Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-02-19

my approach, and she looked up at me
with face that was half merry, half in
quisitive and perfectly charming can
not describe the effect which her express
sion had upon me. had never seen her
before, but her look was not such one
as she would bestow upon stranger. 1
had the most powerful desire to stop and
speak to her, but having no right to do
SO should have passed on had she not
said to me in the best of English: Good
morning, sir Then stopped you NAV
be sure. | was so accustomed to speak
to those 1 met in either French or Ger
man that I involuntarily said to her:
Bon jour, Mademoiselle.' you need not
speak French, she said; 4 am neither
English nor American, but speak their
language. Are you the gentleman who
lives in Wulrick Castle? If so, we are
neighbors, and wish you would tell me
why you live there nearly all the time
alone
cat this 1 sat down by her. I am
that person. said, and handed her my
card. But before l say any more, please
tell me who you are.' 4 am Marie
Dorfler. Ny fathers house is on the
other side of this piece of woodland;
you can not see it from here; this is
part Of his estate. And now tell me
why you live all by yourself in that old
ruin 1T is not altogether . ruin,' I
answered; part of it is in very good
condition And then l proceeded to
give her an account of my method of
life and my reasons for it. 1T is inter-
esting,' she said, but it is very odd.' Il
do not think 1t half so odd,' answered,
as that you should be here by yourself
That Is truly an out-of-the-way sort of
thing she said, but just now | am
doing out-of-the-way things. If / do
not do them now 1 shall never have the
opportunity again. In two weeks 1
shall be married, and then 1 shall go to
Prague, and every thing will be by line
and rule. No more delightful rambles
by myself. No more sitting quietly in
the woods watching the little birds and
hares. No more making sketch just
where please, no matter whether the
ground be damp or not 4 wonder
that you are allowed to do these things
now,' ! said. Il am not allowed, she
answered, L do them in hours when /
am supposed to be painting flower pieces
in an upper room,' But when you're
married. L said, your husband will be
your companion in such rambles.'
Hardly she said, Struggling her shoul-
ders; he will be forty-sevenOn the 18th
OF next month, which believe is July,
and he is a great deal more grizzled than
my father, who is past fifty. He is very
particular abopt all sorts of things, as
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of infantry. Nobody could possibly dis
approveof my present ntperformanees more
Ian ca:e.n he would 1 could not help ejacu-
ulating: why, then, t.c y Won marry him?
She smiled It my earnestness. oh,
that IS all arranged she said,' and l
have nothing to do with il. l have
known for more than a year that I'm to
marry Colonel Kaldhein, but 1 can not
say that have given myself much con-
Germ about it until recently. 1t now oc-
ours to me that if expect to amuse nv
self in the way best like must lose
no time in it. | looked at the girl with
an air OF sarnest Interest,". 1T appears to
me, said |, that your ways of amusing
yourself are very much like mine That
is true, she said, looking up with ami
nation, they are. Is it not delightful
to be free, to go where you like, and do
what you please, without any one to ad-
wise or interfere with you2' 1T is de-
lightful,' said I, and for half an hour we
sat and talked about these delights and
kindred subjects. She was much inter
ested in our castle, and urged me to
make sketch of it, so that she may
know what it now looked like. She had
seen it when little girl, but never
since, and had been afraid to wander
very far in this direction by herself. 1
told her that it would be far better for
her to see the castle with her own eyes,
and that could eonduct her to an emf
nence, not half mile away, where she
could hare an excellent view of 1t. This
plan greatly pleased her. but LOOKING at