Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-12-21

he plays for hours with parrot or kitten;
his head contains all the Latin of all the
schools; his heart is full of love to God
and man. He turns from his contempla-
ton of st. Augustin or his objects Dart to
smile at the toughest gamin of the street.
In short, he is type dying out the writ
ers tell us, but, happily still extaI{nAJyHn ~,
childlike Latin races. ag
The priests all live, twelve of them, {! .
in his own apartment, at the parish-house-
of St.-Roche. To see the dear old able
walk from the parish-house, where he
lodges, to Madame C-'s, where he dimes,
is delicate pleasure. He has all
ways a book in his hand as he passes the
opera-house; he is quite unconscious OF
the crowd about him, the weather,
the place; he might be walking along
the Via Appia. If it is very, very
muddy he lifts his sOutGne from force OF
habit, and always at intervals as he walks
he strokes his chest, habit he has, quite
useless to speak Of, but that expresses
much, and that you think OF when you
think of him. He is no dude, like his
brother priest, the short, fat, witty world
ling Able D.. Able D. is very
| fine: he wears black silk muller when II
Is cold and black gloves and fresh black
His clothes are rusty, his hands bare; but
his smile and his words are fresh and in
MIGRATING.
He had come the day before Christmas,
all beaming with pleasure, to otier the TOY
al box to Daphne's mother-the dlstit
guished American, as he called her. AIAa
On Christmas morning the two were eul
sconced by his own kind hand in the big
gilded cage for high mass. The door was
| locked upon them, the crowd in the left
aisle and the left transept pressed closer,
Int Daphne saw nothing of all that. She
aid not notice either that the door was I'M
locked again few moments later, and that
n man entered. He was a young man, a
handsome man, with the air OF the youth
ful Saul. or of Luclfer, son of the Mofh-
ing. before he became Apollyon. Fer-
hans Daphne felt his presence, for lqs'
then the scene took on a new glory 10 her;
I'm the centre aisle came the scarlet ana
white-robed boys bearing on their sh0ui-
ders the tray of bread to be blessed be
hind them the distinguished men OF the
narish in full dress, which the French
wear for all functions of day as well as OF
nigbt AS part of the great pageant THESE
ciSiIians aid not count, but as each one
bant the knee and kissed the crucifix held
out to him by prlesl, gorgeous Ia So I'M
broidered yestmeyits, the girl felt THRU;
4 Captive to the church all this sympol .. o.
wealth and worldliness Subordinate 70
her holy power all TINS force OF nlalie e,s
and money ana mind The music was fili-
inc every Granny Of the old church, float
inc through The incense down to the Por-
taf toward tte medallion portrait OF Cor
nellie whose bones rest quietly in this sa'
cred spot. Little Daphne remembered now
The great man had loved solemn and sono-
rons sounds; she wondered If he were lis
tening now =,
when she looked again, choir boys in
,heir scarlet cassocks and white lace-trlm.
med sunplices were passing the pain oenit
1conseeka lated bread). It was 10 the royal box
tbst IN ~ FIRST proceeded. Daphne was the
ne .,, and through the gilded Stats be-
tore Il er two little boyish hands held the