Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18

| Really uncle, | do not know.
Not know, thou nephew unwOl tlv
of thine uncle! You are every day creep
ing into the house. and don t know whetE-
| er you are loved!'
| g She does not even know that | love
| her, uncle
Oh, in that respect you are deceived,
| fair nephew, and show that you under
stand nothing of the matter. She knew
you loved her at least quarter of an hour
before you knew it yourself.
" Well, all that know is, that | shall
| kill myself if she be not mine.
"'Oh, oh, as strong as that, fair
nephew, is, it? Humph! There are many
chances against her being yours. Your
father is much richer than hers, and will
not bestow his son upon her
We'll, then, uncle, | know what re-
mains for me to do
Nonsense! Let US ace. Don't COM
NIT any folly; at least listen.
eyes, uncle
''sWell, in the first place, you cannot
marry at twenty
why not, uncle?'
Because ! won't let you, and without
me this marriage will never take place.
ooh, my dear, good little uncle!-'
"'lfthe girl loves you, if she promises to
| wait three years for you
g Three years, uncle!'
Don't begin to argue about it, or |
shall insist upon four. If she will promise
to wait three years for you, you will join
your regiment
All, uncle! uncle!'
- But not at Clermont. Twill contrive
| to have you placed III a regiment at a few
| oc,,,oC IrO,,o rbitbar Won oa1, oppoo
home once in every three months.
"'Well, uncle, but how ain to know if
she loves me?
How are you to know! why, by asking
her, to be sure.
Dear uncle, dare not!
"'Then pack up your kit and obey your
| father
but, dear uncle, you don't know
| what sort Of a girl she is. | have, wished
hundred times to tell her | loved her;
! | have been ashamed of my own timidity;
| have endeavored to obtain courage in
all ways; | have prepared speeches and
learnt them by heart; have written let
te1s; but when an opportunity offered for
speaking to her, | felt the first word
choke me. and | spoke of something else.
| Her look is SO mild, and at the same time
so syere, it appeared to me that she could
never love a man; and then | spoke of
something else. As for letters it is still
worse; at the moment | should give
them, fancy them so silly, that | cannot
believe | can tear them into pieces small
enough.
Well, but my boy, the matter must be
| ther has not let you into the whole affair
One of his reasons for sending you to
Clermont, is that the colonel of the regi-
ment is one of his most intimate friends,
and has a daughter, this daughter is des-
tined you; it is rich and suitable match.
But-you need say nothing about it;
know that all this amounts to nothing
when a man is in love. It is great fol-
ly, which I should be sorry not to have
committed myself; they must be cold
blooded mortals who do not commit such.
| know very we'll that old folk call this
illusions; but who knows if it be not they
who have some of these illusions? The
spectacles that lessen objects are not more
true than t1ose which enlarge them.
'' If she loves you, you must sacrifice
everything for her sake; that's a folly |
know but it is right, and must be done.
But you ascertain whether she loves you;
and there is just now an excellent oppor-
tunity for putting the question. Her
family are about to marry her to another
well, nephew you turn pale at that idea
and you would like to measure swords
with your odious rival. Is it not that
what you said just now? Well, try to
preserve little of this great courage in
the presence of the beautiful Noemi. They
want to marry her; you are richer than
she is, but the man they wish to marry
her to is richer than you; besides, he has
title, and is a husband quite ready, and
the corbeille is ready; whilst for you they
must wait Go to Noemi, and tell her you
love her; she knows it we'll enough, but
it is expected to be told. Ask her if she
responds to your affection, and tell her she
ought to love you; you are young. hand
some and sensible. Tell her that she shall
swear to you to wait three years for you,
and that she shall write it to me-to me
myself, in letter, which | will keep
Then | will break off the marriage yonder;
| will get you placed in another regiment;
| and IN three years, in spite of your father,
in spite of the BAIL in spite of every
thing, | will marry you.
{" Dear uncle, have an idea
B." What is it?'
90 I will write to her.
"'As you please.
Il left my uncle and Immediately set
about my letter. There was no difficulty
in the writing-I had already written her
a hundred and fifty; but it was the deliv-
cry of the letters that embarrassed me.
Nevertheless, as there was no time to be
| lost in hesitation, fixed upon a plan.
purchased bouquet Of yellow roses, and
placed my letter in the middle of the
| bouquet.
''Stop-perhaps it is being very foolish,
but | still remember the contents of it.
After the avowal of my love, | duplicated
her to love me in return, to be happy with
me, and to wait for me three years. en-
treated her if she consented, to wear in her
bosom in the evening one of my yellow
roses. Then, said I, shall have courage
to speak to you, and will tell you al:
THE bunch of yellow roses which | see
sets herself before me as young girl Of
seventeen with her beautiful brown hair,
and, as my uncle said, with her black vel
vet eyes; whereas she must now be, 1t llv-
ing quite an old woman"
You do not know what became of
her?"
mo, madame"
well, but your name, then, was not
Descondraies?
mo; that is the name of my uncle
estate: My name is Edmond d. Ait
heim'
Just So"
How, madame, just So.
Il will tell you what has become OF