The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1889-09-08

ashamed Not vi you. NJ no, dearest.
| But she will think It 50 queer. And then
Il may never come to anything-we are so
poor. At least il may be O long time
nrst. Well until our way is little more
clear before us, would rather the en-
gagcment should be kept secret You
are not annoyed, are you, ErnstY'
''No, replied Ernst, calmly, not under
standing too well, and not caring quite
enough.
well" continued the shy and fastidi-
GUS Janet, then it shall be so. We viii
DO Just good friends in the eyes of Nellie
until-untn it shall seem best to let her
know"
On the morrow arrived Nellie Fisher, a
plump, lively. laughing little blonde, with
eyes Of deep tliIquois blue, hair Of the
1 highest and hossiest Aaxen, face some
| what broad and nose somewhat short,
| beautiful In the German peasant style,
but undeniably beautiful. Ernst. who
was present at the meeting of the two
cousins, glanced at the visitor so fire.
! quently and with an expression SO full of
/ mysterious meaning, that Janets interest
was aroused. At the first chance for an
aside she said to him. well, what do
| you think Of herr"
..She looks like the one in Chermany,"
! he replied, lost in meditation, his eyes
both tender and somber, his soul in other
years and lands.
| Janet turned pale.
Does the reader divine whit she fore
saw?
| We'll, it happened.
Ernst's heart was empty. Janet did
| not inhabit it; had not even entered
! into it. The unnamed girl whom he had
! loved in Prussia had by heroic efforts
been so far expelled from it that he did
| not desire ever again to see her. But
her former residence there had so nodded
the abode that any one who resembled
her could seize upon it. occupy it, and fill
it, What now happened to the young
man was apparently love at first sight,
but was really no more than the trans
ferring Of an old love to new object. A
week after he first met Nellie Fisher the
thought of he= could fill him with deli
cious reveries, while the thought of his
troth plight to Janet Holcum was suffi-
Gent to make him mediate once more
upon suicide.
And the girl? He and she met every
day, and two or three times day. In
spite of his conscientious efforts to con-
troll himself, there was in his manner to-
ward her tenderness, which, enforced
the glamour of his artistic ability, could
not but move the heart of a child of 10,
who had never hoped for so fine an adj
mirer. In little while Nellie began to
futter ct sight of him, and to pet him In
spite of her flutterings.
isn't he charming7" she said to her
cousin.
"Do you think soY' replied Janet. half
gratifed and half anxious.
Il really like his accent now. thought
1t ridiculous OF first"
$50 did l."
"What does she mean?" queried Nellie,
marveling at this dryness and brevity.
''Oh, suppose l know. He is poor, and
am poor, and we mustnt-firt. Well
II suppose we-mustn't.
She went to the glass, looked at her
lily skin, wished her nose were longer,
arranged her faxen hair, and wondered
whether he liked her.
do you know how you could fatter
mel" she said before long to Ernst.
How" he asked coolly, for she Tempt
ed him in a distressing manner, and he
felt that he must allow himself no ex-
pansion.
'sOhl you don't want to do it," she re-
Piled, with little sunny pout which she
had and which was irresistible
81 am sure Iwish to please YOU" he
said unable to bear her pout. 'How can
/ aatter your"
you could put me into one of your
pictures"
Il should be charmed to do it," adj
mitted the over tempted artist.
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