Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1890-11-27

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 a one
as she would bestow upon stranger.
had the most powerful desire to stop and
speak to her, but having no right to do
80 should have passed on had she not
said to me in the best of English: Good
morning, SIR Then I stopped, you may
be sure. was so accustomed to speak
to those met in either French or Ger
man that I involuntarily said to her:
Bon jour, Mademoiselle.' You need not
speak French, she said; Il 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 sat down by her. Il am
that person. said, and handed her my
card. But before say any more, please
tell me who you are Il am Marie
Dorfier. My 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 a ruin,'
answered; part of it is in very good
condition. And then 1 proceeded to
/ give her an account of my method Of
life and my reasons for it. 1T is inter-
I CO.. cl, ooi1 hit &C., al
do not think it 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 l am
doing out-of-the-way things. If 1 do
not do them now I shall never have the
opportunity again. In two weeks 1
shall be married, and then 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 a sketch just
where please, no matter whether the
ground be damp or not Il wonder
that you are allowed to do these things
now said. 4 am not allowed she
answered. Il do them in hours when /
am supposed to be painting flower pieces
in an upper room,' But when you're
married. I said, your husband will be
your companion in such rambles.'
Hardly, she said, Struggling her shout
ders; he will be forty-seven on the 18th
OF next month, which believe is July,
and he is great deal more grizzled than
my father, who is past fifty. He is very
particular about all sorts of things, as I
suppose he has to be, as he is q Colonel
Of infantry. Nobody could possibly dis
approve of my present performances more
than he would could not help ejacu-
ulating: why, then, do you marry himP'
She smiled at my earnestness. ooh,
that is all arranged she said,' and l
have nothing to do with it. I have
known for more than year that I'm to
marry Colonel Kaldhein, but l 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 my
self in the way best like 1 must lose
no time in it. / looked at the girl with
an air Of earnest interest. 1T appears to
me- said I, that your ways of amusing
yourself are very much like mine That
40 VI 10, ShO o"ieA, AOOhAAS uP WlbA all
nation, they are. Is it not delightful
to be free, to go whore you like, and do
what you please, without any one to ad-
wise or interfere with you?' 1T is de-
lightful, said 1, and for half an hour we
4 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
verNfar in this direction by herself.
told her that it would be far better for
her to. see the castle with her own eyes,
and that could conduct her to an emf
hence, not half a mile away, where she
could have an excellent view of it. This
plan greatly pleased her, but looking at
her watch she said that it would be too
late for her to go that morning, but if
happened to come that way the next
day. and she should be there to finish