Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-07-23


others-so far as wrongs can be riohtad
This is why have crossed the ocean %
make you my wife. will net ask YOU To
forgive me the sorrow have caused Won
until you understand little of what its
reparatlon costs me. Before sunset YOU
Will be the duchess of M"
l4lsette says nothing; only beckons Little
Lisette, who is playing with the hounds in
the street. The child dances toward them
laughing and shaking her golden head
Lisette looks long and directly into the
chlld's eyes, but the Man of the Cloth only
toys with her curls. He does not look into
the child's eyes.
And do you say that she will grow up
into fine lady and have everything that
money can buyW Still gently sobbing.
Yes, everything" he answers.
And must you marry me before that
can come to her?"
YES" he replies.
They part
Afternoon. 1t is all over Lisette is the
Duchess Of NJ. The clergyman who
has wrought this change is TOO astonished
at the fee which his highness, the Man Of
the Cloth, has pressed into his hand to no.
tice that the bridegroom does not kiss his
bride.
They return to the hotel At evening
the duchess is excused to go up the alley
TO put Little Lisette to bed for the last time
in her own little trundlebed for tomor-
row father, mother and child will leave
/ Virgin alley forever
Little Lisette wonders why her mamma
hugs her so tightly and why her mothers
heart beats so fast and loud. Why does
her sad mamma kiss her so hard and so
many times 1t is all a mystery to sleepy
Little Lisstte, who never knows how many
more kisses-tears and kisses are show
cred upon her when asleep before Mamma
Lisette leaves her bedside and passes swift
ly into the alley.
1t is late, and his highness, the Man of
the Cloth, is anxious less his martyrdom
should have miscarried by some accident
TO the Duchess Lisette.
He goes slowly up the alley, thinking
how good he is to endure all things for
conscience sake He wonders what the
virgins, who stare at him from window
and fence top, would think if they knew
what he had sacrificed to do penance for
the sins of youth.
Suddenly the air quavers with pro-
longed, doleful howl, such as a dog delivers
when lost or listening to the tolling of a /
bell. IL is the wall of "A hound. The mourn /
full brute is in a field few rods away, sit /
ting upon his launches, with his nose
pointed high in the air. His highness is
first TO investigate this strange canine pro-
ceeding. Lying close beside the hound,
face downward and moaning deeply, is
Lisette
lie takes the paper that is shut tightly in
her small, clinched hands, thrusts il into
his pocket, lifts her in his arms and carries
her home.
Aphysician is summoned and the wretch
eddy aimed knife drawn from her breast.
They almost despair of stopping the fear
full flow of blood, but at last it is done.
No; his martyrdom has not miscarried. /
Lisette lives. She slowly RECEIVERS
In the days that follow Little Lisette
wonders why the Man of the Cloth kisses
her mamma and herself so often and so
tenderly, and why Mamma Lisette and the
Man Of the Cloth are no longer sad, al
though mamma is so sick and must lie so
very still Perhaps we may understand if
we glance over his shoulder as he reads, for
the hundredth time, the letter taken from
Lisette's hand as he picked her up from
The field that night. 1t reads:
70 His Highness the Duke Of M:
love you TOO well to curse your life with my
presence. should have compelled you to re- )
.urn without me-ycs, | should have killed my l
self before marrying you had it not been for [
Little Lisette. Perhaps have done wrong to |
allow you to blight your name, even for her
sake, but the temptation was too great. She is
sweet and beautiful, and you will surely learn
10 love her. You could never learn to love me.
should always be a - me and reproach to
you. DO not waste "a regret on me. / am I'M
worthy of il. You never brought me anything
but good, for | should never have known love
II had not known you. Oh, il / could only
have one word Of love frcm your lips before l
lie! But | cannot. That, and leaving nv
precious Little Lisette, are the only hard things
about dying-for love you 50 much that it Is
Easy for me TO die that you may never have to '
blush because of my presence at your side 6
II what l have done for Little Lisettes sake l
S wrong may God forgive mel and for his sake I
md for pity of me do no let II set your heart ,
against the child. Goodby forever g
LIsEITE ,
The marriage kisses which his highness :
'ould not give his bride at the marriage
ire scattered through their welded life. o
4sette's passionate love for her husband =
md her native intelligence and social tact +
nabled her 10 put far behind her the things
4 her youth, and many a noble duke has Z
ess occasion to be proud Of his wife and n
hid than his highness, the Man of the 4
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