The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-06-11
A LOVE STORY OF l779.
How an Arcadian Girls Romance
Just Escaped q Fatal Ending.

The lustrops light Of a June moon
shone. over Philadelphia one night in the
year 1919. The summer air was full of
the sodor of roses and the streets were
embowercd in verdure. but sounds Of
martial music floating down from Chest
nut street brought home to every heart
the chilling remembrance that war was
raging in the country and that the issue
was as yet in t~hebalance. Far away from
the din, ont in the open fields west of
the Pine Street Presbyterian church,
was a settlement in which but little
heed was being paid to the uproar. The
colony existing in the tiny cabins hhd-
died together had nothing in common
with the Continental armies except a
deep, ~unrelenting hatred of the English.
This evening the strangers gathered in
little knots and conversed in quiet, I'M
familiar accents, the men smoking their
long pipes, and the women knitting
in q slow, measured fashion. In a
French patois they ] The children
stories Of their eyer to be remembered
land far in the north, the villages and
farms, and the cruelty of the British in
wrestling from them their beloved Acadia,
turning them adrift in a strange coun.
try separated from their kindred and
every home tic. After all the years
which had elapsed since their coming to
the City Of Penn, the Acadians were
simplys ojotrners, not citizens. Few OF
them had any acquaintance with the
inhabitants Of the city, and but a small
number could speak the English Ian.
guage. The industrious QualeTs did
not take kindly to the indolent habits OF
the refugees. hence it is not to be won
dered atthatt the Acadians had no inter
course with their neighbors, and strenu.
ously sought to sdeter their children from
making connections outside Of their OWL
people.
The young are apt to be peryerse, how.
ever, and the French hloodi in their veins
was too volatile to be easily controlled.
In one of the cabins had maiden gone
to and fro through.the long hours of the
day now drawing to close busted with
the house work, but with heart beatina
high, for she had heard that the troops
were expected to arrive in the city dur.
ing the day, and thoughts of her brave
Willie, with his blue and buff uniform
and three cornered hat, had driven all
other subjects from her mind. Little her
parents guessed of her secret, and, al.
though they noticed her preoccupied
manner, they did not attribute it to the
proper cause.
Now that dusk had come she impa.
tiently awaited the time when they
should take their usual stroll to neighbol
Minot's doorstep for the accustomed
chat. When at length the old folks were
safely away, she tieda light shawl over
her head and sped along the path to Pine
street, then down that thoroughfare to
Third street. carefully avoiding the open
door of st. Peters, through which
streamed a flood of light. In Third
street she reduced her pace, and slowly
walking under the trees she finally
reached st. Joseph's church, looming uT
in the fast gathering darkness beside the
humble dwellings Of the Quaker poor.
She knew she had started too early tc
meet her lover. so she entered the sacred
editice, and after spending q few minutes
in prayer, or rather in silence, for he1
feelings were too tumultuous to be
claimed, again sought the open air.
Third street was deserted, but square
below the 4pavements were crowded.
News had come of "a battle, and the
pulse of the people was at fever heat.
I ~~x5ro ~n~nI .n% Cos 4khA !, nrr 80 Ar
wa SO long as her lover was safe, and
now she waited anxiously at the trysting
place. One or two persons hurried past,
too eager to hear the latest tidings tc
notice her. A soldier released from his
duties came down the street anxious to
get home again. She drew back in the
shadow. Soon she heard the step of a
vigorous man, and peering through the
twilight saw the glitter of another uni
form. The man came closer, and she
perceived he was young and stalwart,
with a bold, masculine face, which,
though in a Measure attractive, had
stamped upon it traces of sensualism
and rough living, such as is noticeable
IN the c~ountenances Of soldiers who have
been on o long campaign.
AL this the girl noticed by the dim
Hghteof the lamp fixed on the watchbox
neal by. The; stranger was evidently in
search of some one, 8 he constantly
peered around him as he moved forward,
but as he saw Louise all doubt vanished.
Walking directly up to the maiden, he
babe her good evening, calling her by
her first name. The girls c~ountenance
expressed at orce annoyance and sur
prise. The cause of the first is easily
imagined, but the manifestation of sur
prise was only experimentation she ejacu.
lated in French:
"You here, jacques? We thought you
had decided to stayiin 0pelousas. And
why IN this UNIFORM
The soldier replied with a light laugh:
ut is hardto get rid of a bad penny, you
know. / found the surroundings of ou
friends in the south not suited to my
taste, and, having a chance to enter the
army, did so. But ! came on an errand
tonight, and that is to carry message
from your lover"
Although a smile accompanied his
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