Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1890-03-13
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engagement. Oh, he talked, did the
fellow, / can tell you, His eloquence
fairly astonished himself. But it was
all to no purpose. She firmly declared
that they must never meet any more.
Then he began to accuse her Of playing
with his love but she looked at him
with snch srieved and inplorng face
that he sool' dropped tnat game. lie
begged of her even to givehlm the com
fort of telling him that she loved HIM,
that if things had been different, and
all that. She only said, my friend,
soma day you ana I will both be glad
that l speak no foolish words now You
will look back on my memory with all
The better feeling
1t was growing late: the woods were
electromagnetic this, though it seems
long, didn't take Il quarter Of an hour
she had to 60 away. She wouldn t
even give him Il lock of her haIr-no,
by love! nor the flower in her BOSOM
Not now, she SAID; we have both gone
too far. Adieu; won't ask you to for
get me- and she held out her hand
lie caught it and kissed it, There was
ring upon her finger, which came al
most loose in his hand. lie almost
Thought Of pulling it of, and keeplng it
as a relic; but he didn't. He pressed
it on her slender little darling Of fin
ger again, and in half a moment she
WAS gone, and the fellow was alone.
Poor fellow What did ne do:
ID? lie mooned about the wood
for an hour or TWO with his hands in
his pockets. thinking of nothing, i'll an
odd, dazel sort OF way. AT last he went
home 70 his lodgings, and l think he
wishel that he were woman for once
why that?
Don YOU see Because if he were
a woman, he coulu have a good cry, and
ease his mind little. But he could
only smoke, and when the fellows he
knew made Jokes, he had to try and
make Jokes too. He went with them to
the beer gard ans and the dancing places
aud l don't suppose that amy of them
ever knew the poor devil WAS wretched.'
Did he keep up visiting the old place
in the moruiAys:
lie did but she never came again.
She WAS gone.
Then did he never zee her again ?
Oh yes: he saw her once. 1t was
on the day Of the Grand Dukes mar
riuge. he posted himself in the crowd
poor fellow, to see the procession which
passed through the city from the church
when that confounlel brute and cad,
the Grand Duhe, took his new ~ made
wife rJuud to show her TO his people
TIE ft.yow thought, you know, that he
wculd De sure to see Dorothea soma
where In the court carriages, aud he
logged 70 Sec her again as much as If
the signt could DO him any possible
good. There he stood and he saw her
Rounlell brought his clenched fist
heavily down Oh the table as he spoke.
in one Of the court carriages Of
course"
In the carriage of the Grand DIXIE,
and seated by lis side. She WAS now
bis wife.
'D3rothea?
'norothea herself Rounded rose
up from his seat in the window, and
strobe across the room, looked or affect
cd to look at the clock oyer the chm
nsy- piece, returned to the table, stood
there moment in silence, then poured
himself out 9 ass of claret and drank
it. Yes he went on, Dorothea was
the Grand Duchess. Meta was only a
cousin and companion. 1t was pious
fraud sh' lad tried to practice Oh the
poor fellow, who loved her, and whom
well, perhaps she might have loved
if he hadn't been a poor devil without
family or for.uAo, AMI she German
princess
Did she SEE him ?
no, she Was looking away when he
first saw her, then he drew out Of the
crowd. He spared her that. Meta
saw him, and turned psle. She WAS in
the third or fourth carriage. lie made
her formal bow, Us many others did,
and she returned it. But he saw by
aomcthing in her eye as she 6 danced to
wards hGn that she knew the secret was
safe Then the fellow went home, and
he lrr. Liebesheim the next morning.
remembered LOW how very sudden
~ Rouule himself had left Liebesheim
tnat time, and how he was not at the
court ball for which got the tickets.
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