Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-16

he called his own soul, kept his counsel,
| confded in nobody, admitted nothing, but
against the growing intimacy of his daughter
and Baruch, to the amazement of Hagaar, he
offered no protest. In fact he seemed to see
or know as little as possible of the love
affair, treating it with a cold indifference
which would have wounded to the quick a
daughter whose affection he had ever chosen
to cultivate. When Hagaar timidly an
uounced one night that Baluch had formal
ly made request for the hand of Ariella, her
father scornfully replied:
sThe girl is naught but nuisance about
the house since all this sorcerer's business
hath set her against her own flesh and blood.
Let her marry the beggar if she will. L shall
only be TOO glad to be rid of her"
Ii was more difficult to say when the lovers
themselves had reached the definite mile
stone of marriage in their vague and some
what aerial courtship. Tormenting and
blessing each other by turns of devotion and
withdrawal, they had at last come to the
limit Of kind of spiritual caprice-who
could tell how? They themselves, perhaps,
least of all. Fate had led them by strange
wavs into the common human circumstance
of fortunate love. Marriage, tor so long I'M
possible, nay, the inconceivable in their
afflicted lives, was the last thing to make
itself practicable, nay, the last perhaps, to
make itself necessary to their new aud happy
lot. The possession of the simplest human
faculties-the unregarded preciousness of
SIGHT. the unestimsted mercy of the power
of locomotlon-treasure so usual that other
loving men and women noted it not-this
was paradise enough at first for Barueh and
Ariella.
The thrill of health, the delirium of vi
sion, the late sweet consciousness OF having
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was the fruit upon the tree OF life. Slowly
they came to the knowledge of the good and
the evil in unshared experience. They ar
rived at the necessity of uniting their bless
edness, by those almost unapparent stages
which sometimes make the period of court
ship as delicate and fair as the prism in an
opal, and sometimes crowd it with sharp
pangs and perils that 60 too far to destroy
its delight.
At any rate, however, they did it; they
came to the old familiar turn in the winding
road of love, and, insensibly, as one foot
follows another in long march, they passed
with extraordinary sensitiveness Into ordi-
nary happiness.
The wedding of Ariella was great event
in the hamlet Of Bethany. Her father un-
expectedly developed a stubborn vanity in
the matter, and insisted on ss much show as
possible; partly, Hagaar suspected, as
taunt to the proverty Of the bridegroom,
who naturally, poor fellow, had not so much
as trade yet, to show for himself; though
he had prospective opportunities to acquire
the delicate handicraft of constructing
musical instruments; for which both his
taste and his refined fingers were well
adapted. But at all events Ariella was
tremendously married.
The girl bore herself through the gayeties
of the evening like white flower, still and
sweet There was something singular about
her beauty, which seemed less bridal than
celestial to look upon. The rudest eye re-
garded the pale, slight, serious bride with
reverence; and the rudest tongue-which
alas, sometimes gave itself freedom at the
weddings of those times-was bridled before
her.
Verify" said Martha, the widow of
Simon the Leper, ''the marriage OF those
twain is like unto the. marriage Of two