Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-05-11
II ,cds a pretty picture.

~ u"@ - Pssetb P's'"'e
"Obl-women, tircsoiie enough. " ! bad
scen you, would havo dropped you some
fruit Poor little Bebeei Did you 60 By.
and never knewF
"You were lAughing"----
"Was If'
"Yes, and they were beautifult"
''In their own Dyes; not Ia mina.~
"Nof
She stopped her spinning and gazed at him
with wistful, wondering cyes Could u b
that they were not beautiful 20 hint those
deep red, glowing SUN basked dahla 6owsssf
''Do you know" she said very softly. with
q flush Of penitence that came aud went,
"when saw them hated them, confessed
II 10 Father Francis next day. You seemed
80 content with them, and they looked 50 gay
and glad there--and then tho jewels! Some
how, seemed TO myself such a little thing,
and 90 ugly and mean And yet do you
known---
"And yet-wcllf"
''Thoy did not look to mo good-those wo-
men, said Bebco thoughtfully, looking across
at him In depreciation OF his possible anger.
''1hey were great people, suppose, and they
appeared very happy; but though ! seemed
nothing 10 myself after them. still ! think !
would not change"
"Oh, mol am not wiso at all only feel
And give me books; oh, pray, give me booksi
You do not know; will learn SO fast--and l
will not neglect anything, that ! PROMISE
Tho neighbors and Jeannot say that ! shall
let tho flowers die, and the hut get dirty, and
never spin or prick Annemips patterns; but
that is untrue will do oil, just as have
done, and more too, II only you will give me
things to read, for | do think when ono Is
happy one ought TO work more--not iess"
''But viii these books make you haPpyi II
you ask mo tho truth, must tell you-no.
You are happy us you are, because you know
nothing else than your own little life. for ig-
nornnce Is happiness Bebee, let sagcs, ancient
and modern, say what they will But when
you know little, you viii want to know
more; and when you know much you will
want 10 ses much also. and then-and then
the thing will grow-you will bc 10 longer
content. That Is, you VIII be unhappy"
Bobee watched him with wistful eyes
perhaps that Is true No doubt it Is true,
II you say II. But you know all tho world
seems full Of voices that hear, but that
cannot understand; II Is with me as should
think IT is with people who go to foreign
countries and do not know tho tongue that Is
spoken when they land; and II makes mo un-
happy, because | cannot comprehend, aud so
tho books will not make me moro SO, but less.
And as for being content-when thought
you were gono away out OF the city, last
night, thought l would never bo able to
pray any more, because hated myself, and
! almost hated the angels, and | told Mary
that she was cruel, and she turned her face
from me-as it seemed, forever"
She spoke quito quietly and simply, spin
ming as she spoke, and locking across at him
with earnest eyes, that begged him to believe
her. She was saying the pre- truth, but she
did not know tho force or tho meaning OF that
truth.
He listened with smile. II was not new to
him; he knew her heart much better than she
knew 1t herself, but thero wasan uieonsrie1s
ness, and yet strength. in tho words that
touched him thon~h -