The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-06-06
THE FACE OF ROSENFEL
By CHARLES HOWARD MONTAGUE.
lcsoutright, 1894, by American Press Associar
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do not wrong him, but / think so. be-
cause nothing disturbed him moro than
to find mo talking with stranger. My
mother piticd my isolation, and she Of
| ten tried to interest in me companions
of my own age, and then the informa-
tion would come thatswe were to break
up our little home again and go TO some
distant place to live That is why i had
no friends. We staid SO short time in
any city we changed our living place
SO often-I cannot say home-I never
knew what that word really meant till
came here. But l am only mystifying
you, my kind friends. l should tell you
what know of myself from tho begin
ming
Way back, beyond all that 1 can
really remember, there is vague, i'm
perfect sense of something different,
which comes to me most vividly some
times when 1 am not trying to think of
it, But my first distinct recollection is
of playing with my little rag doll at a
window, very high up, looking out over
the roofs Mr.. and Mrs. Dye were with
me, and called them father and moth
er | always was afraid of him, and he
avoided me- but loved my mother with
the strength of n double passion ] can
dimly remember that Mt that time both
of them were rather different in their
looks from what they seemed in later
years. Mr.. Dye has changed greatly.
He used to be very well dressed and
careful of his appearance. That was be-
forc he took SO greatly to drink Now
he seems to have no care. My mother
was pale, slight and sad. She wept so
much when | first recollect her that her
eyes were always red. Her husband made
her very unhappy. He never used vio-
lelce toward either Of us. He rather
seemed to pity u.s. but there is an un-
Kindness TINT is quite as deep as the un-
kindness of hard words and blows. He
was silent and moody man and was
very little in the house
Il noticed aS soon IA was old enough
to notice at all that he did not like to
have me even look at him. | sometimes
caught him watching me furtivcly, but
as soon as he saw that l knew it he
would turn away quickly. If it was not
so absurd, / should have believed he was
afraid of me. And so my mother was u
broken hearted woman. But the less She
had III common with her husband the
more she devoted herself to mo. She Of
ten told me that she lived only for me-
aud when | think how feeble she was
and what struggle existence was to
her ! cannot help believing she told the
truth. She taught mo all know. She
saved her pennies and went without
clothes TO buy me books In the long
days and evenings when we were en-
tiruly alone we read and studied to-
gcther, We had to devise places to hide
our literary treasures, for whenever he
found II book he sold it and kept the
money More than once our entire little
library, obtained at so much cost and
pains, was missed by us i'll the morning
Il should not have been unhappy hut
for the little knowledge of the world
and its ways that my reading gave to
mo. II made me feel the degradation of
my position, All tho time my mother
was becoming paler and feeblcr every
dly. Finally she took to her bed. II
attended her 3"
1t was with difficulty that Annette
controlled herself sufficiently to 90 on
But her resolution conquered her natural
emotion. She was even able to speak in
n calm voice.
Before she died she told me that I
"'o iio' nv 'ililh' II was sPcfel she
c2ulo NOV carry away WIN her' she mad
oiteil anu often pesScd hef husband to
teil her VINO was put ne never would.
INC IhBii. Mheh WIS hot years oId
.ir. pse n"a pla,o'l me IN hef arms ahd
told nor tbot I wos IN Lo thai,. oi,it1
thc,,cerortb and that ,ye tbrca ,,-o,,,, r,
be,rin travelling about tha connt,,. t,,a
yery noxt day Before tbnt finn. ho had
baau ve,.v rood IN bn,, I,,t so,,,el,+,,. ,,,,,
enning estronucd tbon Tha ,,,If ,i,at
bepan then has been ,vidoniu,t hot,,.oa,s
them ever since Hcbad loved bo,. o,,o,
she said. and there She was bro,tb;,,q,
out her ln.t bra,tb IN ,,,,, 49,, ,,,i,;is
he was away With dco,niai men ,nra1
less what lsco,na oF be, HILL - -
friahtcnad her Inv ancl,ri,,t, th.,+ iF L.
eve,, t,Id on,,ho,lt, ,,as ,,st 81. III
il yyopld bring him IN rho a,al1a,,.s IT,,
she believed tbot tho socrnt ,,,,,st 10
riLle indeed. and far yenrs sha hod ,,at
dared to Question him again so '''''' i'o'
81 was ton yynal sho s,jd 80 ,,,o,,o
apv resistance tl,,, INF ,yba,, w., a,,'i,,,
In I've onit, ,,;,l n,,.l ,,iis'd ~, -.
rnsnonsibiIitv mon mo 10 br;n,r -, 80 az
as ongbt in the cieh, ~ cd "a ,,,,.i, ap
,fto, ~, -, - ,l, '',,'ii i
snnoht him to rostoro x,o,, - -. $50 ~
ents N, ot Ioast toll NO m 80, p',s
Un only onsxyorad ~ Jl,n"t - ), ~ on
~ L. ',,.r,,..,.,. -. = -. -,
now h.foro I dc o,d go - ~ ZINES s2iiies
$40 nv maps
the siSht or me lying so feeble here-for
lt Is the same face, Annette, the same
tace, thnush changed, that he used to
KISS so fondly III the old days-perhaps