The Portland daily press., 1891-06-27
THE HEART sPoKE."H
cincinnati Commercial Gazette.l


Somewhere upon the way between
Vienna and Trieste the two letters had
crossed each other, and as neither the
mail train had gone off the track nor
the postman had been robbed and muir
dered they arrived in due time into the
hands Of those to whom they were ad-
dressed in Trieste and Vienna. Do not
get out of patience when you see that
my hero and heroine have noble, high
sounding names. know that the usual
run Of stories are told of the nobility,
and they become so tiresomei The joys
and sorrows and romances of the middle
and lower classes are forgotten. So for.
give me; it is not my fault that my
leading lady and gentleman" belong to
this former class, and happen to be Count
Nicholas Won Telh and Baroness Marie
Schwarzberg, who are writing to each
other, and, indeed, for the first time
since their engagement.
You imagine, according to this, that
Baroness ,12e Marie, with cry of joy, threw
with the help of her thoroughbred gothic
pointed finger nail tore open the envelope,
whole concert of joyful sensations played
over her features. regret that 1 cannot
confirm your expectations. The young
lady preferred to finish vine she was
embroidering, then took paper knife,
with which she very calmly opened it,
and did not smile until she had reached
the very end-a peculiarly triumphant,
victorious smilel
at will not please me-" I cry with
Iago, and peep inquisitively over her
shoulder at the written page. "Well,
what does Count Mkt writer"
"TREsTE, -.
RESPECTED BARONESS kiss, first of
all, most dutifully your hand, and with
the deepest respect. Inquire after your
health, of which, in spite Of our solemn
and weighty engagement, allow my
self to have the best hopes. The dear
parents, my parents-in-law, are of course
included in this question. I take for
granted that the doings and thoughts of
your fiance lie near to your heart, so /
shalt know that one always does it.
give you a conscientious bulletin of
everything. would like to assure you
that I, intoxicated with happiness and
your fathers delicious wine, embraced
the porter, pressed real banknote into
the conductors hand, and, instead of
turning that continuance in the car to
regulate the temperature, pulled the
safety rope I must tell you candidly,
just as am, that neither in happiness
nor in wine have I that necessary mod
GRAFTON. | did not sleep; the ring on
my finger made me think much, too
much, for am not accustomed to think
ing. soon discovered that it was most
beautifully wrought and very heavy,
but about the great notwithstanding
to Hamlet-'to be or not to bel was
not made the wiser
"At the town where we stopped a half
hour for lunch it all became clear as sun
shine to me for the first time. | had
drunk of cold coffee there which, as it
seems, made me not only handsome, but
also wise, as the saying goes 'Youmu
write all, openly and honestly. Baroness
Mizi will understand you, said l, and
indeed SO loud that my neighbor at the
lunch table, nun, very much fright
ened, took her rosary and said her
prayers.
$50 here am, as you see, writing to
you.
81 must first introduce myself. The
exterior appearance is sufficiently known
to you. You were long ago informed of
my worldly goods question. You know
already that l have blonde mustache
and brown eyes, the required military
height and a few inches over, and all
that is necessary for a warrant of cap
tion,' but Of the inner man it is as un-
known to you as one of those charming
places which lies on our military from
tier. You allow me to proceed? am a
tolerably sensible man, who bears the
well sounding name of the Won Telkis,
but has not their prejudices and who
looks little beyond the horizon of the
family's laid down laws. I'm a good
fellow, but if you took me for fop the
day before yesterday, allow me, with
out boasting, to earnestly protest.
have will, good deal of it, perhaps
too stubborn. l am only weak when
one begs me from the heart Particu-
larry If it is woman, and most especial
ly it that woman is my mother, whom ]
should love and honor the highest.
Dear Baroness, l saw you day before
yesterday for the first time face to face.
have known you in my thoughts, but
that is a rather wearying occupation.
You have been served to me at break
fast, dinner and supper-one should
never go too far into the fgurative lest
one runs against a snag. The Telkis
have since time immemorial married the
Schwarzbergs and vice versa. You, the
last Schwarzberg, was destined for me,
50 surely, so certainly, SO absolutely by
late and man that-enfn, that l, who
am headstrong and capricious, have
reached right ripe age before have al
loReo myself to be moved to the nm