips My eyes were rest.
ing uu the surface Oi the lake, and there. mir
rored IN its clclr watorE, bohcll exactly the
same house and garden which had 80 often
before / left England met my Wow In such
strange mysterious way Disturbed, aston.
i-hrd, unable tp believe my own senses,
glanced round behind nae, and thoro on lit
Tie rising ground above the laho, / saw
house which cgrIepoDlcd o. the reflection
below, oui which vu, iu every respect the
realization ui my vision Just then the clock
II some distant church up among tho bills
struck eight
Tho whole olr0m instances md coincidence
were sp singular thar could not help being
impressed nod startled by IT, Aniagonistic
though my wlo,nuauga "as 10 al imaginary
fears aud bDliet., approached the gate If
tho garden and noted how, m every smallest
particular, oyol e., tur star like flowers OF
Tie crcnpor go thn wall, even the frcsco Of
the Oh woman with the basket Of oranges AT
her foot, even 30 tac slightly opened window
with the ray ~ light gliding through u. 1t
was the complete Aaru.., ~ the house which
had aD often met my viaw in the mirror The
very name Of tHy yi.in nilod me with
strange onuo feeling. Ia Casn dello Spec.
CHA n bad evidently boen ~ uamed from
the peculiarly clear aul beautiful reflection
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The complex u0.l'H'' oud feeling which
The sight OF tln Fi.iu nul its uume called uu
caused mD 90 iug.r u'1r 10 Tor some little
time until began q. fr.f unit ms mind wns
going to ma' morbid, 'i'hIy turn, aud re
solved o. l.1go tho s,Yt 90 once. Just ~
hnd turned i' 2'' however gold soni which
had b'i'nI.n 70 iit i'.l'r' hnd which, there
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thiI ii'p mF "'i'1 'HH.", hud ] spent HDiuo
time u ipoaIns i'f o. I'i Ii had rolled down
ne hul INTO iH' lfw'
i1a on l'hg'a iHunI lN" 'al, md was NOV