The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-07-08

ventured to send you another. which hops .
may prove Interesting. You Will, perhaps,
be surprised when tell you that you rea . ome
stopping: that you then marked tho place win
. booimarker with . harp on it: that you cIied
At tho tenth chapter. and kissed tho book when
you closed it. YOUR SPIRIT FRIEND
Through my pecping place 1 saw tho
little woman take in the book; saw her
read the inscription with amazemcsit.
put her hand to her head and ponder.
and then draw one of the white cur
tains and look out. A young man was
shaving himself Mt a window opposite.
saw that she at once pitched upon
him as the sender of the book.
The next day she put blue shades up.
Once, watching her from above. as
though 1 were an angelic being without
wings, saw her come in from a walk
| with autumn leaves in her hand. After
| ward she ironed them and made
little wreath OF them which she hung
| up over a little looking glass The
next day l bought and left at the door
! some dollhouse roses.
"Sincc you care for autumn leaves
you will care for these" wrote on a
| card, and signed it lour spirit
Friend" usual
| This time she laughed softly and put
| them in water, and sat and looked at
| them a long while. Then she peePed
out of her window again. The young
man was not at the opposite easement
Then she shook her head, and after a
time she took damas< rose from the
bunch and put it in her hair. The next
time I sent the flowers wrote on the
card:
.'You wore a damask rose from the
last bunch I sent you. Will you put a
yellow tea rose in your hair this timer
How 1 watched! / saw her look,
half pleased, half frightened. At first
she only put the roses in a vase, but at
last she did take one, and it was a tea
rose, and pinned it in her black braids.
1 kissed my hand to her from my Gle
waited situation, but she did not know 1T.
So for at least six months watched.
and sent her flowers and fruit and
books and little gifts of all sorts. But
as for asking our mutual landlord FOL
. an introduction, l never thought o.
, that-;t never occurred to me. ! should
. not have dared to speak to her if hssc
, been introduced.
! The autumn and the winter passed
, and it was often SO cold that L wa:
obliged to scrape away the frost from
+ my pceping place to see her; but dix
, it. and let me assure you that did
! most respectfully, and with the mos
s gcntlcmanly feelings. played the spy
: but it was with the deepest vencration
c Spring came. Little green buds wer
on the trees, and she opened the Hvindov
= to let in the air and wore pretty, light
/
g dow was open she drew her tabl
q farther away from it and nearer tn
the wall. This was more conveniep
a to me.
IS One evening she sat down at he
n table to write IL letter and got m
It glass and found that I could see til
n words upon the paper. My hope wa
d that she would allude to her unl<nov-
I friend. 1t was gratificd. She dis
IL After some talks of persons and thing
I 1 knew nothing OF, she wrote thus:
IF .Now dearest Lizzie, will tell you OF /,
"a | stransest thing that has happened 70 rdc.
~ ! have no friends in the city. nor have ] seen an
!" one watching nc; but from some mys.erio,
source books, papers, magazines, flowers a,
y fruit are cent to nc have mad tlckc.s
&c ma,inces. At first was afraid TO 20 to then
=, but tried it and no one spoke to or looked
~ y, me. Every thing this unknown does Is dol
"a de.catc'y really have begun to get Int
At myself. why does he hide himself! IF
~ likes me. why does he not obtain an introdu
" ticn''
" 'Pcrhars he is deformed or ds'sured
&c some way; but II he were I should certain
% His taste Is: perfect When he marks passas
Is in a book know 1 shall like them In fact
confess to you truth which 1 would admit
s. no other living being. am half way in 10
ID with him. How foolish OF him TO keep his
vi cosnito when in so many ways he makes
~ manifest that he loves me. y
n, l read those word: with joy and L
treated to my room to think them Owe
e! Having done SO, my resolution was n
'g rived at. l seized sheet OF paper Al
On wrote upon it these words:
~ DEAR MADAM-I am neither deformed n
al disfigured in any way. Your fatterinG op1ni
~ | OF me is SO delightful that, though modes
r | prompts me to contradict you, cannot bri
l" myself to do it. indeed want you to th1
CT even better OF than you do for while I
as ] wholly in love with you, you are only half WI
l incIose my photograph AT the same tim
=, | make YOU an offer OF marriage, and will pro
'ii | to you my respectable position in society n
he my ability support a wife And how ha
m learned much concerning you Will exPii
r. if you will send me a line to -, station =
box 40. The line that desire is an answer
my offer. Will you have me IT, on NEE ting,
arc not disappointed in mc!'
Thanks to my glass roof l was al
to sec that dear little woman wri
yes or words to that effect: ane
called upon her next day, and now l
longer dream that she is my wife. 5
pours out my coffee and makes my l1o1
paradise When I told her all ha
told YOU, she said: You ought to ha
been ashamed of yourself" She W
in duty bound to say it, but. betwc
YOU and me and the rose, she did
mean it-London Tid-Bits.
An Expressive Expression.
81 heard an expression the other d
in New York." said the drummer to