The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-09-08

Seminary. The position OF which
speak is that Of English teacher"
1 dropped my work.basket with q
] crash! Teacher in the st. Genevien
Seminary, when had all the time
supposed myself to be sought in
marriage! Oh, my conntrywomen
what a fall was here And there sat
button as complacent and smiling as
ever.
you see"-he pursued the hateful
topic 81 have q very spec. al reason
for wishing to send my daughters to
boarding-school just now, I don't
mind telling you in confidence, my
dear Miss Hetty, that I am con-
templating q speedy marriage with
Miss Lucy Hooper.
Lucy, Hooper, indeed! q pinl.faced
little girl OF eighteen, who knew no
more about housekeeping than did
| about verbs. Lucy Hooper!
"And," went on the absurd old wild
over, Sinking like a lover OF twenty
one, ri should like to feel that your
improving influence was brought to
bear upon my dear girls, for Malvina
is little inclined to be sullen, and
Sarah Jane"
Eyes, ! know" I interrupted, with
an impatient little toss OF my head,
"but l don't like teaching!"
'Don't like teaching! Why, I
thought"
81 can't help what you thought" I
interrupted tartly. IT don't choose
to accept the PLACED"
Dutton stared with eyes like min:a-
ture full moons.
"My dear Miss Hetty-''
PPM not your dear Miss Hetty!" I
burst out ready to cry with rage and
Indignation. "And 1 see no use in
wasting any further words on the
matter. I won't teach in the St..
Genevien Seminary And I dare say
Miss Lucy Hooper is wondering why
evening"" " -.
cam to understand" f..
"You're to understand exactly
what you pleased exclaimed, beat
ing g. retreat with my work basket.
"Good evening, Mr.. Dutton."
And that was my first otfer-or, at
least, the first that wasnear having.
Lucy Hooper has married him now,
and hope she has a good time OF it..
1t was two years after, that, when I
was livirl E in Madame Rocheparde' s
fashiona bic establishments 1 had
got tired OF the country, and wanted
to enjoy a. glimpse OF fashionable So
ciety-that l became acquainted with
Gustave Emile Dupin, the dearest,
dark-eyed foreigner in the world. with
a lisp, and a moustache like black
silk. -.....s
81 me felicitate that mademoiselle
has not yet her heart to surrendered
to other aspirants," he said, ''for is it
not that may hope?"
| didn't know what to say, but Gus
tave caught my hand in both of his.
"The charming mademoiselle-w
does she hesitate?" he calculated;
81 am her slave-her faithful
OF tiny feet! Shall my brains explode
with the pistol?- for life without my
Henriette's devotion were but a length
ened misery!" -
"Gustave, how frightfully you talk, -
said |, beginning to be quite terrified.
"You will, then, be miner"
eyes," l faltered. What else could
/ saw?
l was engaged this time; and how
the widows and maidens of Madame
Rocheparde's clearinghouse did
envy me, to be sure. The Countess
Dupin!-for Gustave had limited at a
title to which he was next hair.
How delightfully."- it would sound
and how I should enjoy sending my
wedding-cards to Lucy Hooper,
mean Mrs. Dutton!
The wedding was fixed for the next
month; it was rather precipitate ar.
rangement, but Gustave told me, in
his pretty chivalric phrase, that he
could not exist any longer. And ]
really didn't see the necessity for any
more delay; so I got the dress-white
silk dress, and began upon the trous.
seau, with two seamstresses and a
machine.
It was the day before the eventfu1
Thursday, and was busy packing
my trunk, when Gustave came in
with dishevelled hair and cravat tied
all on one side.
"Dear me, Gustave, what is the
matter?"
''lt is that your Gustave is wretched
that he seeks but to bid his Hen
rette adieu ere he himself annihilates.
Weep not my ANGEL but forget that
thy poor Gustave has ever lived!'
And then, in answer to my eager
questionings, he confessed that he had
Endorsed the note OF commercial
friend, hat the friend had failed to
meet his engagements, and that he,
consequently, became liable.
Chow much is it," I asked
"But apathy hundred pounds, and
| tomorrow gold will flow in upon me
in streams. My arrangements are all
made; l shall receive remittance to
morrow. But for to-day--alas, my
Henriette! why does not Heaven
strike me with thunderbolts? Why
do live?"
II can lend you a hundred pounds
G ustave!"
My guardian angel my queen q
love! 1t is but one lee,tel day, anG
then your Gustave will heap the treas
ures OF all his ancestors at your feet!
| happened to have just a hundred
pounds left, for my own outfit hac
| been more expensive than had ex