The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-08-02

which they give E1@ runs Through my
head increasingly. Ie appears 70 me syn
onymons With queen. My father sud.
denly sayss
This tifne sye shall take Ju1iette
home with us. =
II shall keep her." answers my
grandmother.
1T IL over two years that you have
kept her from us. Iwant her, = addssmy
mother. If Jnliette had brother or q
sister. would give her to you, assure
you. =
Why has she neither brother nor
sister, asked my grandfather, with q
smile ''Is it our fanlt?''
!. too. ask myself why / have not a
little brother or a little sister. I, I tell
myself my grandmother Is right and
that my parents from Rlerancourt are.
wrong ~ a.ss Is3
'sYon must give Juliette back to M, =
saya my father again. ss
mo- neyerl' answers my grand
fatheEs s sSs s q.
Then abeainsr D scene which has been
renewed during my whole childhood,
in which they eRxsOpt sharply; In which
they pull me frst TO. enc side, then %
the pthexs In Whioh they lEias me- with
faces oil Mets In which they grow angry.
and scolda A which they make me
idiotd0 bY asking me: 49, M .,.s
win you come with usf'' "Will
lyou remaiR with us2,' fr.t $40
i answes, crying. having no idea Of
my 0rnelty toward my father and snothr
er: sI want nv Rrandmot tteRl II want
Arthenaise and my grand dfazhexn
On that day. as yefy efbsn atterward
my parents yield fh6y become mp
peased. NY RTaadmosher, by1 force OF
senderness. obtains from them the con.
cassion that they win leave me at
Chauny.s My fasher repeats TO me o.
hundred times:
do Jon love your papa and mann
maf',5
Yes, yes. yes =
My grandmother adds:
I'VE must begin her education, which
cam only DO done at Chauny. Shegshall-
60 to the boarding school tomorrow,
Ny mother puts ON her hat, my IA
ther wraps her i'm her shawls, they enter
the carriage, and send them some
kisses on the tips Of my fingers.
The next morning am awakened
early. / am still very sleepy. That
which, when very little, according to
the expression of my grandfather, ]
called 1.-THE family DRAMA has IA
tigued me.
Asit is my habit, in the large salon
with four windows, which my first rec
objections paint TO me as immense, and
which since then has grown q good deal
smaller, am seated near the FIRE be-
tween my grandfather and my grand
mother, or going from the knees Of the
one to the knees of the other. Arthe-
mise is standing up, and my dresses are
spread out upon q chair. They dress
me after having washed me--a thing
which i do not like much, although it
Is small matter-a little ON the face
and the hands, and even then my grand
father says to my nurse:
Let her alone. You will make pim-
pies come TO her face. =
Instead Of my pretty white dress Of
the evening before, they have put ON
me darkone Ny white apron is COW
cred all over by q black apron. I iind
that am mot pretty, and I'feel sad.
Ny grandfather says.
Poor, good little womanr'
] burst into sobR 1know well enough
what n boarding school IA. II hare some,
Y4,nr. - xuyH,.s eu YSs,nxr,e.k N1A
proud Of ia but ! am not j am afraid.
q ] repeat throngh my tears: Grand
mother, i will be good do mot want
70 gogsto boarding school Keep me
hefe.Y ~ VS.
My grandfather says that they might
let the winter pass before sending me 10.
boarding school
Artheanise declares that I am yet too
little--that it is murderi
That word murder IL sounding 10 this
day in my ears, like the explosion Of a
bomb.
IA murder, d murderl' exclaims my
grandmother, with her face all red.
You are crazy.
Here Ia again 70 family drama !"
MY grandfather calls Arthemise inso
lent. After having become angry they
do not get over it as easily as my par
ents.
'tThis evening You shall pack your
trunk, = says my grandmother to my
nurse, .sand tomorrow you shall return
TO Caumanchon. Leave the roomi''
lyon might have scolded her, but
not sent her aWay. = says my grandfa-
ther. This girl loves the little one
sincerely. Besides after all she Ia
right II Ii murder. Let Juliette play
d year or two more. " 5 3 81
II want her to surpass all the 9th
ers. answers my grandmother. .Be.
sides -be stiii. = 3.
'sTa, Ia tar repeats my grauafn
ther. who always gives mp with thesa
three words
Ny grsnduo4hw taass me b. the
hand, and titae : ann. ON the way 70
boarding scli6Ul
NJ ff1ehd she gr0CeF, TO whom ]
bring all my pennies to- get sngar balls
yellow, rsd white 0aaes, gx0ets ~ and
sssx 3sSss eS136 1SfxA That raxa AZ