Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-07-10

I aEouIGE,J. won-wnatchouF A sec
ond sneeze cut the word in two, and
Thibaut, plunging his face into his hand
kerchief. strangled therein, one after the
other, two more nasal detonations. But
his good humor was no whit lessened; he
continued to joke, smoking and sneezing
| together. When the servant from the Lee
made mansion brought him his own.
clothes he thrust his hand in his pocket
and pulled out whole louis. There, my
! good girl,' said he, ''take that for your
| palms. And give my compliments to your
| master and mistress-mind you don't for
| get, now"
The next week, in company with his
| nephew, he went to take the train. AS
they walked past the Lemadie grounds,
| Thibaut suddenly stopped and with a firm
hand rang the bell. At an impatient move
ment from Marcel he turned toward that
young man and said, s'If this bores you, my
dear boy, you can walk on. |, however,
certainly owe the Lemadies a visit OF
| thanks, and 1 shall pay it,"
"A visit of thanks? For your cold in the
head9''
Exactly" said Thibaut, with perfect
placidity.
The door opened, and Jeanne showed
herself, more charming, more enticing
than before Out of mere politeness Mar
eel followed his uncle
Then followed at once the most sympa-
thetic greetings, shakes of the hand warm
ly exchanged Then were the chairs gath
cred about the table, the Marsala was
brought, the glasses were filled, and gayly
were they clinked together. The converse
| orip taI and Thiha1lt no.
let drop the pane of his friend Chevalct,
an old wholesale dealer, who at the time
when NJ Lemadie was in the jewelry man
ufacture had done business with him. The
old merchant was delighted at this unex-
pected disclosure of common friendship
and in his turn took up the praises of
i Chevalet and launched into the recital of
the affairs great and small of twenty years
since, while Jeanne listened, her eyes mod
| estly lowered, and Marcel sat lightly on his
| chair, his eye in spite of himself caught
and fixed by little blonde curl which just
at his right, almost reaching his ear, fat
tered out in the soft breeze and would not
keep still.
That same evening Thibaut had a long
and mysterious colloquy with his sister-in-
law, in which, to judge by the vivacity of
the gestures and by the facial contortions
of the speaker and by the reflective attent-
i've physiognomy of the listener, was of
the highest interest to both of them.
Soon, soon did Nine. Filhol become
the intimate friend of Nine. Lemadie
and M. Marcel, her son, strongly
unwilling at first to accompany his
mother on her neighborly visits, accus-
toned himself little by little to the task
and ended by paying visits on his own ac-
count, when he passed the whole evening
there without her. This caused certain
very curious and malicious smile to show
itself in the corners of the twinkling eyes
of his uncle Many things did that smile
signify. Jeanne and he had become great
friends. So soon as he appeared she ran to
him, her hands outstretched, and even
kissed him bravely, like good old uncle
as he was, who knew the future
On the 18th of September Nine Filhol
asked the hand of Mile. Jeanne Lemadie
for her son, Marcel. Nobody was surprised
For several weeks they had all known what
was coming.
That very evening both families sat at
table in the garden at the foot Of the ter
race The soft evening was stirred by mild
breezes, full of odorous scents, the stars
twinkled in the dark blue sky, and the
| LuOOA Uu1CW uC1 Pd1O AlSouU Oh udO Oe1OAO
where the coffee smoked in the cups, and
projects for the future the happy future,
succeeding each other one after the other
without interruption, were gayly dis
cussed.
s'Niece," said Uncle Thibaut, twill you
take turn in the garden with me?"
He passed the girls slender arm beneath
his own, and when they reached the spot
whence had darted that furious jet of water
from the nozzle of the hose he stopped her
and he said, "Just suppose l had not been
on the other side of that gate three months
ago, eh?'
"Ah, uncle" said Jeanne, "why do you
tease me still about that? Haven't you
forgiven me YETI"
forgiven your" cried Thibaut. 'sWhy
there was nothing to forgive, my dear
child. knew well enough that you didn't
do it on purpose"
"And that is perfectly true" said Jeanne
without thinking, "for it wasn't you was
aiming at"
"Aiming atp' said Thibaut astounded.
'But if you'--
'Oh, good graciousli said Jeanne. 'I-
I've told youP'
Consequently she told him all. Under
her breath and desperately ashamed she
owned that she had been aiming at Mar
Gel. "He-he used to walk by every day."
she said, land I used to look at him, and
he never looked at me, and I used to won
der why, and I did everything ] could
without doing anything, you know, uncle
but he never honored me with the small
est attention."
FpThe imbecilep'
"Wasn't hep Well, that day felt so mis-
| cradle, so desperate, because he wouldn't
look, and all at once I saw him with
you. Then-oh, | don't know what came
over me, but thought, 'Ah, you won't
look at me!' and so-bang!-I turned the
nozzle on him. Only was SO wrought up,
SO unhappy, that"--
''That it was I who got the ducking!
Upon my word, Sparisti, if I had known
that sooner'-
"Well?" she said, looking at him boldly
with her hooking eyes.
ssWellq Well. ipdeedl I shouldn't have
mademoisellep'
you wouldnt?" she said, with look
and tone incredulous. go along, you
dear old uncle; don't / know you? You
And la after a she a sa 3 o aS Ehsst
Thibaut felt himself lost before she spoke,
"you guessed, probably, that you would
have in Jeanne a little niece who would
love you and take care Of you better than
| any Quiet you COulu uuu aDyW QoFo uluu y
u?'-From the French Of A. Erhard in
Philadelphia Times.
\ pig Game bag?
The total amount of big game brought
to bag during the Maharajah's shikar party
was eleven tigers, three panthers, two
bears, two rhinoceri, eleven buffaloes, forty
nine deer and twenty one boars. The fol
lowing were the weights and lengths Of the
five biggest tigers: Length, 10 feet s1a
inches; weight, 493 pounds; 10 feet, AZ
pounds; feet inches, 467 pounds; 9 feet
6 inches, $50 pounds; 9 feet 6 inches, 455
pounds. The six largest swamp deer (Ru-
cervus duvacellD were $40 pounds, sos
pounds, 500 pounds. 400 pounds, 400 pounds
and 4S0 pounds. The two largest sambhur
(Rusa aristotilis) weighed SOS pounds each.
Land and Water.
An Imperfect Inventory.
Mother-And SO your friend Clara is soon
to be marriedP